If LSU is #1, then Most Feared = Most obnoxious fans

^^^And VA Tech??!?? Really???? What's so scary about Blacksburg? Lane Stadium only holds around 66,000 people. Please. Besides the locals, who I'm sure might be kinda scary in those parts, I don't get it.

Ummmm.... It's a widely circulated email. TSteven did not just make that up for GreekChat. It's fun to hear the retorts, but to call him "just not worth it?" Srsly?

Being southern from a very serious college football town that epitomizes all of the statements about "South" in the email, I got a good chuckle out of it. Especially when we included one of our best friends who is from Penn State. He retorted with some very humorous notes about the superiority of his alma mater, and we all took it in good humor - what it is meant for.

My email had the following funny at the bottom. This is a joke. It is not an expression of my personal beliefs. I happen to know for a fact that these are not literally accurate. But they are funny to read. So for those with a sense of humor, read on....

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 Georgia, 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.

At ARKANSAS: None. There is no electricity in Arkansas

See, now that cracked me up, not only because of the references but because I understood the context. It wasn't clear to me that TSteven's was from an email (I've never gotten that one), thus the pile-on. Apologies, but I was just over hearing how only those with southern drawls know "real" college football.

From ESPN: A Love Letter to Southern Football

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/etick...uthernfootball

Hahaha, there is some seriously good Northern cry going on in this thread.

and they have a tiger. a real, live fuckin' TIGER, man!

71-year-old Noreen "Nana" Sulzer is Ohio State OT Alex Boone's grandmother. OSU Coach Jim Tressel made sure his players got a motivational DVD of them getting dogged. everything since getting demolished in last year's nat'l championship game. Alex Boone showed his Nana.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/colum...4&sportCat=ncf

from the article:

Nana Sulzer remembers the blowout. How could she ever forget?

"I was crying, of course,'' she said. "I just felt so darn bad every time those Gators scored. I was just a mess. It was like somebody saying you got an ugly baby.''





Filarious.

Yeah . . . if you're ass hurt about an email forward talking about how rad football is at southern schools, then you're probably the person the email is intending to mock.

That's how it works - a couple of elderly USC fans told our tailgate at the Orange Bowl that my team's fans were "the worst fans we've ever seen" because "students were drinking and yelling and standing up for the entire game!" I mean . . . ever been to a football game? Apparently Pac 10 football includes much more civility than I realized. Someone, quick - get pissed about that and reference how the Rose Bowl is constantly sold out!

That's how it works - everyone makes fun of everyone else, chill out, everyone knows PSU packs Happy Valley or whatever. Jokes.

By the way - OSU fans were the nicest of any fans I've ever met as a visiting fan (full disclosure: we weren't in the student lots for tailgate, so keep that in mind) - and I don't particularly consider that a compliment, honestly.

LOL....there are no Student Lots at Ohio State during football games. Everyone walks because it's such a circus between the dorms/houses/apartments and the stadium.

Makes sense (well, it actually makes no sense, but it makes my experience understandable) - where the hell do students tailgate? I realize Columbus is a massive city, but even BC students find a spot . . .

Most "traditional" tailgating is done by alums, and this is very wide-spread from the Stadium, to West Campus and up through Battelle.

Lane Avenue is closed off a couple of hours prior to the game, and it becomes one big tail gate (somewhat of a street-fair). If you are over 21, you can get into the "Heineygate". Thousands attend The Skull Session (a pep rally with the team and TBDBITL) two-hours before game time). After that, everyone pours out into the area between St. John Arena and Ohio Stadium.

Students also attend "pre-games" which could be at a fraternity house, apartments, in a bar, or at a tent near the stadium sponsored by an organization. Keep in mind, many of the home games have a noon start time. During those games, students roll out of bed to attend the game, then hit High Street afterward.

OK, but the overwhelming majority of Big 10 games are at noon ET (11am Central for a good chunk of us), and students at most schools are out pregaming hours before (while still making it out to the bars) - not to hijack, I'm just curious (we stayed downtown in Columbus, and I really only saw bars and the lot we tailgated).

