Opinion Poll: Why is football so important?

So I was reading through some march madness coverage and it occurred to me, I don't care. Really. I'm as excited we have a new basketball coach as the next hokie, but basketball doesn't carry nearly as much weight with me as football. And let's be honest despite the great basketball coverage here of late we didn't join TKP for that. We joined to talk football, read football, and watch billdozervt's videos. And memes. Lots and lots of memes.

So anyway, I wanted to put forth the question to y'all. Why is college football so much better than other sports? Why can I read a post about Tech wrestling winning the ACC and think "hey that's kind of cool," but read about a recruit de-committing and have it ruin my day? Is it the scarcity (12 games vs the 1600 that baseball plays)? Is it the violence? Is it the tailgating? It may seem like circular logic. The tailgating exists because the sport is awesome, but is it possible we've reached a point where the tailgating becomes a reason that the sport is awesome?

I'd like to know what y'all think.

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