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

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Those are a lot of words just to say that you agree with me lol.

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I agree with the principle of not over-investing, but I didn't agree with you calling someone else's emotional investment an emotional identity. As I stated, those are two different things.

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To be honest I think most of the joy for me is watching Evolution overcome adversity.

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I like competition, and I like winning. But when I'm not the one competing, I have to have an emotional investment in order to care if my team wins. Otherwise, what's the point? It's not evolution - which is a term I object to in general- overcoming adversity, for me, especially in this case. Again, it's about competition.

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I would honestly say that most of the people on these message boards and most fans in general go a little too far.

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As far as message boards go, in some of the things people say, yes, I would agree with that. Most people on message boards are too young to have experienced any real life struggles to ground them, emotionally. That's part of growing up. Some never grow up, unfortunately, but that's another subject for another time.

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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.

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I connect this to what I just said above. I don't think people mean it when they say they won't watch again because of a loss.

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I don't know how you got that I was painting everyone with a broad brush.

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Because, again, you replied to someone talking about how they weren't as emotionally invested right now, and you seemed to equate emotional investment with emotional identity. And by doing so, it paints the vast majority of people as being the type of person who can't get over a loss, and lets their team affect their lives adversely. Because MOST fans, myself included, are very much emotionally invested. We grow up watching our home state team with our parents and siblings, and so on, and it becomes a special thing to us that forms a connection with the team we pull for. But most people, I think, know how to turn it off when the game is over. Reading a message board is, of course, never going to give an accurate picture of that reality.

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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?

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I agree about if your team loses, and I can even agree about finding out they have different politics. It's when those politics infiltrate the sport, itself, and they start shoving things I don't believe in down my throat, that I won't watch. I've quit the NFL because of that. So far, though I am aware that some college teams, including LSU, have players who believe things that I think are bogus, they have not brought it to the field. I hope it stays that way.