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Carlos Huerta said:
Picture Michigan rooting for OSU or FSU rooting for Miami. Not ever going to happen because those are real rivalries. You guys are pretty corny with that shyt to be honest.
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This really is a North vs South thing. You guys are really asking why SEC fans root for the entire conference?

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How'd we get here? It all starts with the Civil Wa… I know, I know, but, trust me, this story gets more interesting than that. After the final gun sounded on Reconstruction, northern schools had a jump start on their southern counterparts in football. (A typical score from 1890: Princeton 115, Virginia 0.) Religious critics in the South argued against the "football craze" because it was unsafe, immoral, and fundamentally a Yankee thing. To counter that, the South's colleges began the "southernize" the game. The bands played "Dixie." LSU's Tigers were named after soldiers who fought in the Civil War.

That sounds a lot like the spirit behind the SEC chant. And as historian Michael Oriard has shown, every South-versus-North matchup thereafter became a fantasy football Civil War. "The Georgians might have been charging up the slope at Gettysburg again," one sportswriter squealed after UGA upset Yale in 1929. When a southern team knocked off a northern foe, it was said to have exacted revenge on the Yankees. If the South lost, well, let Grantland Rice tell it: "It was a magnificent charge in a lost cause. It was Pickett at Gettysburg. It was an outclassed team, physically, giving everything it had." That lede should have been burned along with Atlanta.

For a long, terrible period, the South's football pride manifested itself as racism. Football became a blocking scheme to protect Jim Crow. "The South stands at Armageddon," Georgia's governor declared in December 1955, when an integrated Pittsburgh Panthers team was set to play in the Sugar Bowl. (They played anyway.) Southern teams refused to play integrated squads even in the north; they segregated their home stadiums. When judges struck down the segregationist laws, many SEC schools kept their squads all-white anyway. It took Bear Bryant until 1970 to recruit a black scholarship player.
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Bryan Curtis on the SEC chant - Grantland
 
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lol @ the south trying to find redemption in college football....you lost the civil war, cot damn, give it up..

you guys gotta be used to taking Ls by now
 
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