Posted on 08/12/2019 10:33:43 AM PDT by C19fan
While some have been standing for decades, other college football traditions are just getting started. No matter what, it's these wacky and wild rituals and customs that make the game that much more fun to watch. In honor of the 150th anniversary of college football, we ranked the sport's greatest traditions.
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It’s a relatively new one, but the University of Tennessee losing to Vanderbilt every year is one that touches my heart very profoundly.
I actually spent a week in Meridian, Mississippi.
The people were rather nice.
Florida is one state, but it’s like 20 different states at the same time. It really matters where you go.
Multi millionaires in a town, next town over pure White trash, then next town is Mexicans, then Cubans...
Well, Vandy is the best academic SEC school.
So even if you lose, you’re going to get good jobs. :)
I grew up in Meridian. Glad I live in Texas.
Red ballon relise after home team first score at Nebraska Go Big Red.....
“How can you leave out “Calling the Hogs” before an Arkansas Razorbacks game?”
That is my ? too.
Vandy’s Motto:
Beat us today
Work for us tomorrow
You have to realize, any thread that gives the rednecks from Gunsville FL a chance to show their jorts, they’ll do it with alacrity. There’s a reason they’ve been repeatedly voted the worst fan base in CFB. Envy of others with tradition and accomplishments, and a full set of teeth, are a big part of it. Read Cross Creek sometime if you want to know the type of people who populated Gainesville (formerly known as Hogtown)and the swamps of Alachua County in the 1940’s. They haven’t changed.
THIS !
(also, back in the day at CU, passing coeds up to the top of the stadium was not only fun, but the coeds enjoyed it too ;-)
Gaytors suck...suck badly...suck abysmally...
Indicators of Gaytor class:
1. The bands have traditionally held "socials" for each other after the big game. In my first year we put on a pretty good party for the Gaytors...hired a DJ, brought in subs and pizza, even a few kegs (drinking age was 18). The next year it was the Gaytors turn. They set up a folding table in the middle of an empty field with a bag of Oreos and a bowl of Kool-aid.
2. We were actually urinated on while marching into the stadium.
3. They threw half filled beer bottles at us. One band member received a concussion.
4. They slashed the tires of our charter buses. Do you know how long it takes to get 10 new buses? I do...
Gaytors are slime, scum and absolute shit.
I received a four year scholarship to U of F and I preferred to pay out of my own pocket to go to FSU. Go 'Noles!
LOL, I’ve been to both.
I was stationed in San Antontio(Lackland AFB) and San Angelo(Goodfellow AFB).
My brother was at NAS Meridian.
“I received a four year scholarship to U of F and I preferred to pay out of my own pocket to go to FSU. Go ‘Noles! “
You’re a liar.
My dad was CO of MATSS-903 from 1974-78 at NAS Meridian.
Wow...you are a pig!
I can assure you, much to my parents’ dismay, that I absolutely had a four year tuition ride at U of F. Accepted to the Naval Academy and the Coast Guard Academy as well. Medically discharged from the USCGA. When I got home my scholarship to U of F was literally in the mailbox. M & D left it up to me, but if I went to FSU, I would have to pay for my tuition. I ended up working at SAGA, Radio Shack, and for a short while Burger King. Graduated in three years. Suck on it, Gaytor.
Guess you’ve never been to Baton Rouge or Morgantown.
Small world. :)
Half-*ss U - in reference to the academic program.
The song goes back to when University of Florida was all boys and Tallahassee was the school for the girls. Both schools became coed in 1948 thereabouts.
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