A site called True Blue is trying to promote people to be loud at Penn State's Beaver Stadium.
Beaver Stadium – capacity 107,501. Student section? 21,000 strong. You would think that the Beav would be one of the most intimidating venues in college sports, right? Unfortunately, you're wrong. It isn't. But that's about to change.TRUEBLUE is a grassroots movement by a coalition of Penn State students, alumni, and fans aiming to raise the level of intensity inside Beaver Stadium on gameday to make it the premiere home field advantage in college football.
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I say, if I'm paying in excess $50 for each ticket, $10 to park, and they still suck, I am going to be quiet. In fact if they suck like they have been the past two years, I will BOO.
But it also doesn't help that they have taken all the fun out of going to the games. It seems at times when the band or the cheerleaders should be rousing the crowd, we are seeing a Pepsi commercial. I've touched on this issue in the past--the gameday experience. We've gone away from the Rock & Roll to a glorified video. Instead of the Band playing fight songs during timeouts, the TV blares commercials. Some fans are asked to sit down instead of being allowed to show some emotion. Here's what others have emailed me in the past |
But what is more disturbing is a growing trend for college teams to bilk you out of your money, especially if you're a season ticket holder.
Watson, an all-Southeastern Conference fullback for Tennessee from 1969 to '71, has held season tickets for the Vols since 1983. But last spring Tennessee's athletics department informed him that to keep his seats spitting distance from the 50-yard line, he'd have to donate $1,000 a seat each year to the athletic-scholarship fund, on top of the price of his tickets.That galled Watson, a former Blue Angels pilot who now circles the world for a shipping company. He was among more than 1,000 current season ticketholders who were told, when Tennessee created the scholarship fund in 1986, that they could keep their seats as long as they renewed their season tickets.
So, for all the people who claim that College sports are pure, while pro sports are evil, read that story, and see that only only difference between college and pros is that the pros get paid legally.
