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Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:20 am to Mizzou Tiger
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Son, I grew up in the cotton fields of Missouri so I ain't no Yankee.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:21 am to CzarChasm
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Watch LSU play an SEC team in Tiger Stadium at night. Show up at least 6 hours before the game starts and walk around the campus. This will give you some perspective. The energy in Tiger Stadium is palpable during a big game. At night, it's even better.
Maybe I can help illustrate it for the noob. I married an LSU graduate, and she took me to my first LSU game at Death Valley in 2000. It was against Houston. Noncon loser from a loser conference. We spent the night at the home of her college roommate and her husband. Kickoff is at 7:00pm on Saturday. We wake up at 8:00am that morning and it's raining sideways. A true frog-strangler. I looked at our friend Mike and said, "Well, guess we're not tailgating today." He looked at me like I'd punched his mom in the gut and said, "Like hell we're not tailgating. Get dressed." A half hour later we were at Winn-Dixie with a full cart of liquor. By 9:30 we were at the tailgate next to the Indian mounds. There were two tents bungeed together, a pickup backed into one side of one of the tents with a large tv and satellite dish so we could watch Gameday.
About 11:00, the moms of the folks at our tailgate started showing up in their Lincoln Town Cars, rolling down the windows and handing out dishes and pots of the best food on the planet. Mind you, still raining sideways. Nobody cared. We were alternating between hitting off the keg and swilling the beam.
Some time mid-afternoon the rain did finally stop. Not long after that, everyone started leaving their tents and lining up along the street. At that point, in the distance you see the most gorgeous wemmenz on the planet - Golden Girls - leading the Tiger band toward the stadium. Now...I'm partial to my Razorbacks and everything about them....but even I have to tip my cap at the Golden Girls. The band marches by, and there's so many of them, it seems to take forever.
By then, you go into the stadium, and remember, this is just Houston they were playing. Not anyone important. Student section was full a couple hours before kickoff. Stadium was full well before kickoff as well - even on a lousy weather day. Then the band takes the field and hits the first notes of "Hold That Tiger." As a non-LSU fan, and a non-alum, that gave me chills. The crowd responds every time they hit those notes with a noise I'd not ever heard. The PA announcer says, (I have to paraphrase because I can't remember exactly), "The sun has set and it is now NIGHT TIME IN DEATH VALLEY." And the crowd goes berserk once again.
For the next 3 hours, it is a delicate balancing act of trying to keep the buzz going while still maintaining just enough of your wits to follow the game.
After the game I went back to our tailgate spot, got in the car and prepared for the ride back to our friends' house. They laughed at me. The final whistle does NOT mean the end of the day. Tailgate time was still young. The end of the game means you go back to the tailgate, drink till the keg floats, listen to the postgame on the radio, and "wait for traffic to clear."
That's how LSU does it. That's how most SEC teams do it. If that's not what you're doing, then you don't know jack about SEC culture.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:23 am to Mizzou Tiger
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REDLEGS???
Did you just call Quantrill a Redleg?!
O...M...G...
If you had seen the other post justifying the SEC cred...
It was a joke, dumbass.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:23 am to Riverwood
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Son, I grew up in the cotton fields of Missouri so I ain't no Yankee.
Well that proves it then. Cotton fields and used the word ain't.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:25 am to BenHOGan
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The sun has set and it is now NIGHT TIME IN DEATH VALLEY.
As the sun sets in the western sky it is now saturday night in Death Valley
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:26 am to Big Lake
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As the sun sets in the western sky it is now saturday night in Death Valley
Gracias. I was close, right? I guess close only counts in horseshoes, hand-grenades and first dates.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:27 am to Riverwood
The entire state of Louisiana only produces about 200 more bales that Missouri.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:28 am to BenHOGan
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Gracias. I was close, right? I guess close only counts in horseshoes, hand-grenades and first dates.
you forgot nuclear warfare
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:29 am to Mizzou Tiger
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Son, I grew up in the cotton fields of Missouri so I ain't no Yankee
So you come on here saying SEC campuses are nothing special and you went to some bars in Bama and they are all dives, and you have a tailgate with a 200' food trailer bragging and what, and then you insult the Bama cottonfields? You sir, have gone too far
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:31 am to Mizzou Tiger
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The entire state of Louisiana only produces about 200 more bales that Missouri.
