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My First Visit To Penn State's Beaver Stadium

 
This past Saturday I was one of 108,445 people in attendance at the Penn State-Indiana game, my first ever visit to Beaver Stadium.   Just to put that number into some sort of perspective, as compared to the type of crowds I was accustomed to when I was in college, one would have to add up the attendance figures where I went to school of the last 32 home games to top the figure from Penn State on Saturday.     And that number was from a game in the rain against Indiana.   If you are someone who went to or currently attends a college with a major football program, what I witnessed this past weekend probably is nothing new to you, and this article likely is not worth your time.    But I am sure there are tons of sports fan out there like me—fans who grew up in an area where pro sports dominated and when it came time to choose what college to go to, made the decision to attend a school where the question during football season of “what are you ... (link)

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