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What's the deal with Southerners and college sports?
Posted on 3/29/18 at 2:07 am
Posted on 3/29/18 at 2:07 am
I feel like this question hasn't been asked before.
Seriously, WTF is wrong with most of you?
Why the frick does everything go so batshit crazy the further south you go in America? What's the deal with Mississippi and Alabama? Why are y'all so insane and crazy? Why does college football control so much of your happiness?
Seriously, WTF is wrong with most of you?
Why the frick does everything go so batshit crazy the further south you go in America? What's the deal with Mississippi and Alabama? Why are y'all so insane and crazy? Why does college football control so much of your happiness?
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Posted on 3/29/18 at 2:09 am to wmr
If you don't want to be the best at something, then you don't need to do it.
Posted on 3/29/18 at 2:10 am to wmr
Cause college football is more fun/entertaining, more passionate, and has more pride on the line than watching some overpaid guy play for "my city".
Posted on 3/29/18 at 2:10 am to wmr
Mississippi and Alabama do not have any pro teams.
Posted on 3/29/18 at 2:17 am to Cobrasize
The South, as a whole, is usually the butt of all kinds of jokes. College football is pretty much the only way we can fight back.
Posted on 3/29/18 at 2:21 am to wmr
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I feel like this question hasn't been asked before
It has. Plenty of times.
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Why the frick does everything go so batshit crazy the further south you go in America? What's the deal with Mississippi and Alabama? Why are y'all so insane and crazy? Why does college football control so much of your happiness?
The reason people in the south love college sports is due to the lack of professional sport teams throughout the south. Also consider the fact that northern states have had the NFL longer than the south. Detroit got their NFL team in the 30s while Atlanta/New Orleans got their teams in the 60s.
Also, Alabama, Auburn, or Georgia fans are no more crazy than Raider, Green Bay, or Philadelphia fans.
Posted on 3/29/18 at 6:07 am to wmr
I can only speak for FL but we end up with all the batshit crazies from around the country.
Posted on 3/29/18 at 6:42 am to Wtodd
For most sports fans in the deep south, their rabid allegiance to their favorite team is a coping mechanism to alleviate the pain of the sad fact that Arkansas was allowed to join the SEC.
Posted on 3/29/18 at 6:45 am to Bill Parker?
So before we joined you guys didn’t care for your teams? Damned, I guess we are more important to the conference than I thought!
Posted on 3/29/18 at 6:48 am to wmr
If Arkansas was worth a damn in football you'd be one of the crazies on here celebrating their accomplishments. Instead you're on here like a whiny little bitch complaining about those who do get some sort of pleasure out of seeing their team have success.
Honestly it's a much better look than being a whiny little bitch on a forum for all to see.
Honestly it's a much better look than being a whiny little bitch on a forum for all to see.
This post was edited on 3/29/18 at 6:49 am
Posted on 3/29/18 at 7:19 am to Texas Weazel
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The reason people in the south love college sports is due to the lack of professional sport teams throughout the south. Also consider the fact that northern states have had the NFL longer than the south. Detroit got their NFL team in the 30s while Atlanta/New Orleans got their teams in the 60s.
This. Historically speaking, southerners have always felt a more regional allegiance to their in state college teams largely due to the lack of professional teams below the Mason-Dixon. It also helped that college athletic events were more accessible for poor Southerners than a professional game night have been. Up until 1980, it was commonplace for the railroad bank behind Sanford stadium to be covered with people watching the game for free.
Overall, southerners tend to be a lot more tribalistic and regionalistic than most parts of the country and colle sports has created the perfect conduit for that pageantry and ritual. Pro teams don’t actually belong to a place but to an owner; they can pack up and leave if they want. Colleges are rooted in place and the people of that place
This post was edited on 3/29/18 at 7:21 am
Posted on 3/29/18 at 7:24 am to wmr
"Here, it just means more." ~SEC SEC SEC
Posted on 3/29/18 at 7:31 am to wmr
Have you seen the pro teams in the south? They're dog shite.
Posted on 3/29/18 at 7:41 am to wmr
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What's the deal with Southerners and college sports?
They live in states with shitty or no pro sports.
And it's the opposite for the North East.
Posted on 3/29/18 at 7:42 am to GameCocky88
Jags were not dog shite last year. 
Lightening weren't dog shite and usually aren't.
I'll give you the magic though. They suck!!!!
Lightening weren't dog shite and usually aren't.
I'll give you the magic though. They suck!!!!
Posted on 3/29/18 at 7:46 am to roadGator
They were better than they usually are I'll give you that, but you have to admit that it would be difficult to be as enthusiastic about them as the Gators when the Gators have won as many NC's as the Jags have won their division.
Posted on 3/29/18 at 7:54 am to wmr
Solid list of generalizations, with some stereotype thrown in and no supporting evidence.
This should get OP some real introspective answers
This should get OP some real introspective answers
Posted on 3/29/18 at 7:55 am to GameCocky88
It has been a challenge to be enthusiastic about uf football the past 7 years. Have you seen our offense during that period? 
Posted on 3/29/18 at 7:57 am to wmr
Are you insinuating that LSU/BAMA/UGA fans are more passionate about their teams than Michigan/OSU/PSU fans?
I wouldn't make that argument. Maybe it's that the northern states have higher populations, so it's more diluted?
I wouldn't make that argument. Maybe it's that the northern states have higher populations, so it's more diluted?
Posted on 3/29/18 at 8:00 am to wmr
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Why the frick does everything go so bat shite crazy the further south you go in America?
Sunshine and Heat make people crazy.
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