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What is the "calling card" of these SEC football programs?

Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:34 pm
Posted by Tornado Alley
Member since Mar 2012
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Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:34 pm
Just some suggestions.

Alabama
Excessively obsessive fans who take the game a little "too" seriously. It's not a religion to Gumps, it's a little more important than that.
Fans in areas often affected by tornadoes who happen to be interviewed on the local news while clad in crimson-accented camouflage.
Stealing "traditions" from Ole Miss.
Only beating Auburn when they are bad.

Arkansas
Track and field national championships.
Claiming fake national championships (1964 comes to mind).
More skyboxes than seats in their stadium because of Wal-Mart's dominating presence, leading their fans to have a false sense of superiority.
Roller coaster results.
Overly conservative playcalling outside of a four-year span from 2008-2011.
Coaches who really love their helmets.
Expert jimmy rustlers, outside of Auburn.

Auburn
Being Alabama's little brother and being really mad about it. The Napoleonic complex is strong on the Plains.
Having to move a great, traditional rivalry from Birmingham to Auburn just to steal a win from their most hated rival.
Stealing the Vol Walk from Tennessee.
A tradition that is Uniquely Auburn: the pre-game flight of the eagle. It's badass.
Always breaking Georgia hearts.
Coaches with obvious physical deformities: short coaches, coaches with gigantic ears, and coaches with no teeth.
Rustling Arkansas jimmies like no other since 2009.

Florida
Always getting the best of Tennessee teams and players (Peyton Manning).
Always struggling against Mississippi teams.
Rustling more Georgia jimmies than Auburn, which is really saying something (Corch calling two timeouts while up 39 points in the 4th in 2008).
Felonies.
The two best coaches, far and away, in their history leaving them for better programs.

Georgia
Helen Mirren's love of Jesus
More rivalries than they care to admit (Auburn, Clemson, Florida, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Tennessee).
Consistent high expectations; consistent underperformance.
Always the bridesmaid (2003, 2007, 2012).
Moments of sheer ecstasy (2007 Cocktail Party and Auburn "blackout" game).
Moments of sheer despair (2012 SECCG and 2013 Miracle on the Plains).
Christianity.
The second best college town in the country.
Trashing their campus.
Hedges, Silver britches, Larry Munson.

Kentucky
Basketball
The Battleship, The Pillsbury Throwboy, QBese, Hefty Lefty: Jared Lorenzen

LSU
Piss balloons.
TGBFTL.
Not actually having a rival.
A rabid, hungry, and unapologetic fanbase when they're winning. A bored, unenthusiastic, and unapologetic fanbase when they're losing.
3-3 in the past six games versus Ole Miss.
A largely diabetic, obese, and stroke-prone fanbase.

Ole Miss
Always finding a way to have a memorable WAOM moment.
Current residents of 2724 Magnolia Way.
Doing something that hadn't been done in fiddy years.
A coach who quotes Tyler Perry hellur lol, is an expert bass fisherman, lives in a beaver dam, and has out-Christianed Mark Richt
Integration is still optional.
The best looking women in the world.
Fried chicken on a stick eaten while snot slinging drunk at a gas station.

Mississippi State
Clangalangalangalangalangalangalangalangalangalangalangalangalangalangalangalangalanga
Joe Lee Dunn's "Best Defense Money Can Buy"
Taking recruits to Applebee's
Outside of the Croom years, have consistently played a physical, punishing brand of football and had above average front sevens.
Mississippi State has a 210-395-21 record against current SEC programs, which is really bad.
This post was edited on 3/17/14 at 3:38 pm
Posted by FourThreeForty
Member since May 2013
17290 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:36 pm to
quote:

Alabama



Our interest in the game is very high
Posted by cbi8
Nashville
Member since Mar 2012
6801 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:37 pm to
Vandy
Being smart
Posted by Pettifogger
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Member since Feb 2012
79119 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:38 pm to
quote:

Stealing the Vol Walk from Tennessee.


Yeah I'm rustled
Posted by Crimson G
Atlanta
Member since Jul 2013
1353 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:41 pm to
Nice list. Wonder what should be said about Mizzou and UTlite
Posted by Open Dore Policy
The Commodore State
Member since Oct 2012
4472 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:42 pm to
quote:

Vandy
Being smart
Beating Auburn


FIFY
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
112553 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:43 pm to
State's is obviously baseball and nine trips to Omaha.
Posted by SwayzeBalla
Member since Dec 2011
19451 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:44 pm to
quote:

Mississippi State has a 210-395-21 record against current SEC programs

Posted by NorthGAVol
Member since Sep 2011
8939 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:45 pm to
Upvoted. Do Tennessee next.
Posted by Eric Nies Grind Time
Atlanta GA - ITP
Member since Sep 2012
24933 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:48 pm to
Why do people in law school always have so much time to post?
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
112553 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:49 pm to
Wanna fight about it?
Posted by Tornado Alley
Member since Mar 2012
26498 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:49 pm to
quote:

Why do people in law school always have so much time to post?


A) I don't pay attention in class.

B) I procrastinate.
Posted by SwayzeBalla
Member since Dec 2011
19451 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:50 pm to
Yes naked
Posted by TheSandman
AuburnUndercover
Member since Nov 2010
19409 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:52 pm to
quote:

Stealing the Vol Walk from Tennessee.

Except not
Posted by All4Qtrs
tCapitol
Member since Nov 2013
1056 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:52 pm to
quote:

Beating Auburn


1905-2012

38 games

19-18-1 AU

LINK
Posted by lsu711
Member since Sep 2003
13029 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:53 pm to
STTDB?
Posted by WonderWartHawg
Member since Dec 2010
10397 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:57 pm to
quote:

Claiming fake national championships (1964 comes to mind)


The poll that made more sense, AFTER the bowl games (which Alabama lost to Texas and Arkansas WON against #7 Nebraska) named Arkansas their national champion.

Call it fake if you want to, but Arkansas finished undefeated, Bama did not.
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
South Florida
Member since Apr 2010
30023 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 3:58 pm to
List incomplete:

No mention of houndstooth painted pickup trucks

Babies named "Bear", "PAul Bryant" or any derivative thereof

REC's Machiavellian control of the conference
Posted by roadGator
Member since Feb 2009
139798 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 4:02 pm to
Shiny hooks. All of them.
Posted by InThroughTheOutDore
Middle TN
Member since Nov 2008
7383 posts
Posted on 3/17/14 at 4:04 pm to
quote:

1905-2012

38 games

19-18-1 AU



Congrats on finding a source that arbitrarily started with 1905.

Page 193 of Auburn's 2013 media guide says their all-time record against Vandy is 20-21-1...
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