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Posted on 11/9/11 at 7:39 am to fuzzymayo
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fuzzymayo
That pretty much summed it up.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 7:40 am to Quantrill
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Maybe you all could help us newbies understand what the SEC is all about. Of course we know about kick-arse stadiums that would tower over ours. There has been talk by many I'm sure that Missouri is not SEC material. Aside from whether or not we can compete, what else do we need to know or be aware of?
Passion beyond compare- fans that love their teams like nowhere else. Great tailgating. THE GREATEST RIVALRIES IN COLLEGE SPORTS.
Physical, smashmouth brand of football that is the best in the land. NFL GRADE DEFENSE.
The most formidable schedules in the country- we beat the hell out of each other all season.
Welcome aboard!
Posted on 11/9/11 at 7:42 am to TigersWon
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no such thing as pop in the South!
Or "soda" for that matter.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:23 am to Quantrill
Mizzou,
First thing you need to know: This is the Rant. ALL newbies get skull-dragged, not just Mizzou. Stadium behavior is important. Never sit. Never leave early. Never sell your seat to an opposing team's fans. Never give an inch in an argument with another team's fans. The NEXT game becomes all-important. Never schedule weddings, graduations, funerals, religious ceremonies - anything on Game Day. Tailgates start Thursday night, or Friday afternoon (if you can't leave work/class early). Eat/drink to excess. Those are for starters. Your schooling really starts when you show up at Tiger Stadium at night. Amen and amen.
First thing you need to know: This is the Rant. ALL newbies get skull-dragged, not just Mizzou. Stadium behavior is important. Never sit. Never leave early. Never sell your seat to an opposing team's fans. Never give an inch in an argument with another team's fans. The NEXT game becomes all-important. Never schedule weddings, graduations, funerals, religious ceremonies - anything on Game Day. Tailgates start Thursday night, or Friday afternoon (if you can't leave work/class early). Eat/drink to excess. Those are for starters. Your schooling really starts when you show up at Tiger Stadium at night. Amen and amen.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:29 am to CtotheVrzrbck
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Basketball is only to be discussed when every single bowl game is over, and will only be important until spring baseball training starts. If you need to circlejerk about hoops, do it with Kentucky, and maybe Arkansas will join in.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:31 am to Quantrill
As someone put it, we fight like siblings and band together against anyone who isn't the SEC. College football is a religion. Food and drink are a big deal. Tailgating is mandatory. Cook more food than you can possibly eat, eat more than you know you should, drink, nap, watch football on TV (we bring TVs and big stereos to tailgates), listen to music, mock the opposing team, etc. Many people drink alcohol before games (although in some places you have to pretend you aren't drinking, so as not to offend the Baptists). It's ok to start drinking at 7am. All the normal rules are suspended while tailgating. I haven't been to every stadium in the SEC, but many places shut down on game day. In Baton Rouge before an LSU game, all nearby roads become one-way streets pointing towards the stadium. It doesn't matter if you need to get to the ER. You're going to the game, first. The roads reverse direction after the game. Southern hospitality is also a big deal in the SEC. When we're done mocking you, we'll offer you food and drink. Then we'll hang out and make fun of anyone worthy of ridicule.
This article was written for A&M, but it explains some of the mysteries of the SEC: LINK
This article was written for A&M, but it explains some of the mysteries of the SEC: LINK
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:37 am to CtotheVrzrbck
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Everything is Coke. Every. damn. beverage. is Coke.
Your stadium needs to hold 85k+ to be revered. 80k is respectable. Anything less than 75k is laughable.
RV's start to arrive on Thursday night. Spots are staked out as soon as campus closes on Friday afternoon. If tailgating has not begun in full force by sunset on Friday, you fail.
You hate whoever is visiting with a burning passion, but visiting rivals get free food and free beer. And you'll be damned if they don't have an amazing time and come away impressed by your home. All of this comes after mocking/harassing the shite out of them, of course.
If you lose a non-conference game, you are a disgrace and will be mocked as such.
fricking barbecue. If you can't find it on game day, you damn well better be in Louisiana, because that's the only acceptable excuse.
The women on your campus should be absurdly attractive, and should treat game day as a chance to show themselves off at their classiest or sluttiest, similar to Halloween. If this isn't the case for at least 70% of them, there's a problem.
Basketball is only to be discussed when every single bowl game is over, and will only be important until spring baseball training starts. If you need to circlejerk about hoops, do it with Kentucky, and maybe Arkansas will join in.
If you don't travel with your team at least once every now and then, you're doing it wrong. True dedication is making several road trips per year.
If you lose a bowl game to Ohio State, you are a disgrace.
SEC schools come first in SEC states, overall. The Falcons and Braves are a big deal in Atlanta, and the Saints are a big deal in New Orleans, and some people somewhere in Nashville probably give a frick about the Titans. But to Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee as a whole, SEC schools are the stars of the show.
Everyone hates everyone. If you can't find a reason to despise a fellow member, you aren't trying hard enough. But when the regular season ends, you damn well better be rooting for your conference brethren to represent.
