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So,what got you hooked
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:10 am
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:10 am
On SEC football and your favorite team.
For me,I was 7 y/o in 1965 and started betting my lunch money on bama who was on a great run. I still say we got robbed in 1966 being undefeated. Course, Auburn can make the same claim now can't they? Had a classmate who was an aubie,and it started from there. There is NOTHING better than SEC football and we're basically a month away. May the fun begin
For me,I was 7 y/o in 1965 and started betting my lunch money on bama who was on a great run. I still say we got robbed in 1966 being undefeated. Course, Auburn can make the same claim now can't they? Had a classmate who was an aubie,and it started from there. There is NOTHING better than SEC football and we're basically a month away. May the fun begin
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Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:14 am to RT58
I always liked going to Ole Miss games when I was a kid but I didn't really care about the game as much as I did the event. It wasn't until I watched the 2003 Fiesta Bowl (OSU vs MIA), of all games, that I became a huge fan of college football and my depression level became determined by W/L's 
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:17 am to RT58
I didn't really get into college football until I moved to Alabama when I was 10. I kinda followed it that year, but the next year, when Auburn went undefeated in 2004, was when I became an Auburn fan and really started following it
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:18 am to RT58
jk jk jk I'm not your typical Alabama fan, and my origins are questionable. I will be the first to admit my differences. I'd rather not tell my story; it wouldn't make any sense.
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:19 am to RT58
1995, I was 14 and LSU had just hired Gerry DiNardo and our SEC home opener was against #5 ranked Auburn. We were like 17 point dogs. We wore white at home for the first time since 1980. We upset them 12-6 on an interception in the end zone by Troy Twillie as time expired.
The crowd was so loud my head was vibrating, and my voice was hoarse the whole next week at school. I've been hooked ever since.
The crowd was so loud my head was vibrating, and my voice was hoarse the whole next week at school. I've been hooked ever since.
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:25 am to RidiculousHype
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1995
My year as well. Living in Tennessee. The Vols beat Alabama for the first time in 9 years, 41-14. I was in 7th grade and caught so much shite at school. Before that, I just sported Bama gear because my family rooted for them. But after that, it was on...... I started following everything associated with Alabama and have ever since. These last 6 years in Tennessee have been glorious....
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:31 am to RT58
Been going as long as I can remember. My first memory was with my Dad and stepmom (no pics) at an LSU-Ole Miss game in Jackson sometime in the mid 80's. I was probably 5 or 6 years old. My dad went to every single game home or away back then and brought me along a lot of the time. I am literally an LSU fan going back to the cradle.
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:35 am to harmonics
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The Vols beat Alabama for the first time in 9 years, 41-14.
I remember seeing highlights of that game. It's weird to think Bama was just another pretty good team in the 90s. And Tenn was always so damned physical back then, although UF was always just too fast for their D.
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:37 am to Draconian Sanctions
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LSU-Ole Miss game in Jackson sometime in the mid 80's.
Can you believe they used to have SEC football double-headers in Jackson? How awesome would that be today? Catch 2 SEC football games in person in one day, tailgate between and after games, hang out with fans from 3 other schools. Wish they'd bring those back.
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:38 am to RT58
Can't really say... Grew up a Bama fan. My parents didnt really care that much... But I guess you'd say they were Bama fans. But by time I was 7 or 8 I had a Bama football and I was a Bama fan. When they won the NC in 1992/93 I was 11.... At that point I was officially "Hooked".
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:39 am to RidiculousHype
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How awesome would that be today?
I seriously cannot imagine 4 SEC fan bases all in one radius outside the stadium. Would be incredible and awful all at the same time.
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:39 am to RT58
'97 when LSU beat Florida. I was 6 and had been going to all the home games since I was 3, but that game sealed the deal.
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:41 am to RT58
when i came to LSU for graduate school in 96
I was skeptical of the college football experience but changed my tune with the LSU crowds being as good as they were. The experience of seeing the LSU/Florida game in 1997 irrevocably sold me on the greatness of a sport where a regular season game can matter so much... and still shapes what I think makes college football so valuable compared to the NFL
I was skeptical of the college football experience but changed my tune with the LSU crowds being as good as they were. The experience of seeing the LSU/Florida game in 1997 irrevocably sold me on the greatness of a sport where a regular season game can matter so much... and still shapes what I think makes college football so valuable compared to the NFL
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:54 am to RT58
Dad was an insane Bama fan. Spent big money on the signed and numbered Daniel Moore paintings, Bama stuff everywhere, made the family leave on Saturdays so he could watch the game alone. I had a redskins starter jacket and he threw it away when we brought it home from the store. Said the only football that was allowed in the house was Alabama. My best friend was an auburn fan and I started watching the games in 2000 with him and became an auburn fan.
Shouldn't have thrown my starter jacket away.
Shouldn't have thrown my starter jacket away.
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:55 am to Nortizzle
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made the family leave on Saturdays so he could watch the game alone
Weird. I hate watching the games alone.
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:55 am to RT58
Being born in Arkansas and watching Matt Jones run all over errbody when i was a kid
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:56 am to RT58
Earthquake game versus Auburn
I was very young
I was very young
This post was edited on 7/28/13 at 1:58 am
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:56 am to Nortizzle
Your dad also sounds like a sidewalker.
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:56 am to RT58
I'm not sure. I was born in a cave and raised by aborigines. I asked the local elders one day when I became a Bama fan and he said "In the summertime."
Your guess is as good as mine.
Your guess is as good as mine.
Posted on 7/28/13 at 1:58 am to Draconian Sanctions
Yea he played football for troy.
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