across from the Highway Patrol HQ from a guy selling them out of the back of his truck. I was on my way to the University of Memphis State University game that Artie Cosby set the 54 yard field goal record for the win in.
It's slow as **** so...Your Cowbell? When/How/Where did you get it?
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when they were made by the industrial or mechanical??????? arts place (been way too long to remember). Someone mentioned above about the donger vs the dinger. This area bell is a donger. Looks bad but I won't change the original decoration for anything.
Had it taken from me once at the Egg Bowl in Oxford. Got patted down at the gate and they found it rolled up in a blanket. I watched Barney Fife take it over to an enclosed area and sit it down on a ledge next to a big box of bells they had already. taken.After we won, I walked out of the stands and past that area and it was still sitting there kinda hidden. The box of bells had already been taken and I guess they either didn't see it or couldn't fit it in the box. Got my damned bell back. Never take it to away games anymore.
I sat behind the drunkest guy ive ever seen at a football game (that says a lot)at the 09 corndog game. The guy actually pissed himself in the stands. He had one of the big *** new cowbells. We were standing at the gate wondering how we didnt win that damn game and the drunk 17er walked by us without the cowbell. I went up to where we were sitting and got it. I looked for the guy the rest of that season and I even threw it in my tailgaiting box every game so I could return it in case i saw him at the Junction. Inever saw him againso after the season I repainted the cowbell and personalized it. Hopefully one day i'll have a cool story about obtaining my bell from a wasted guy at the 09 lsu game.
in 1997.
First understand that I grew up in Plano, TX and my household was full of Univ. of Michigan alumni. Prior to attending MSU I had NO clue what even the SEC was about.... all I knew was Big Ten trough and through. I remember working a summer job and a co-worker pointed out MSU was playing the World Series on ESPN, I watched and inning or two and really did not care.
At some point during my freshman year I began to figure it out. Bought a cowbell and she has made it everywhere with me since then.... Is actually sitting on display in my house about 10 feet from me now.
Some highlights of my cowbell.... unlike others I have never beat mine on the concrete or benches even in the late KANG days. The corners are beat to hell from being rung so hard and the clanger is about to go.
I have taken it with me everywhere I have been and rung her proud while watching MSU football games live from Tierre Blanch, France, Cane, France, America's Bar in downtown Monaco, Aui Dabi, Dubai, and currently resides ocean front in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
It makes for an interesting conversation piece when explaining what it is in Spanish..... thankfully many of my friends are so passionate about soccer that they 100% understand what I am talking about.
First understand that I grew up in Plano, TX and my household was full of Univ. of Michigan alumni. Prior to attending MSU I had NO clue what even the SEC was about.... all I knew was Big Ten trough and through. I remember working a summer job and a co-worker pointed out MSU was playing the World Series on ESPN, I watched and inning or two and really did not care.
At some point during my freshman year I began to figure it out. Bought a cowbell and she has made it everywhere with me since then.... Is actually sitting on display in my house about 10 feet from me now.
Some highlights of my cowbell.... unlike others I have never beat mine on the concrete or benches even in the late KANG days. The corners are beat to hell from being rung so hard and the clanger is about to go.
I have taken it with me everywhere I have been and rung her proud while watching MSU football games live from Tierre Blanch, France, Cane, France, America's Bar in downtown Monaco, Aui Dabi, Dubai, and currently resides ocean front in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
It makes for an interesting conversation piece when explaining what it is in Spanish..... thankfully many of my friends are so passionate about soccer that they 100% understand what I am talking about.
Currently still white and unadorned.
Previous cowbells:
Cowbell #1: Confiscated by Templetonian Security at 2001 Memphis game. Protests of "but it's a non-conference game!" went unheeded. Maroon bell with a walking bully sticker. THANKS LARRY.
Cowbell #2: Had a custom threaded removable handle. Painted maroon with Nike MSU logo stickers on it. Used from 2001-2004, until I broke a weld on the side of it bashing it against a column underneath DWS while exiting after the Maine Debacle. Still possess, somewhere, though I haven't seen it in a couple years.
Cowbell #3: Had another custom threaded removable handle. Painted with Van Halen stripes, in maroon, white, and black. Wrapped the handle in tennis racket tape in 2008. Used from 2005 through the 2008 LSU game, where it was confiscated upon entry to Tiger Stadium after yours truly got lazy with the smuggling. For the record, "under the game program" is not an effective technique, and I should've known better. Overconfidence is weakness. Was not recovered despite a valiant post-game search of the garbage cans by the stadium gate. Made a bad game worse.
Cowbell #4: Plain maroon cowbell, purchased shortly after 2008 LSU game. Used as primary bell from whatever that next game was until the game before the UF game, 2009. Not a good bell...clapper likes to stick. As such, it sees sporadic usage at venues where confiscation is a threat. Was rung at the 2010 Florida game in Gainesville where it was temporarily confiscated post-game by stadium security, who later gave it back and posed for a picture.
