are very few of the good web developers and engineers (like msudogsrule and myself) are sports fans. This is why these things continue to happen. Most of this guys are either:
(1) geeks that hate sports because they got picked on (see my entire office)
(2) geeks from other countries that only like cricket and badminton (see vendors that I work with)
I work with a guy who attended LSU and had no idea they had a baseball team until he read that they had spend $X million on a baseball stadium and he was in complete disgust.
Conversely, one of our network engineers grew up a big MSU fan, and pitched at Austin Peay. He and I get along.