I've only seen this type of thing happen once TBH. I was at the UT/Alabama game with some buddies from UT in 2005. If you remember, Alabama was undefeated at the time, and Tennessee, at the time, was in the top 20. The game ended up being an Alabama win 6-3 after a UT player fumbled the ball near the goal line for what would have been the winning score. Nevertheless, that whole weekend was such a weird vibe of Alabama college kids begging for a fight. Told my drunkest buddy he needed to cool it because I could tell there was a lot of "fake niceness" going on and the guys he was talking to were looking for any reason to start shite. Sure enough, after the game Saturday, my aforementioned buddy said something harmless that resulted in him getting punched in the mouth by a guy in the Alabama chapter of his fraternity.

By and large, however, I've had more issues with fans from my own fanbase and it's generally more a result of rednecks being rednecks than any one particular fanbase being horrible. Most of the time, altercations are caused by white trash, people who can't control themselves drinking alcohol, visiting fans looking for a confrontation, or a combination of all three. And TBH, if you have any sense and/or maturity, it's very easy to remove yourself from situations like that. Most recently, had some mouthy coonass being a rude a-hole to my wife at the 2019 SECCG. She was trying to take a picture of the team pregame when guy was trying to get through to his seat. She asked him if he could wait a few seconds for her to take a picture. The guy cussed at her (while with his 8 year old son no less). Part of me was like "frick this guy for speaking to my wife that way, I'm gonna make something of it." But the more sensible side of me thought, what is the endgame here? Talk shite back to this a-hole, he starts a fights, and we all escorted out of the game?....or let his trashy self be trashy, and I go on about my business and enjoy the game.

Honestly, it's pretty rare to see fans go out of their way to be assholes to an opponent's fans, regardless of the fanbases involved.

This post was edited on 7/6/22 at 9:13 pm

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Posted on 7/6/22 at 2:29 pm to lsufball19

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The game ended up being an Alabama win 6-3 after a UT player fumbled the ball near the goal line for what would have been the winning score

Swing pass from Rick Clausen to Cory Anderson near the goal line, and Alabama's Roman Harper jarred the ball loose. Brodie Croyle lead them back down for a FG.

They made a painting.