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[ColinB]

I'll never understand the negativity behind "t-shirt fan"

Do people really care? Lol.

[sahoopster]

I'm a t-shirt fan of a few teams. The idea it makes you less of a fan of you didn't go there is silly.

I graduated and played baseball at UIW but have yet to go to one of their football games, although I do have a shirt. Grew up a good Catholic loving Notre Dame and my cousin went there; have several shirts and been to a couple of their games in South Bend and when they had a game in the Alamodome. Go to the Alamo Bowl almost every year, even wore an TAMU shirt the last time they played against Penn State. Have UTSA season tickets and love watching them play with my wife and kids - a couple of my wife's former students from Roosevelt play on the team - we have several UTSA shirts although we didn't go there. Also have UT season tickets - where my wife graduated from - and we have tons of shirts.

Shut up about the whole "t-shirt" fan and let people enjoy the team(s) they root for. THAT BEING SAID, annoying t-shirt fan is annoying, and I do feel silly when I sing the alma-mater of a school I didn't attend.

[sahoopster]

I've never had my ID checked to see if I went to their school before I attended a game.

[The Reckoning]

I've never had my ID checked to see if I went to their school before I attended a game.

i have for my student section ticket

[benefactor]

I'll never understand the negativity behind "t-shirt fan"

Do people really care? Lol.

No...they don't.

College football is on par with any pro sport. People who aren't alumni choose a D-1 team in their state just like they choose a pro team. Just like with their pro team, they buy tickets and merchandise and as was mentioned earlier they are the primary reason the NCAA even has the profits or sponsors to push the sport nationwide...giving the level of exposure it needs to keep those profits(just like pro sports). NBA, NFL, MLB, NCAA Football...it's all sports with fans that support them and none of them would exist at their current scale without them.

[lebomb]

I consider a T-shirt fan one that is obnoxious about it. A person that talks to and about teams that other fans support because they have a tie to the school. Typically its through graduation. They T-shirt UT, Alabama or Florida, USC......schools that are always ranked and are in the national championship hunt yearly, and yet have never even seen the campus, talking big like they are boosters and assistant coaches to the program. That is the typical T-shirter that I can stand. Otherwise I don't really care.

[sahoopster]

i have for my student section ticket

True...I retract my previous statement!

[Phillip]

lol utsa

[FkLA]

Since you can pretty much watch any team you want online, region is becoming less and less important in that respect. You can be a die hard UT/Aggie fan in Australia and see just about everything. I think that is pretty sweet.

Maybe it's just me but I like to have some type of connection to my teams. I root for all local teams in pro sports and UTSA in college. Sure with technology I could root for and follow teams like the Heat or Alabama closely but what fun would that be?

Agree with what everyone else is saying though, if a t-shirter minds his own business I mind mine. It's when a t-shirter is obnoxious and tries to flaunt a school they never attended that it becomes annoying. Look at stretch and benefactor for Exhibit A and B tbh. Both of them are terrible posters that you can tell never attended college.

[leemajors]

Maybe it's just me but I like to have some type of connection to my teams. I root for all local teams in pro sports and UTSA in college. Sure with technology I could root for and follow teams like the Heat or Alabama closely but what fun would that be?

Agree with what everyone else is saying though, if a t-shirter minds his own business I mind mine. It's when a t-shirter is obnoxious and tries to flaunt a school they never attended that it becomes annoying. Look at stretch and benefactor for Exhibit A and B tbh. Both of them are terrible posters that you can tell never attended college.

I don't see why you are assuming just cause someone doesn't live in an area they don't have some sort of connection, but I understand this is just a convoluted way for you to try and on stretch and benefactor. Not terribly effective tbh.

[benefactor]

I don't see why you are assuming just cause someone doesn't live in an area they don't have some sort of connection, but I understand this is just a convoluted way for you to try and on stretch and benefactor. Not terribly effective tbh.

It's all part of his me against the world, angry little mexican guy schtick that ran it's course a long time ago. I don't even bother engaging him anymore.

[Clipper Nation]

lolutsa
FkLA salty that lolutsa can't even afford to print T-shirts

[romad_20]

Must be a Texas thing, I've never even heard of the term "T-shirt" fan.

