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Brothers visit Boise to set record for most college football games attended

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BOISE, Idaho (KBOI) — While thousands of fans packed the parking lot and the stands at Albertsons Stadium for the game against Brigham Young University, two brothers traveled farther than anyone to be there.

Jameson and Mitch Ritter drove 17,000 miles to be in Boise for the game. They certainly did not take the most direct route, but that was on purpose.

“Every single week going coast to coast, and coast to coast again.”

The bothers are attempting to set a new record for most college football games attended in a single season.

It’s a trip many fans would consider the ultimate football experience.

Their trip to BSU marks their 23rd game and they aren’t even half way done with the journey.

“There was a couple moments where it was kind of just like whoa it does take someone with a little bit of a crazy bone in their body to try to pull off a trip like this.”

For the past seven weeks, and for the next 11 weeks the brothers call an RV home. They take turns driving and sleeping, many times driving through the night.

So are these brother sick of football yet?

They say no. The Ritters still stay for the final whistle every game.

“One game can make or break the season at this point, the excitement just seems like it’s even greater when we first started.”

“It intensifies week in and week out.”

The 25,000+ mile journey includes watching more than 70 teams from 11 conferences, totaling more than 50 gameday experiences. It ends with the national championship game in Tampa.

The brothers might try to do it again next year, but what they hope even more is they inspire another set of brothers, or sisters, or father and son, or mother and daughter to do a trip of their own, no matter how crazy it may seem.

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