How Notre Dame fans survived the last two years.As a follow-up to my last post (and as suggested by one particularly astute commenter), I am now offering up a question that is near and dear to many of us: which college football program has the most annoying fans? This subject has been treated a lot over the years, but mostly by angry bloggers and columnists who were just trying to exorcise the demons of a recent setback at the hands of a certain program. Giving that program the "most annoying" treatment thus acted as a sort of therapy for wounded souls and (probably) lost bets. Since Ohio State is coming off a very satisfying win, and because the sting from any loss would have long since faded at this point, I thought this was a great time to broach the subject with a calm and reasonable disposition.
Having said that, honesty forces me to acknowledge the fact that the school that we spend most of our time covering is probably at the top of the list for many college football fans. When I was a student at Ohio State (back in the days of mullets and leg-warmers), I certainly did my best to annoy fans of any other teams that happened to venture into the storied old Horseshoe. But I'm wondering if there might be several other schools whose fans exceed even ours in sheer obnoxiousness. In fact, the team that makes its way into Columbus on 9/11 might appear quite high on the list. But even Michael Irvin's alma mater must, I believe, make way for a few others at the top. So, without further adieu, I give you my best candidates for the Most Annoying Fans in college football.
NOTRE DAME
Seems rather obvious, does it not? From "Touchdown Jesus" to candles in the grotto to Rudy to "the four horsemen", etc. etc. ad nauseum. They have even inspired a Facebook hate group, which features anti-ND humor like this gem:
Q: What do you get when a groundhog sees a Notre Dame fan? A: Six more weeks of bad football.All jokes aside, there was a time not too long ago when ND actually fielded a pretty good team, mostly thanks to a coach who learned his trade at the feet of the great Wayne Woodrow Hayes. Remember the 1995 game at Ohio Stadium? Remember Regis Philbin hamming it up on the ND sideline? I'm so thankful that Cooper's boys put the hammer down on the Domers that day. And the win the following year was just as sweet. So now that they've been humbled three times by OSU (adding the Fiesta Bowl win against Weis), have their fans settled down any? Hardly. Perhaps reading about their heroes getting arrested will suffice? We shall see.
Getting his geaux tiger on.FLORIDA, LSU, TENNESSEE
You can pretty much pencil in the entire SEC, but I figure these three probably get on our nerves the most. UF has the infamous "gator chomp" going for them, while Tennessee has "Rocky Top" (insert vomit here). LSU fans might take the cake with their tacky "geaux tigers" and all of the "death valley" hoopla. And then there is that perception in the media that the SEC stadiums are the "best venues in college football", as if seeing those ugly checkerboard end zones in Neyland Stadium made every college football fan perk up like Phil Fulmer at a buffet table. Memo to media types: there's nothing like a game at the 'Shoe. There's no checkerboard, no tiger eye, no "swamp", just great fan enthusiasm and a solid home team.
MIAMI
This one hardly needs explanation. From all of their crying after losing the BCS championship to OSU in 2002 to the way many of their fans glorify the "Thug U" days of the 80's to the endless adulation from ex-players like Irvin and wanna-be entertainers like Luther Campbell, this "U" might deserve the all-time crown for annoying fans.
So, what do you think? Does the title go to one of the schools mentioned above, or to some team that I left off? Does Ohio State deserve to be on top of this list? I await your thoughts on the matter.
Comments
ND... for more obvious reasons:
The fact is that the state of Indiana once boasted the biggest concentration of KKK members of anywhere in the country. Equally important is that the Indiana Klan focused as much or more of its hatred against Catholics. I believe that you are seeing the great grandsons of the Klansmen in action once again. Do they pull these cowardly Gestapo acts at Purdue and UI? If not, there should be a discrimination lawsuit filed with the Federal Government for this nonsense. A lawyer could certainly figure out the fine points of this better than I have stated them, but I think there is a case. Really.
Jesus. How could you forget those fans with the biggest inferiority complex of them all?
Penn State.
Signed,
Matt
Proudly Banned from Black Shoe Diaries Since November 7, 2010
Err, 2009
2 Words...
State Penn
Cannot STAND the whole lot of them
Banned since the same date as my boy Matt for the record books
Michigan fans.
I was in the military during the Cooper era and my unit was full of them. I will never ever forget them.
My wife tells me my hatred towards all things Michigan is unhealthy.
clutch, son..clutch
Can't stand PSU fans, or scUM fans. I remember a guy trying to tell at a scUM game that I was going to work at McDonald's with my Ohio State degree. I'm in vet school now mostly because I got a degree from Ohio State that carried a lot of weight, wonder what that guy is doing...
