My old boss from years ago sent me this...he was a fun guy...yes bunny is way bored!............................................................................................... I doubt it comes as no surprise to you to hear that I am not a sports fan. At least in the "traditional" sense of sports.... those reminiscent of the Romans feeding Christians to the lions while the spectators behave accordingly. To each his own, but I prefer to think that my idea of "sport" is a tad more civilized: swimming, tennis, figure skating, and decorative bead-work. My idea of contact sport is having my way with a fine cut of meat on the kitchen cutting board with an abundance of butter and saute pans at the ready. In the south, football ranks second in importance, following religion in the #1 spot. For most southerners, they are one and the same. In the south, football fans are not avid, they are positively rabid. My sister sent this earlier today, and I have rolled on the floor. I hope that you'll enjoy it. Let's hear it for the Philistines.......... To all the Southerners who are NOW COUNTING DOWN til the first game at the END OF THIS MONTH! - it's almost here -Yeah! For those of you who've seen the beginning of this - keep scrolling down - if you're an SEC person - you'll LOVE the last part - if you're ACC - sorry
- you'll be bored - except when they mention GEORGIA
Planning for the fall football season in the South is radically different than up North. For those who are planning a football trip South, here are some helpful hints.
Women's Accessories: NORTH: Chap Stick in back pocket and a $20 bill in the front pocket. SOUTH: Louis Vuitton duffel with two lipsticks, waterproof mascara, and a fifth of bourbon. Money not necessary - that's what dates are for.
Stadium Size: NORTH: College football stadiums hold 20,000 people. SOUTH: High school football stadiums hold 20,000 people.
Fathers: NORTH: Expect their daughters to understand Sylvia Plath. SOUTH: Expect their daughters to understand pass interference.
Campus Decor: NORTH: Statues of founding fathers. SOUTH: Statues of Heisman trophy winners.
Homecoming Queen: NORTH: Also a physics major. SOUTH: Also Miss America.
Heroes: NORTH: Rudy Giuliani SOUTH: Archie & Peyton Manning
Getting Tickets: NORTH: 5 days before the game you walk into the ticket office on campus. SOUTH: 5 months before the game you walk into the ticket office on campus, make a large financial contribution and put name on a waiting list for tickets.
Friday Classes After a Thursday Night Game: NORTH: Students and teachers not sure they're going to the game, because they have classes on Friday. SOUTH: Teachers cancel Friday classes because they don't want to see the few hung over students that might actually make it to class.
Parking: NORTH: An hour before game time, the University opens the campus for game parking. SOUTH: RVs sporting their school flags begin arriving on Wednesday for the weekend festivities. The really faithful arrive on Tuesday.
Game Day: NORTH: A few students party in the dorm and watch ESPN on TV. SOUTH: Every student wakes up, has a beer for breakfast, and rushes over to where ESPN is broadcasting 'Game Day Live' to get on camera and wave to the idiots up north who wonder why 'Game Day Live' is never Broadcast from their campus
Tailgating: NORTH: Raw meat on a grill, beer with lime in it, listening to local radio station with truck tailgate down. SOUTH: 30-foot custom pig-shaped smoker fires up at dawn. Cooking accompanied by live performance from the Dave Matthews Band,...who comes over during breaks and asks for a hit off bottle of bourbon.
Getting to the Stadium: NORTH: You ask 'Where's the stadium?' When you find it, you walk right in. SOUTH: When you're near it, you'll hear it. On game day it is the state's third largest city.
Concessions: NORTH: Drinks served in a paper cup, filled to the top with soda. SOUTH: Drinks served in a plastic cup, with the home team's mascot on it, filled less than half way with soda, to ensure enough room for bourbon.
When National Anthem is Played: NORTH : Stands are less than half full, and less than half of them stand up. SOUTH: 100,000 fans, all standing, sing along in perfect four-part harmony.
The Smell in the Air After the First Score: NORTH: Nothing changes. SOUTH: Fireworks, Gunpowder (from the cannon in the end zone), with a touch of bourbon.
Commentary (Male): NORTH: 'Nice play.' SOUTH: 'Dammit, you slow sumbitch - tackle him and break his legs.'
Commentary (Female): NORTH: 'My, this certainly is a violent sport.' SOUTH: 'Dammit, you slow sumbitch - tackle him and break his legs.'
Announcers: NORTH: Neutral and paid. SOUTH: Announcer harmonizes with the crowd in the fight song, with a tear in his eye because he is so proud of his team.
After the Game: NORTH: The stadium is empty way before the game ends. SOUTH: Another rack of ribs goes on the smoker, while somebody goes to the nearest package store for more bourbon, and planning begins for next week's game.
Nothing else in the universe comes even halfway close to the glories of Southern football!
______________________________ And for SEC Fans:
HOW MANY SEC STUDENTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A LIGHT BULB?
At VANDERBILT: it takes two, one to change the bulb and one more to explain how they did it every bit as good as the bulbs changed at Harvard.
At GEORGIA: it takes two, one to change the bulb and one to phone an engineer at Georgia Tech for instructions.
At FLORIDA: it takes four, one to screw in the bulb and three to figure out how to get stoned off the old one.
At ALABAMA: it takes five, one to change it, three to reminisce about how The Bear would have done it, and one to throw the old bulb at an NCAA investigator.
At OLE MISS: it takes six, one to change it, two to mix the drinks and three to find the perfect J. Crew outfit to wear for the occasion.
At LSU: it takes seven, and each one gets credit for five Semester hours.
At KENTUCKY: it takes eight, one to screw it in and seven to discuss how much brighter it seems to shine during basketball season.
At TENNESSEE: it takes ten, two to figure out how to screw it in, two to buy an orange lampshade, and six to phone a radio call-in show and talk about how much they hate Alabama.
At MISSISSIPPI STATE: it takes fifteen, one to screw in the bulb, two to buy the Skoal, and twelve to yell, 'GO TO HELL, OLE MISS'.
At AUBURN: it takes one hundred, one to change it, forty-nine to talk about how they did it better than at Bama, and fifty to get drunk and roll Toomer's Corner when finished.
At SOUTH CAROLINA: it takes 80,000, one to screw it in and 79,999 to discuss how this finally will be the year that they have a decent football team.
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Pornosaurus

