POMPOMS ARE FOR SISSIES

by Orson on Sep 20, 2006 4:01 PM EDT Comment 47 comments

Clay Travis does what any man of genius does: states what is unsaid but obvious on hearing. Pompoms are for sissies.

Body paint? Yes. Pompoms? Nevah.

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Freshmen.

by Cool Hand Mike on Sep 20, 2006 4:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I’ve never seen pompoms in the stands at Ben Hill Griffin. But they have passed them out at Gator basketball games.

by MattUFBSMBA on Sep 20, 2006 4:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

“Gotta suport the team!”

by gamecocktony on Sep 20, 2006 4:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Cheering? I thought the shakers are for stirring drinks.

by Buford on Sep 20, 2006 4:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

UF has must be the only school in the south that does not shake pompons. If I see a guy trying to start that in Gainesville I will KILL that Mother Fucker.

by Al Bundy on Sep 20, 2006 4:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Pom Poms are gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

Shakers are Hardcore!

by Erik on Sep 20, 2006 5:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

if there is anything efemite about a 20 yr old with a head full of coke who will probably end up fucking some smoking hot girl at the end of the night…then yeah pom poms are gay…i’ll tell you what’s really fucking gay, all the hollister and abercrombie wearing meat heads you see filling up big 10 stadiums

by matt on Sep 20, 2006 5:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

This guy obviously hasn’t discovered the true use of the pom-pom. The stick is used to stir your coke after adding an alcoholic supplement.

by NewAZTiger on Sep 20, 2006 5:09 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Gelled Hair is worse than pom poms. What a bunch of tools.

by HeMan on Sep 20, 2006 5:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The really great thing about those guys in the picture is that if Reggie Nelson completely blows a coverage and allows his guy to bust off a 40-something-yard TD reception, all the two guys on the left have to do is switch places and they can say “F U #1.”

by Doug on Sep 20, 2006 5:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

No, Mattt there’s nothing particularly “efemite” about blow and hot chicks (although bourbon and anything with tits is closer to the truth) but that’s beside the point.
Bottom line – shaking a pom pom makes you look like a little girl regardless of what you might have been doing before or what you’ll be doing after.

by Joe on Sep 20, 2006 5:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

where are you from joe…ny, ohio, california…you’ve probably got gel dripping out your hair you fucking cheesedick

by matt on Sep 20, 2006 6:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Buford, you nailed it. The difference between a pom-pom and a shaker - You can’t stir a drink with a pom-pom.

A friend of mine commented on his disdain for UGA’s “I’m Georgia Spirit Towel” by saying

“You can’t stir a drink with a towel.” Verily.

Paul Westerdawg
Georgia Sports Blog

by paulwesterdawg on Sep 20, 2006 6:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

No one asked, but the #1 Stadium Foul:

Painting Your Face and/or Body and leaving early.

man law.

by paulwesterdawg on Sep 20, 2006 6:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Nothing personal against cheerleaders—I mean, it’s worth doing if only for the full scholarship—but what’s the point of having a cheerleading squad? They always seem to be at a total disjoint with the rest of the stadium.

If you really want a home-field advantage, let the drunk body-painters down on the field. They understand what’s going on in the game and are drunk and crazy enough to get fans to cheer with them.

by J.J. on Sep 20, 2006 6:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

doug, that is a physical impossiblity. as you should know from watching the UF (21) – UT (20) game last saturday. even when nelson isn’t covering you, he’s covering you.

by adam on Sep 20, 2006 6:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It’s that lack of shakers that has Florida losing three games this year.

by Newspaper Hack on Sep 20, 2006 6:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

In addition to the pom-pom/shakers being sissy, I have some more news for the SEC from the Big Ten:

Bobby E. Lee has surrendered to U.S. Grant.

by keosahawkeye on Sep 20, 2006 7:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Wow, cheesedick. That cuts deep. I grew up in South Georgia – Glynn County to get specfic. I happen to live in New York now but that’s fairly irrelevant. I’ve no problem with being drunk and rowdy and loud. Hell, I encourage it. But the shaker thing is preposterous. And you don’t need a stirrer if you drink your liqour straight.

by Joe on Sep 20, 2006 7:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Oh, Christ! THAT’S FUCKING FUNNY! WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO! OMG. The South just got totally pwn3d!

I’ll take losing the Civil War as long as we get the hot chicks — oh, look, we do. Awesome.

by Newspaper Hack on Sep 20, 2006 7:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Nothing “efemite” about being 20 yrs old and bragging about your daddy-supported coke habit, that’s for sure.

by Paternover on Sep 20, 2006 7:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

i think they look like they are having the freakin time of their lives. they just want everybody else to have as much fun as they are having. the handles on our “pom poms” are much to large to stir a drink. i am upset about this.

by lola on Sep 20, 2006 8:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Rowdy Reptiles roll with shakers.

by gatorwalsh on Sep 20, 2006 9:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Shakers shouldn’t be used to mix drinks. Drinks should be stirred. You put it in a shaker, the shaking chips a bunch of small pieces of ice off, and you wind up with a watered down drink compared to a poured and stirred drink. Swizzle Sticks forever!

