Texas - OU 2005

[Neo]

Originally Posted by ZebraRampage

Hey, looks like Texas won. I would also like to add that Pitt is now...2-4. Woo, we won today. It's not going to be a spectacular rest of the season though, but I will continue to have fun in the marching band.

Indeed, there was much cheering on this front.

What do you play? I played drums in the basketball band for awhile but never in the marching band.

[Typhoid]

This would be as good a time as any to ask..


But why are Highschool/College sports so big in the US?

[Neo]

College sports are popular precisely because of what defines their difference from pro sports. Pro athletes will play for whomever gives the money. They don't give a crap who it is. On the college level the athletes have a choice where they go. There is much more loyality, tradition, and pride at the college level.

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Neo

College sports are popular precisely because of what defines their difference from pro sports. Pro athletes will play for whomever gives the money. They don't give a crap who it is. On the college level the athletes have a choice where they go. There is much more loyality, tradition, and pride at the college level.

But I mean, I just dont get it.


Because we have college/University and Highschool sports up here...but it isnt the whole diehard tradition it is there.

Like there, a College football team sometimes is praised higher than an NFL team.

Here, sometimes we dont even know a college HAS a football team.

[Ginkasa]

/me walks in just to throw in a little OU support...even though we lost...


/me shrugs and walks away

[ZebraRampage]

Originally Posted by Neo

Indeed, there was much cheering on this front.

What do you play? I played drums in the basketball band for awhile but never in the marching band.

I play Tenor Sax. I played Bari Sax in high school, but Pitt's marching band doesn't have Bari in it.

I have a cool picture of our pregame show. This was during the Pitt vs. Notre Dame game.