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Aug 14 @ 8:50PM
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Yup, it's all about USC and Clemson here. Imagine trying to explain to a chick at a bar that your bachelor's degree is from Pitt...
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StraddleMyNose

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Aug 14 @ 8:50PM
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Stadium Size: NORTH: College football stadiums hold 20,000 people. Actually, Ohio State I think can hold roughly 100,000 people. Help me out here PurpleP. and Sandy. If anyone knows for sure it would be those two.
Everything else in this catagory looks about right!
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Sunshine79


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Aug 14 @ 8:54PM
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That is so true!! Thanks for sharing!!
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ynot7769

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Aug 14 @ 9:11PM
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ummm what's football
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NightOfOld


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Aug 14 @ 11:33PM
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Um; I never watch sports.
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lynxkat

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Aug 15 @ 12:13AM
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Obviously you've never been to Stark County, Ohio. Here in Canton, we've got the Pro Football Hall of Fame festival and game - which occupies the business world's minds all year long. Close by is Massillon - where high school football is religion. In Massillon, every baby boy gets a football at birth. I've even seen numerous houses painted black with orange trim (yup - high school colors). Folks are obsessed with everything from Pop Warner through the pro's. And if you haven't seen the Browns Dawg Pound, you ain't seen nothin!
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manwithoutahorse

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Aug 15 @ 5:24AM
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You guys are missing it, Ohio is not the North. Syracuse? Penn State? Now that is North. Big Ten is Midwest. ANd no, Penn State isn't really Big Ten. Original SEC and ACC schools are south.
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StraddleMyNose

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Aug 15 @ 5:35AM
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You guys are missing it, Ohio is not the North. Actually Ohio is part of the midwest, BUT Ohio is actually north of a lot of those SEC and ACC teams. So to say Ohio is north describing what the blog is about, yeah, that fits!
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ynot7769

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Aug 15 @ 5:46AM
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*strolls thru sippin coffee pondering how a joke can become yet a debate about north and south and football*
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StraddleMyNose

