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<div class="messagebody">I would start by Suing MSU...then the SEC (for not punishing them for lack of enforcement) The rule is on the book...and this is the reason why it is on the book. You see all the time coaches and administration of MSU encouraging the use of cowbells...so you might could go after them Personally.... and last but not least... I would go after one Gene Swindoll... Cause he also encouraged fans of MSU to do the same.... I would sue the pants off of all of them.</div>
 
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<div class="messagebody">I would start by Suing MSU...then the SEC (for not punishing them for lack of enforcement) The rule is on the book...and this is the reason why it is on the book. You see all the time coaches and administration of MSU encouraging the use of cowbells...so you might could go after them Personally.... and last but not least... I would go after one Gene Swindoll... Cause he also encouraged fans of MSU to do the same.... I would sue the pants off of all of them.</div>
 
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I mean if you want to show a pause as someone reads there are established ways to do it.
 
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Why would they put so much energy into a school that is not their real rival?

Little ol' us and our measly cowbells can't possibly be a threat to them. Right?

haha

Freakin' hilarious.
 
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Mutt the Hoople said:
If so, it would explain the hostility.
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The Fugitive Slave Act.

The Underground Railroad.

Hatred of cowbells.

Lose the Civil War.

The KKK

TSWRA

It's all connected.

The "Ole Miss" Rebels, huh? You don't say ....

What a bunch of losers.
 
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Look on the bright side Mullen will not have to worry about Dickie putting PIs on him like Jackie had to deal with. Croomof course did not have to worry about this becauseyou could always find him at Barnhills. I will have to agree that it is great to be hated by a team that does not really consider us astheir rival.</p>
 
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argument if he was to go after the school for ignoring a rule and encouraging the fanbase to bring in cowbells. It's reasonable to see that a cowbell could be used in an altercation. That being said, this will be settled out of court by the kid receiving 50 yard line tickets for life.
 
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and he sure is hell isn't going to win in front of a jury. Plus, even though a good lawyer couldcover some ground with theignoring policy argument, State may be able to argue that it's an SEC policy, not MSU policy, but more importantly, the artificial noisemaker rule wasn't aimed at preventing head injuries, so it's hard to tie not enforcing an artificial noisemaker policy to an assault.
 
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You know the old saying "guns don't kill people"? Well, cowbells don't assault people. The boy could have used anything to assault the other student, including his own fists, so his possession of a cowbell had no effect at all on the relative safety of other people attending the game. It is not just unreasonable, it is ludicrous to assert the school has a duty to keep out all objects that could conceivably be used as a weapon.

Further, MSU does not allow cowbells at its home games. They obviously do not, and cannot, keep out all of the bells, but hundreds if not thousands of bells are confiscated at every single game.

The only way the school could have any liability in this, is if security personnel were alerted to the possiblity of an altercation and ignored. Even then, since MSU is a State institution you still have to get around sovereign immunity.

And, to address something in the original cross post that started this thread, this assault is not "the reason cowbells were outlawed in the first place." They were outlawed because they are noisy, not because some idiot might use one as a weapon.
 
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hotdigitydog said:
States........Don't ever question my patriotism you hood wearing plantation owner........
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I'm not questioning the Constitution. I'm making fun of you for taking such a dramatic stand on a sports message board.
 
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because those things are, as you know, banned from our stadium. Of course, when you come to our stadium, you don't see any flag sticks either. They actually prevent them from getting in and then confiscate any that do get into the stadium. Yes, some people still sneak in liquor bottles, but I wouldn't say that's publicly encouraged by the university or any of its officials by any means.

I'm not arguing against cowbells because that's your tradition, and I understand your school officials turning a blind eye to the rule for that reason, but you really can't compare it to whiskey bottles or flagsticks, because there is a conscious effort made to prevent those things from entering our stadium. There is little effort made to prevent cowbells from entering DWS. That's to be expected, but that's why it's not a valid comparison.
 
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b., Cowbells aren't illegal (like alcohol at state athletic facilities). So, as always, nice try.
 
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cowbells are banned by the SEC not the NCAA right? so they are only "illegal" during SEC games, you should be able to walk in the gate ringing it in non conference games without anyone taking it up? ive never had mine taken up but just curious as to that rule.
 
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The discussion was on whether the school could be sued in this situation, and people suggested that Ole Miss could be sued for someone being hit with a whiskey bottle.

All I was saying is that the difference is that whiskey bottles are prohibited from the stadium. Cowbells are encouraged at your stadium. It'd be easier to sue a school for an assault occurring from something encouraged by university officials than it would be to sue a school for an assault that happens with something the school tried to prevent from entering the stadium in the first place.

Whether they are banned or not or whether they should be banned wasn't the discussion.

I'll play an outrageous hypothetical here to show what the point is. Both Texas Tech and Oklahoma State do a "Guns Up" signal at their games. Let's say in an outrageous hypothetical that both schools had fans that brought actual guns to games to fire them into the air after touchdowns. Let's say that Texas Tech school officials encouraged the tradition saying "bring em and fire em", while Oklahoma State officials patted people down and searched purses to try to ban guns from their games. Which school do you think would have a better chance of avoiding legal action if an assault occurred with a gun in their stadium? Like I said, it's an outrageous hypothetical, but the point is to show that there is a difference between items that are banned by the school and items that school officials encourage.

It won't happen, but if someone wanted to sue MSU for an assault by another fan in the stadium with a cowbell, they'd have more of a case than someone trying to sue Ole Miss because they got hit with a whiskey bottle that wasn't supposed to be there. That's why the comparison is invalid.
 
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