<p>Im kind of afraid to ask this question, but i will anyway.
How are the sports at brown? are they at all popular? do students attend events? im mainly referring to football, basketball to a lesser extent.</p>
<p>I have heard rather negative things about the student body’s opinion of their sports teams…</p>
<p>bump bump?</p>
<p>People don’t really go to sporting events, no. I can think of two students I know who regularly attended football games last season; there seemed to be a contingent of sorority girls who did, too. Some games (Harvard, Homecoming) have pretty decent attendance, but for most it’s about the same as my high school home football games. Basketball games are much the same.</p>
<p>There’s a devoted fan base that probably includes about a quarter to one-third of campus. The athletes are great about supporting each other and often drag along all of their friends.</p>
<p>Sports teams are not the pervasive unifying cultural force. While Brown students very strongly identify with the school and have a lot of pride for Bruno, it’s not sports that brings us together in that way.</p>
<p>im just glad to hear that there is a following 
thanks</p>
<p>I live in Cambridge and I can say that Brown brought a relatively good following to a Friday night game at Harvard Stadium. I was also impressed with their enthusiasm. I had heard that Brown did not follow sports strongly, but that was not my impression that night.</p>
<p>Rah rah! jddkdfhdkjhd</p>
<p>As an alum, I can say this is one of the ways that Brown has changed in 30 years that is disappointing to me. When I was on campus, everyone went to football games. My freshman year, I remember all of Keeney Quad leaving en masse for games; at Homecoming, the stadium was packed, every seat taken. A lot of people used to go to ice hockey games – but people rarely went to basketball games because we were so bad.</p>
<p>I don’t know what happened, why people stopped going.</p>
<p>Isn’t there a group on campus that’s trying to increase attendance with some incentive plan?</p>
<p>free tshirts that are always gone when i get there…</p>
<p>I went to a sports-centric high school where football games were a big deal.
Football games at Brown are generally not a big deal. Out of all the friends I regularly socialize with, only one has ever been to one, and that’s because her roommate was an athlete and dragged her along. From what I hear from her, there are a fair number of athletes that go to other athletes games, like modestmelody said. However, for the rest of the student body, there is a fair amount of apathy towards sports, though some will go to the Harvard game(some to watch, some as an excuse to visit a friend up there). I’ve known people to go to the hockey games to support the band, rather than the ice hockey team.</p>
<p>i live in cambridge too and its amazing how brown alums fill the stands at harvard games most of the former brown alums (college) that i know at harvard grad school go to games and root for brown</p>