NC State Superfan Dewey Corn Is a Big College Football Nut, But Not the Biggest

Dewey Corn has attended 389 NC State games in a row without missing a single one due to illness, injury, act of God, or the most common cause for missing games, "people bein' all up in your s*#@."

Dewey began his streak in 1975 and hasn't been marked absent for a game since then, including bowl games. More impressive is the fact that for the majority of these games, Dewey has been watching mediocre football after a 95-mile trip each way from his home in High Point, NC and spending all the money on tickets, gas, and whatever you take to watch 33 years of the football equivalent of being gently punched in the crotch promptly at noon each Saturday.

(For the record, NC State has gone 206-176-5 in that timespan, but the bad has been really, really bad.)

Corn's tenacity doesn't even come close to now-deceased USC fan Giles Pellerin, though, the reigning king of awesomely devoted fanhood, who once escaped the bonds of both medical care and common sense to watch the USC Trojans:

A near miss came in 1949 when an emergency operation to remove his appendix sidelined Pellerin just five days before a home contest. The day of the game, Pellerin told nurses that he was gong for a walk. Instead, he sneaked out to the Coliseum.

The message being: if you ever see a man watching a football game in a hospital gown with his bare cheeks hanging in the wind, you need to buy that man a beer. Whatever he's got in his system from the doctors can't be hurt by a few doses of 16 oz. barley therapy.

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