If you stayed downtown (south of campus), you missed it. The Shoe is on north campus. Most of the tailgating is north of that: Lane Avenue, The Fawcett Center, The Shot, West Campus, Olentangy.

The really interesting thing, to me, is the odd skewing of both teams' defense/rush yds allowed, especially in conference play - which I realize is somewhat 'normal' against the bottom half of the conference, but each team held decent rushing teams down (OSU held Michigan to 15 on the ground, Wisconsin to 12, for example, and LSU's overall rush D was very solid) while each team had one massive blow-up in rush D leading to a loss to a great rushing team (OSU gave up 260 to Illinois, LSU 385 to Arkansas, which is rough even accounting for triple-OT).

I don't know that there's much you can draw from isolated incidents, especially given the caliber of runners faced in each game, but I think the "strength-on-strength" rushing game will be interesting to watch. If LSU dominates that like the SEC fans assume, it'll be a wipeout.

Thanks

In the parking lots. I went to one OSU tailgate before and was not impressed. Then again, my frame of reference probably was a lot different from their norm.

I remember (vaguely) going to a few "Kegs and Eggs" when I would visit OSU for a weekend football games- we would go there before the game. But the bar we used to go to burned down at some point (Papa Joes if memory serves)

PJs was one of my hangouts in school, and yes it did burn down. Since then, they cleaned up south campus ***panic attack*** We were in shock the first time we saw the area. Eddie George's restaurant is the cornerstone.

For those who don't think there is good tailgating at the Shoe, check out the Hineygate on Lane Avenue. You won't see anyone wearing their letters and I guarantee you won't see women in sundresses at the games.
http://www.chesrownhineygate.com/gallery2/main.php

You're right, there's definitely no sundresses or letters on Football Saturdays. Unfortunately, my one tailgating experience at OSU was in the Lane Avenue corridor.

<hijack>I've been to Eddie George's a few times and it was outstanding. Fantastic food, multiple screens and great atmosphere. You definitely won't feel like you're in a sports bar and grille, that's for sure. If you are in the area, I highly recommend it, even if you aren't an OSU fan!</hijack>

Nice.

Even when they lost? Twice?;)

I'll admit..OSU looked like crap when they played Illinois.

I went up to OSU for the '05 Texas game and I agree with you. Incredibly nice. They were congratulating us after our win....truly remarkable. Kind of Twilight Zone-ish.

I'm not going to like, OSU didn't impress me hardly at all this year in any of their games....seems hard to do considering they won 11 of them.

Hold That Tiger!
 

For 75 years, I may add.

Now, some of us will have serious college football withdrawals until August. I will have some football withdrawals when the Pro Bowl is over.

I don't do Pro Football. It's not the same.

So, I felt a sense of loss when the game was over. There's just a smidgen less cheer without the excitement of college football. :(

GEAUX TIGERS!!!! we can only hope that these buckeye fans will finally shut the hell up along with the rest of the big 10. SEC dominates and will continue to dominate for years to come.

We will never "shut the hell up." Yes our team did poorly, and I'll go ahead and say the better team won last night. We may have lost, but we will never "shut the hell up."

So, Ohio State loses to Florida in 2007, and LSU in 2008.

Ohio doesn't seem to be able to stand up to the SEC...what's up in 2009? Losing to Vanderbilt? ;)

:p

It was an awesome game and an incredible experience! GEAUX TIGERS!!!!

well considering that ohio st. is 0-8 vs. the SEC in bowl games should quiet yall but it doesn't seem to work. the big 10 can keep talking about how they are just as good as the SEC (even though their is no championship game) and can compete, but the numbers show who backs up their words.

It's "there," not "their."

If OSU doesn't score that last BS touchdown then I'm only off by three points!

I was actually a little surprised that the SEC didn't win a lot of games by more points. UK snuck by half of FSU, Auburn and Clemson, UF lost to Michigan, Tenn barely beat a bad Wisconsin team...
The SEC is the best conference but they aren't too far ahead of the other majors.

What the... PG? Is that you? Wow, it really is a bright, shiny new year. I can deal with this kind of more-reasoned-sounding frat-tasticness. ;):D

UGA is #2 now...I'm happy :)