It can be a scary thing when the household loyalties are divided! We have Issues here when the Mets play the Yankees, and there've been some ugly scenes when we've visited K's Philadelphia-area family during Giants-Eagles games. Sounds like everybody escaped alive from the TV room, at least. *g*

For some reason I just never got hooked on college football, and I couldn't even get exercised about my own school's division rivalries, although I dutifully hissed whenever the Enemy's name was mentioned. (The saddest thing was that Princeton's rivalry was with Yale, but Yale's rivalry was with Harvard. They didn't even hate us back.) But as I understand it, college football makes pro-football fandom look friendly.

The tribalistic microcosm of nationalism disturbs me sometimes, but then I have too much fun rooting to really worry about it, and the floodtides of happy are awfully enjoyable...and hey, if only we could focus all of that feeling into sports (without rioting and wreaking havoc, of course)...