I didn't forget about PSU and scUM, but I also didn't want to load up on only midwestern teams. I figured that I would just mention a few and then let the commenters run with the rest. We're more familiar with the Ninny Lion and Mold-erine fans because we see them all the time. But there's plenty of that same kind of nonsense going on in the South. And I didn't even mention Texas or USC.
1. ND fans - never before has there been such a bunch of arrogant, entitled fans. Unlike Michigan or Penn State, doesn't matter if they are 11-0 or 0-11, you are going to hear from them. They are convinced that the reason realignment armageddon didn't happen is behind-the-scenes ND work. Ridiculous.
2. Penn State - this is a group that entirely disappears when the team isn't good, but once they are decent, look out.
3. Iowa - on the internet at least, they are just unbearable when their team is halfway decent. Calling Ferentz the best coach in the Big Ten, etc. Ugh.
As far as least hospitable when you go to their place:
1. Wisconsin
2. Penn State
Your wife may be a sleeper agent for the enemy up north. Be careful.
So, kids getting arrested for underage drinking is a direct result of the Klan hating Catholics? Wow
I've come across plenty of Texas fans that are pretty cool people. I wouldn't put them into the bad fan category at all.
USC fans slide into the woodwork after one loss, which kinda makes them frontrunners but not much else. I once wore my Beanie Wells jersey in Los Angeles a mere two weeks after they thumped us 35-3. But nobody said a word to me, primarily because they had lost to Oregon State right before I wore the jersey.
I think Texas fans are pretty cool. I went to the '06 game in Austin and had a blast along with some serious BBQ. USC "fans"=biggest band wagoner's in the country.
In LA when people go by the Coliseum on game day they ask "Is there something going on in there today?" No one said a word to you 'cause they have no idea who Beanie is.
Hi Ski! Remember why you were banned? It's called "gay slur". Thanks, anyway! We sure enjoyed your comments!
Geez, way to stalk!!
U$C= + 100, at least for another month or so. After that, it'll be a ghost town on the Trojan Bandwagon.
1. Penn State... have two friends at school that STILL call pryor "terrelle cryor" even after that ass kicking last year
2. USC... with all their smug hippiness... after these sanctions they still talk as if they completely dominated the past decade even when they only have 1 AP national title to hang their hats on
3. scUM... self explanatory
For the internet 'Gator fans hands down.
I agree on PSU and Michigan, but lately, the SEC ones have been getting close. And yeah, the Michigan arrogance about academics is infuriating. Ohio State never gets enough credit for its academics.
Alabama fans are the worst, I lived in GA for a while and up until the last two years there were very few bama fans, and now they are everywhere down there. Thank god I moved back up to Ohio and now attend OSU I probably wouldnt have made it down there very much longer.
Ryan, where are you going to vet school? My brother got his Bachelor's at tOSU and went on to vet school also.
I think Penn State definitely needs to be in the argument. I lived in northwestern PA for 10 years and it was pure hell at times, especially after JoePa broke the all-time wins record against Ohio State. But I got the final laugh against them all when OSU won the National Championship and I won like $200 in bets.
Please ignore the name-calling if you're too PC for this post and pretend like I spelled the schools correctly...
1. Notre Dumb. What makes them the most annoying is their ineptitude. They are, ironically, the LEAST, edumacated group of fans...
2. Penn Stink. It's funny how these fans think their shit doesn't smell. Like Powers said above, these clowns seem to forget certain ass-beatings. I believe Mr. Clark was sobbing on several occasions during the 2010 season.
3. SEC Fans. The whole lot of them. They have ESPN (the "SEC Network") and the multitude of talking heads and empty suits to thank for the "rise" of the SEC evil empire.
Where's my pom-pom? I thought I had it here by my desk next to the incense...
USC - juts bc of where I live and their frontrunnerism
scUM - because they are who we thought they were. Axis of Arrogance
ND - holding on to 1950's club-team football championships/past glory
Boise State - Get some green turf like everyone else and then keep paying your dues for a decade before you start this us against the world BS.
1. SEC. Maybe some of you who already posted rankings aren't paying enough close attention. Go to cfn.scout.com every day, and look to the right under Features. Every day, someone new weighs in with an SEC preview. They have their own SEC fan blogs and roundtables that are showcased almost daily. I even wrote to Pete Fiutak over there in 2008 about it, and he said "yeah, the SEC bloggers are the most active right now." ANNOYING!
