Even though I never want to have another RMS in Denver, I renewed and upgraded to level one for the Denver game. Perhaps I am somehow supporting a game that I despise by going, but as I fully acknowledge when my girlfriend catches me in some inconsistency, "that's because I am a hypocrite." (You all should try that response some time--it is a great way to end an argument).
Yeah, I hate going to the game at Sports Authority.
I hate having to watch the loud and idiotic commercials that they play at Broncos games.
I hate overall game experience there, and I favor games on campus (any campus).
I find the younger CSU fans, i.e. the students, to be (sometimes) boorish and unpleasant to be around, although most of them seem to mind their own business in the same way that most CU fans mind their own business. As such, I naturally eschew being around CSU fans in their natural habitat. Not that it makes much of a difference to me as a CU fan (after all, I am a self-acknowledged hypocrite), but I have also seen younger CU fans act in an equally unpleasant and boorish manner toward CSU fans (one of whom was my brother-in-law, with me standing right there, and I was forced to chastise the young CU fan at issue). The boorish behavior exhibited by both sides is more than reason enough to kill this monstrosity of a game, yet I will (always) to to it nonetheless.
I also remember that I have been just as annoyed by CSU fans when CU plays them in Boulder, if not more so. At least in Denver, there are not a great number of CSU fans seated close to me, as I am in the section designated for CU season tickets. Because they can get just as good seats from CSU, there are no significant numbers of CSU fans buying scalped tickets from CU season ticket holders. When the game is in Boulder, I have been forced to submit to the indignity of having many more CSU fans in my general vicinity cheering on the valiant Goats.
I hate having to watch the stupid CSU band, and their idiotic "trombone suicide," whatever that is supposed to be. It is like they think it is a unique and magnificent spectacle, but it is just as banal and stupid as almost anything coming out of their campus up north (I say "almost" because I have a great deal of respect for their school of veterinary medicine), and they are not even playing their freaking instruments. In the pregame show in Balsh in Boulder, some of the CU trombonists actually do their own version of this, but they don't announce it as one of the Wonders of the World, and they actually play their instruments. But i will still go to the game.
I HATE HATE HATE that stupid artillery piece that they bring to the game and shoot off. If they were West Point, or some kind of military academy, it might be an interesting tradition.
I really hate everything about the game except for one thing: it is a CU game. If CU is playing, and I can be there, I will be there. And I would be the first to agree that this is kind of a dopey position (but I am a hypocrite, so I can get over that). In fact, being a CU fan is kind of a dopey proposition to begin with (and when I think about it, having an emotional attachment to a football team for which I do not play, and have never played, is kind of dopey to begin with, but I am also a Broncos fan, and I have no attachment to that team other than living in Colorado, and I maintain this allegiance even though I know that it is dopey). I can't help it, though, it is like some kind of insidious compulsion. Some guys may have a compulsion to go pick up hookers on Colfax in the dead of night, even though they hate doing it, and even though they really don't want to do it (I have come across such men in the criminal justice system), but they just can't stop themselves. I (like, I expect, many of us here), have a compulsion to go to CU games, whether I like it or not. It is more healthy, and less illegal, than other compulsions, but I am just as powerless to resist. So, I gave in to my compulsion. (Sigh).