There would be no college football without fans that have never stepped foot on a campus

[lebomb]

lol utsa

^ Example of a classic sucking T-shirter. This bish barely graduated, yet started claiming OU when the were relevant in the national championship hunt. You will probably see this got claim Alabama before the end of the season.

[lebomb]

It's all part of his me against the world, angry little mexican guy schtick that ran it's course a long time ago. I don't even bother engaging him anymore.

LMAO........... you dont even know where UT is located.

[FkLA]

I don't see why you are assuming just cause someone doesn't live in an area they don't have some sort of connection, but I understand this is just a convoluted way for you to try and on stretch and benefactor. Not terribly effective tbh.

What? It's always nice to on dumb posters like benefactor but no it's not about him. I would feel the same way about the concept regardless.

It's all part of his me against the world, angry little mexican guy schtick that ran it's course a long time ago. I don't even bother engaging him anymore.

Did you go to college ?

[pgardn]

There would be no college football without fans that have never stepped foot on a campus

^^^^
This.

Four generations of UT grads in my family, myself included (undergrad and grad)
I don't live and die with the football team, therefore I guess I am not a fanatic.
I am much more interested in watching good football or basketball.
I cannot bring myself to watch UT basketball for a full game as the fundamentals are so awful.
The tackling and blocking problems on the football team illiceted projectile vomiting, so it's a tough watch. There is so much room for improvement, I somehow stay interested with the progress in football.

Guess I have more respect (maybe astonishment) for people who live and die with results while sticking with the same team.
Or guys like Floss who give constant updates and know the team 5 deep.
Floss, I read everything you put up after work, thanks for the dillegence and class!

[Trill Clinton]

proud t-shirt fan here. i went to an hbcu and our bball & football teams were terrible. i'm talking historically bad, but growing up in SA i'm a longhorn fan. my sis played volleyball for utsa, my lil bro graduated from there, my mom got her masters there, so i root for utsa as well. i am looking forward to going to my first utsa football game this year too.

[The Reckoning]

Must be a Texas thing, I've never even heard of the term "T-shirt" fan.

There would be no college football without fans that have never stepped foot on a campus

"T-shirt fan" was coined by aggies who were jealous that more Texans were sporting UT rather than tamu gear.

[Blake]

Pro teams are completely different though. They represent a city/region. College teams, first and foremost, represent their university.

Universities represent their cities/regions just the same, if not more so.

[Phillip]

^ Example of a classic sucking T-shirter. This bish barely graduated, yet started claiming OU when the were relevant in the national championship hunt. You will probably see this got claim Alabama before the end of the season.

^ Example of a classic sucking small school got fan. This bish thinks that since he went to a smaller, lesser known school, that he is a badass nonconformist. People like you make the mookie crew and all their "scoffing" of popular mainstream stuff look cool.

[Phillip]

Look at stretch and benefactor for Exhibit A and B tbh. Both of them are terrible posters that you can tell never attended college.

coming from the moron who said Boris Diaw > David Lee

[Phillip]

Universities represent their cities/regions just the same, if not more so.

funny how the idiot doesnt see that. universites pretty much have only students/players that come from the region where they are located as well, making them even more representative of their cities and regions, as opposed to pro teams, where you have a guy like Kevin Durant who was raised in the northeast, played for Texas in college, and now plays for the OKC Thunder.

[lebomb]

^ Example of a classic sucking small school got fan. This bish thinks that since he went to a smaller, lesser known school, that he is a badass nonconformist. People like you make the mookie crew and all their "scoffing" of popular mainstream stuff look cool.

LMAO at you......one of the useless gots that said Utsa wouldnt be FBS in 20yrs if that. Utsa wouldnt win against an FBS team for years. Utsa would lose to the likes of TXST. LMAO at your total and completely utter failure in knowing a gottdayum thing. Just go the away you T-shirtin know nothing at all. You TOTALLY owned yourself with your bull predictions. Go your self phil.

[leemajors]

LMAO........... you dont even know where UT is located.

He went to the first game last year tbqh. I think he knows.