South Carolina fans shout SEC SEC SEC after beating NCState 7-3. I had an Auburn fan at the Indy 500 talk shit to me because I was wearing an OSU hat. I've had Alabama fans talk shit to me on Facebook, and we haven't played in 30 years. Vanderbilt fans let out emphatic Boos when Gameday mentioned the Buckeyes (also chanted SEC, SEC throughout the broadcast). Arkansas fans are SEC infants by all measures, and yet woo-pig-SEC like they're a charter member. Ole Miss fans wear ties and sundresses to games like haughty southern slave owners used to when going out in public (and don't even try to argue with me...that's EXACTLY why they wear it!). Florida didn't sell out its allotment to last year's Sugar Bowl...Tim Tebow's last game as a starting QB for the rest of his life, and they didn't give a shit. Plus, the ones that actually went were complete jacktards to the Cincy fans I know who went.
The general SEC Fan is the tops. There is no other more annoying fan. When you root for 12 teams, or allow some else to do that, you're a douchebag. End of story.
2. Notre Dame. At this point, it's a mental disorder. But they're about to get a lot better with Brian Kelly, so we're about to start looking on 2007-2009 with nostalgia in this dept.
3. Oregon. Oregon fans are the Napolean of college football fans. For a team that's never won a Rose Bowl, never beaten Ohio State, never won a national title, and never had a Heisman Trophy, they think they are a national title contender like USC. They blamed their Rose Bowl loss to us on a case of stolen signals and terrible play by Oregon, as opposed to "that was an awesome game, I'm glad I was here." I had one fan at the game say, "We haven't played this bad all season," to which I replied, "Did you not watch the Boise State game?" As a fanbase, they collectively forgot that game ever happened. And I don't think we've ever heard more trash talk from the loser in the wake of a hard-fought close win in our lives.
4. Ohio State. Yeah, I'm not crazy. I do think we're some of the nuttiest freaks in sports. We take our rivalry to its extreme (Dead Schembechlers are in everyone's album collection), and beat ourselves up when we see someone in a Michigan hat on days we forgot to wear our block-O. We fight with our own fans just because they're old and don't want to stand up, or dog our superfans probably because we're jealous that we're not on TV. There were riots in 2002 because we beat Michigan...a dozen cars flipped over, dumpsters on fire. We dunk ourselves in 40 degree water full of pee, molds, bacteria, and duck shit just because of a football game. We do the whole "THE" Ohio State University. Even I can understand how annoying that is. A girl from U of Florida just started working in my lab, and I immediately started giving her shit about it - turns out she never even went to a football game while in school there - so, I'm the asshole.
5. Penn State...if only because how they are with OSU fans. They throw objects like batteries at the Buckeye players before they walk out onto the field. They haven't accepted the fact that they play in a conference, and therefore constantly try to engage us in an argument that we did not really share the 2005 or 2008 Big Ten titles. We want to respect them and be cool with them because we spend all our hate on Michigan. But they spend all their hate on us, so screw them.
6. USC. They had 3 losses last year before the last game at home against Arizona, and their attendance was 10,000 short of capacity. 30+ Rose Bowls, 7 Heismans, However-many national titles, probably the top program of the decade, and they are only at capacity when they're #1? LAME.
7. Everyone else is sort of a mixed bag. Wisconsin fans are drunken idiots. It's as good a school as Michigan, but their students are complete and utter drunken douchebags. Miami fans suck hard because they had a terrible turnout at the 2002 national title game, and yet blame the refs for a homer call (which it wasn't). And really, I can't think of anyone else.
Florida. State Penn. scUM. In that order.
With out a doubt, Bama fans are the worst. You guys up north don't even know the half of it. I can't go a week with out hearing 0-9 down here in Alabama. Really, I think the team SEC Homers takes the cake. I mean there must be a team called SEC because they have beat us in every bowl we have ever played them in! I asigned them the nickname Homers simply because they don't know any football outside their home state. I heard every excuse in the world when they lost to Utah, sadly, they win the National Championship the next year and now I have to endure their confidence and air of superiority. Even in their not so distant dog years they spoke as if the way of things in Alabama was temporary set back. I would talk about current football teams and conferences and they rode the coat tails higher than other teams. Now that they have won they are wearing the coat and everyone else is jumping on. Maybe that can be the title of your next article. What mascot should the team SEC be known for?
#4 LMAO brilliantly funny.