Cowbell #5: The aforementioned plain white cowbell, bought at the MSU bookstore shortly before the UF game in 2009, because I had forgot the maroon one and left it at home. Nearly had to buy a pink cowbell before megadawgmaniac located a white one. Was on record as saying "If it takes ringing a pink cowbell to beat Florida, so be it." Good quality bell, will probably get modded and get a paint job at some point in the near future, if I think about it.
Previous cowbells:
Cowbell #1: Confiscated by Templetonian Security at 2001 Memphis game. Protests of "but it's a non-conference game!" went unheeded. Maroon bell with a walking bully sticker. THANKS LARRY.
Cowbell #2: Had a custom threaded removable handle. Painted maroon with Nike MSU logo stickers on it. Used from 2001-2004, until I broke a weld on the side of it bashing it against a column underneath DWS while exiting after the Maine Debacle. Still possess, somewhere, though I haven't seen it in a couple years.
Cowbell #3: Had another custom threaded removable handle. Painted with Van Halen stripes, in maroon, white, and black. Wrapped the handle in tennis racket tape in 2008. Used from 2005 through the 2008 LSU game, where it was confiscated upon entry to Tiger Stadium after yours truly got lazy with the smuggling. For the record, "under the game program" is not an effective technique, and I should've known better. Overconfidence is weakness. Was not recovered despite a valiant post-game search of the garbage cans by the stadium gate. Made a bad game worse.
Cowbell #4: Plain maroon cowbell, purchased shortly after 2008 LSU game. Used as primary bell from whatever that next game was until the game before the UF game, 2009. Not a good bell...clapper likes to stick. As such, it sees sporadic usage at venues where confiscation is a threat. Was rung at the 2010 Florida game in Gainesville where it was temporarily confiscated post-game by stadium security, who later gave it back and posed for a picture.
Cowbell #5: The aforementioned plain white cowbell, bought at the MSU bookstore shortly before the UF game in 2009, because I had forgot the maroon one and left it at home. Nearly had to buy a pink cowbell before megadawgmaniac located a white one. Was on record as saying "If it takes ringing a pink cowbell to beat Florida, so be it." Good quality bell, will probably get modded and get a paint job at some point in the near future, if I think about it.
#1 white med size bought at the lodge. Thrown in the woods near the big whit house by old grill after we lost to bama in 99 I think. Tried to act like a bad *** that day. Forgot where it was by the next.
#2 maroon large and loud. Bought one night at coconuts. It has a deeper sound than most I see or hear. Still have and use.
#3 slightly larger black 1969 with rebar grip. Given to my by my father in law after I married his usm daughter. It's awesome and only makes special games. Too many stories of stolen bells.
#2 maroon large and loud. Bought one night at coconuts. It has a deeper sound than most I see or hear. Still have and use.
#3 slightly larger black 1969 with rebar grip. Given to my by my father in law after I married his usm daughter. It's awesome and only makes special games. Too many stories of stolen bells.
A few years ago my in-laws who live in Auburn and are hard-core Auburn people asked me to pick out my own Christmas present. They gave me the money and told me to buy it and gift wrap it and put it under their tree. They did not want to know ahead of time what it was. I took that orange and blue Auburn money and bought a cowbell. I unwrapped it and rang it for the first time on Christmas morning in their Auburn home. That is the last decent present I have ever received from them.
Circa 1963. I think I paid a dollar or less for it. Although I have newer ones, I still have that one.
I bought a smaller one to sneak into games that is beat all to hell from the end of Sherrill years and Crooms first years.
My latest bell was bought in 1995. It has been through hell....it's maroon with a soft white handle on it. I've replaced the handle on it four or five times. It's the same bell I rang until my fingers bled after we beat Bama in 96, rang until the clanger flew out after we beat Florida in 2000, bashed against the steps after too many embarrassing losses to mention, and have taunted too many rebel fans with over the years. It is covered with stickers, including two or three "Beat Ole Miss" alumni stickers. I'm looking at it on my bookshelf right now; I may retire it and get a new one. I don't take my bell to every game anymore....call it getting older or whatever, but she still goes to the big games.
My grandparents got me one when I was a kid, and that one rang at a lot of games throughout the 80s and early 90s. It had the old style M-arrow and bulldog blitz stickers on it, along with a "Ding Dong Dammit" sticker, which I loved. I don't know whatever happened to that one, but would love to have it back. It had an extra long handle and was loud as hell.
My grandparents got me one when I was a kid, and that one rang at a lot of games throughout the 80s and early 90s. It had the old style M-arrow and bulldog blitz stickers on it, along with a "Ding Dong Dammit" sticker, which I loved. I don't know whatever happened to that one, but would love to have it back. It had an extra long handle and was loud as hell.
