Sports have evolved here over the years. NFL has always had some followers but nothing tremendous, maybe more now, but its too violent for my taste and the whole knee thing pisses me off. Nascar well that was a Southern mans sport, then the 90's happened, ruined the sport--fan base is way smaller. Hockey, well we got so many Yankees here now they had to bring it with them--and soccer too. Baseball, around here a lot of Braves and Devil Rays fans--both connected with the hometown Durham Bulls (think the movie Bull Durham and yes there was a Cadet in that movie).
But the thing around here that gets everyone fired up is college basketball. I'm smack in the middle of Tobacco Road. The shade of blue you wear makes friends and enemies real quick. There really are only 2 teams, the rest of ya'll just WISH you had a decent team. FWIW, my son is applying to college at both shades of blue---if he goes to one of them I may never be able to show my face in public again!
