4) College football gets a front page spread in the newspaper on Sunday.

5) Hormel chili is actually sold out at the local grocer

6) The local grocery stores actually carry colored tortilla chips in the schools colors

7) The shoplifting rate dives at the local mall as no one is there

8) A Saturday night game means you can actually go to a theater and see a movie without having to sit next to someone else

9) Most of the people in your town have a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker on the car

10) You can actually see the police on the road

11) Nearly every shiny SUV has a trailer hitch or spare tire cover with the local college emblem on it

12) The homeless ask for the score instead of change

13) You get glares for wearing the other teams colors accidentally

14) People actually cry when the team loses

Yeah, living in a football city sucks.

p.s. thanks for the tips on cleaning coffeemakers!