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Find me someone who uses those decades when related to football decades verses the 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's.. rinse and repeat.

Anybody who, at the starting or ending point of one of those decades, wanted to talk about the next decade or the last decade, would talk about one of those 10-year periods. If they wanted to talk about the '10s, they'd talk about 2010 through 2011. If they wanted to talk about the '00s, they'd talk about 2000 through 2009.

The "last decade" universally means the ten years going back from the present, which at this point, in football seasons, is 2002 through 2011. 2000 through 2009 is the '00s, not the "last decade". If I said LSU was going to dominate Arkansas for the next decade, would you think I meant starting in 2020?

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Posted by SunHog

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Posted on 3/6/12 at 4:24 pm to Nuts4LSU

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Anybody who, at the conclusion of 2011, wants to talk about the last 10 years of college football, would talk about 2002 through 2011. If they wanted to talk about the '10s, they'd talk about 2010 through 2011. If they wanted to talk about the '00s, they'd talk about 2000 through 2009.

You pick a decade then a year out of that decade to discuss. There is a reason increments of 10, starting with zero, are commonly used, as described in the dictionary, because it's easier for common usage which makes it the vast majority preference of decade discussions.

02'-11' is a decade and we all agree and haven't disagreed on that but the common and preferred usage start with zero for a reason.

He has used that "decade" 02'-11' multiple times to flame Arkansas. Using common preference of decades

00'-09' - Arkansas > Mizzou
90'-99' - Arkansas > Mizzou
80'-89'- Arkansas > Mizzou
70'-79' - Arkansas > Mizzou
60-69' - Arkansas > Mizzou

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