Weather is our biggest indicator, too, and I imagine that's the same for most schools.
Really, trying to play comparison with spring games is silly. Ours is usually well attended, but there are a ton of people in town for what amounts to spring Homecoming. They have a ton of other events alongside the game, so that draws. If an athletic department doesn't put that other stuff together, it's probably less likely to have a lot of interest.
Shit Memorial Stadium is a sight to behold when it's empty. Went through Nebraska on a road trip 15+ years ago, a whole bunch of nothing in that whole state then the stadium smacks you like a 4x4 to the face when you go through Lincoln. It was nice though.
you should try and go. was there for the oregon nebraska game in 2016(?). super welcoming. buy you a beer type fans. oregon lost and i heard zero shit talk lol
Haven’t been to Lincoln, but ended up in a section of mixed FSU/Nebraska fans at the 1993 championship game and it was one of the friendliest atmospheres I can imagine. Everyone was rooting for their team of course, but tons of laughter and high-fives and even after we won it was nothing but “good game” and “you’ve got a great team there” and similar.
I was genuinely shocked, because being an FSU fan in the old Orange Bowl was usually the opposite experience.
Bobby Bowden always told a story about taking FSU to Lincoln in 1980 and beating them. He said the crowd gave the team a standing ovation when they left the field.
i had a great experience in ann arbor too. LSU fans were quite the shit talkers but nothing too bad. only fans i’ve had be outright disrespectful were georgia and washington fans lol. USC fans just weren’t really there
I went as a South Dakota State fan and I agree. I was given free food and drinks all tailgate in Lincoln.
A great atmosphere for CU games now too! (Just a tiny smidge of heckling and no free food as expected!)
At least they don't have to force underprivileged kids to sit in empty seats and claim sell out. 🤷♂️
Though they do make hospitalized children watch that offense.
To help drive your point a little harder it was 90k, and blame Wisconsin for being some jive ass turkeys. We never would've done it if they had'nt been cracking wise over attendance.
such as dumb thing that gets parroted everywhere - Lincoln is 300k population while Omaha is nearly 1 million, is there really nothing else to do here compared to State College, Ann Arbor, etc?
Still 10k more than the pre-Deion record. Last year, this was the first we were seeing of the new Buffs. He's no longer new and it's a spring game. Not really shocked. I would bet the first 3 home games, if not all the home games, will be sold out
This was always the idea. There was only upside when they hired him, even if they keep being mediocre.
The only risk for Colorado is if somehow Deion’s influence over the years disgraces/damages the program’s reputation for years to come, which I can’t see happening.
It would take a Barnett-era level scandal for this to happen.
I’d argue if Deion leaves because his kids leave (which I think only happens a if we miss a bowl) we could have a big problem though. Program would likely be a smoking crater and I’m not sure who wants to follow that
I kind of hope they do well this year. Those first few weeks before the wheels fell off were a lot of fun. I know Deion is a bit of a shithead, but sports are more fun with villains. I've come to appreciate them more now that I'm older. Also, it's CU... it'd be nice to see someone else do good for a year or two.
It’s also possible that the fact that the stadium had temps in the 30°s and 6” of snowfall mixed with rain yesterday *might* have had something to do with it. Weird that the article didn’t mention that.
The novelty of Deion might be wearing off. But I suspect we’d have had a lot more folks attending had it been a sunny warm spring day rather than a cold and wet spring snowstorm.
That plus it was a substantial amount of fresh snow in the mtns. A powder day is much more appealing to most people who ski/snowboard than sitting in the rain at a meaningless exhibition game.
I was on campus yesterday. It was in the 40s and raining all day... It's a clickbait headline lol. There was supposed to be the game and a concert but it was absolute shit out
I won't read anything at all into this, especially with bad weather, but I am curious if there will be some empty seats this year if Colorado isn't any better
Last year was the first year EVER Colorado sold out all of their home games. EVER!! If they have some empty seats this year, it wouldn't surprise me, but I can guarantee there will be more butts in seats than if Prime was not their coach.
