Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Welcome to Atlanta where the fanhood is whack
My entire life I have resided in Massachusetts and I have spent the last 4 years at school secluded in central Pennsylvania. Now here I am, in one of America's largest cities...Atlanta, and I am sorely disappointed. I have been spoiled all of my life, being 45 minutes from what I consider to be the greatest city on Earth (not that I have really been to that many cities, but I'm smart...I just know), however this city of Atlanta really has no identity. The sports teams are all marginal/bad, there really is nothing holding it all together. I go a few blocks away from the Georgia Tech campus and there's nothing around that even indicated there is a sizable university a stones throw away. Again, coming from Penn State where the town revolved around the school, this is to be expected, but still...there's no passion between the city and anything! It's depressing! There is no Georgia Tech bar, or a store that just sells Georgia Tech clothing...not one! Half of the stores in State College merely sold PSU apparel, and they keep popping up. Another annoying example of this lack of fanhood is that there is no information anywhere about how to get student football tickets at GT. I could ask someone, but I decided to browse the internet and found nothing. Penn State emails its students informing them of the ticket policy in June. I may complain about these athletic issues at GT, but so far the academic aspect has definitely proven to be a challenging and rigorous atmosphere, and I guess that is why I am here. Regardless, this city has failed to meet my expectations, but with the state of their professional teams, it is no wonder. I miss my old homes where fans were more devoted to their teams than Jesus was Jewish. I miss seeing 40,000 Penn State shirts a day, and the largest football stadium in the world loom in the horizon. I miss seeing an assortment of Red Sox, Celtics, and Patriots shirts worn on nearly every person walking the streets of Boston, the bar TV's all showing a Sox game, nothing else. But here I remain until Christmas in a city that has no identity, overpriced bars, a lack of fanhood, and a 14 lane highway 3 blocks from my apartment. I look forward to meeting up with roughly 300 fellow Penn State fans every Saturday at the Penn State bar in Atlanta starting August 30th to root on the team who has faithful followers and a town that will forever support it. People may want to go to college in a city...I don't recommend it. The college town is where it's at.
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