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When did you first start "hating" Ole Miss?

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Mutt the Hoople.buhoops

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Variation of question asked on NAFOOM board. And by "hate", I don't mean the hate like what God has for Sin, Hitler has for the Jews, or Democrats have for take-home pay....just the "hate" one rival has for another.

My moment was 1981- when Emory Bellard totally lost his nerve, and kicked a field with 30 second left on the clock. Fourcade drives OM down the field, then Dick "Hotty Toddy" Pace called that phantom interference penalty, followed by Fourcade waltzing into the end zone. OM fans waltzed around like they had actually done something.</p>
 
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Mutt the Hoople.buhoops

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Variation of question asked on NAFOOM board. And by "hate", I don't mean the hate like what God has for Sin, Hitler has for the Jews, or Democrats have for take-home pay....just the "hate" one rival has for another.

My moment was 1981- when Emory Bellard totally lost his nerve, and kicked a field with 30 second left on the clock. Fourcade drives OM down the field, then Dick "Hotty Toddy" Pace called that phantom interference penalty, followed by Fourcade waltzing into the end zone. OM fans waltzed around like they had actually done something.</p>
 
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jacksdawgs

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Growing up a State fan in MS how can you not? Most delusional fan base on the face of this earth save maybe Auburn.
 
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Goat Holder II

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I never hated them really until then. I always wanted to beat them because I grew up in Mississippi, but I never got the satisfaction out of it some people did. When we lost up there in 2000, I was with a mix of both fans at the game, and the rebels went on and on and on about how I'd have to think about it "for the next 365". But I had actually gotten over it the next day. I actually pulled FOR Ole Miss during the 2003 season (I really quit caring at the end of Sherrill and during the beginning of the Croom Error - I almost became an Alabama fan).

Of course, all this may have to do with the fact that football dipped in popularity for me while in college. Can't explain that. I loved it for sure, but not as much as I did in high school and not near as much as I do now.

I guess it boils down to the fact that I had friends at both, and we didn't really talk **** all that much. Now, that I see what alot of rebels fans really feel (as proven on an anonymous message board), I really can't stand for them to succeed in anything. Their failures really amuse me.
 
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dingdongdammit

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Freshman @ MSU.....did not know Ole Miss was a college. All ever heard of was fraternities, sororities, and football.
MSU was a school with a great basketball team.
 
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UpTheMiddlex3Punt

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They announced the score at the end of it and all the dorks who would be going to Ole Miss started cheering loudly. I want them to lose at everything now.
 
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businessdawg

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I think it was '03 when they had Manning and had gone to Auburn and won a tight game. We had just gotten skull17'd on the road by someone. For whatever reason, I was at my sister & brother in law's house with all of their OM friends. During their celebratory drunken stupor, my brother in law looks at me and says "You just picked the wrong school"! I knew from that point on that my distaste for the fanbase and school had just been rocketed up a notch. I simply told them that what goes around comes around. Funny what can happen in 7 years time.
 
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Mjoelner

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And its more like the hate "Hitler has for the Jews, or Democrats have for take-home pay" that a simple rivalry thing.
 
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TBonewannabe

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That was my first Egg Bowl as a student at State. The way some of UM's fans acted in the student section made me dislike them a lot. Going to frat parties with some of my friends at UM helped my hatred grow.
 
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cowbell88

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But especially since giants and patriots in super bowl. Guy at superbowl party screamed (after the lucky as throw by Eli) that nobody knew who his daddy was but now everybody knows who Eli is. Hotty Toddy. From that moment on I despise the SOB's.

Now I'm engaged to to a OM girl, go figure!
 
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MaroonedNdaRock

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After 91 Egg Bowl, Reb told me I was a ****** lover for being a State fan and I was not a true Mississippian. Solidified my hate when I moved to Memphis and discovered Redneck yell hotline and Rebel 56am. My hate was galvanized when I discovered Eggbowl.com.
 
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Coach34

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Mutt the Hoople said:
Variation of question asked on NAFOOM board. And by "hate", I don't mean the hate like what God has for Sin, Hitler has for the Jews, or Democrats have for take-home pay....just the "hate" one rival has for another.

My moment was 1981- when Emory Bellard totally lost his nerve, and kicked a field with 30 second left on the clock. Fourcade drives OM down the field, then Dick "Hotty Toddy" Pace called that phantom interference penalty, followed by Fourcade waltzing into the end zone. OM fans waltzed around like they had actually done something.</p>
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it started for me as a 5,6,7 year old kid due to a couple of my father's friends being some of the most obnoxious Rebel fans I've ever met in my life- even to this day.