Lax liquor laws are a must. If drinking on campus on gameday is a pain in the arse, I consider you a pain in the arse. Looking at you, Gators.
The insanity never stops. If football isn't a prominent topic 365 days a year, you don't have the right culture. When the regular season ends, it's bowl season, and when the bowl season ends, it's recruiting hysteria. Recruiting hysteria goes to a new level on NSD, and we actually mock each other and get excited about which unproven 18 year old kids decided to play for our school. When NSD is done, it's time to debate team issues ahead of spring ball, then it's time to over-analyze every absurd piece of trivia that comes out of spring practice and break down the spring game (don't forget to mock your rivals about who had the worst attendance for their spring game. Mizzou is without a doubt going to get reamed for this). After agonizing over how your departing players did in the NFL Draft, the Fulmer Cup arrives and we take turns agonizing and making fun of our players and other people's players who run afoul of the law. Then it's Media Days, and then it's the regular season. Repeat ad nauseam for the rest of your life. Love every second of it.
Welcome to the SEC.
Epic
Also, glad to see Kyle Field at least holds enough people to be in the the neighborhood of "revered" by SEC standards
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:41 am to Quantrill
If you schedule a wedding on an LSU game day in Baton Rouge, some of your relatives and close friends won't show up. Until this sounds normal to you, you won't understand the SEC.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:41 am to Quantrill
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I say soda
GFY. You don't belong. We don't like your kind.
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The tailgating on thursdays thing is what gets me.
You're never going to understand.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:42 am to CzarChasm
1. You must hate everyone else, except Vandy. They give our conference that "educated appeal" 
2. Every fanbase is infinitely dumber than your own, even though they are all the exact same.
3. Drink, Drink, Drink, and drink some more. If you leave a game at half time I will find you and beat you.
4. If you really want to learn SEC culture, before you guys officially start SEC play, come to the Iron bowl, or a Bama-LSU game, or any big SEC game and take notes. And by notes I mean get drunker than hell on that sweet party liqour.
2. Every fanbase is infinitely dumber than your own, even though they are all the exact same.
3. Drink, Drink, Drink, and drink some more. If you leave a game at half time I will find you and beat you.
4. If you really want to learn SEC culture, before you guys officially start SEC play, come to the Iron bowl, or a Bama-LSU game, or any big SEC game and take notes. And by notes I mean get drunker than hell on that sweet party liqour.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:42 am to hogminer
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Or "soda" for that matter.
Occasionally I'll order a splash of it in my scotch. When I don't take it neat.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:44 am to CzarChasm
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If you schedule a wedding on an LSU game day in Baton Rouge, some of your relatives and close friends won't show up. Until this sounds normal to you, you won't understand the SEC.
This. Cousin (Alabama fan) got married on AU-LSU game last year, I believe bama was off or had away game, not sure.
I didn't go.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:45 am to BenHOGan
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Occasionally I'll order a splash of it in my scotch. When I don't take it neat.
Yea, the only soda there is comes in a bottle at Sams and it is labeled "Soda".
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:46 am to Gtiger9757
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-Tailgating with your best friends 2 days before the game.
-Loud stadiums packed with 90,000+ fans with nearly that many outside the stadium watching on TV
-Offering fans of your most hated rival a beer as they walk by your tailgate
-The smell of Bourbon, BBQ, Jambalaya, and Gumbo on a cool saturday morning in the fall.
-Your whole town in a frenzy the night before a game
-Chanting "Tiger bait" "War Eagle" and "Roll Tide" as you walk through an airport seeing other SEC colors...then talking SEC sports with that person like you've known each other your whole life as you board the plane.
-Not being able to function at work or school the week of a big game.
-Hot womenz
-People who live and die for their schools
THIS. Gave me chills.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:50 am to ksayetiger
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have you seen their football program?
Tennessee won the East in 07, but there was more excitement about the 31-5 basketball team in Knoxville and around campus. Tennessee was very solid in football in 06 and 07 and we were top 3 nationally in basketball attendance both years.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 8:59 am to FootballHog
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What do you get to drink at a restaurant...Coke or pop?
Coke? Where you from, boy?
I get a soda.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 9:01 am to Mizzou Tiger
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I get a soda.
try again.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 9:07 am to Mizzou Tiger
Have you not read the damn thread? Jesus.
Posted on 11/9/11 at 9:10 am to Monticello
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Bottom line: college football has to dominate the culture of either the entire state, or a huge portion of the state. This means Kentucky and Mizzou are not really part of the SEC culture. Miami is not a college town, but the northern half of Florida has a strong college following, so the Gators are SEC culture.
If most Mizzou followers care more about the Rams, Chiefs, Cardinals or Royals, then Mizzou is not a part of the SEC culture and will never fit in.
Do you fill your stadium every game? Do your fans travel well to bowl and away games? Do you get just as excited when you land a 5 star DT as when you land a 5 star QB?
Now this response I find interesting. You do have a point about college football, but I guess I could some it up as a have-not telling us we have, therefore we have-not.
PS...Some Thomas Jefferson trivia for you...
Where is Thomas Jefferson's original tombstone located?
This post was edited on 11/9/11 at 9:11 am
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