Posted on 12/01/2024 5:56:38 AM PST by C19fan
College football was a combat sport on rivalry Saturday.
Rivalry week matchups are always heated with tensions and resentments building. But four annual clashes ended with fights between opponents when the winning road team attempted to plant a flag on the home field of their adversary to punctuate a victory.
Each scuffle was notable for different reasons. But they were all provoked by similar sentiments. The victors wanted to make a statement, while the defeated wanted to protect their home turf and prevent further indignity.
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Does the election have anything to do with it?
Look at the source...
In the UF/FSU game the Gators won and actually did plant a flag midfield which set off some pushing and shoving, the FSU head coach was not happy with flag planting, he actually took down the flag and lectured the UF coach.
What they don’t tell you is FSU has what’s known as a sod cemetery, anytime the defeat a rival or ranked team on the road, the tear up a piece of sod from the field and take it back to Tallahassee to bury it as if they took a scalp home after winning.
Last year after FSU won in Gainesville, they tore up a piece of sod ran around on the field taunting Gator fans with a Alligator Head that had been mounted.
It’s the nature of bitter rivals, one side does something, the other side responds, and each team’s fans accuse the other team’s fans of being vile and stupid.
It’s stunning, just how seriously some people take their favorite sports. A lot of folks seem to go “suddenly feral”, and revert to Pack or Mob behavior.
I thought these sports were supposed to be for fun.
I guess we all need something to believe in and to root for, however temporarily.
The rank immaturity manifest in these "bitter" collegiate athletic "rivalries," particularly college football, is one of the most cringeworthy aspects of American popular culture.
The retardation on display by players and fans is sickening. It is a picture into their body, mind, & souls that have a God shaped hole in them.
What our folks do doesn’t hold a candle to soccer fans. Seen a lot of out and out riots over soccer games.
It has been going on for decades, nearly every game is on TV, so more fans see it when thing happen.
Predominantly White people living their lives vicariously through a team or player is sad....I can say that because I used to be just like that......looking back on it now I see what an idiot I was.
Surprising. Yahoo would usually default to how this somehow is a phenomenon of Trump’s influence.
Nobody likes a sore winner.
Bad form to gloat over a victory.
The Georgia-Georgia Tech rivalry is called “Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate.” Whatever. I bet the sorority girls of each team get into brawls in the parking lot.
Yes, although in the case of British soccer "hooliganism," I think the soccer match setting is simply the traditional setting, the excuse, for out-and-out anarchic, Clockwork Orange-like violence. And, as well, the perpetrators are, I imagine, typically lower-class, dimwitted white trash.
I've long thought that, if America's "institutions of higher learning," which are supposed to be churning out educated men, cannot do better than the almost gang-like behavior we see surrounding collegiate sports -- again, primarily football -- perhaps these schools should pay attention to their presumed principal mission and get out of the business of running semi-professional sports programs altogether.
As it is, American "higher education" is stupid in so many different ways.
OU and Texas do it every year. Don’t like it don’t lose.
Not sure why people who don’t like sports even care.
If so, then I'll just say that this does no credit to people going to college in Georgia.
As our culture continues to degrade, the almost transcendent stupidity of big-time "spectator sports" comes increasingly to the fore.
If you see them as "circuses", it makes a lot more sense.
Yes, that's pretty much what I'm trying to get at. Succinctly said.
I think you’re correct. In NYC yesterday there were 18 games available, 7 on over the air channels. At this time of year college FB is down to traditional rivals. It extends to high schools as well. Ask any grad of Cardinal.Hayes and Mount Saint Michael in the Bronx about events surrounding their Turkey Day games. Heck I remember a club football game between the Rams of Fordham and Georgetown. Georgetown had ventured on to campus and stolen our Ram. During the national anthem at start of the game their cheerleaders appeared running across the field with our Ram painted with blue G. The Booster Club, I was one, ran past our team as they stood for the anthem. Met the Gtowners at midfield and proceeded to kick the crap out of them and returned ro our side to the cheers of the Homecoming crowd. No, none of this is new.
Predominantly white only because we are currently the majority in this nation. Seen plenty of black and Spanish people lose their ever-loving minds because of sports.
For men in particular, if you don’t have anything else meaningful in your life, sports is used to fill a hole and belong to a group.
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