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per ESPN:
They're all chasing Giles Pellerin whether they know it or not.
For those fans who go all out to go to every game -- the superfans -- Pellerin's streak of attending 797 consecutive football games could be the mountaintop if those superfans weren't just having such an amazing ride following their teams.
When the Trojans opened the 1926 season against Whittier, Pellerin, a USC student, was in the stands. USC wouldn't play another game without Pellerin watching for 72 years.
They've rescheduled weddings (and funerals), they've driven, flown, caught trains and hitched rides. They've crossed millions of miles, seen championships and losing seasons, seen life and death, all without missing a game. You can call it crazy or, as the superfans do, call it devotion to something meaningful in their lives.
"I don't think I'm a nut. It's all been fun," Pellerin once said.
"Sure I could sit in my rocking chair and grow old ... You've got to have something to look forward to."
Here are the stories of some of college football's superfans:
http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...ss-country-travels-college-football-superfans
Go Gophers!!
They're all chasing Giles Pellerin whether they know it or not.
For those fans who go all out to go to every game -- the superfans -- Pellerin's streak of attending 797 consecutive football games could be the mountaintop if those superfans weren't just having such an amazing ride following their teams.
When the Trojans opened the 1926 season against Whittier, Pellerin, a USC student, was in the stands. USC wouldn't play another game without Pellerin watching for 72 years.
They've rescheduled weddings (and funerals), they've driven, flown, caught trains and hitched rides. They've crossed millions of miles, seen championships and losing seasons, seen life and death, all without missing a game. You can call it crazy or, as the superfans do, call it devotion to something meaningful in their lives.
"I don't think I'm a nut. It's all been fun," Pellerin once said.
"Sure I could sit in my rocking chair and grow old ... You've got to have something to look forward to."
Here are the stories of some of college football's superfans:
http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...ss-country-travels-college-football-superfans
Go Gophers!!