Friday, December 23, 2005
Just another reason i like College Sports
See the story above about why it's not a big deal that Johnny Damon jumped ship for the money, and see the paragraph below why it still really makes me sore even though i only just like the red sox and have no real allegiance, geographic or otherwise to their team.
Because it's always about the money, and the fact that we just sit back, accept and expect it makes me sad. Loyalty does not exist in professional sports, and that is why i will always be a college sports booster.
I went to Michigan State University, home of the spartans, the red cedar river, drunken riots and way way too many people over a multiple-square mile campus. It was a great place to go to school, screw up my life, find my life again, and make friends. (oh, and graduate and get a degree. that happened too.) This simple fact makes me a spartan forever, and the folks involved with our sport teams have players that play for the pride of the team in green - not for the dollars. It's (well, getting less and less, but work with me) pure. And i will always be more excited for a michigan state basketball game, hockey game, or football game than i will ever ever ever be for a pistons, red wings or lions game.
But the tigers, though, that's gotta run deep. i mean, come on. it's the tigers.
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First of all, I completely agree about the Tigers. I think they screwed up not trading for Josh Beckett. But it's ok. I still love them.
Pro athletes are all about the money, but it's only a microcosm of the rest of society. Pro athletes are just people, and people are all about money.
Which is why I disagree with your point about college athletes. I don't even think college basketball or football really has anything to do with the universities they supposedly represent. College football and basketball are just a business. The players are only here to play football or basketball. Johnny Damon was all about the Red Sox until the Yankees offered him more. If U of M could and did offer any MSU player a bunch of money to transfer, he probably would. So, the only real difference is that it isn't allowed in college.
Loyalty should go both ways. My freshman year (way back in 1997) was the year the MSU basketball team broke out. I had tenth row seats that year as a freshman because barely anybody else bought season tickets because they weren't expected to be that good. The next season as a sophomore I was in the second to last row of the upper deck because everybody jumped on board and bought tickets.(I was in the Izzone the next couple years after that.)
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