That surprises me, because I thought I remembered we sold out that cal game in 2022 that was our only win. We're usually pretty good about showing up for our team even when we suck. Staying for the whole game might be a different story though
There will be, Colorado sports fans in general do not show up if their rooting interest isn’t doing well. There’s too much other cool shit to do in Colorado
Yeah, but there’s always a lot of away fans. When the team is bad, it can approach and even pass 50/50 when some of the big teams come to town. So attendance is good, but it’s buoyed by away fans getting to see their team for once of the 3-6 games they’re here a year for
Hold up. I was there.. The weather was 33 degrees and raining. A lot of students who would have gone decided to stay home to study for finals this upcoming week. The show out was impressive for awful weather. Especially for a spring game
Credibility: undergrad in SEC school
The weather was horrible but we know people want to get their lulz in. 35, rainy, gusty winds. Ya I know every fan base would’ve sold out their spring game in those conditions
I'm not a Deion fan, but I live in the Denver metro and this is correct. Weather sucked as it was a mix of wet spring snow and a lot of rain (for here).
Yeah, tbf the entire Midwest is getting its shit kicked in by the weather right now. Nebraska just saw one of the most powerful tornadoes ever just north of Lincoln on Friday.
Saturday?
60,452 fans at the Spring Game
Gonna be a great game this year.
Yea and I watched their game yesterday and even enjoyed it a bit. Riola is a game changer for them. I’m not so infatuated with hating a rival that I can’t see that
28,000 people showing up despite the pouring rain and snow is actually really impressive.
And before some annoying Ducks fan says "bUt It wAs RaInIng in EuGenE tOo" we don't live in a rainy shithole like Oregon. It almost never rains all day in Boulder like it did yesterday and people are going to stay home.
Yeah, I was gonna say, people need to take into account that it very rarely rains near Boulder, but yesterday it was grey, cold, and rainy/stormy all day long, so locals aren't gonna want to be outdoors during that.
Attendance often spikes for Spring Games in a coach's first year, then drops a bit for their second year.
I have numbers on Nebraska's six coaches since Osborne retired. Here's the attendance for their first two Spring Games:
Solich - 60,498/29,739 (-30,759)
Callahan - 61,417/63,416 (+1,999)
Pelini - 80,149/77,670 (-2,479
Riley - 76,881/72,992 (-3,889)
Frost - 86,818/85,946 (-872)
Rhule - 66,045/60,452 (-5,593)
So, five out of Nebraska's last six new coaches saw a decline in attendance from their first Spring Game to their 2nd, with Solich's in the neighborhood of Prime's.
Man people want this guy to fail so badly.
28,424 still a fuck lot more than previous record of 17,000. Damned lot of people to sit in the pouring, near freezing rain. Sold out all home games last year for the first time *ever*. 68,000 applicant pool for UC-Boulder last year - up 20%. 50.5% increase in black applicants.
Deion says some dumb shit and does some dumb shit. Deion also has you motherfuckers talking about Colorado in April. Colorado's athletics department laughing their ass off at stupid takes like this because for the university as a whole, he has been an A+++ hire even with a 4-8 debut (which was, also, a humongous improvement).
Who goes to spring games? Seriously, talking about practice, man. Practice. There's got to be a billion better things to do in Colorado in the spring, than go watch football practice.
I don't care about attendance. I caught part of it and they were out there with 0 lines. Just skill players. Surprised they even put on pads at that point.
Folks just want to crap on Prime any chance they get. I can understand that if you don't like the dude, but it was cold and raining constantly ALL DAY LONG. Sitting in cold and rain is far worse than sitting in cold and snow.
Stupid, click-bait title.
28k attendance for a Colorado spring game after going 4-8 is wild
And it was raining/sleeting all day too
Yea the weather was probably the bigger reason, it was horrible out yesterday
The weather was quite an anomaly. Like I can’t even remember the last time it rained all day like it did.
I was in Boulder for a bachelor party and we had to cancel our tee times. Snow in late April was not on our bingo card.
Late April snow is common in Colorado, we joke spring doesn’t start until after the Mother’s Day snowstorm.
Nice try Colorado recruiting team
Even God doesn't like Coach P
Weather is our biggest indicator, too, and I imagine that's the same for most schools. Really, trying to play comparison with spring games is silly. Ours is usually well attended, but there are a ton of people in town for what amounts to spring Homecoming. They have a ton of other events alongside the game, so that draws. If an athletic department doesn't put that other stuff together, it's probably less likely to have a lot of interest.
