re: Tell us how you really feel about the 2020 college football season?

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Being emotionally "involved" and attaching one's emotional "identity" to a sports team are two very different things.

Being emotionally invested is VERY normal among sports fans. It's the only thing outside of betting that gives sports ANY meaning for fans. And even bettors are emotionally invested, because they have something tangible riding on it.

Attaching an identity to it means you pretty much live vicariously through your team. I, for one, get very amped up during games, but when it's over, I resume my normal life, unaffected. There are some people who are abnormally attached and emotionally affected by their team, but to paint everyone with that brush is not really fair.

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Those are a lot of words just to say that you agree with me lol. I am the same way when the game is over. After about 15 or 20 minutes I'm completely fine because I didn't invest that much emotionally. To be honest I think most of the joy for me is watching Evolution overcome adversity. You put up a set of challenges and then you want to see something rise to the occasion have you better than it's ever been before. I would honestly say that most of the people on these message boards and most fans in general go a little too far. Their identity starts become intertwined and they start doing things like swearing off watching football all together because someone made a statement that they don't like and they feel especially disappointed and something for emotional reasons.

Obviously specific cases slim different directions and there is a gradient scale to it. I don't know how you got that I was painting everyone with a broad brush. I honestly think the break in routine is going to show a lot of people that's really just a game and being in a ship mood for a week because your team lost is dumb just like it's dumb if you find out they have different political beliefs than you. Get where I'm going with this?