There's a reason why The Pennsylvania State University is surrounded by fields full of cow shit
scum as always annoying and hatible. penn state num #2 actually had the displeasure of running into some in a new york city bar of all places with their crappy walmart jerseys and incoherant talk even more incoherant then that stupid old man coach annoying quakers also their insisting that they are our main rival get over it you are just game #10 on our schedule. all sec #3 just for that stupid ass chant let alone everything else, #4 bangwagon schools such as miami and usc are quite annoying remember seeing only like 10000 at the last game at the orange bowl way to support your squad next year it will be 1/2 scarlett and grey in miami. add iowa fan iowa fan is annoying, drunk, chubby or husky and will take their stupid smelly ass shoe off
USC byfar... Born and raised in LA, and currently live there... There is no larger source of arrogant bandwagon fans then SC. I would say 90% of ohio state fans either went to ohio state, or had a close family member who went there, our fans are very knowledgeable we know our team, we know our past, we know our traditions, we know the campus. I would say maybe 40% of SC fans have gone there or had a family member go there, most cant name any coaches before pete carroll. Most dont know half of their roster, most cant name a building on campus other than heritage hall. The arrogance their fans exude is right on par with that of Michigan fans. They are the absolute worst
I very nearly put Alabama on the list just so that I could use this joke that some Bama hater put in the comments to a similar post a few years ago...
Q: What do Bama fans and maggots have in common?
A: Both can survive for 20+ years on nothing but a dead bear.
It's not really true anymore (thanks to Saban), but still pretty funny.
In 2007 I did a road trip across the country. I drove over 23,000 miles and saw 17 games. The whole point of this journey was to find out what made fans tick. I probably interviewed well over 1000 people along the way, asking questions about all manner of topics related to College Football. Of course, the trip would not have been complete without a stop in Columbus where I saw Ohio State methodically take apart a solid Wisconsin team.
I don't even recall having a question about who people hated the most, though hate came up a lot. Everyone hated USC. Everyone hated Notre Dame. But there was one group of FANS that everyone hated first and foremost: Ohio State. The only place on that trip where nobody talked badly about Buckeye fans was Columbus. I didn't go looking for those comments, they just kept coming up. There were fans who had real experiences with Buckeyes: Notre Dame, Texas, Iowa, Washington, Wisconsin, Florida. And then many who simply had a feeling - Nebraska, LSU, Clemson, Bridgewater College, Georgia, Harvard, and Tennessee. It really shocked me how strong the animosity was. You guys must really make a mess when you come to town.
You must understand I went to Michigan and was STILL shocked by this response. All of this made me nervous about interviewing fans in Columbus. I decided I wouldn't intentionally bring up where I went to school, but if anyone asked I would be honest and see what happens. People were generally pretty nice to me, though there was a certain arrogance on display (OSU was #1 in the nation at the time, so perhaps it was understandable). Some of the students from Block O even went out of their way to show me the campus and make sure I was hearing about all the good things that Ohio State had to offer.
Everywhere I went that year, the first question out of everyone's mouth was "What's your team?" The odd thing is, in Columbus it never came up. Not once. It was such a stark anomaly. It really shows that OSU fans simply don't give a f*ck. Maybe that explains why they have managed to piss everyone off so much.
All that said, I found Florida fans to be the most obnoxious, unbearable, and downright dumb by a healthy margin.
Also, LSU fans are just awesome.
SC fan = CSULB grad.
Mark my words, Nebraska fan will be on this list in no time...I am already starting to hear it from them in Chicago.
I've has an experience lately where I can add to your OSU-hate insight.
My downstairs neighbor went to Arizona, and her ex-boyfriend was an OSU fan/Kent State alum. She knows I went to OSU her roommate did not.
They were having a discussion about which fans are the worst and roommate says without knowing my affiliation somehow that ohio state fans are the worst. Begins the back peddle as i say "yeah, um, i went to ohio state". But she's a red sox fan so what does she know?
I think that it had a lot to do with the "thugs and alcohol" incident back in 2002 personally. National media coverage of riots that in large part were carried out by visiting idiots such as neighbor's ex bf from other schools. Also, you have to toss in the size of the alumni association and the fact that even people that don't follow pro sports naturally become OSU fans in Ohio.
should say I've had.... two thoughts at once turn in to one incomplete thought...
Don't dog on the Ole Miss fans just because they like their sundresses. Your ancestors being slave owners or murderers or invaders doesn't make them stop being your ancestors. We don't get on people using Spartans for mascots, and they owned plenty of slaves.
That said, I still can't stand Ole Miss fans talking shit because Florida beat us in a bowl game.
$200! Wow, you are rich!
you forgot, dominguez hills community college
Yeah, I'd definitely leave Texas off the list. Had a blast hanging out with them for the '05 game in Columbus and had an even bigger blast hanging out with them down in Austin in '06. For the most part they were class acts. Even had a couple older Texas fans comment after the '05 game that they'd never seen anything even close to how we do things up before the game in Columbus and that if I made it down to Texas they'd show me and my friends how to BBQ.
I actually think there are a lot of similarities between Texas and Buckeye fans.
