Thiiiiiis. Born in Syracuse, grew up in a tiny wart of a town between Cortland and Binghamton, and college football and basketball only stopped being a massively big deal to me when I actually went to SU and saw exactly how much of my future debt was getting sucked down the giant drain of the sports machine.

...wouldn't you know that's the year I lotteried into third row, about 25 seats off center court season tickets? That I couldn't sell?