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Aug 15 @ 6:01AM
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ummm what's football
*strolls thru sippin coffee pondering how a joke can become yet a debate about north and south and football* Why should you care? I mean, afterall, you don't know what football is, right?
j/k
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southerngent64

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Aug 15 @ 6:22AM
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I lived in Alabama for 4 years. Here are my observations:
Support for a particular school is passed down through the generations. In wealthier families, it's season tickets.
I knew one guy who graduated for Auburn's campus in Montgomery but he rooted for Alabama. Heaven forbid he step on the Auburn campus! He never heard the Beach Boys song "Be True to Your School.
In the North, a mixed marriage is based on race. In AL, it's an Auburn fan marrying an Alabama fan, IF the parents allow it. One of my neighbors was chased out of his GFs house the first time he met her parents because he rooted for the wrong school. Seriously!
Parents would rather have their kids join a cult than root for the other team.
When you meet someone for the first time, you are asked "Auburn or Alabama?" sometimes BEFORE they know your name.
People will say "Roll Tide" or "War Eagle" as they pass each other, like Harley riders wave at each other.
Football season lasts all year long. Who's "graduating (ie no longer eligible), who's going pro early, and the incoming freshmen are discussed on a daily basis.
I've seen co-workers walk into work, log on to bulletin boards, and stay online until it's time to go home. I'm sure they repeat the process when they get home.
I always made sure I was traveling the week after the "Iron Bowl," the annual Auburn-Alabama game. I'd do anything to avoid the whining, crying, gloating, bragging, etc.
I know two guys who have a standing $250 bet on the "Iron Bowl."
I was raised in ACC country and attended an ACC school. At some point during football season, usually September, we would start asking the question
"When's basketball start?"
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gotsoe0011

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Aug 15 @ 7:03AM
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The largest football stadiums are actually located in cities north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
The largest is Beaver Stadium, hom of the Penn St. Nittany Lions, in Pennsylvania. "Happy Valley" seats 107,282.
Michigan Stadium (The Big House), in Ann Arbor, Michigan seats 106,201.
Ohio Stadium (The Horseshoe), Columbus, Ohio is next, at 102,329.
Neyland Stadium (home of the Tennessee Volunteers), in Knoxville, Tenn. has the largest seating capacity south of the Mason-Dixon line, at 102,037.
The point of the blog was well-taken though...that football is more of a religion in the south.
I thought this was pretty funny, and fairly accurate.
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Wordsofwit


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Aug 15 @ 8:59AM
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Great blog and fantastic comments!!!!! Kudo for all!!
Around here it is all about the Cowboys and college sports get little attention. The Cowboy fans are famous for being ignorant. Cowboy fans are the only ones who cheer when their team is in the red zone so players can't hear the quarterback.
In the land I come from, LA, it is all USC. That is why the Chargers, Rams and Raiders couldn't make a go of it. It is religion there and may be the only locale west of Oklahoma or Nebraska that is so die hard about college football.
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StraddleMyNose

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Aug 15 @ 9:05AM
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The Cowboy fans are famous for being ignorant. I'm sure Tom wouldn't agree with this statement.
In the land I come from, LA, it is all USC Ummm...Bruce, did I mention that Ohio State was going to come in there and beat the living snot out of USC?
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Wordsofwit


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Aug 15 @ 10:26AM
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Ummm...Bruce, did I mention that Ohio State was going to come in there and beat the living snot out of USC? I remember laughing about that about a week ago when you predicted 48 to 13 or something. Actually, I am an OSU fan as I have a lot of family in Marysville. One relative was the head secretary for the athletic department and I got to see Woody Hayes' office, the cannon aimed at Ann Arbor, and the 16mm film projector bolted to a steel stand that was lag bolted to the floor due to his penchant for throwing the projectors after a loss.
I hardly ever root for USC. All of the preppie types went there. I like UCLA as the cool people who had smarts and grades in high school went there.
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ynot7769

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Aug 15 @ 7:07PM
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Why should you care? I mean, afterall, you don't know what football is, right? nawww just realy don't give a shit bout it
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