Attendance is so bad, NFL is giving tickets away

I don't want to pay a shitload if my team is playing great!

Guess I'm cheap like that, but I've never seen a live football game that I enjoyed as much as on TV. I like the announcers/the replays the pause button, the comfort, the cheap beer/food. 

I've been to big college games and pro pre season games and it all felt small and slow to me compared to watching it on the tele. 

Ya I've heard people say in Chicago that adds like 4 hours to the game. So it's at least an 8 hour day. 

Reading this makes me sad. The gameday atmosphere, especially for college games, is one of my favorite things on earth. There's not much I like better than tailgating with some friends, hanging out and talking football or whatever, then going in to cheer on my team. The live entertainment is so much better than the television package, the spectacle of it all, the pageantry of the marching bands and the dancers, 90+k people yelling their lungs out, even during down years. (60k for the Bears, size doesn't always matter..) It is special.

Yes, I can do most of the same things like tailgating at my own house, and I do... often. Mostly because I don't live near my favorite teams anymore. (have never lived in, around, or near Chicago actually...so there's that)But I still love to get to the games when I can. I drove to the AZ game this year, and went to a home game at Auburn this fall. Next season we have plans to go to Chicago for one home game, and the Auburn/Oregon opener in Jerry world in August.