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re: Origination of "SEC" chant?
Posted on 2/12/13 at 10:46 pm to ConwayGamecock
Posted on 2/12/13 at 10:46 pm to ConwayGamecock
I'm not sure when it originated but I played football and track in 82 and we chanted it back then. We use to say... "SEC" - "Speed Equals Champions" baby in practice.
I remember our woman's swim team then our mens team won national titles and we were chanting SEC back then. Same with the gymnastics team. We beat USC Trojans at Florida field and people were chanting SEC back then as well.
I was always told that the chant started because SEC schools were disrespected by biased East coast and west coast media for decades. Most of the awards, including the Heisman would often go to northern players and the south was out of most national conversations, relegated to a regional audience, especially on TV.
Back in 1962, the Gators played Penn State in the Gator bowl where PSU and the national media said that UF didn't even deserve to be on the same field with them. The Gators actually wore Rebel flags on their helmets as a "F" you to the northern media and beat the hell out of the Nittany Lions. All the talk later was how the Gators represented the SEC well. That was a huge conference win that sent echoes nationally.
I remember our woman's swim team then our mens team won national titles and we were chanting SEC back then. Same with the gymnastics team. We beat USC Trojans at Florida field and people were chanting SEC back then as well.
I was always told that the chant started because SEC schools were disrespected by biased East coast and west coast media for decades. Most of the awards, including the Heisman would often go to northern players and the south was out of most national conversations, relegated to a regional audience, especially on TV.
Back in 1962, the Gators played Penn State in the Gator bowl where PSU and the national media said that UF didn't even deserve to be on the same field with them. The Gators actually wore Rebel flags on their helmets as a "F" you to the northern media and beat the hell out of the Nittany Lions. All the talk later was how the Gators represented the SEC well. That was a huge conference win that sent echoes nationally.
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Posted on 2/12/13 at 11:19 pm to GatorNation4Lyfe
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The Gators actually wore Rebel flags on their helmets as a "F" you to the northern media and beat the hell out of the Nittany Lions
Would absolutely love a link and picture of that.
Posted on 2/12/13 at 11:50 pm to ChewyDante
I just googled to see if true
gatorzone
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Unranked and unappreciated, Florida played like irritated and dismissed Southerners -- and looked the part, also. The Gators took the field with Confederate flag emblems on their helmets as a not-so-subtle reminder to the Northerners that football, indeed, was played in this part of the country.
gatorzone
This post was edited on 2/12/13 at 11:54 pm
Posted on 2/13/13 at 6:21 am to CGSC Lobotomy
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The SEC was established by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 as an independent, quasi-judicial regulatory agency during the Great Depression that followed the Crash of 1929. The main reason for the creation of the SEC was to regulate the stock market and prevent corporate abuses relating to the offering and sale of securities and corporate reporting. The SEC was given the power to license and regulate stock exchanges, the companies whose securities traded on them, and the brokers and dealers who conducted the trading.
I believe it was around then.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 8:19 am to Vols&Shaft83
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I can assure you, it hadn't nothing to do with A&M
Posted on 2/13/13 at 8:40 am to scrooster
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It started in 91. True story. I was in Central America at the time. Had been dealing with some bad guys down in Honduras and Costa Rica, but this particular weekend I caught a hop over to Panama City, Panama for a little R & R with a couple of sweet Colombian babes named Claudia and Victoria. Light skinned green eyed beauties who loved them some American greenback along with my johnson. So I'm laid up with those two, toking some wicked negro bud they had copped for me when they heard I was coming, and I hear over armed forces radio while laying up there in my bungalow overlooking the Pacific ... getting my johnson worked over by those two crazy girls, I hear this broadcast, "and today the SEC unanimously agreed to invite South Carolina into the SEC ... and South Carolina accepted ..." At which time, and I remember this distinctively, I rolled Claudia off of me and I ran over to the window and started chanting SEC! SEC! SEC! That was when it first started I'm pretty sure. I have some naked pictures of Claudia I took that I can share with y'all if the mods pre approve it? She was a bit of an exhibitionist. Victoria was shy but get those two together and anything went in those days ... SEC! SEC! SEC! yessir - I remember that like it was yesterday.
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!
Posted on 2/13/13 at 8:44 am to GatorNation4Lyfe
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I was always told that the chant started because SEC schools were disrespected by biased East coast and west coast media for decades.
Were?
Not sure much has changed on that front.
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We use to say... "SEC" - "Speed Equals Champions"
You should trademark this.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 8:45 am to CGSC Lobotomy
We chanted it in bowl games in 90s. Don't think that's where it started, but I know it was well before the chants in the latest national title run.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 8:47 am to CGSC Lobotomy
It actually started on Wall Street in 1988
Posted on 2/13/13 at 7:55 pm to PowerTool
That is a badass part of college football history that I never knew before.
Florida.
Florida. Posted on 2/13/13 at 8:00 pm to GatorNation4Lyfe
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Back in 1962, the Gators played Penn State in the Gator bowl where PSU and the national media said that UF didn't even deserve to be on the same field with them. The Gators actually wore Rebel flags on their helmets as a "F" you to the northern media and beat the hell out of the Nittany Lions. All the talk later was how the Gators represented the SEC well. That was a huge conference win that sent echoes nationally.
Very interesting, never heard this.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 8:06 pm to Thunder Tiger
just another reason to write UF off as trashy.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 9:23 pm to JBeam
I just became a bigger fan of Florida than ever before.
Posted on 2/13/13 at 11:42 pm to JBeam
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JBeam
Posted on 2/14/13 at 12:28 am to ChewyDante
It was started as it exist today in 2006 based on the disrespect all SEC teams were feeling over the game of the century. I normally would not give two shits about a Florida bowl game, but after LSU put a beat down on ND, I wanted Florida to stomp OSU to show what sec football was about. The chat started that year with all the conference schools. It was really cemented the year later when the LSU players were on the set of post-game and chanting with Jai Eugene rubbing the Meyer's head. Since that point I have heard it as a point of pride in every big game.
This post was edited on 2/14/13 at 12:30 am
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