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re: What is the next SEC tradition to go?
Posted on 6/21/20 at 10:47 am to TheArrogantCorndog
Posted on 6/21/20 at 10:47 am to TheArrogantCorndog
quote:Ouch dont screw up the book burners up with facts.
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The LSU fighting tigers because of the reference to Louisiana civil war soldiers
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As far back as 1845, in the Mexican War,” Hardesty wrote, “four different volunteer units from Louisiana used the nickname.
It has been in use since 1845 for Louisiana regiments... so no
This post was edited on 6/21/20 at 10:53 am
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Posted on 6/21/20 at 10:51 am to BLG
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I used to care a lot about "tradition" but I kind of have a different perspective now. I just want to go back to sort of normal business, play some live music, watch live college football even if it's just on television, and just don't give a shite about much else.
So you’re rewarding the ones hellbent on destroying America for their persistence.
Posted on 6/21/20 at 11:15 am to SoFla Tideroller
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So you’re rewarding the ones hellbent on destroying America for their persistence.
No one is asking Ohio State to stop "dotting the I", no one is asking Army & Navy to stop marching the Brigade of Midshipmen and the Corps of Cadets on the Field before the Navy - Army Game, no one is asking USC to stop having a Trojan Mascot ride into the Stadium on Traveler (his mount), no one is asking that Colorado stop having Ralphie lead the Buffaloes on the Field
There are many traditions and Mascots in CFB that are not racist, divisive, questionable, or "borderline" as to whether they offend others
The question you should be asking is WHY so many of these questionable traditions are clustered in the SEC, no other Conference is dealing with these issues in the numbers that the SEC is dealing with
Instead of making the childish assumption that people want to destroy "America", maybe consider that they want to improve America and make it better for all Americans
Posted on 6/21/20 at 11:46 am to PeeJayScammedGT
quote:So because you don't agree with the origins of it you want it changed or erased? That kinda sounds like what the Nazis and Communist (burning Books) did Or just recently Chavistas in Venezuela SA...Good luck with your every thing and everyone should be the same and have pure origins , think like me Utopia....Oh Trojans and Buffalo's are aggressive and offend me.
The question you should be asking is WHY so many of these questionable traditions are clustered in the SEC, no other Conference is dealing with these issues in the numbers that the SEC is dealing with
Instead of making the childish assumption that people want to destroy "America", maybe consider that they want to improve America and make it better for all Americans
What else should go the White House? It was built by slaves...Or maybe change the name to the Peoples House..Im curious when the culture purification will end.. I guess the Salem Witch Trials will soon be making a return
This post was edited on 6/21/20 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 6/21/20 at 12:02 pm to geauxnavybeatbama
They should outright ban both Ole Miss and Mizzou.
Posted on 6/21/20 at 1:06 pm to PeeJayScammedGT
You are A frickinn idiot. Check out the name of Robert E Lee’s horse?
University of Spoiled Children need to lose the horse by your logic, or actually lack of it!
University of Spoiled Children need to lose the horse by your logic, or actually lack of it!
Posted on 6/21/20 at 1:28 pm to 4Ghost
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You are A frickinn idiot. Check out the name of Robert E Lee’s horse?
University of Spoiled Children need to lose the horse by your logic, or actually lack of it!
Learn how to fricking spell a-hole
USCs horse is spelled TraveLer with 1 "L", lee's horse was TraveLLer with 2 "Ls"
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"USC’s mascot horse is a symbol of ancient Troy. Its rider, with costume and sword, is a symbol of a Trojan warrior. The name Traveler, spelled with one ‘l,’ is a common name among horses. . . . USC’s Traveler is and has always been a proud symbol of Troy. There is no truth to any other claims or rumors about its name.”
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In August 2017 concerns that the horse's name had a connection to Lee led to further research, which revealed that the first Traveler was acquired with his name, spelled with one L, in 1958 after he had become unreliable as a movie horse.
Different article-sources:
TraveLer isn't the same as TraveLLer a-hole
TraveLer isn't the same as TraveLLer a-hole
When you have more misplaced passion than fricking common sense you fail to do RESEARCH and you end up looking like a stupid a-hole
This post was edited on 6/21/20 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 6/21/20 at 1:38 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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Browns are an inferior team, which implies that brown people are inferior
Silly as hell
A stupid arse assumption since the Team isn't named for Brown people, the Team is named after the Founder Paul Brown
What is it with people here on the Rant, folks would rather post stupid arse comments without simple research and then easily be impeached and made to look like a fool in front of the entire msg board
Do "some" SEC fans just default to stupid as their normal everyday existence?