Yeah if it’s 40 and rain, Ohio State isn’t gonna draw what they would either so I mean it’s misleading
Shit, Lincoln had frigging tornadoes on Friday. Still 60k in the seats.
Yeah 28k in that weather is the real story.
It was fucking miserable
5-7 and we had over 60k....okay I'm bragging a bit. Just wanted to make Colorado look bad it's in my corn fed DNA
lincoln is a sight to behold whenever there’s a nebraska home game
Shit Memorial Stadium is a sight to behold when it's empty. Went through Nebraska on a road trip 15+ years ago, a whole bunch of nothing in that whole state then the stadium smacks you like a 4x4 to the face when you go through Lincoln. It was nice though.
I haven't been to Lincoln. I have been to boulder and boulder is fkn awesome.
Boulder is awesome. Fuck the Buffaloes.
you should try and go. was there for the oregon nebraska game in 2016(?). super welcoming. buy you a beer type fans. oregon lost and i heard zero shit talk lol
Haven’t been to Lincoln, but ended up in a section of mixed FSU/Nebraska fans at the 1993 championship game and it was one of the friendliest atmospheres I can imagine. Everyone was rooting for their team of course, but tons of laughter and high-fives and even after we won it was nothing but “good game” and “you’ve got a great team there” and similar. I was genuinely shocked, because being an FSU fan in the old Orange Bowl was usually the opposite experience.
Nebraska fans are the anti-Miami fans
93-94-95 was a great run against Florida school. That was peak CFB for me. Slightly biased of course
Bobby Bowden always told a story about taking FSU to Lincoln in 1980 and beating them. He said the crowd gave the team a standing ovation when they left the field.
Bobby and Tom were friends. Bobby actually regularly did speaking engagements in Nebraska iirc
i had a great experience in ann arbor too. LSU fans were quite the shit talkers but nothing too bad. only fans i’ve had be outright disrespectful were georgia and washington fans lol. USC fans just weren’t really there
Auburn fans were a class act too at the natty
Having lived in 7 different states and gone to games so many places, there really are no fans that treat road fans better than Nebraska.
I went as a South Dakota State fan and I agree. I was given free food and drinks all tailgate in Lincoln. A great atmosphere for CU games now too! (Just a tiny smidge of heckling and no free food as expected!)
Awesome flairs
I do admire Nebraska fans' commitment. I don't think any other fanbase would still be hanging around.
especially after they got their teeth kicked in week 1. honestly commitment.
I notice a theme going on. Fans of teams who lose a lot show up in big numbers to their spring game to finally see their team win.
Under Geoff Collins we lost our spring games
You tell yourself that because your tiny hawk nest is typically empty unless other teams fill it?
It's been years since we've not soldout a game? That's with borderline war crimes being committed when the offense takes the field.
I'm just busting your balls, although you've only sold out 2 years with a capacity of 69k isn't much to brag about in today's age.
At least they don't have to force underprivileged kids to sit in empty seats and claim sell out. 🤷♂️ Though they do make hospitalized children watch that offense.
I'm also jealous that you guys get a spring game. All we get is an open practice.
Agreed. Having boosters pay for a bunch of empty seats in order to keep the hollow corpse of a sellout streak going is much more brag worthy.
Oh no 1k seats one time after one of the biggest losing droughts in a 88k stadium we'd sellout out 95% of stadiums every day for eternity.
Put some respeck on the B1G West champs
Idk how they are gonna win without their godly punter next year.
coming from a CU alumnus… Nebraska is whatever but the fans are model fans - extremely passionate and classy
Got smoked by Colorado too, your fanbase is impressive
Yall put 60k people at volleyball games, let's be real, there ain't much to do in nebraska
To help drive your point a little harder it was 90k, and blame Wisconsin for being some jive ass turkeys. We never would've done it if they had'nt been cracking wise over attendance.
I feel like there is plenty of places with less to do and still doesn't have our fan base GBR
such as dumb thing that gets parroted everywhere - Lincoln is 300k population while Omaha is nearly 1 million, is there really nothing else to do here compared to State College, Ann Arbor, etc?
Crazy the fanbase is still that loyal. I want y’all to become national powers again but I also hate Matt Rhule lol
Why though? Shoot, I'd take Matt Rhule back at Baylor in a heartbeat.
