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re: Conference Pride?
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:23 am to jeff967
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:23 am to jeff967
Conference pride is for the losers who are so deseperate to attach themselves to something on top that they don't even care if it's their own team and will even root for their rivals to make themselves feel better. Pathetic.
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Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:23 am to Grievous Angel
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Your team could be next.
So you are saying Bama will 3 peat?
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:24 am to Gradual_Stroke
Serious question for A&M and Mizzou fans, before yall even were being considered to join the SEC, did yall hate us too?
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:26 am to JimMorrison
No hate. I just think most of the fans from the Big 12 thought the SEC was a tad overrated. But that perception has been shattered this year, obv.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:26 am to BlueIndian420
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:27 am to GCTiger11
and no, the pic is not big enough
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:28 am to JimMorrison
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Serious question for A&M and Mizzou fans, before yall even were being considered to join the SEC, did yall hate us too?
Before being banned multiple times from Texags (Burgooooon!*6GHJK), I can tell you with certainty they never understood the loyalty between the 12 and thought it was, well, idiotic.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:30 am to JimMorrison
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Serious question for A&M and Mizzou fans, before yall even were being considered to join the SEC, did yall hate us too?
Nope. Just envious the last few years before joining
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:31 am to BlueIndian420
Because all of our programs get a little bit richer when the conference does well.
And because of the following:
-- Andrew Doyle, On the Cusp of Modernity: The Southern Sporting World in the Twentieth Century
And because of the following:
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The progressive southerners who supported the diffusion of football to the region thus regarded it as a means of teaching the meritocratic and technocratic values of modernity to Southerners. In addition to these perceived ideological and instrumental benefits, football gave Southerners something that baseball could not - major league status. Until the 1960's, southern baseball was strictly minor league. In contrast, some southern football teams began to schedule intersectional games against the most powerful teams from outside the region as early as the 1890's, and almost every major southern program played at least one such game annually by the early 1920's. Despite the loss of nearly every one of these games, often by humiliating margins, southern sports fans were almost deliriously happy even to take the field against big time competition. Southern newspapers invariably hailed every such defeat as a "defense of southern honor," and students flocked to train stations to greet the vanquished warriors on their return home.
-- Andrew Doyle, On the Cusp of Modernity: The Southern Sporting World in the Twentieth Century
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:32 am to BlueIndian420
Because in our league, you can do stuff like finish #5 in the nation, yet 3rd in the division.
The rest of the nation really has no idea how tough SEC ball is week in and week out.
The rest of the nation really has no idea how tough SEC ball is week in and week out.
This post was edited on 1/8/13 at 11:33 am
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:33 am to RandySavage
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Conference pride is for the losers who are so deseperate to attach themselves to something on top that they don't even care if it's their own team and will even root for their rivals to make themselves feel better. Pathetic.
Or...
It's a justifiable way to extend enjoyment of the season beyond the interests of just one team.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:36 am to BlueIndian420
Its not conference pride, its more regional pride. Mainstream media, Hollywood, midwestern, northeastern, etc all think we are dumb, backwoods hicks. Well kick their butts, though in a fight.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:36 am to JimMorrison
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Serious question for A&M and Mizzou fans, before yall even were being considered to join the SEC, did yall hate us too?
Absolutely not. I love good football. Only emotion I had was jealousy that we couldn't join the fray.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:38 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Absolutely not. I love good football. Only emotion I had was jealousy that we couldn't join the fray.
I rooted for Oregon against Scam Newton. I usually root for the underdog.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:40 am to crispyUGA
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I actually think it has more to do with regional pride. The rest of the nation still views the Southeast as backwards, stupid, and poor. Whenever Southerner whips a yankee at anything, we'll rejoice.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:41 am to crispyUGA
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BlegrassBelle
Because everybody hates us. And it's fun to see everyone else suffer.
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I actually think it has more to do with regional pride. The rest of the nation still views the Southeast as backwards, stupid, and poor. Whenever Southerner whips a yankee at anything, we'll rejoice.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:50 am to Projectpat
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Steel sharpens steel.
That reminds me of the comment from LandThieves after the A&M beatdown of OU:
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Iron sharpens iron. Butter sharpens nothing.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:52 am to McRebel42
I wholeheartedly agree with McRebel42.
And BTW congrats on Ole Miss bowl win and 7-6 record. But next year we need you to step it up and beat those hippie liberals in Austin.
And BTW congrats on Ole Miss bowl win and 7-6 record. But next year we need you to step it up and beat those hippie liberals in Austin.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:54 am to crispyUGA
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I actually think it has more to do with regional pride. The rest of the nation still views the Southeast as backwards, stupid, and poor.
Spot on.
Posted on 1/8/13 at 11:56 am to Grievous Angel
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Bama, in the final minutes, after winning 3 of 4, was chanting "SEC!"
actually happened at the end of the first half too.
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