Undoubtedly, penn state! I lived near state college a year, they r horrible. Trust me
I think that's an interesting observation about Ohio State fans lack of self-awareness, although I don't find it surprising upon reflection. Ohio State fandom has a sense of narcissim -- a love of self, which flows from the passionate love of Ohio State football. We are too busy to concern ourselves with other programs so long as we are so intent on examining, reexamining, and examining our own progarm some more. I'd imagine that would be very aggravating to other fan bases, but there's not much in the way of malice in the narcissitic self-love. We can't help it we are so pretty, and we'll look at ourselves in the mirror as long as we please.
In terms of the emphasis on OSU, there isn't a comparable situation in other states, where one team so dominates the psyche of a large population-sized state to the exclusion of all others. LSU and Nebraska come to mind, but their populations are dwarfed by Ohio's. And while there are plenty of pro-sports teams in Ohio, it often seems like those professional seasons -- which rarely end in high levels of success -- serve as mere prelude to the Buckeye football season (and, to a lesser extent, the football season).
I do not think that Ohio State fans have some extraordinary level of violence or brutish behavior. You will find that in any fanbase that is large enough to support a diverse array of people (hello, Walmart Wolverines).
If you have ever been to a game at LSU you have heard "tiger bait!" a few too many times. A friend of mine tried to order Tiger Bait at a local (Baton Rouge) restaurant after we tied them when Spiels was playing.
I'd like to nominate the West Virginia fans. Totally nuts in a bad way. Delusional.
that's true, the less waspy of USC fans.
I was only talking about my Manhattan Beach neighbors.
WVU fans are nuts, but I don't know about delusional. I have a few friends here that went to WVU and they know they suck now.
True enough!
WVU fans are not only nuts, they are dangerous. Remember last BB season they were throwing bottles on the BB court? It got so bad Huggins had to tell them to stop.
Harvard fans don't like us? WHY??
a shirt that reads "it's couch burning season" comes to mind...
Cincinnati fans have begun to irritate me, specifically from a blog perspective. Sure, there arse beating came at the hands of Florida and that quieted them down quite soundly but before that game their boasting became quite irritating. Every Buckeye I have ever known has cheered little brother on but I think when little brother got his license he grew too confident and forgot all of the wedgies and swirlies he received in his youth.
I've heard some real horror stories about how WVU fans treat their "guests," so they probably score very high (in a negative way) on the hostility scale - but so do several SEC schools, FLA in particular.
Some great comments here, so I won't duplicate: SEC (esp. FLA), U$C, Oregon, Cincy, and - yes, unfortunately - Ohio State fans.
I will say, though, I only despise PSU in Oct/Nov, but that's when PSU fans/alumni go from being friendly BT colleagues to obsessed, bitter Buckeye haters.
Back in Oct. 1994, I was traveling with a friend in San Jose, California. After looking all over town for a bar that was carrying the Ohio State v. PSU game, we finally found one of those maga-sports bars, but they sequestered the game in one area of the bar - which just happened to where the PSU alumni club met. As y'all painfully remember, 63-14. I almost got into several fights and said some offcolor things to a guy who was there with his 5-6 year old son. Felt bad about it later, but my hatred was forever stoked. Whenever the leaves change colors, it's on with those fools . . .
It's getting close to football season. I'm diggin' this.
Then I should see a doctor stat.
Keep on hatin' on, brother. They deserve it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Florida fans know how to work the internet?
Not bad for a fan base that has a proud 15 year history in both football and literacy.
Hugging a tree and smoking said tree at hash bash.
I'm an OSU alum and now a Texas grad student. There definitely are a lot of similarities between the two schools (size, football talent, etc.). For the record I'm treated fairly well down here even when I'm decked in OSU gear. I lived in Florida for over a year in between tOSU and UT, therefore the most annoying fans in my opinion are the Gator fans. They can all go to hell.
Tommy Amaker.
Cincinnati... for obvious reasons...
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we'll see how that plays out since a certain someone is now in south bend.
The difference between a porupine and _ichigan Stadium?
A porcupine has 109,000 pricks on the outside.
ZING!
anyone who really cares about how well your conference does must not know the value of the world rivalry. when i'm not a buckeye fan, i'm a bama fan. because of my primary buckeye values, you won't see me rooting for auburn, florida, or lsu. that's what seperates buckeye fans from the sec. its conference battles! the only situation where i see a conference battle is the big 10 and pac 10 but that's only because of the rose bowl
that made my day. kudos to you!
Wait, you mean we're not #1?? That's why I took the job!!!
Is it safe to put the real cowboys (AKA OU fans) on the list?
I find the "bait" thing hillarious.