But as a 12 year old in Memorial Stadium in 1981, it went to another level thanks to Dick Pace making the worst, most blatantly cheating call I've ever seen on a football field, followed by Fourcade scoring and waving the football at our fans

**edited to add**- this was also my very first Egg Bowl. My father was a deer hunter and he usually hunted during that weekend. What a ****** one to start out on
 
DesotoCountyDawg

DesotoCountyDawg

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I guess high school and this was before I was really a State fan. Had a guy in our high school that all he did was talk **** about Ole Miss. That's where the seed was planted.
 
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IBleedMaroonDawg

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In the town I grew up in the Ole Miss fans I knew were pretentious, never ugly but still always acted like your were inferior if you wore the Maroon and White. I have never had an Ole Miss fan I personally knew that was an ******* just because I was a MSU fan so I have never hated the Reb nation. I do enjoy their losses at times though and do not take an Egg Bowl loss very well at all... except for the asstastic performance that lead to Croom's departure.

However, the Bama fans in my hometown were ********. I am sure this was partly because they were in the midst of their late 70's success, but for the most part they have not done anything to change my hate since.
 
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For state too. I went on a football recruiting trip to oxford
And left there certain I would attend Msu. As with current
Recruits, kids usually go where they feel comfortable. I realized
Pretty quickly that I was a better dawg than rebel.
 
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Bulldog18

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I went to my first egg bowl game. It was Eli Mannings junior or senior year and it was Ole Miss.
 
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o_riverdawg

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Having grown up in Alabama, I didn't really know a lot about the rivalry until my freshman year at MSU in 2001. But since I hadn't grown up hating Ole Miss I didn't really have any ill feelings for them. I mean, I knew they were our rival and I wanted to beat them, but I really didn't dislike them much. But my first experience in Vaught-Hemingway changed that. In addition to getting bottles thrown at us the entire game (I was in the Maroon band), there was an incident with the cheerleaders that sealed my hate for them. After we scored a touchdown, one of our male cheerleaders runs the MSU flag up and down the goal line like he always does. Problem was, he ran it right in front of the Ole Miss student section. Well, one of the Ole Miss male cheerleaders comes over, stands right in front of the MSU student section and the band, and starts waving the Ole Miss flag. When he puts the flag down, the MSU cheerleaders steps on it to hold it down, and starts waving the MSU flag again. The Ole Miss guy gives the MSU guy a hard shove and knocks him back into one of our female cheerleaders, giving her a bloody nose. So there she is, crying and bleeding profusely being escorted off the sidelines and in the tunnel while the Ole Miss fans jeered and laughed at her. I knew from that moment on I would always hate Ole Miss.
 
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Frances Drebin

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....I've always loved State, and have been going to the Egg Bowl for many years, but I didn't have a deep-seeded hatred for the Rebs until the 1997 game. I had pretty much felt sorry for them up to that point, especially coming off the probation. But that 97 Egg Bowl really ignited the fuse. Seeing Choirboy McAllister swinging his helmet during the brawl, then watching them score the conversion for the win just ate me up. It reached a new level when the whole NCAA investigation details started coming out with Johanningmeier and XenaReb. You see, their MO smacks of hypocrisy. They talk about our obsession, but they'll run out and hire private investigators to follow our coaches around. They mock our traditions, while they embrace ones with negative and racial undertones. They think they're better than us, but then they're easily rattled with childish things like calling them Mississippi or +@#%. The best thing theyhave going, the Grove, is trashed every weekend. So many of their fans are spoiled, but have never achieved anything that justifies their better-than-you attitude.

They have some good fans, and we have some idiots, but the overall perception is what I've outlined above. And for that reason, 17 Ole Miss. I hope we beat them 82-0, and we score a TD, kick it onside, and score another TD in the last 30 seconds of the game. And after we leave, I hope a tornado comes through and cuts a half mile wide path right through the middle of the grove.</p>
 
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Indndawg

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so it happened in stages

Stage 1: When I witnessed 6-3 in Jackson (as a rebel fan), I was pretty impressed
Stage 2: When I stepped onto campus in August of 1982
Stage 3: When I witnessed my first EB as a MSU student. Walked in the Memorial Stadium wondering who I would actually cheer for. Just gonna let it flow and it flowed maroon and we ended coach Steve Sloan's career
The next year in the Wind Bowl, I thought I'd be entering a treatment clinic after that game
 
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