Nothing beats sitting down in front of a big screen TV and watching the game. If you're game day experience is spend in in front of a 17 inch monitor, with an age appropriate beverage, you're just not getting the true game day experience.

So eventually you're going to get to the point where you need real equipment. Since I started putting my laptop games on the big screen last season it finally feels like football again. That is the main purpose behind me upgrading the television.

This week completes the saga of Johnny BullFan!

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Fans who want to really follow their team from half way across the country have a few options

• Good cell phone: The up side is that chances are your life can't revolve around your team because nobody in your world cares about your team. UB have a late game on Thursday? Your boss doesn't care, your coworkers don't care, and chances are your wife is pretty indifferent. So you can count on those weekday games usually falling victim to the rest of your life.
• Decent Computer: While you could use the cell phone to hit up the fan sites after games a good laptop is the perfect tool to talk smack, defended your ailing team, or pick up a rock and chuck it like the mindless, hopeless, loveless, bitter mid major fan that you are.

  The Computer you get should have a decent amount of video ram for 'future use' with a nice....

• Television: The advents of streaming sites has made that handy little laptop better than any cable box. Most teams offer pretty affordable plans for their home games and most conferences offer up an "À la carte"method for those pesky road games.

This week continues the saga of Johnny BullFan

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Part of being a fan of 'mid major' programs is the weekly ritual of running down your favorite teams game on television. Buffalo fans still located in Western New York have is easier than teams in 'owned' markets like NIU or EMU.

But for Bulls fans located outside of the Buffalo-Niagara region catching a UB game on TV used to be nearly impossible. Even now it's still not an easy task. Often I drop a dime for a game only to have the audio fall out of sync or the image quality go bad at just the right time.

Slowly, but surely, technology is starting to break down the obstacles that TV ratings throw up in the way of schools outside of the power conferences. Samsung's recent "Enhance your experience" campaign on SBNation has brought the influence of technology to the front of peoples minds and that brought me to thinking about how technology has impacted the way I follow UB.

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