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Egg Bowl - dumbest name for a rivalry game ever or quaint? ...
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:34 am
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:34 am
I say dumbest.
This is football, dang it. Name it something tough like Aub/Ala does (Iron Bowl). Even Georgia/georgia tech play for the Governor's Cup.
Egg Bowl. Not a good title for a state rivalry, imo. Two fragile teams that will spill their guts if cracked just barely?
Do better. How about the Steel Magnolia Bowl? Or Deep Fried Snickers Bowl? Or the I Beleeve In Literacy Bowl? Or anything other than Egg Bowl.
Work on it.
This is football, dang it. Name it something tough like Aub/Ala does (Iron Bowl). Even Georgia/georgia tech play for the Governor's Cup.
Egg Bowl. Not a good title for a state rivalry, imo. Two fragile teams that will spill their guts if cracked just barely?
Do better. How about the Steel Magnolia Bowl? Or Deep Fried Snickers Bowl? Or the I Beleeve In Literacy Bowl? Or anything other than Egg Bowl.
Work on it.
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Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:34 am to GoldenDawg
OR how about you stfu
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:34 am to GoldenDawg
Tunsil chose the better team. Discuss
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:35 am to GoldenDawg
Read up, son.
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:35 am to DMagic
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:35 am to GoldenDawg
frick you and your blob of a jabba the hut bulldog
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:36 am to GoldenDawg
Georgia fans forever mad
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:36 am to DMagic
:slowclap:
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:37 am to GoldenDawg
quote:You realize that name has nothing to do with football being a tough game, right?
Name it something tough like Aub/Ala does (Iron Bowl).
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:37 am to GoldenDawg
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Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate
Because this is so much less stupid. And see the Big Ten for some truly ridiculous rivalry trophies
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:40 am to Bama Bird
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Because this is so much less stupid. And see the Big Ten for some truly ridiculous rivalry trophies
Yeah, well you have a point there. But the cold messes with your I.Q. I think.
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:43 am to GoldenDawg
Does the easter bunny live in MS? has the egg bowl trophy ever broke? is there a trophy? i'd probably go with pimento cheese bowl.
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:45 am to GoldenDawg
"Up until 1926, Ole Miss had won only five times out of twenty-three. When Ole Miss beat what was then known as Mississippi A&M College 7-6, the Ole Miss fans rushed the field, some trying to tear the goalposts down. A&M fans did not take well to the Ole Miss fans destroying their property and fights broke out. Some A&M fans defended the goal posts with wooden chairs, and several injuries were reported. To prevent such events in the future, students of the two schools created the "Golden Egg", a large trophy which has been awarded to the winning team each year since 1927. The trophy is a large football-shaped brass piece mounted to a wooden base and traditionally symbolizes supremacy in college football in the state of Mississippi for the year. The footballs used in American football in the 1920s were considerably more ovoid and blunter than those in use today and similar to the balls still used in rugby; the trophy thus, to modern eyes, more resembles an egg than a football. The awarding of the "Golden Egg" was instituted in 1927 by joint agreement between the two schools' student bodies. In the event of a tie, the school that won the game the previous year keeps the trophy for the first half of the new year and then the trophy is sent to the other school for the second half of the new year."
Yanked from the wiki
Yanked from the wiki
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:45 am to DMagic
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Tunsil chose the better team. Discuss
That, sir, was uncalled for. I was hoping for some polite discussion about a long-standing Southern tradition in your state.
Instead, you bring the hate.
I wasn't going to say anything, but I fear you leave me no choice. Here we go:
Your Secretary of State's name is ..... now get this .....
Delbert Hoseman.
There. May that be a lesson to you to keep your posts civil in the future.
Good day sir.
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:46 am to GoldenDawg
I'm just here for the gang bang
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:46 am to GoldenDawg
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GoldenDawg
Jelly AF
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:47 am to Politiceaux
Uh yes it does actually. It was in the Iron City and Auburn Coach "Iron" Mike Donahue coined the phrase. It relates to the ore being mined in Alabama and the grit involved between both teams.
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:49 am to Marines4Auburn
The egg bowl is a classic rivalry that almost every college fan would recognize. Why change a recognizable name?
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:52 am to nightman
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The egg bowl is a classic rivalry that almost every college fan would recognize. Why change a recognizable name?
I don't know. Why do you think no one names their kid 'Gay' anymore?
That's pretty recognizable.
And I am of the opinion that very very few college football fans outside the SEC have any clue about the Egg Bowl.
Name it the "I Beleeve In Literacy Bowl" however, and EVERYbody will know of it.
Posted on 11/25/13 at 9:55 am to GoldenDawg
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I don't know. Why do you think no one names their kid 'Gay' anymore?
That's pretty recognizable.
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