CDADave: UI Vandals Have Lost Charm

CDADave: Every year, people flock to Moscow, drink beer in the Kibbie Dome and watch the Vandals. The football team is an excuse for the Alumni Association to keep on functioning. I still have no idea of the purpose of an Alumni Association other than making money off old students who it hopes are quite affluent after all these years. I suppose Vandal football is the object of tradition; otherwise, what reason is there to watch them? (and I AM an ex-Vandal). Personally, I find it hard to care. I don’t even listen to the broadcasts now that Bob Curtis is retired. I met Bob Curtis, what a nice gentleman, and I remember listening to him as a kid back in the ‘60s. Time marches onward; things lose their charm; one of those ‘things’ is Vandal football.

DFO: I’ve noticed that a team regains its charm quickly … when it starts winning.