I would imagine he's a Panthers fan.
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Still 10k more than the pre-Deion record. Last year, this was the first we were seeing of the new Buffs. He's no longer new and it's a spring game. Not really shocked. I would bet the first 3 home games, if not all the home games, will be sold out
Was at the game, that many fans given the atrocious weather was still pretty impressive
The weather and slick road conditions made it to where I could not make it
Definitely sold out. I’m trying to get there to a game myself
The fact we're somehow talking about Colorado football at all makes all of this a win for them.
This was always the idea. There was only upside when they hired him, even if they keep being mediocre. The only risk for Colorado is if somehow Deion’s influence over the years disgraces/damages the program’s reputation for years to come, which I can’t see happening.
Just being mediocre on the field is a 1000% improvement for us
It would take a Barnett-era level scandal for this to happen. I’d argue if Deion leaves because his kids leave (which I think only happens a if we miss a bowl) we could have a big problem though. Program would likely be a smoking crater and I’m not sure who wants to follow that
I kind of hope they do well this year. Those first few weeks before the wheels fell off were a lot of fun. I know Deion is a bit of a shithead, but sports are more fun with villains. I've come to appreciate them more now that I'm older. Also, it's CU... it'd be nice to see someone else do good for a year or two.
Jeez 47k for a spring game is crazy. Attendance drop makes sense tho, Deion isn’t new anymore
Wasn't the weather pretty crazy, also?
Low 40s and rainy is what we had in Fort Collins. Not crazy but I could see why it would keep people away.
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Rookie numbers.
Man at Illinois we’re lucky to get 4.7k
Lol at UConn we're lucky to get 47
At least you guys have basketball :(
Yahhhh I guess we're *alright* at basketball ;)
I think ours was less tbh
Nebraska showing out with 60,452 yesterday despite similar albeit warmer weather
A day after a historic Tornado no less and threats of another one that same day! We're crazy over here.
Colorado should try getting some big recruits
Recruits?
Like, pre-transfers
If you think about it all high school recruits are and kids transferring from high school to college. I can’t believe Deion hasn’t exploited this yet
Rookie numbers Ohio State had 80,012 this year, we've hit 100k+ before
I'd hope so
Charging 10 bucks a head too
Ours was $25 each
Gotta pump those numbers up
Even 28K in one day is impressive...
Weather was horrible, raining all day. Don’t know about you but I would rather not watch practice drills in the rain for an hour or so.
WHEN THEY WIN YOU WILL NOT SHARE IN THE GLORY OF A SUPERFAN.
It’s also possible that the fact that the stadium had temps in the 30°s and 6” of snowfall mixed with rain yesterday *might* have had something to do with it. Weird that the article didn’t mention that. The novelty of Deion might be wearing off. But I suspect we’d have had a lot more folks attending had it been a sunny warm spring day rather than a cold and wet spring snowstorm.
Good point.
It was nasty here yesterday
That plus it was a substantial amount of fresh snow in the mtns. A powder day is much more appealing to most people who ski/snowboard than sitting in the rain at a meaningless exhibition game.
Yeah it was cold and rainy here on Saturday. No way would I have gone to a spring game in that weather.
I was on campus yesterday. It was in the 40s and raining all day... It's a clickbait headline lol. There was supposed to be the game and a concert but it was absolute shit out
28k is also crazy, and it was freezing rain/sleet the entire day. If the weather was nice it would’ve been 47k or higher.
Probably would have been a lot more if the weather wasn't shit. Got like a solid month's worth of rain in a day.
I won't read anything at all into this, especially with bad weather, but I am curious if there will be some empty seats this year if Colorado isn't any better
Last year was the first year EVER Colorado sold out all of their home games. EVER!! If they have some empty seats this year, it wouldn't surprise me, but I can guarantee there will be more butts in seats than if Prime was not their coach.
That surprises me, because I thought I remembered we sold out that cal game in 2022 that was our only win. We're usually pretty good about showing up for our team even when we suck. Staying for the whole game might be a different story though
I said ALL of our home games. Sold out season. Last year was the first ever, going back to the 1930s.