At the 2006 national championship game my friend, after hearing "ohio state gator bait" ad nauseum turned to the Florida fans behind him and delivered this great line:
"You know how bait works right? Gator bait is used to trick and kill gators"
Furthermore, I just got done reading all of the comments on the Florida Gators, Markice Pouncey incident. It is simply sickening reading all of the empathy going in that blog. I get the distinct vision that they are all standing in a circle, holding hands, singing Kumbyah!! Yeah, every team including ours has had a player caught for accepting benefits. They sit there and voice their concern for each other’s "Rival" team as if anything happens to Florida and the SEC reputation is in jeopardy. A _ichigan blogger put his two cents in about players ought to be paid blah...blah...blah... The entire blog turned on him and started attacking the practice times and infractions that Michigan is penalized with. (That doesn't hurt my feelings much but is a little bit of a double standard.)
5has2 wrote:
If only JT could comprise a team of 22 Speilmans.
GATOR GARY
Tampa, FL
Yes, 22 slow, white dudes. That would be one slow team. Linebacker position has changed since Speilman played. Speed baby, speed. Speilman was strong and a very hard hitter but slow. Today's preimer linebackers are strong, hard hitting, but also fast. Speilman would not be an all-pro player in todays football style. GO GATORS!!! GO SEC!!!
A sampling from one who figured out how to post on the Columbus Dispatch website.
penn state.
the homerism and provincialism of most SEC fans is obnoxious, but nothing approaches the douchetacular yahoos coming out of state college.
You are sure right about games at Wisconsin. In recent years, they've been night games, too, which means students have even more time to drink. Very dangerous. If you say you bleed scarlet and gray, you'd better mean it if you wear OSU stuff in a game @ Wisconsin.
Maybe they're upset about Michigan's 19-5-1 record against the SEC?
1-peat.
Kind of quiet on the Nazi front over in Germany. Just because they are ancestors doesn't mean you have to pay tribute to them.
I believe this is filed under 'learn from your mistakes'.
let's not go down the WWII rabbit hole. It's ugly down there...
White Out = Terrible Towel. Both are from Western PA and are extremely obnoxious.
1. USC - Bandwagoners. I hate people who jump on bandwagons and then bail when the going gets rough (see Pete Carroll and tens if not hundreds of thousands of other people).
2. MIZZOU - I'm mentioning them because no one has said anything about them yet. If happened to be in the state of Missouri when the whole expansion drama was playing out you know what I'm talking about. Every Mizzou fan thought that they were going to end up going to the Big Ten and win the Big Ten championship in their first year because, "The Big Ten doesn't have any good teams, and Mizzou always trashes Illinois." In the scheme of things, they're not all that bad, but being surrounded by them kills me during the season...
Technically you shoulda said 30,000. From what I saw on TV last year I coulda swore the game was played in The Shoe.
I have many friends that are of the skunkbear like, and each one says I am the only Buckeye they have met that they can respect. They invite me to their stadium to watch the best game of them all. In one of my trips to that Godforsaken structure, I did the gentlemanly thing and allowed a female skunkbear to cut in front of me in a line. She mentioned that she was shocked that a Buckeye had manners, BUT did thank me. One fan at a time is how we change the perception, my brother.
Right before we snap their necks and dance with their dates.
http://www.comedycentral.com/v...
did you reply to her "and i am surprised you can look at someone taller than you, but still manage to look down your nose"?
Yeah, but when Kelly leaves and they get smacked in the Sugar Bowl, we get this:
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I bet $200 would go a long way in rural appalachia
too country....
Love the Boise State point. Who thought that bright blue field was a good idea? It literally hurts my eyes to try and watch a game on TV.
Great list man. I pretty much agree with everything.
and then they wear matching blue uniforms and blend in to the field. This is the only time where HD sucks.
Back in the early 1980's, my brother was a Marine stationed in Huntsville, Alabama. He wasn't/isn't particularly a big college football fan, but, he said he got so SICK OF HEARING "SWEET HOME ALABAMA," that he decided to become an Auburn fan.
I have a $50 bet with a Michigan fan at my work here in Toledo that Rich Rod will be unemployed at the end of this next season.
I wonder if they have the odds on that in Vegas?
If everybody hates Ohio State, they must be doing something right! Damn, I'm proud of those Buckeyes! LOL!
Went to the Pontiac Silverdome a few years back to see the Motor City Bowl: Marshall Thunderin' Herd vs. Ole Miss.
I swear the entire Marshall fandom there had a total of four teeth, and all were drunk on moonshine(I assume). Rednecks. Not far from WVU, is my point.
1-Pete
If they burned their couches, wouldn't that damage their porches?
An oldie but a goodie....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
And yes, I've seen Buckeye fans act the same way. It seems like there is always a group of 3 or 4 houses right by the corner of Neil and Lane Ave. that go out of their way to harass visiting fans. At least they're not dumb enough to video it and put it up on Youtube.
