BCS title game a clash of cultures

http://msn.foxsports.com/ ^ | 01/06/2013 | Greg Couch

[BO Stinkss]

"an entire aisle at the grocery store dedicated to grits" Really? And we all have sex with our sisters too, right? What a snob. Explaining southern football passion to this guy would be like trying to teach a pig to read a watch. RTR

[Sybeck1]

No grits aisle in Mississippi

[Biggirl]

Saw on ESPN last night, a presentation on very devoted AL football fans overjoyed that their team is in the BCS title game again.

[tomkat]

Notre Dame is the nation’s team

LMAO !

             

[Buckeye McFrog]

Some of the nicest, most polite people I’ve ever met were in Savannah, GA.

[Martin Tell]

I wish there was a “grits aisle.” There is only one grocery store I have found in the greater Nashville area that has real (slow cook) grits available. Maybe Nashville no longer qualifies as The South.

[Biggirl]

Saw videos, including one of a father wearing a copy of the famous hat worn by the legendary coach Bear Byrant, finding out that his Christmas gift was a ticket to the BCS Bowl game.

[Biggirl]

It was inside his hat.

[Neoliberalnot]

The so-called civil war as we were taught in school was about doing right, but the reality was it was a war the central government waged on We The People. It was nothing short of Democide led by lincoln, the worst president in US history.

[TomGuy]

Clash of cultures: " I also had never seen an entire aisle at the grocery store dedicated to grits.

I live in a 'southern' town of about 14k population. It has a Christian college with about 1,500 students.

A couple of years ago, I was in a local grocery. A woman ahead of me in the aisle was talking on her cellphone and was talking loud enough that I could hear bits of her conversation. I assumed she was unfamiliar with the area, and so I assumed that she was a parent or relative of a college student at the local college.

At the end of one aisle, she stopped her cart and exclaimed to the listener, " ... and they have guns for sale ... IN THE GROCERY STORE."

I had to maneuver to get passed her and I saw the 'gun' in her comment. I was a rifle, but not full sized. I think it was either a plastic toy or a BB-type rifle. I chuckled and went on about my shopping.

[dagogo redux]

“Some of my best friends are Northerners.”

[kabar]

Many of ND's players come from the South including its star QB.

2012 Notre Dame Football Roster

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I’ll say it is. NBC Sports’ high dollar product vs ESPN’s high dollar product.

[Colonel_Flagg]

The only problem I have with this game is that I can’t root for a tie.

Hope you guys enjoy it, but I don’t like either one of them.

[Liberty Valance]

"Notre Dame is the nation’s team. Or, at least, the union’s."

Well bless your heart.

[onedoug]

[Sans-Culotte]

The author is correct that the Alabama/Notre Dame "rivalry" dates to 1966; but he's way off on all his cultural comments.

And he missed the importance of 1966. It wasn't just that Alabama, as the only undefeated/untied team was passed over. It was that the 1966 title would have meant three in a row for Alabama.

[Sideshow Bob]

Both of your replies are farcical.

For my entire life, I have cheered for my home state Wisconsin (and/or Marquette) AND whoever plays Notre Dame.

Over the last few years on football weekends I have started to also cheer for whoever plays against an SEC team AND - when SEC plays SEC - against whichever SEC team is ranked higher.

Which is America's team? This year's match-up for me is more like the Iraq-Iran War. I want them both to lose!

Here's my tipping point for tonight -

1) ESPN is the nation's #1 sports news outlet.
2) I hate ESPN and their liberal ownership and staff.
3) The SEC (and SEC-member school Alabama) is affiliated with ESPN and more often hyped by ESPN personalities.
4) Notre Dame is affilated ESPN competitor NBC Sports.
5) I am less likely to hear ESPN bleating about a Notre Dame championship than a Crimson Tide championship.
6) As a result, I'm left to cheer for the 'Domers.

Go Irish!!! (I guess)

[lacrew]

“The inferiority complex is still there in the South, where people think Northerners look down on them”

Surely he jests...Southerners think Northerners look down upon them? What would give him that idea? The irony is rich with this one.

But trust me, that attitude is met with a chuckle, and certainly not an ‘inferiority complex’. Exhibit A would be the exodus of people from Northern hell holes, and the population boom in the South. The South is a great place to live, and the people know it.

[6ppc]

It wasn't just that Alabama, as the only undefeated/untied team was passed over. It was that the 1966 title would have meant three in a row for Alabama.

I was at the barber shop Saturday and the 20 something girl cutting my hair was curious why all of her Alabama fan customers had such hard feelings for Notre Dame. I explained this piece of ancient history to her.