Cowbell rule question or observation

[MemphisMaroonClubDog]

After reading the article about how Memphis has asked our fans to not bring their cowbells (and I fully believe its their right to do that), it got me to thinking...

It is an SEC rule that allows our fans to ring our bells at Scott Field.

So, how can that rule be dictated in such a way that it would not be legal for us to take our bells on the road to other SEC stadiums?

 

[MemphisMaroonClubDog]

After reading the article about how Memphis has asked our fans to not bring their cowbells (and I fully believe its their right to do that), it got me to thinking...

It is an SEC rule that allows our fans to ring our bells at Scott Field.

So, how can that rule be dictated in such a way that it would not be legal for us to take our bells on the road to other SEC stadiums?

 

[drail14me]

I thought I remember Cowbells being welcomed when we last played in the Liberty Bowl? New management screwing that up???

http://nems360.com/view/f...instance=home_news_right

 

[AssEndDawg]

is for Mississippi State and specifically the cowbell. So technically I think it is still illegal at all other SEC schools to have an artificial noisemaker. None of that matters though, each school is allowed to let in, or keep out, anything they damn well wish. So even if the SEC allowed it they would not. Anyone who expected Memphis to allow cowbells into the Liberty Bowl is retarded. They allowed it in the bowl game because there is no NCAA rule against noisemakers and the Bowl Committee just wants people to have fun, they could give a damn who wins or loses.

 

[biguglyjoe]

the $$ from the fanbase of the team that plays there once every several years or so.

 

[MemphisMaroonClubDog]

I know, I know. I am trying to make any sense out of an SEC ruling in regards to MSU. It is impossible.

It just seems to me that legal is legal. If we are allowed to have cowbells at an SEC stadium, it should be allowed for all stadiums in the SEC. I don't see how you can say, "yes, you can have them, but only at home". Tradition is ringing the bells for our team, not ringing our bells for our team at home. Hell, there have been plenty of times when people took their bells on the road with them. So, tradition is in that too</p>

 

[gravedigger]

we played them there.

just another bunch of whiny bitches like the ones we already know that need something 'illegal' like loud noise to explain why their team lost.

 

[ckDOG]

What's hard to understand about that?

 

[biguglyjoe]

<span class="storybody">


And, he wants Bulldog fans to play their own part on that bowl-business,
encouraging Mississippi State folk to not only set attendance records
but make lots of noise. “By any means necessary,” he grinned. At which
Ehrhart moved to the microphone.</p>


“Let me interject,” the executive director said. “Cowbells are welcome at the AutoZone Liberty Bowl.”</p></span>

 

[MemphisMaroonClubDog]

if the home team makes the rules, then why the hell did we ever have to ask the SEC for permission to bring the bells. If the SEC is the rule maker, how is it really legal to dictate how only one team is run or allowed to do things and that that team can only do this under its own roof

The confusion here is exactly my point...

 

[RonnyAtmosphere]

..beat MSU if the cowbells are not available to inspire the Bulldogs to play above their heads the whole game.


Seriously, this is why Memphis will not allow cowbells @ a Memphis home game.


Nevermind Memphis is a 30 point underdog to MSU (or whatever the line is): MSU might win if the MSU fans are allowed to ring their cowbells.


This is the idiotic thinking behind all this anti-cowbell ********.


But it's not just Memphis: All the SEC schools think if MSU fans can ring cowbells in their stadiums, then it might inspire MSU to victory.


This is the level of dumbassery you are dealing with when you begin to ask why other schools will not allow cowbells in their stadiums.

 

[AssEndDawg]

The SEC has no rule against umbrellas but some stadiums do not allow you to bring them in. It's the rules of the stadium and they have their own staff their to enforce them. You keep using the word legal, but none of this is law. The police won't arrest you for sneaking a cowbell into the Liberty Bowl.

We asked the SEC to make a rule especially for us and they did. They just felt no need to expand it to other stadiums since they wouldn't be allowing it anyway.

 

[vhdawg]

we played them there.

just another bunch of whiny bitches like the ones we already know that need something 'illegal' like loud noise to explain why their team lost.

When we last played Memphis at the Liberty Bowl, in 2002, they went to great lengths to get rid of the bells. They had highway warning signs out on the streets approaching the stadium that said "NO COWBELLS ALLOWED", they had rent-a-cops going back and forth through the State section carrying cardboard boxes to collect cowbells with. It was a very direct targeting of the cowbell, and I expect nothing different this time.

So basically, if you take your bell in and get it took, it's your own fault, they told you. You were stupid to be ringing it openly in a non-conference game anyway. Just ask anybody who lost theirs at Houston last year.

 

[vhdawg]

They both may be held at the same venue, but they most certainly are NOT the same thing, and do NOT operate by the same rules.

 

[biguglyjoe]

As evident from my prior contribution to this thread.

 

[vhdawg]

.....I've seen the "but we were able to ring them at the Liberty Bowl, what gives?" sentiment elsewhere, so it needs to be quashed.

 

[biguglyjoe]

*****

 

[Bobby Ricigliano]

Why? I do not know.

 

[PBRME]

drail14me[/b]]I thought I remember Cowbells being welcomed when we last played in the Liberty Bowl? New management screwing that up???

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The reason is because the people that own the rights to the Autozone Liberty Bowl have no say in Memphis Tiger Athletics. It's the Memphis Tiger Athletic Dept that ispushingthis. I can promise you if we go back to the Liberty Bowl game they will say bring em and ring em.

 

[GreaterCowbell]

We need to develope the covert cowbell app that wirelesslyhacks our opponets stadiumsound systems. The current cowbell apps just sound ghey.

 

[MSU CS 2004]

Artificial noisemakers have been banned at all SEC events since 1974. Last year, the SEC planned to start fining schools (read: Mississippi State) for violating the rules. MSU asked for a compromise.

The new rule allows for traditional noisemakers to be brought into games "played on the campus of an institution with a traditional institutional noisemaker." The noisemakers may only be used during timeouts and after scores. Since Mississippi State is the only school with a traditional noisemaker, the rule only applies to them.

 

[buddawg]

they send a bunch of huge secutity cops in. They targeted college age guys and where throwing them around like rag dolls. Totally classless. I would never play them in any sport.

Both teams sucked, there was about 1500 Memphis fans and about 8000 Msu fans at the game.

Same thing last year, when they refused to wear their blue uniforms.

Little man syndrome.

 

[TheCosmoKramer]

the Liberty Bowl (facility not the bowl game) does have some say on what happens at Memphis football games. Last year I went to a Memphis football game with my children. We pushed my 6 month old daughter to the game in stroller, and were told at the gate that we weren't allowed to bring the stroller in. I pointed out that neither of the other fans would be affected by the stroller, but to no avail. When I wrote an email to the Memphis athletic department complaining afterward, they blamed it on the people who run the stadium, and claimed they have no control over those rules.

That said, I recognize that the Memphis athletic department can decide whether to allow cowbells or not.</p>