I really do think the Buckeye fan hatred stems mainly from the negative media coverage we received during the rioting years and also due to the fact that there are so many of us. Just do the math.... Let's say there are 200,000 fans within a 1 mile radius of the Horseshoe on any given Saturday. Now let's estimate 1% of them are dbags. That's still 2,000 dbags that an opposing fan has a chance of running in to.
I always make it a point to be nice to visiting fans and even apologize if I see someone being an ass to them. Most of the ones I've talked to say they enjoy their experience at the Stadium and that 99% of the Buckeye fans they meet treat them well. It's just that handful that ruins it for the rest of us.
+100
Gary is just a troll who should be ignored.
But his LB speed comments are are a hoot considering the 40 times Brandon Spikes runs Generally I've seen him around the 4.8 area, which isn't exactly tearing it up. But at the Gators Pro Day workout both his unofficial times failed to crack 5.0.
doesn't gay mean happy?
OSU fans are near the top. I've been repeatedly embarassed by OSU fans both at home and on the road. Usually it's either current students or rednecks that can't spell college.
PSU fans are there, too.
As I went to a small college in Indiana, let me tell you something about front runners.... Fuck Indiana, the state and all it's residents. They're all ND football fans and IU basketball fans. I laugh when I think of the last decade for that god-awful state, with 1 Mike Davis (who they ran out of town for Kelvin Sampson?!?) hiccup.
LSU fans are assholes, but they only show up for night games. I did, however, see a fucking gator on a spit at a LSU tailgate one time.
Florida, UT, and Alabama fans suck, too. Way too entitled. All these schools are just removed (or in the midst of) from sucking. UF fans pretend the Zook years didn't happen, like Spurrier passed the mantle directly to Urban. Same with UA fans, Dennis who? Gene Stallings obviously was annointed by Bear Bryant, and subsequently annointed Saban. What stripper?
did you really use the words 'Klan' and 'Gestapo' in reference to football fans that hate ND? First of all, the only football program on the planet, pro or college, that deserves to have the word 'hatred' attached to it is michigan. thankfully, their program is in such a state of utter disaster that it only feels mildly wonderful to hate them. hating notre dame isn't the same as hating catholics just like hating the tar heels isn't the same as hating baptists.
That was from a ND fan board. Anonymous did not write it.
Can't agree with the LSU haters, sorry.
I live in New Orleans, and am a Hokie fan and brother of a Virginia Tech alumna. We went to Baton Rouge for the VT/LSU game several years ago and were treated very warmly. We heard "Tiger Bait" for sure, but were also offered warm greetings, especially at the pre-game (off campus) Mass, where we were literally an island in a see of purple and gold.
If only they hadn't blown us out...
i agree that SEC fans, in particular the ones of teams that aren't LSU, 'Bama or Florida act waaay entitled, but doesn't every fan base forget the dark years? i mean it's not like we're over here talking about 2004 or the Cooper years. shit, i'd argue that most tOSU fans act like Woody passed the headset straight to Tressel.
Wearing a sundress is a woman's homage to her slave owning great-grandparents?
YGTBFKM.
Funny thing id, I've seen plenty of African-American young ladies wearing sundresses too. I guess they were pining for THEIR good ole slave-ownin' days?
ps. any man that doesn't like looking at an attractive coed in a sundress may want to ask themselves if they are big fans of Broadway musicals and fashion.
And who won that particular battle that night?
He puts fags in his mouth I bet....smoking is a dirty habit
NC State trolls? YHGTBFKM.....
OSU hasn't had dark years as Alabama and Florida (Oklahoma, Nebraska, etc.) have.
With the exception of the Michigan Game and the bowl game (other than that how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?), Cooper was a very successful coach, especially mid 90's. Even Earle, OSU's version of Llloyd Carr had good years.
Don't mean this to come off that the Cooper years weren't disappointing, but they were not "dark years." You have to get past numerous top 5 rankings.
I'd agree regarding Woody to Tressel, that's why I have OSU fans near (or at) the top.
Unfortunatly, OSU has got a lot of knucklehead fans who are sadly representing the OSU fanbase in the worst of ways.
Went to a OSU/Mich St game in C'bus and was a witness to an OSU gal verbally harassing a couple of older Mich St fans and saw some OSU guy trying to pick a fight with some Mich St ppl just hanging by their car trying to watch the game on their tv. He was drunk
I tried to make up for their lack of maturity in my own way by offering my seat on the bus ride back to the pking lot to a grandpa-looking Mich St guy. A smart-ass buckeye fan demanded why the hell I did that for a Mich St fan. I said b/c it's the decent human thing to do. I actually could see the inner struggle and confusion going on in his eyes. He eventually mumbled something and stayed quiet for the rest of the trip.
