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re: Origination of "SEC" chant?
Posted on 2/12/13 at 12:59 pm to I-59 Tiger
Posted on 2/12/13 at 12:59 pm to I-59 Tiger
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I-59 Tiger
This sounds right, I'll take your word for it ha.
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Posted on 2/12/13 at 1:00 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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LSU-Notre Dame in the 2006 Sugar Bowl is the first time I remember it being a "thing".
I've heard UGA fans do it at bowl games in the early 2000s. It didnt' become a "thing" just because LSU says so. It's been a "thing" for decades.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 1:06 pm to WG_Dawg
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And surely yall have been watching SEC football long enough to know that that chant has been around longer than 2006
But, it was not burned into the national conscious until 2006. Nor did it appear as consistently as it has since 2006.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 1:08 pm to Vols&Shaft83
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I can assure you, it hadn't nothing to do with A&M
Why be an a-hole?
Posted on 2/12/13 at 1:11 pm to Choctaw
I am pretty sure LSU fans started it
OSU/LSU defitnitely.
Although I think I remember it at the end of ND/LSU
OSU/LSU defitnitely.
Although I think I remember it at the end of ND/LSU
Posted on 2/12/13 at 1:13 pm to WG_Dawg
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I've heard UGA fans do it at bowl games in the early 2000s. It didnt' become a "thing" just because LSU says so. It's been a "thing" for decades.
I took the question to mean when did the current run of it being said at pretty much every big OOC game at every SEC school.
Not ever.
LSU didn't chant it in the 03 gane for instance.
This post was edited on 2/12/13 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 2/12/13 at 1:13 pm to Choctaw
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Nope.
yep
Nope.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 1:42 pm to Jake88
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But, it was not burned into the national conscious until 2006
How do you know when the "national conscious" started to recognize things?
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Nor did it appear as consistently as it has since 2006.
yes, it has.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 1:43 pm to Siderophore
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I am pretty sure LSU fans started it
Posted on 2/12/13 at 2:02 pm to WG_Dawg
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How do you know when the "national conscious" started to recognize things?
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."
This post was edited on 2/12/13 at 2:09 pm
Posted on 2/12/13 at 2:18 pm to Jake88
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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.
and yet in the ESPN Herschel documentary you can clearly hear the Georgia players in their locker room chanting SEC after a big win.
Perhaps it wasn't as noticeable then b/c of how different media was?
This post was edited on 2/12/13 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 2/12/13 at 2:29 pm to DaleDenton
This
Posted on 2/12/13 at 2:32 pm to Dr RC
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and yet in the ESPN Herschel documentary you can clearly hear the Georgia players in their locker room chanting SEC after a big win.
Perhaps it wasn't as noticeable then b/c of how different media was?
Maybe.
I don't think the SEC fans had a rallying point for it. That rallying point was the 2004 screw job Auburn suffered, followed by the huge 2006 UF delivered comeuppance to national conventional thought about media favorite schools. The thinking was that if it could happen to a 13-0 Auburn team, it could happen to any SEC school.
What other conferences who criticize it, and wonder why SEC fans care about rivals, don't understand is that the better your conference brothers do, the better regarded the conference and the more likely your team is to get into the big game over say an equally regarded team from the PAC 12, etc.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 2:35 pm to Choctaw
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LSU v Ohio State NC
the correct answer
but SEC pride was at an all time high in that 2007 season. The conference was full of fantastic teams and the "rooting for SEC teams in bowl games" really started that season.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 2:36 pm to WG_Dawg
There are probably isolated incidents before 2007, but the "SEC SEC SEC" stuff really took off in that year.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 3:52 pm to Ross
I remember hearing it all the time when I was a kid at games when FL was dominant in the 90s
At the time I had no idea what it meant, so I vividly remember wondering what everyone meant by it.
Edited to add: this was in the context of games when FL was securing its trip to the SEC title game -- maybe you were referring to people yelling SEC in another context
At the time I had no idea what it meant, so I vividly remember wondering what everyone meant by it.
Edited to add: this was in the context of games when FL was securing its trip to the SEC title game -- maybe you were referring to people yelling SEC in another context
This post was edited on 2/12/13 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 2/12/13 at 4:32 pm to GatorInTX
I remember Kentucky chanting it in 1998 after beating Utah.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 4:34 pm to Ross
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LSU v Ohio State NC
the correct answer
but SEC pride was at an all time high in that 2007 season. The conference was full of fantastic teams and the "rooting for SEC teams in bowl games" really started that season.
No, conference pride was in full effect long before 2000's.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 4:37 pm to Vols&Shaft83
Unnecessary dickishness from a bitter fan of a has-been program. Nothing to see here.
This post was edited on 2/12/13 at 4:39 pm
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