It is what it is – that pretty much sums it up

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I think we’ve now exhausted all sterotypical behavior.

I heard the piece this morning, it was said with a humorous tongue-in-cheek spirit, full of praise to the ESSSS-EEHHEEE-SEEE, and found it spot-on.

Uhhhh… better check your numbers as far as how Texas doesn’t educate anyone. No one, and I mean no one, in the south should ever bring the education argument to the fight

http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/071006t.htm

@25

Agree. Weather is huge in recruting and that’s why PSU, tOSu, ND, Michy, etc all jam their recruits in for visits in Sept and Oct before things turn to frozen shit up there when everyone else is wearing shorts and bikini tops in duh… err The SEC and the Pac 10

And 40 has a point. The different-ness exists, but to this day, putting your finger on the WHY is pretty much impossible without making sweeping generalizations that are generally idiotic but may have tiny slivers of truth to them.

I’ll just say whatever, we’re better, woo doggy get me a beer.

1: Human interest stories (the one-legged , lesbian eskimo artist who overcomes).

2. Frank DeFord

Unfortunately, I was late and in the shower this am and had to listen to this. Way too many people down here (see Jim Webb) take pride in the scots-irish, white trash, let’s a go a brawlin’ thing.

And it seems Frank is gettin awfully close to the Nolan Richardson “this is where the slave ships docked” argument.

For one thing, he doesn’t know his “Celtic” lunatics from his ass. From Scotland, the north of England, and northern Ireland? They’re all the same people. The Scotland – England border is reflective of which group of Norman-settler aristocrats sold out to which king, not a bright line between woad-painting crazies and whippet-walking, pigeon-racing Newcastle fans.

And the Scots-Irish who arrived from Ulster had been sent there as Scottish enforcers and then evicted for being *too* crazy even for the English overlords to tolerate: the kind of people who would behead a cow because it plainly had been kneeling in the direction of the Vatican and the Romish Prince (you think I’m joking…)

So not only does Deford not know his ur rednecks, he then starts in on the idea of the warrior race – also known as the British Imperial lie told to the Scots to persuade them to take their shit on the road after the ‘45 uprising, and to justify divide-and-conquer policies in colonial India. (Except for the Ghurkas, they really are that crazy.)

If you’re going down that path, why not reflect the actual ethnic make-up of SEC teams and talk about the Ashanti, Mandinko, and Fulani warriors as well? Perhaps because African-American players aren’t taking to the field with spears and shields, much the same way that the Scots-Irish-American ones aren’t sporting woad.

What a worthless twat.

My opinion is that college football fanaticism in the south is pretty much the same as sports fanaticism all over the world with the exception of the “SEC” chant, which I think is pretty fucking stupid.