That being said, I still have faith that there are more decent than knucklehead Buckeye fans out there
late getting to this.
As a resident of Florida and an Ohio born-and-bred bleeding scarlet and gray fan, and yes I did go to Ohio State, I can tell you that the most annoying thing about the U is that most of their fans did not, have not, will not ever see the insides of university halls anywhere, ever.
GO Bucks!!!
...and most specifically, most of the U's fans did not go to the University of Miami.
They take the cake for most annoying fans
You should know since Ohio is full of people calling themselves "Redneck Rockers"
formerlyanonymous is quoting a post from a Notre Dame message board (see the link).
The original author of that post-a domer fan-evidently inhabits a fever-dream world inhabited by legions of conspirators whose every moment is devoted to efforts to bring down Notre Dame athletics. The writer is apparently sincere, which is what makes it so funny. Even Penn State fans would be embarassed to propose a theory that over-the-top.
Actually, that was just one guy. He grew up in a fairly well-off suburb, writes in complete sentences, and is actually a pretty good guy.
Still pissed about the 3OT loss in '03?
Watch "The Blind Side."
Ohio State fans are the most annoying, hands down. "Intolerable in victory, insufferable in defeat."
Gee, you sure that guy is quoting a ND message board and is not the racially bigotry he is spouting? I mean, for real....he sounds like an Ignorant, Redneck bigot and I am from Mississippi and an intelligent, professional, Redneck, a die-hard Ole Miss Fan and so not a bigot! My family has athletic ties to The University of Mississippi starting in the 1930 (50+ Football Players/managers/trainers) including 3 Mississippi Hall of Fame inductees and 1 NFL Hall of Fame inductee, namely the Amite County Mississippi Poole brothers, Ray Barny and Buster AND The Rebel Flag associates with an Ole Miss tradition and the battle flag of the CSA and our beloved mascot, Col Reb is a over-stuffed cartoon character loosely based on a blind, black man who never missed an Ole Miss game in the 1930's and wore a black suit with a frock coat. All the student affectionately called him Black Jim which was politically correct for that time period, though racially biased even then. (BTW, I am Caucasion) and the author of the article have never been exposed to those Mississippi State Bulldog fans who are much more annoying than LSU fans! Hotty Toddy, y'all!
the Ohio state does SUCK!
I call Texas fans annoying because to Oklahoma fans, they are. Texas fans strike me as some of the best fans in college football...except when dealing with Oklahoma. When it comes to the Sooners, Texans turn into the rudest and crudest people in the country. This is amplified even further when they beat the Sooners, but never diminished when they lose.
In general though? I'd say any SEC fans, because they seem to think that the SEC IS college football, and the rest of them just play for kicks
You should have stopped after " I can't go a week without hearing 0-9". There's a reason for it. It's true. Quit while you're behind.
Hey, look. Troy Smith just got sacked again...
41-14
umm, at least we don't cheat and recruit convicts like OJ you fucker...
Gaytor fans = drunken redneck idiots with a huge entitlement complex. Even in Orlando, I've seen what Gaytor fans are like... just disgusting
That's a lot of bragging from a person whose program started in 1990, with a redneck coach, followed by an idiot, then followed by the biggest douchebag (Meyer) and biggest tool (Teblow) on the face of the planet
It's a dead heat: USC vs SEC.
Any time you get trolls like above, that's where to start looking.
PLONK!
Knock the SEC you Buckeye you? You hate the SEC because you can't beat them.Subliminal hate .Fan of BIG 10 weak league you.
what the hell is "subliminal hate"? Is that when you hide your hate between the lines? because everyone here seems pretty open about their hatred
Only on an Ohio State website would you actually get someone who thinks Ohio State legitimately won their National Championship against Miami.
To formerlyannonymous: Just a piece of info. You wrote about ND and then referred to two others universities in the state of Indiana. One is Purdue, the other IU (not UI). While my husband and I are both proud alumni of The Ohio State University (go Bucks), both of our children graduated from Indiana University (never the University of Indiana)!! Just wanted you to know.
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More chatter from fans of the-conference-that-cannot-beat-Michigan? Well, Mr. Vol fan, we've beaten them 6 straight and 8 out of 9. Let me know when "the SEC" matches that.
19-5-1? Really? http://football.stassen.com says that Michigan is 13-4-1 all time against SEC teams. Which is still pretty impressive, and a helluva lot better than the 3-11-1 record of the Buckeyes...
its hard to argue with success that THE TIDE has had.....In your heart you know we are number 1
I erred; it's actually 20-5-1 counting the victory against Florida a couple years ago. Since 1994, they are 7-1 vs. the SEC.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What...
You hit the nail right on the head there!