First game i took it to was 1979 my senior year in HS, at Memphis, Emory Ballard's first game. Got our asses whipped and i threw it at a car load of Memphis State fans in a yellow Cadillac after they cursed and fingered me. Unique sound a cowbell makes when it hits something makes me smile even today.<div>
<div>My next memory of that cowbell is 1981 at Alabama and it kept me from getting my *** whipped by the UA students we were sitting next to. We almost came to bows but I had something in my hand and they didn't. I have no doubt they would have beaten the **** out of me/us if we each of us didn't have a cowbell.</div><div>
</div><div>It is still in good shape and i plan on giving it to my oldest son who is a senior this year for his days to come in Starkvegas. And he will loose it his freshman year, I'm sure.</div> </div>
<div>My next memory of that cowbell is 1981 at Alabama and it kept me from getting my *** whipped by the UA students we were sitting next to. We almost came to bows but I had something in my hand and they didn't. I have no doubt they would have beaten the **** out of me/us if we each of us didn't have a cowbell.</div><div>
</div><div>It is still in good shape and i plan on giving it to my oldest son who is a senior this year for his days to come in Starkvegas. And he will loose it his freshman year, I'm sure.</div> </div>
Edit earlier post to "all gave me the finger"<div>
</div><div>Dental Dog tried to thumb dart me once; that's the closest thing to getting fingered...</div>
</div><div>Dental Dog tried to thumb dart me once; that's the closest thing to getting fingered...</div>
was given to me by my dad. It's probably 15 years old and I retired it after my freshman year of college. It is simple; maroon, rusted, and a "MState" sticker.
My current bell is the "jumbo" size; it was the only one that would hold the "Mississippi State" scroll decal. It's white with a maroon handle and it has a "Beat Michigan" sticker above the "Mississippi State" decal.
My current bell is the "jumbo" size; it was the only one that would hold the "Mississippi State" scroll decal. It's white with a maroon handle and it has a "Beat Michigan" sticker above the "Mississippi State" decal.
and I lost it after Croom's last home game, Arkansas I guess, and got my current one just before Mullen's first game. I guess I should have lost my old cowbell sooner.
I'll be ringing the thing, and it'll just quit. Clapper gets twisted up in there and won't come back out. Frustrating as hell. I only wish it were actually cheap. Best thing about it being the road bell is that you never have to ring the road bell unless you win (or unless you're @UK or @USC, where they just don't care), so the frustration of actually using it is minimized.
Figured I would finally get a bell as a way to show a little appreciation to Jackie.
Yeah.
AA - perseverance
Yeah.
AA - perseverance
out front of the Union where they were selling them from a table. Too many years to remember, but great times at the s'patch.
One side was pool and the other bowling with a few pinball machines thrown in. This was early 80s. Later had a separate arcade for VGs where the barbershop used to be. The pool tables were not the coin operated variety. You went to the attendant and rented a tray of balls. As I recall they had one or two snooker tables that people normally just played 8 ball on. Were about 6-10 bowling lanes as I remember. The pool tables were much more popular than the lanes. I didn't know they had completely taken all that out.
Gift from girl I was tagging in HS. Belonged to her older sister (early 70's grad). Still has all the original stickers and paint but with a disgusting red bicycle type handle. That thing will give huge blisters if rung for any length of time.
It replaced the one I got from my dad when I was in Jr. High-accessorized with a sweet Mad Dogs sticker (it got confiscated when I was a freshman in 96). It has a huge nut for a clanger since the original one went flying out sometime around 2000. I also have a smaller, more pants-friendly "confiscation bell" I bought around the same time.
First of all, my daughter's cowbell belonged to my dad until he died in 2003. He was a 1949 EE graduate at MSU. She graduated MSU in 2009. Old cowbell with a long history.
I can't remember the origin of my previous cowbell but it was retired after the clapper flew out and went several rows down in front of me. I never found it. I hope it didn't hurt anybody.
My current cowbell was given to me as a Christmas gift (after the clapper flew out of the other one) by by youngest son who graduated MSU in 2006. It has an Army ROTC sticker on one side because he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army upon his graduation from MSU.
The other side of it is kind of cool because it has personal autographs from Dan Mullen, John Cohen, and Rick Stansbury on it. These are original autographs because I asked each one of the coaches for them.
The cowbell is a medium-sized maroon one with large bulges in all four corners from the clapper beating the inside of it. I have carried it to every home game since I got it even when they were still "illegal."
When I get too old to make it to games any more, I'll probably pass it down to one of my grandchildren if I think that they will take proper care of it.
I can't remember the origin of my previous cowbell but it was retired after the clapper flew out and went several rows down in front of me. I never found it. I hope it didn't hurt anybody.
My current cowbell was given to me as a Christmas gift (after the clapper flew out of the other one) by by youngest son who graduated MSU in 2006. It has an Army ROTC sticker on one side because he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army upon his graduation from MSU.
The other side of it is kind of cool because it has personal autographs from Dan Mullen, John Cohen, and Rick Stansbury on it. These are original autographs because I asked each one of the coaches for them.
The cowbell is a medium-sized maroon one with large bulges in all four corners from the clapper beating the inside of it. I have carried it to every home game since I got it even when they were still "illegal."
When I get too old to make it to games any more, I'll probably pass it down to one of my grandchildren if I think that they will take proper care of it.