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College fanatics living it up on San Jose billboard
    2019-01-07  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

DIEHARD sports fans often go to great lengths to show their allegiance but some college football supporters took their loyalty to new heights when they agreed to live on a San Jose billboard ahead of Monday’s national championship game.

As part of an ESPN contest, four fans representing the semi-final teams took up residence on a 45-foot (13.72-meter) high billboard late Dec. 26 near the site of the championship game for as long as their respective team remained in the playoffs.

The quartet, who were each provided with a tent and sleeping bag, has since been reduced to Clemson Tigers fan Nancy Volland of Mount Dora, Florida, and Alabama Crimson Tide supporter Llyas Ross Sr from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Volland, a 59-year-old married mother of two daughters, said her time on the 40-foot-wide by 8-foot-deep platform had flown by but admitted it came with its share of challenges.

“It’s not like camping in the woods,” Volland told Reuters in a telephone interview from the platform.

“You have to go down 72 stairs to go to the bathroom. I’ve had to go a couple times in the middle of the night so getting out of a nice warm sleeping bag when it’s in the 30s (Fahrenheit) and going down those 72 stairs and back up is the hardest part.” (SD-Agencies)

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