happen if we watch from home. If we watch from home my daughters do stuff with friends. My youngest son engages and disengages depending on what friends who aren’t fans want to do. My wife will get sucked away with random house, church, or friend stuff. So I enjoy high def solitude.

It’s better if you invite friends to watch with you, but still doesn’t tend to be a family experience.

At the stadium we are all together watching every minute of it and hugging and high 5ing for good stuff and being sad together for lame stuff. And dancing together to the stadium music. Doing the game opening and 4th quarter stuff together.

All my kids love the memories of games like that Utah game last year or the Boise State Hail Mary game. You just can’t replicate that shared experience at home.

So I agree that for pure consumption of football, the TV is better. But for creating a family tradition and shared deep memories, I will take having my whole fam at the take down of Utah or OT thriller with Baylor or OT thriller with USC every time. Those moments in LES together as a family are priceless.