Non-alumni/ non-local Cuse fans - why?

[Dinkyspond]

I’ll try! Until 2023 we could subscribe espn player in italy, so it was a bit easier to watch games. Now, if i want to watch a syracuse game starting at 7 eastern time, i will go sleeping not before 3,30 a.m.

Can you digitally DVR or watch the games on-demand so you don't have to watch them live Italy time and stay up until 3:30am? Although some people don't like watching later if they already know the result especially if we unfortunately lose.

 

[MMXmusic]

In 1957, when I was a 7-year-old, Jim Brown mastered college gridirons (as a senior and a Heisman candidate) as a Black RB at SU. I was a Long Island kid and Brown had played for the island's Manhasset HS. Plus, he played for SU at a time when Black athletes were not widely recruited by colleges, especially in the South.

 

[dbrave]

Can you digitally DVR or watch the games on-demand so you don't have to watch them live Italy time and stay up until 3:30am? Although some people don't like watching later if they already know the result especially if we unfortunately lose.

No way anymore! When espn player was available in italy (until 2022) I used to watch a lot of games on demand, especially our games starting at 9 p.m eastern time. Now the only way to watch college games here is live or nothing ( i don’t like higlhlights..).

 

[steve deberg]

No way anymore! When espn player was available in italy (until 2022) I used to watch a lot of games on demand, especially our games starting at 9 p.m eastern time. Now the only way to watch college games here is live or nothing ( i don’t like higlhlights..).

Also good luck not spoiling the result of the game.

I’m sure the result of the Cuse game is all the city of Milan is talking about on a Sunday morning.

 

[dbrave]

Also good luck not spoiling the result of the game.

I’m sure the result of the Cuse game is all the city of Milan is talking about on a Sunday morning.

This forum ( that i read every day!) is the real danger to spoil the result in my mornings! But, in europe there is really a lot of people who follow college basketball and college football. Of course not like nba or nfl but more than i thought years ago. I don’t know how many guys rooting for syracuse. We need to win a national championship again to discover how many!

 

[Dinkyspond]

This forum ( that i read every day!) is the real danger to spoil the result in my mornings! But, in europe there is really a lot of people who follow college basketball and college football. Of course not like nba or nfl but more than i thought years ago. I don’t know how many guys rooting for syracuse. We need to win a national championship again to discover how many!

There are instances, usually work-related, when I cannot watch live, so I DVR. Sometimes I cannot resist the temptation to see the result. If it is an especially bad game and we solidly lose I sometimes automatically delete. If it's a heartbreak loss, I will watch to see where we lost it. If we win I enjoy the whole thing very slowly and savor every second.

 

[Offthedome]

Pretty sure it was John Casillo, also an editor of NunesMagician, who had the pup James Arthur.

You might be right. I recognize your handle as a regular over there.

 

[Brooky03]

Syracuse is New York (State’s) team. I know that slogan caught some flak but it’s true, in my experience. My point being, any NY state resident should basically count as local to Syracuse, even the ones near borders that might be closer to other schools of consequence. NYC is its own beast, so maybe that’s excluded.

I mean, after you remove the dorks who became fans of front runners like the Duke’s and Alabama’s of the world, what other team is a NY kid gonna pick? Army?… Cornell? Maybe their parents’ school?

I grew up near Sylvan Beach, NY. Syracuse is ‘local’ in my book and I’d consider it local even if I grew up in a log cabin with no internet in the Adirondacks. It was the only show in town and its central location, with easy access from practically anywhere in the state, along with affordable prices relative to professional teams, and TV distribution made/makes it the only show in town for a lot of NY.

I’m a fan because cheering for any other school just wouldn’t have made any sense.

 

[kirbivore]

I've been saying for years there are Syracuse fans everywhere in the country just waiting for us to get good again.
For about 15 years went to the ABC bowling tournament, and there always were Syracuse fans.

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[Idiocuse22&]

I had friends at Cuse who lived off campus and had a dog named Newhouse. I knew somebody else who had a dog named James Arthur after HOF JB.

my current dog is named Joba-chamberlain. Damn hes old. Joba 'my dog' was born August 7, 2007, which was the day, or close to the day of Jobas ejection vs Boston...I hate the red sox; cool city...but when he got ejected playing against the red sox...he was good to me, hence joba my dog.

 

[steve deberg]

I’m italian i live in milan, italy, and i have been following siyracuse basketball and football since i was about twenty or twentytwo (now 57…). My link with syracuse sports is very strange: mi birthplace is Siracusa,in sicily, and my surname is Arancio, in english Orange. So, when i started following college sports, it was too easy rooting for the orangemen of syracuse!

It seems with the energy and excitement that Fran and our 2024 success injected into the program, we have some new faces (names) around here.

This thread gave us some great stories and posts last year, so I thought with Tennessee right around the corner, I’d bump the thread by replying to easily the best “out of town” Cuse fan story to see if we can drum up any other interesting posts.

Any non-alumni/ non-local Cuse fans want to share how or why you became a fan of the Orange?

 

[rocklloyd]

You might be right. I recognize your handle as a regular over there.

It was absolutely John’s dog

 

[rocklloyd]

I’m loving these stories. Growing up Utica we didn’t have much, but as far as we knew at the time, we had everything. We were a Syracuse, Yankees, giants family. So it was in my blood from the time I was a kid. Cousin played on 1984 team that beat Nebraska. My first game ever in dome.

Father a fireman, mother ended up getting job at Utica college in my freshman year of high school. One of her benefits was free tuition at Syracuse (Utica college was part of Syracuse at the time) after three years of employment. My sister and I Applied to one school and one school only. I was first in family to go to college. And the rest as they say is history. Met wife there and as mentioned in another thread just dropped off my youngest there on Monday 38 years to the day I stepped foot on campus. She’s loving it. (Oldest is at Cornell, Air Force rotc, she wants to be doctor, nonstop driven kid, never takes break or shortcut in anything - super proud of her in spite of the Cornell students that used to tell us we’d work for them someday during basketball game blowouts in the late 80’s/90’s, which came true in my case. )