re: Origination of "SEC" chant?

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How do you know when the "national conscious" started to recognize things?

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When the media and media fav schools, to whom it's directed as a big "F-YOU!" can't stop referring to it and people from other conferences regularly call in to radio shows to bitch about it and hate us for it.

When the only other conference fan response to it becomes a collective, "Your conference sucks cuz you don't hate your rivals like we do! OSU fans would never pull for Michigan!" that I see posted regularly on national message boards and call-in radio shows.

When other conferences now chant their own name in an effort to mock it, like "ACC! ACC! ACC!"

I've been a fan of LSU since about 1979 and at no point has the "SEC, SEC, SEC" chant been as prevalent, routinely shouted or identifiable with all teams from the conference like it has since 2006. Neither has it been so reviled.

I know you desperately want to credit UGA with it, but I'm certain one can "find" iterations of the chant as far back as 1933 originating with some guy named Pappy Ridgeway at Sewanee, but you and I both know it's not the same.


ETA...
"By the 1980s, the SEC boasted national champs, NCAA sanctions, and bumper stickers that read "Herschel Walker Is My Cousin." But there was still no SEC chant, no conference-wide brotherhood. "I don't have a recollection of anybody caring about anybody this way," says Paul Finebaum, a Birmingham sports radio host."