Or do they?
As a collective the Notre Dame Students Body loves to stand during the football games, but Notre Dame Students individually do not like to stand at football games one bit. Whether you call it a collective action problem or blatant peer pressure, Notre Dame Students secretly hate to stand at football games and only do it because everybody else is.
Notre Dame Student’s hatred of standing at football games is most frequently seen at halftime of the games. It is not evidenced by the students actually sitting down (because this would obviously happen) but in the swift and decisive way that students lower themselves to the bleachers. As soon as the halftime whistle blows, students sit down as if their legs are going to fall off if they do not. Students will then remain sitting throughout halftime, unless the band happens to play a song that they like (see #9 and #51).
The most obvious proof that Notre Dame Students actually prefer sitting down during football games however, can be seen once these students graduate and become alums. If the individuals who make up the Notre Dame Student Body really did love to stand, then the alums who have graduated would also love to stand. However, most of Notre Dame Stadium is filled with alums who like to sit, and students who look forward to the day when they will graduate and finally be able to sit at football games.
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Alums only sit because the ushers force them to.
ReplyDeleteAnd because when there are a lot of old people sitting around you who would bitch if you stayed standing the whole game, it kind of kills the fun of standing. How much we sit depends a lot on what section we're in. I'd rather stand the whole time but it's just not an option anymore. ('04).
ReplyDeleteno way..standing sucks.I enjoyed going to away games so i didn't have to stand
ReplyDeleteI love to stand. I stand as much as possible when at away games although if I'm not in the student section, that can be difficult. I stand the whole time while watching away games on TV. I dread the day when I will graduate and come back as an alum and be forced to sit. and I hate the people in the gold seats who sit and don't cheer even at the most crucial points of the game (if they show up at all).
ReplyDeletei love to stand at football games! It KILLS me as an alumni now to have to sit. I jump up whenever possible and try to stay standing. this one is not true at all!
ReplyDeleteI'm in the band and I prefer to sit!! The directors yell at us, though, if we relax and show weakness!
ReplyDeleteI stopped going to the games because I didn't like standing.
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