Jameson and Mitchell Ritter are huge college football fans, but they're hoping to make it into a different hall of fame: the Guinness Book of World Records.
Having partnered with mobile ticketing app GameTime, the brothers are driving 25,000 miles in a tricked-out RV to watch more than 50 college football games in one season for what they're calling The Ultimate College Football Road Trip.
INSIDER caught up with them as they drove through Kansas on their way to the West Coast — and their the next game.
Jameson and Mitchell Ritter have always been huge football fans.
“Growing up in small town Ohio, college football was something that was always there on Saturdays,” Jameson said. “We played football through high school and went off to college at pretty big football schools. Our love and our passion for the sport just seemed to grow.”
If all goes as planned, they will have attended 50 college football games by the end of the season and earn the Guinness World Record.
World records run in the Ritter family. Their father once held the record for winning the world’s largest game of musical chairs.
“The one thing that our father has always been able to hang over our heads,” Jameson laughed.
Jameson, 29, put his sales career on hold for the trip, while Mitchell, 23, works for international film festivals and has the flexibility to travel.
The brothers are living together in an RV, driving all week and attending games all weekend.
“It’s fun to get back under the same roof for the first time since we were kids,” Jameson said. “We haven't fully adjusted to it yet, but we're learning more about each other than I think we ever thought we would.”
They’ve partnered with GameTime, a mobile ticketing app that is helping subsidize the cost of their tickets, which range from $4 to $100 each.
“Our tickets are one of our largest expenses for this trip, so to have a company like GameTime be willing to subsidize some of those costs allows us to stay on the road that much longer and make a full, concerted effort to drive all the way to the national championship game,” Jameson said.
“It's kind of fun to just be on the move and wake up in a different city almost every other day, and get to see all of the various landscapes coast to coast,” Mitchell said.
“We get to see these beautiful universities and different parts of the country that we may not otherwise have a chance to go to,” Jameson added.
No matter how much football they watch, the Ritter brothers said the game never gets old.
“Each game as the season goes along becomes more and more crucial, and the level of excitement and intensity continues to grow,” Jameson said.
“This is our favorite time of year and I don't think we could imagine it any other way,” Mitchell said.
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