Boston U Football Sucked and So Do Football Players
How many times have you heard this conversation or some close variant?
“S’up?”
“Did you play high school football?”
“Yeah, me too.”
“What do you bench?”
“Pussy.”
Every single year, in the Daily Free Press at Boston University, I read some story about how football needs to be back after they cancelled the program my freshman year of college. Then there are a bunch of cliches spewed about how there is nothing more American than college, mom’s apple pie, football, and especially college football. While that may be true at a real football school like Ohio State, Florida State, USC or even (gasp) arch rival in everything but football, Boston College, it didn’t appear to be true at Boston U for the one season that football was there.
I saw a very different side of college football.
I lived in West Campus at Boston U and those are three tower-sized dorms which overlook the football field and the old athletic complex. On saturdays we would be awakened by the marching band and the 10’s of fans who piled into the grandstands. That’s right. The 10’s of “rabid” football fans. (I think one guy consistently even painted his face. WHOOOOO!)
Anyway, to say that the program was popular would be a bold-faced lie.
Secondly, it was division I-AA. That isn’t exactly major college football. Which brings me to the real reason that I don’t think Boston U needs football back at the school.
Football players are assholes. They were I-AA, yet they acted like they were future draft picks in the NFL. They used to cut in front of everyone in the dining halls and at the student union. They used to talk too loudly and generally carry themselves like they were the greatest thing to walk the earth. I will admit that I am not even close to a tough guy. Why didn’t I say something to the assholes cutting in line all the time? They were bigger than I was. But despite their physical superiority to me, they hadn’t won a game all season and they weren’t even playing in a division that gets TELEVISED.
Do they think that the rest of the student body and I are unaware of this fact as they are walking all over everyone around them?
So, what would the positive aspects of college football be at Boston U? BU football would give students a football game to go to on Saturday. It would also give the school band another venue to play bad marching covers of popular songs.
And the negatives? Boston U would be wasting scholarships to a pretty good school in order to compete on a second tier of America’s favorite sport. They would have a bunch of Division I-AA cro-magnon dummies treating everyone in the school like shit even though they aren’t very good at what they think should give them recognition in the first place.
So, not that my vote counts as an alumnus, but I vote no. Boston U doesn’t need Football back on campus.
I didn’t give a damn about it when I was there, and I certainly didn’t miss those A-Holes with their overly entitled attitudes when they were deposed from their positions as mediocre athletes.
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