About TCFA
Welcome to the TCFAOnline.com, the Internet home of The College Football Athenaeum. You have found a college football magazine unlike any other, a site where the game is studied and savored, discussed and enjoyed, loved and celebrated. TCFA, you will find, truly is for the intelligent college football fan.
TCFA started in 1998 as a single email, sent by Editor Tim Hyland to six close friends. It evolved into a weekly email newsletter, and soon gained a following across the nation. TCFA’s unique combination of news, wit and college football discussion has made it a must-read for fans who care less about statistics and more about the things that make college football our favorite American pastime.
We at TCFA don't dwell on statistics, and we don't use clichés. We don't care about national rankings. We ignore the BCS. We celebrate the game's unique traditions, its color and its history. We keep an eye on the news and offer some analysis, but enjoy the games – the Saturday afternoons – most of all. College football is more than wins and losses. It's more than stadiums and bowl games. It's about our passion for our schools and good times with friends. It's about alma maters, fight songs and old stories. It's about Saturday afternoons in October.
Welcome again to The College Football Athenaeum. We hope you'll find something to enjoy, and hope you'll come back again.
Your Editor
Timothy Hyland is founder and editor of The College Football Athenaeum. A 1998 graduate of Penn State, Tim spent eight years slaving away as a staff writer and editor at newspapers in Pennsylvania and Maryland before earning his M.A. in American Studies (in other words, literature) from the University of Maryland and quickly abandoning the newsroom culture. He currently works as an editor and writer at the University of Pennsylvania (go Quakers). His writing has appearned in such publications as Fast Company magazine, Philadelphia City Paper, the Penn Stater magazine, the Washington Times and numerous others. Raised in Cleveland but schooled in State College, Tim's beliefs are at the heart of TCFA: He believes in the genius of Joe Paterno, the sanctity of Yuengling Lager and the words Ernest Hemingway; he believes in the precision of "Script Ohio," the music of Willie Nelson and the beauty of Mount Nittany; he also believes college football is more interesting than any other American sport. He lives in the Wissahickon Valley, near Philadelphia, with his wife Erin, his 5-year-old son (and future linebacker?) Jack, his 3-year-old daughter Anna, his baby girl Leah, and his crafty Basset Hound, Eli.