by crazy tom on Sep 20, 2006 9:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

i’ll take losing the civil war if it means we won’t have slaves anymore.

by adam on Sep 20, 2006 10:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Civil War & hot chicks? Linked occurrences, friends.

by Andrew on Sep 20, 2006 11:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I take about twenty minutes to make sure the gel in my hair is set right and my Hollister shirt, in Cardinal and Gold of course, looks nice. Is chewing tobacco substituted for gel down there? You must look nice to get the caliber of women we have out here. The ones you “think” have had surgery. They are just that hot. It is laughable when I see pictures of the blah in the stands at your stadiums you call hot. When has blow been a feminine thing? It’s drugs. Oh, and here’s a picture of one from the South:

http://myspace-002.vo.llnwd.net/00789/20/08/789538002_m.jpg

by Confused on the Only Coast on Sep 21, 2006 1:34 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Oh, and I’m happy to see you’ve all realized the war is over. Will we be getting rid of those god-awful flags soon? That’d be fantastic. Thanks

by Confused on the Only Coast on Sep 21, 2006 1:35 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

re: #15

J.J.,

If someone hasn’t pointed this out to you yet, I guess I should: That picture is photoshopped. Unless you truly believe that cheerleader is 7 feet tall.

by Beergut on Sep 21, 2006 4:26 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

BTW, the South did win the Civil War; it has just been fought quietly in ballot boxes over the past century.
Don’t believe me? Look at who our current President is. Look who our former POTUS was. Look who’s running Congress. It’s not the Northern liberals, that’s for sure.

by Beergut on Sep 21, 2006 4:28 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Only on EDSBS can you get political insight from a guy who named himself Beergut.

by NewAZTiger on Sep 21, 2006 7:30 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Of course there’s more southerners stuffing ballot boxes. all you have to say is “Jesus loves guns and hates abortion, just like me” and you’re a guaranteed winner in any southern election. all the teen pregnancy helps, they’ve got more popping out and stuffed into trailers than us yanks do. I speak from experiences as a formerly trailer stuffed S. Georgian who got lucky and yanked on up to the evil, liberal Northeast. Where there’s exactly one trailer park in my county, and it’s hidden by a high fence.

by Wooderson on Sep 21, 2006 8:54 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Wow, Confused, that loss to those dumb-hick Texans still really stings, doesn’t it?

by Doug on Sep 21, 2006 9:38 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

All that bullshit in comment #32 yet Wooderson chose to name himself after a bad-ass, high-school girl dating, dope smokin’, Aerosmith loving, underachiever from the state of Texas. I hope they don’t make a D&C sequel if that’s how his head ends up.

by white-boned demon on Sep 21, 2006 10:05 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Pom Poms ARE gay (even the ones with the longer handle) however if the handle could be made into a swizzle stick they would be less gay.

BTW…..saying “cheesedick” makes me think I need to call your truancy officer.

by FLBuckeye on Sep 21, 2006 11:49 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

But then, UF isn’t really in the “south” now is it?

by Cruzer on Sep 21, 2006 11:56 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

If you think Gainesville isn’t the South, you obviously haven’t spent much time in Alachua County.

Pickup trucks, gun racks and domestic battery! Huzzah!

by Newspaper Hack on Sep 21, 2006 2:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Florida isn’t technically the south.

We like to refer to it as “God’s Waiting Room” because that’s where all the Yankees go to die.

by NewAZTiger on Sep 21, 2006 4:39 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

We have our shakers. You have your jean shorts, Abercrombie shirts, and gel hair with frosted tips. I think you win the gay battle…..

by Stew7077 on Sep 21, 2006 5:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Guess you’ve never been to the rural north. Plenty of pickup trucks, gun racks and domestic battery too.

by Cruzer on Sep 21, 2006 5:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

“You have your jean shorts, Abercrombie shirts, and gel hair with frosted tips.”

I haven’t seen jean shorts in ages. But why would the other parts make one gay?

by The Spirit of Heisman Pundit on Sep 21, 2006 6:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

What makes the other parts gay? Maybe because it involves gelling your hair and wearing Abercrombie.

by Stew7077 on Sep 21, 2006 7:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I could be wrong, but the picture of the Florida fans has one with gel in his hair, and the other looks like he had it colored. What hair products do you use if you don’t use gel? Hmmmmmm…

by The Spirit of Heisman Pundit on Sep 21, 2006 8:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Uhh….shampoo.

I don’t prefer the Backstreet Boy look like you obviously do.

by Stew7077 on Sep 21, 2006 9:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Frosted hair? Abercrombie? The fact you even say that makes you totally gay. Get out of the closet, grab your pom pom….shaker….or whatever you call it and know that eveytime you shake that, YOU LOOK GAY. I’m just glad that one of your own has finally brought this embarrasing issue to the forefront. We “yankees” (what are we in the colonial times?) have been worried about our southern brothers for far too long. I say we stage a “pom-pom intervention”! Whose with me?!

by FLBuckeye on Sep 22, 2006 9:58 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs