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re: Now that Ole Miss and Miss. State are respectable, do we rename the Egg Bowl?
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:31 pm to Wanderin Reb
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:31 pm to Wanderin Reb
Look, I dislike Ole Miss. But it's not a game that gets circled every year. It is this year since y'all field a good team and beat LSU last year. But most LSU fans don't circle Ole Miss.
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Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:31 pm to BamaDoc14
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My vote is for the Magnolia Bowl as Mississippi is the Magnolia state.
derp
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:32 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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Seems like a pretty good name to me. The trophy is awful though.
I agree. the trophy is awful.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:32 pm to No Colors
Does not need to be renamed just because of on good season from both teams. 90%+ of the time, the egg bowl is the perfect name for the game.
Pretty much how I picture the game every year.
Pretty much how I picture the game every year.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:33 pm to BamaDoc14
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Ohhh I get it, because you decided to put a name on it, that automatically erases all the times we played before 1980. Logical.
If the basis of the rivalry is number of games played, then MSU is a bigger rival to both of you than you are to each other.
So we're OM's biggest rival, LSU's biggest rival, Bama's biggest rival, and Auburn's second biggest ahead of Bama. Cool.
This post was edited on 10/20/14 at 4:36 pm
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:49 pm to No Colors
Isn't the story that when the State and Ole Miss students fought after the game, and the student bodies commissioned a trophy, the trophy maker didn't have a football so he used a rugby ball. It turned out more like this.
It turned out more like this:
When it got to Mississippi, it looked like a Golden Egg instead of a Golden football. The name stuck.
Another cool story about the trophy was that when Vaught was beating our arse every year the trophy became an afterthought. They shipped it to an engraver in Hattiesburg to have the score engraved and it never came back. It was lost for several years.
Anyway, it was found in a closet in Laurel some years later by an MSU alum, who turned it over to MSU administration. That year, MSU won for the first time in a while, and out trotted the lost trophy.
It turned out more like this:
When it got to Mississippi, it looked like a Golden Egg instead of a Golden football. The name stuck.
Another cool story about the trophy was that when Vaught was beating our arse every year the trophy became an afterthought. They shipped it to an engraver in Hattiesburg to have the score engraved and it never came back. It was lost for several years.
Anyway, it was found in a closet in Laurel some years later by an MSU alum, who turned it over to MSU administration. That year, MSU won for the first time in a while, and out trotted the lost trophy.
This post was edited on 10/20/14 at 4:51 pm
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:54 pm to cas4t
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it's a forced rivalry
Y'all begged us to name it.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 5:05 pm to DingDongEddieStrong
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Posted by DingDongEddieStrong
tLandmass Bowl. Winner gets a ball of edam cheese.
Winner gets a chicken finger stuffed with Edam cheese
Posted on 10/20/14 at 5:11 pm to cas4t
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you don't need a trophy to be rivals
I agree, but that is when those "Bowls" started.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 5:13 pm to BamaDoc14
I think it shoud be changed to The Haley's Comet Bowl, because it's only worth watching once every 76 years.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 5:13 pm to Wolfhound45
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"Irate Aggie supporters took after the ambitious Ole Miss group with cane bottom chairs, and fights broke out. The mayhem continued until most of the chairs were splintered."
Yep, we may be all team Landmass now, but this game is known to get ugly regardless if it "matters" or not.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 5:14 pm to No Colors
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I dated a vegetarian for a couple of years in college. If you are what you eat, then
So she was a vegetable? I bet she laid there during sex
Posted on 10/20/14 at 5:35 pm to deltaland
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So she was a vegetable? I bet she laid there during sex
Not true.
Hands down dirtiest talker I've ever banged. I mean would make you blush.
And always had suggestions. Showed up at my place a couple of times with a tackle box. Girl had skills.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 5:41 pm to deltaland
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So she was a vegetable? I bet she laid there during sex
If she was a chicken, that would make her a vegetarian, and if he got laid, then he would be an egg
If they had sex, and she came first, well than you have the answer to an age old question.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 5:45 pm to BamaDoc14
Ole Miss won't be respectable anymore after Saturday night.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 6:00 pm to anc
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Another cool story about the trophy was that when Vaught was beating our arse every year the trophy became an afterthought. They shipped it to an engraver in Hattiesburg to have the score engraved and it never came back. It was lost for several years.
Anyway, it was found in a closet in Laurel some years later by an MSU alum, who turned it over to MSU administration. That year, MSU won for the first time in a while, and out trotted the lost trophy.
I've never heard this before. Do you have kind of link for this?
If this is legit, I can't believe I'm just now finding out about this. Good stuff.Posted on 10/20/14 at 6:04 pm to Toddy
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I've never heard this before. Do you have kind of link for this? If this is legit, I can't believe I'm just now finding out about this. Good stuff.
I read a great account of it somewhere. I'll see if I can find it.
It was in the 60s/70s run. I believe it was the '74 season when we had a good year after 33 years of sucking when the trophy made a surprise appearance. Literally found in the back of a closet in Laurel. No idea how it got there.
I love stories that have a "That could never happen today" feel to them.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 6:21 pm to BamaDoc14
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My vote is for the Magnolia Bowl as Mississippi is the Magnolia state. I'm sure there is some obscure fact somewhere is this rivalry's history that can give us a better name than this.
Magnolia bowl is between Ole Miss and LSU. It's the egg bowl, and it will always stay that way.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 7:02 pm to inelishaitrust
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It's the egg bowl
Posted on 10/20/14 at 7:08 pm to BamaDoc14
This is a silly question!
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