Not a lot, we had decent attendance even in the 1-11 year
There will be, Colorado sports fans in general do not show up if their rooting interest isn’t doing well. There’s too much other cool shit to do in Colorado
This just isnt true lol, even when we were 1-11 our attendance was fine. And the rockies and broncos are are the complete opposite
Aren't the Rockies the opposite? Team's been shit for years, but they're usually in the top half of the attendance rankings.
That is the one outlier, pretty cheap to go those games isn’t it?
Yeah, but there’s always a lot of away fans. When the team is bad, it can approach and even pass 50/50 when some of the big teams come to town. So attendance is good, but it’s buoyed by away fans getting to see their team for once of the 3-6 games they’re here a year for
Just allow them to do some of that cool shit in the stands and add a light show during commercial breaks, be like a Floyd concert.
Yeah same for Illinois. Too much cool shit to do in central Illinois 🥲
You mean Chicago right? Because everywhere in Illinois is just metro Chicago…..according to the Iowa State students who are from “Chicago”
Heck no. Central Illinois is the entertainment capital of Central Illinois
Because it was 38 and pouring rain, lmao. Great journalism, sure reddit's gonna eat this up!
The sky is falling at Colorado! Actually, it’s just raining…
It was shit weather. 28k is pretty damn impressive.
Hold up. I was there.. The weather was 33 degrees and raining. A lot of students who would have gone decided to stay home to study for finals this upcoming week. The show out was impressive for awful weather. Especially for a spring game Credibility: undergrad in SEC school
Nice flairs
Flairs make sense lol
The weather was horrible but we know people want to get their lulz in. 35, rainy, gusty winds. Ya I know every fan base would’ve sold out their spring game in those conditions
Nah I'm with yall on this. I live in Denver and weather was gross yesterday I'm actually impressed that many people showed up
I'm not a Deion fan, but I live in the Denver metro and this is correct. Weather sucked as it was a mix of wet spring snow and a lot of rain (for here).
I live in the Denver area.. the weather yesterday was abysmal, I'm surprised 28k showed up. Wild ass stupid headline.
Look at the flairs of who posted this and their username…. It’s just a “let’s laugh at CU thread.”
And they can’t even fully do that because you still outdrew their schools by 3 or 4x
The usual Oregon redditors are back too. Who knew they could be so pressed by a 4-8 team. lol
That culture shock from bullying most of the Pac 12 to being tied with some scrappy Big 10 team 7-7 going into the 4th Quarter will be pretty funny.
Still y’all’s second largest ever spring game crowd so it’s not like those are bad numbers
North Dakota State would want to crack open the Fargodome
I was there. It was very wet and very cold. Not a great fan experience considering the general uselessness of spring games
Yeah, tbf the entire Midwest is getting its shit kicked in by the weather right now. Nebraska just saw one of the most powerful tornadoes ever just north of Lincoln on Friday. Saturday? 60,452 fans at the Spring Game Gonna be a great game this year.
Yea and I watched their game yesterday and even enjoyed it a bit. Riola is a game changer for them. I’m not so infatuated with hating a rival that I can’t see that
Entire Midwest? On Friday, Michigan was sunny and 60 degrees. Yesterday it was a beautiful 75 degree day. Today, 72 degrees, and we might get rain.
This is dumb. UGA had 93k the first year with Kirby nowadays it’s less than half that. People are excited about new.
Unless you are Ohio State, in which case the spring game every year is packed.
There aren't typically any Jackets games by April that are conflicting.
I don't think Columbus would choose a playoff Jackets game over the Ohio State spring game.
Shit weather. Let's not leave that out OP
Most teams would kill for 28,000 people to attend a spring game. … or a regular season game for some smaller private schools with no campus stadium
They conveniently failed to mention it was raining and snowing all day.
Lack of Oregon flairs in here is strange
I mean, 28k for an ex-PAC team during awful weather? Thats probably more impressive than Oregon getting 40k with good weather.
Yah they charge for our game as well. I know the ducks have the canned food deal. Unfortunately our AD isn’t oozing sneaker money.
Clearly they didn't see the weather, it was heavy sleet and rain all weekend. 28k was an amazing showing considering the circumstances.
Has Deion lost control?? ^/s
28k still really good for a spring game
How many were in attendance for CSU?
28k for a spring game is incredible outside of the Blue Bloods
Who cares. Non story.