Posted on 6/21/20 at 2:56 pm to PeeJayScammedGT
Still the same name, Brandi and Brandy pronounced just alike. You are still a frickinnn idiot! 
Posted on 6/21/20 at 3:02 pm to PeeJayScammedGT
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The question you should be asking is WHY so many of these questionable traditions are clustered in the SEC, no other Conference is dealing with these issues in the numbers that the SEC is dealing with
“Tillman” is worse than anything in the SEC, and that’s in your conference, bro
Posted on 6/21/20 at 4:53 pm to 4Ghost
Dude, USC's horse is named Traveler , the original Traveler had that name when the Horse couldn't hack it in Movies & TV Shows, so someone from USC figured let us give him a try, no connection to r e lee in any way
Just because it has the same phonetic pronunciation doesn't connect it to lee and the confederacy
Seriously, are you that stupid?
Just because it has the same phonetic pronunciation doesn't connect it to lee and the confederacy
Seriously, are you that stupid?
This post was edited on 6/21/20 at 4:56 pm
Posted on 6/21/20 at 6:26 pm to bullred84
I guess all uniforms made from cotton will have to go. That would just be racist. Also, not more coke products. Coca Cola was founded by a confederate officer.
Posted on 6/21/20 at 6:52 pm to PlateJohnsonIII
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“Tillman” is worse than anything in the SEC, and that’s in your conference, bro
Clemson itself is named for the ex-Confederate who founded it, and is built on the plantation he inherited from his father in law - and one of slavery's greatest defenders - John C Calhoun. The fricking house is still on their campus. The whole place is basically a giant Confederate monument.
Posted on 6/21/20 at 7:01 pm to bullred84
I doubt you see a diminished usage of the gator chomp.
Posted on 6/21/20 at 7:15 pm to Robot Santa
Hey PeeJay, you wouldn’t be having nearly the issues with the SEC if you, and people like you would quit LOOKING for any minuscule reason to get offended and get your panties in a wad! The shite you are bitching about is irrelevant and immaterial. Instead of trying to rewrite history and sanitize it, how about you put your efforts into changing the culture of the present?
Posted on 6/21/20 at 7:18 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
The Bengal Tiger has been the official mascot of Louisiana State University since 1936. LSU chose the Panthera tigris tigris because it was the custom at the time to choose a name based upon a vicious animal. Dr. Charles Coates, who was Dean Emeritus, College of Pure and Applied Science and the Tigers' first coach who was affiliated with LSU from 1893-1939, detailed this history in the following letter to the LSU Alumni News in October of 1937:
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It was the custom at that time, for some occult reason, to call football teams by the names of vicious animals; the Yale Bulldogs and the Princeton Tigers, for example. This is still the vogue. It struck me that purple and gold looked Tigerish enough.
So, although the LSU football uniform also reminded Coates of the Tiger Rifles and their colorful uniforms similar to those worn by French Zouaves, the LSU football team was named after the cat (in accordance with custom at the time), NOT any military unit.
The tiger head symbol came from the Washington Artillery of New Orleans. A militia unit that traces its history back to the 1830s and who defended the union against the British.
LSU got its nickname for its athletic teams - 'Tigers' from Dr. Charles Coates, LSU's first football coach, who chose a name he thought would (1) be en vogue with the rest of the South choosing names of ferocious animals, as had been the custom in the northeast and Ivy League (where Coates came from), and (2) that LSU's colors of royal purple and old gold (which he also chose from the local store selling Mardi Gras ribbon) would go well with a growling tiger head.
Decades later, at an alumni banquet and through a newspaper interview, he related the above, plus the 'insinuation' that the name came from the Louisiana Tigers regiment who fought in Virginia during the Civil War - a nickname given to them for their ferociousness. But Coates stressed that he wasn't even thinking of that in 1893 - THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER. And he dismissed this notion that some LSU fans naturally assumed was true, but never was.
The name Tigers came from Coates. And Coates alone.
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