Dylan Curt

B2B SaaS Sales. SoCal raised, Bay Area trained. I care way too much about my Lakers and Trojans.

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@abooker17 You're functionally asking someone that recently took interest in baseball to watch the local AA team instead of the Dodgers... no one in their right mind is going to follow the local MLS team instead of European club football

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@Burbo25 @motnavilluso @Tgarratt10 First season was 1876 with the modern rules

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@Okay17O @Tgarratt10 Most alumni love their alma mater. Formative years that affect the trajectory of your future. athletics are the most visible way to stay connected to it. This explains why wealthy alumni donate tens of millions to athletic departments just to be better at sports than others

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@Okay17O @Tgarratt10 It sounds like you think paying for education or watching sports in person is a waste of money in general, if that's the case, won't argue with you. Different strokes for different folks!

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@Okay17O @Tgarratt10 most students go to 24 home games in their 4 years in school there, would be pretty weird to stop caring about it as it's the second most watched sport in the U.S. (only behind the NFL). Imagine pledging lifetime fandom to a club that gives you nothing in return

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@Burbo25 @motnavilluso @Tgarratt10 I understand, some of these unis are large public ones in states with no professional sports, and non-alumni from the community have been going to games for generations. I'm trying to explain we do have a sport with similar dedication/passion, it's just not the NFL/NBA/MLB

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@DRFCFANS146520 @motnavilluso @Tgarratt10 Haha I never said it wasn't different or weird to everyone else, just trying to explain!

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@thelamman11 @motnavilluso @Tgarratt10 In their defense, English football clubs used to actually be like an athletic club you could be a member of, but the one @motnavilluso supports is like an NFL team or like the 76ers so not following the logic here

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@Okay17O @Tgarratt10 Was more succinct for a Twitter bio than "the Lakers and my Trojans." You'll be happy to know the only team I support that I use "we" is USC, my alma mater

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@DJ8867_ Yes agreed. Each uni has its own traditions, songs, chants they do throughout a game, similar to UK football. NFL has none of that, but it's the most popular sport. Everyone has the NFL games on TV similar to the Euros/WC matches, but going to the game is too expensive for most

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@SoccerTweeter69 Unfortunately stadium luxury suites/field size aside, too many of the best stadiums are in college towns that are a logistical nightmare for lodging/transportation. If the big cities are price gouging hotels this badly for the WC, imagine what it would be like in State College

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@Clarke110 @Tgarratt10 Did the club you support get you into your career? We don't go to uni for the sports mate, it just comes along with it and we usually choose to enjoy it after we graduate. What's your club ever given you

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@Wuben1111 @Tgarratt10 Fair play, was only trying to educate, not to argue

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@GFoz1993 @LiamYates19891 @Tgarratt10 Yeah only brought it up to make it clear that I'm a yank that's left the United States before

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@MuteMain95 @motnavilluso @Tgarratt10 I was trying to be civil!

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@toonarmy2017 @Tgarratt10 You are correct. Only point was if you love English football and want to experience something similar in the U.S. if visiting, go to an American college football "derby" like the stadiums you see in the video. Skip our pro sports

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@camofclass @LiamYates19891 @Tgarratt10 With secondary ticket markets, our "derbies" can end up being about 50/50 of each side, but most end up being about 70/30 (this is for college, NFL there are barely allocations at all, like a couple hundred). Point of my post is college is most similar to EPL for fans

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@motnavilluso @Tgarratt10 We are the only country that cares about college sports as much as pro. College American football has higher TV viewership than the NBA. I can promise you a Penn State whiteout game will remind you more of a Tottenham match than a 76ers game would. Only reason I commented

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@SivaPrasad92540 @Tgarratt10 I only commented because our pro sports like the NFL are soulless. The only passion you can find similar to football abroad is our college sports here, so any time I can, I try to explain if you're visiting the U.S., skip the pro sports, go to a college game!