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Philip Kendall

11:30

@alamoot

This is too frivolous as an answer to your question sports.stackexchange.com/questions/16993/… so I'll put it here

The best explanation I've seen is that all freshers at US colleges are implanted with a "loyalty chip" which makes them believe their college is responsible for everything good that happened in their life - hence they then try and advertise their college at every available instance.

Or in other words, I don't understand why US students are much more loyal to their college than (e.g.) UK students are to their university. I went to university, it was good, but I don't feel the need to mention it at every available opportunity.

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Feeds

17:07

Q: Do we have first come, first served problem in this site?

I am asking this question seeing there are many questions here that is accepted and has only one answer. From my limited experience of this site most of the question that accept answers early rarely get other answer. (Maybe it's not true for earlier time but lot's of question with accepted answer...

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Michael Myers

20:05

@PhilipKendall There is a lot more to it than that. I tried to hit the highlights in my answer, but a full study on the subject could fill books.

Most saliently, tons of people root for colleges that they never went to

Philip Kendall

@MichaelMyers I know really - but the phenomenon goes well beyond sports, into things like donations et al to your "alma mater" - UK universities would love to have the fraction of graduates donating that US universities do.

And perfectly happy with the idea that college football (and basketball) is just a form of entertainment.

I'm very much aware I'm an outlier among sport fans in that I pretty much don't support teams, but just enjoy watching no matter who's playing.

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