SEC! SEC! SEC!
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"Actually, the SEC chant has its charms. Florida hates Georgia, Georgia hates <font color="#114477">Auburn, Auburn</font> hates Alabama, Alabama hates <font color="#114477">Tennessee</font> and everybody hates LSU. But those feelings are put aside in the chant.</p>
You are defined by your opponents, a truth I've been trying to teach out here for decades. It's great for OU when OSU wins. Great for <font color="#114477">Nebraska</font> when Texas wins. Great for Texas when OU wins.
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Excellent competitors push you and drive you to excellence yourself. If you don't believe in that, go join the Sun Belt.</p>
It's kind of cool that SEC schools lay down hostilities in the name of kicking some Northern tail, or at least some non-conference foe.</p>
The SEC is America's best football conference. It's not as great as it thinks it is, but it's the best. And its fans, who never saw the final of the 1865 Appomattox Bowl, don't want you to forget it."</p>
You are defined by your opponents, a truth I've been trying to teach out here for decades. It's great for OU when OSU wins. Great for <font color="#114477">Nebraska</font> when Texas wins. Great for Texas when OU wins.
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Excellent competitors push you and drive you to excellence yourself. If you don't believe in that, go join the Sun Belt.</p>
It's kind of cool that SEC schools lay down hostilities in the name of kicking some Northern tail, or at least some non-conference foe.</p>
The SEC is America's best football conference. It's not as great as it thinks it is, but it's the best. And its fans, who never saw the final of the 1865 Appomattox Bowl, don't want you to forget it."</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">And we Southerner are also the first ones to say USA! USA! USA!. Those damn Yankees just don't understand us. There is a big disconnect between us and them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> I saw it when I was in the Marine Corp. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We southerners are proud of our football, we are proud of our Southern Heritage and most of all we are proud to be Americans, something most of them have forgotten.
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He thinks it is about some type of resentment over the civil war. The fact is that southerners are wired differently than people in some parts of the population. It was southerners that, at the continental congress, didn't want a strong central government. We are wired to be fiercely independent and fiercely competitive. And we do think we are different, if not superior. But, the war had to do with that different wiring, -- not the damn other way around.
Oh well, made a good observation. His conclusions were just a little off.
Oh well, made a good observation. His conclusions were just a little off.