College football is a sport that can be known at times for its passionate fans. People arrive days early for tailgates. They call into radio shows and scream at rival fans. More than a few harass recruits via Twitter and Facebook. Simply put, there isn’t a group of people who care more about their respective teams than college football fans do.
Of course for every LSU, Ohio State and Texas A&M, there are some schools where the passion doesn’t run as deep and the fans don’t care quite as much.
Like at Boston College for example, where apparently, not only are tickets not hard to come by, you and three of your closest friends can actually get a pretty good deal…via Groupon. The website that offers bargains on restaurants and other entertainment venues, now has a listing for Boston College football tickets. For the price of one beer at most college football venues ($10), you can get four tickets to the Eagles home opener against Northwestern, or a date with Duke two weeks later.
Needless to say, we’re not in Tuscaloosa anymore.
Look, as someone who grew up in the Northeast, I need to defend Boston a bit here. The city is- and always will be- a pro sports town. People obsess over the Red Sox 365 days a year, have the NFL’s best franchise located a few miles outside of town, and are currently enjoying the rush of the city’s first Stanley Cup win in over four decades. Oh, and Rajon Rondo and the Celtics are still pretty good too.
Needless to say, the Boston sports fans dollar is spread thin, and it certainly doesn’t help that Frank Spaziani’s club was kinda, sorta boring to watch last year. They finished 109th in college football in scoring, averaging just 19.5 points per game. Even for a college football die-hard like myself, there were plenty of things more entertaining to do on a Saturday afternoon than watch Boston College. Like oh, I don’t know, maybe pull out all my toenails with needle-nosed pliers.
At this same time, this is still I-A football, and major college football at that. This isn’t the MAC or Sun Belt, where the football itself is second level. This is the ACC, an automatic qualifying conference; good football is being played, and fans do care. Could you ever imagine ACC opponents like Virginia Tech or Clemson putting their tickets on Groupon? Clemson fans would give Howard’s Rock to Steve Spurrier as a Christmas present before they’d ever buy tickets off Groupon.
Needless to say, this headline is kind of entertaining none the less.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to dig up dimes and nickels out of my couch cushions.
Only three days left before the deal expires!
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