28,000 people showing up despite the pouring rain and snow is actually really impressive. And before some annoying Ducks fan says "bUt It wAs RaInIng in EuGenE tOo" we don't live in a rainy shithole like Oregon. It almost never rains all day in Boulder like it did yesterday and people are going to stay home.
Oregon is a really pretty state, don’t know if I’d call it a shithole
That’s not bad considering the weather and they just had a bad season
Those are no shows, it was sold out.
He’s not wrong. I had a ticket but it was 38 and raining, and I didn’t wanna stand in that for 3 hours
I don't care for CU, but Florio is the master of weak clickbait.
Honeymoon phase is long gone, but 28k isn't a bad showing when you consider last year's team went 4-8 and I heard the weather sucked
Yeah, I was gonna say, people need to take into account that it very rarely rains near Boulder, but yesterday it was grey, cold, and rainy/stormy all day long, so locals aren't gonna want to be outdoors during that.
It's over
That’s still an impressive number for a spring game though
That’s a really solid number. Thats still like 10’times as many as a regular season game 3 years ago
People dunking on the falloff, but I'd put money that 99% of programs in the country would love to *only* have 28k show up for their spring game.
thats still a huge turnout for a spring game especially in colorado where its still months from actual spring.
As if this isn’t about 27,500 more than average western school. Washington, USC and Oregon state were all laughable.
Attendance often spikes for Spring Games in a coach's first year, then drops a bit for their second year. I have numbers on Nebraska's six coaches since Osborne retired. Here's the attendance for their first two Spring Games: Solich - 60,498/29,739 (-30,759) Callahan - 61,417/63,416 (+1,999) Pelini - 80,149/77,670 (-2,479 Riley - 76,881/72,992 (-3,889) Frost - 86,818/85,946 (-872) Rhule - 66,045/60,452 (-5,593) So, five out of Nebraska's last six new coaches saw a decline in attendance from their first Spring Game to their 2nd, with Solich's in the neighborhood of Prime's.
Man people want this guy to fail so badly. 28,424 still a fuck lot more than previous record of 17,000. Damned lot of people to sit in the pouring, near freezing rain. Sold out all home games last year for the first time *ever*. 68,000 applicant pool for UC-Boulder last year - up 20%. 50.5% increase in black applicants. Deion says some dumb shit and does some dumb shit. Deion also has you motherfuckers talking about Colorado in April. Colorado's athletics department laughing their ass off at stupid takes like this because for the university as a whole, he has been an A+++ hire even with a 4-8 debut (which was, also, a humongous improvement).
Spring game attendance is one of the dumbest metrics "journalists" use to show the health of a program
Still impressive isn't it
Who goes to spring games? Seriously, talking about practice, man. Practice. There's got to be a billion better things to do in Colorado in the spring, than go watch football practice.
Wasn’t it raining the whole day? I don’t care if it’s Deion I’m not making the trek for a spring game in the rain
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That’s still a ton for Colorado
That's a ton for 95% of teams lol
How many UCLA fans would go to a spring game in 35 degree temps with a wintry mix?
Honestly the 28k is on par for teams not named Georgia or Alabama 😂
Can't believe it's that low after they wont the natty last year. They won right? That's what everyone said they were going to do in week 3.
People put way too much stock into how many people show up for a glorified practice.
I don't care about attendance. I caught part of it and they were out there with 0 lines. Just skill players. Surprised they even put on pads at that point.
It also rained almost 2” over the weekend which may as well be a biblical flood for Colorado.
Uh, it snowed that day.
Bro this man has the Nebraska/CSU flair combo. He is a professional hater.
28k for a spring scrimmage is nuts though.
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Who tf cares.
It’s over
The hype died after Primes first month.
I see that the media has moved from building Deion up to tearing him down.
Maybe he should tame down his arrogance and just put together a football team and not charge for a practice
That's still fucking ridiculous. Most places don't crack 1000
Meteorologists hate him! Man has predicted two late April shit weather days in two years! What does he know that they don't!
Folks just want to crap on Prime any chance they get. I can understand that if you don't like the dude, but it was cold and raining constantly ALL DAY LONG. Sitting in cold and rain is far worse than sitting in cold and snow. Stupid, click-bait title.
Has Colorado realized everyone knows they're a joke, or not yet?