NCAA > NFL?

I love the Saints, but could care less about any other NFL team.

The NFL a league of elite mercenaries, paid in the millions. No team is really an underdog unless you count the point spread because they all have towering gods who leap out of the stadium and run faster than a cough. There are commercials shoved down your throat by players, coaches, teams, the league, etc every waking hour regardless of whether or not it's football season. NFL franchises are worth BILLIONS and still NFL owners continually look for ways to bilk you out of more of your money. They use taxes, bonds, PSLs and then you still have to pay for the tickets. If they do not get the millions they feel they deserve for their monopoly, then they will pick up their team and move to another town. At best the fans cheer for players who care nothing for their city as long as they're being paid to be there. Very few of the players who pass through a franchise actually make their homes there. The season ends, players go back to their lives away from their franchise cities and forget the lives of those fans left behind. It's a cold, dark world that jumps from dollar to dollar and it never makes any bones that it's sole purpose for existing is to remove every penny from you until there is no more to be stripped from your corpse.

College teams at least manage to put on a pretty convincing front that it's about the game. There are only a handful of college football teams actually make money from their program. 11,000+ of kids play FBS football every year, but only dozens make it to a level where they earn money. That doesn't include FCS, Div III< NAIA, etc. athletes. Every kid has the opportunity to earn a college degree and improve their life situation every year. If they get hurt, colleges will honor their scholarship and allow that kid to improve their standing in life with a degree. A connection is made between fan and student athlete and those same kids find employment through that connection if they so choose. You feel a connection with college kids who are still learning their craft. Fans can watch them grow from a young colt to thorough-bread, elite athlete and young man. The best stadiums are the size of entire cities. Schools pass decades of traditions from grandfather to father to son and still new traditions are created every season that those fathers will pass on to their sons and grandsons. Marching bands, drum corps, live mascots, dance teams all rise above the artificially created cheerleaders who are not even part of the franchise in the NFL. Every team has a shot to travel to an unexpected destination and play in the post season one more time before they knock off for the year and look to improve next year. Every year sees turnover of athletes as some look to make their fortunes in professional sports. Some continue down another path in athletics training or coaching. Still, others become leaders and businessmen in the community. All of them return to their schools to contribute and cheer the new blood that followed behind them.

The NFL is that cold, heartless **** of an ex-wife with the fake **** who took half of everything you own when she didn't get her way. College Football is that old girlfriend who is still living in town who always wanted to hold hands and curl up on the couch on the weekends to watch movies and football.