re: Mississippi State's last football national championship and terrorism: the nexus

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Here’s some history:

Ole miss sent almost their entire male student body to fight at Gettysburg. They were part of Pickett’s charge and made it further than any other unit but every soldier was either killed or wounded for 100% casualty rate.

The remaining male students at Ole Miss at the time, the cowards and the cripples, make up the ancestral base for all the Ole Miss fans you see today.

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Let me add to that: The Farley Hall is nicknamed the "Dead House" because this is where the soldiers were brought back to. They were not revered enough to be buried at Gettysburg. It became a makeshift morgue. There's even a plaque outside the building commemorating this event.