Yeah, okay... wonderful!
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:33 am to Mizzou Tiger
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The entire state of Louisiana only produces about 200 more bales that Missouri.
What in the frick does cotton have to do with SEC football?
We DO NOT sit around talking about who produces more cotton per year. We talk football, lots of football.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:33 am to Mizzou Tiger
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You've probably never been to Columbia, MO
I've never had a reason to go to MO. Now that I know you're the meth lab capital of the U.S., I'll bump it up on my list of vacation spots.
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Different areas have different traditions. In November the nights can get a little chilly out so Rally Night at the bars has been a tradition. Besides, I'd rather be at Harpo's with hundreds of hot girls than sitting out in a parking lot drinking beer with a bunch of guys.
I have tents, coats, my woman, and RV's to keep me warm and dry. Bourbon helps, too. Tailgating in a bar is like playing baseball in a church. I'm sure it's possible, but it's not right. Hot girls are great, but my focus is the game, not the cheerleaders. I'll bar hop when it isn't game day.
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Black and white TV?? You should come to our tailgate right outside Farout Field. We have a 20' cargo trailer with "concession windows" that open up on each side for three flat screen TVs on each side. It's equipped with an onboard generator (muffled, of course), a satellite dish and a full sound system. We can not only watch the game inside, but several other games at the same time. Next to one side of that we put up an 800 square foot tent with plenty of tables, chairs, full bar, steam table set-up to keep the food hot, lots of beer, SODA and food.
That wasn't my point. I've never had to watch a game on a tiny black and white TV. My point was that being inside or right outside the stadium is more important to me than a bartender and some eye candy. Generators, huge TVs, satellite dishes, drinks, and food are part of tailgating at LSU, too. The real fans would never be caught dead letting hot girls distract them from a game.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:34 am to Mizzou Tiger
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Son, I grew up in the cotton fields of Missouri so I ain't no Yankee. My little slice of Missouri produces more cotton than the entire state of Alabama.
Look it up.
You must be from the bootheel or thereabout. You are mistaken on the cotton #'s though.
cotton production by state.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:37 am to CzarChasm
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The real fans would never be caught dead letting hot girls distract them from a game.
Remember, Czar...these Misery folks aren't blessed to be in the South, where hot chicks are as abundant as mosquitos. We know we have the hottest women. We have more of them than any region in the country. We sometimes take that for granted. In Missouri when someone walks past that is greater than a OT 5, it's such a rarity, they don't know what to do.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:38 am to LSUEnvy
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a tailgate with a 200' food trailer bragging and what
No, he was actually bragging about a 20' trailer. I'll repeat...a 20 foot trailer!
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:40 am to hogminer
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You must be from the bootheel or thereabout. You are mistaken on the cotton #'s though.
Yes, I was born and raised 184 miles from Oxford.
How am I wrong on the cotton #s?
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:41 am to hogminer
FWIW Georgia leads the SEC states in cotton production. Just another reflection of our superiority, I guess.
As others have mentioned, SECr rivals love to talk shite and argue. Sometimes it doesn't really matter what the subject of the argument is, but football is preferred. ;)
As others have mentioned, SECr rivals love to talk shite and argue. Sometimes it doesn't really matter what the subject of the argument is, but football is preferred. ;)
This post was edited on 11/9/11 at 10:42 am
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:43 am to hogminer
cheering for rivals you supposedly hate
i would chop off one of my testicles before i cheered "PAC 12!" while UCLA was winning a bowl game
i would chop off one of my testicles before i cheered "PAC 12!" while UCLA was winning a bowl game
Posted on 11/9/11 at 10:45 am to ianharwood
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i would chop off one of my testicles before i cheered "PAC 12!" while UCLA was winning a bowl game
And this is why your conference sucks.
Regardless, why would you be at a UCLA bowl game?
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