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Football on TV

Picture a college football game: it’s a kaleidoscope of light and sound, of organized bellowing, of overwhelmingly blaring music that is one of the three types of music that are allowed to be played at a college football game: popular songs from five year ago, the AC/DC catalog, and martial music from the early 1900s played by students dressed like Habsburg infantry. The stands are full, the stadium quakes, the pads clack under the din, the smells of roasted meats waft in from the parking lots. This is the image of college football that you see in television commercials.