the day that a fanbase could supplant my 30 years of detesting UGA fans. Enter the baby-blue whiners from UNC. Yes, my 4 years at Wake Forest taught me the pleasure and duty of hating Carolina and somewhere in a box of college stuff, I still have one of the gold & black "Beat Carolina" signs that were issued to all Wake students attending the annual UNC/WFU matchup at Greensboro Coliseum. However, it has taken the 21st century internet message board as well as 6 months of living in the Triangle to bring me to my current level of revulsion for UNC fans.
Where do these clowns get their pompous superiority? Are they injected with it upon purchase of their first UNC t-shirt from Wal-Mart or does it come attached to their drive-by diplomas? I see many similarities between UNC & UGA :
Where do these clowns get their pompous superiority? Are they injected with it upon purchase of their first UNC t-shirt from Wal-Mart or does it come attached to their drive-by diplomas? I see many similarities between UNC & UGA :
- Both schools have more fans that didn't attend the school than did. This phenomenon is known as "Wal-Mart Bandwagon Fandom" whereby a person chooses a team based on the number of apparel items they see on racks at Wal-Mart. Chances are if they see more Duke or Clemson shirts next year, they will become the "biggest fan evAr" of that team...for that year.
- Both schools have a polar opposite in the form of an academically superior engineering school (NC State & Georgia Tech) which makes their fans feel extremely threatened.
- Both schools have journalism schools which turn out the most biased writers in the history of the printed word.
- The fans of both schools pollute the newspaper blogs & internet message boards with delusional boasts of eternal superiority (usually filled with misspellings).
- The fans of both schools have a martyr complex when challenged.
When I moved to the Atlanta area in 1980, the media was saturated with constant fawning over UGA and articles about "Herschel this" and "Herschel that"...(note to the eleventy billion uneducated UNC fans out there: that's Herschel Walker.) Spring forward 29 years and daily, nay hourly, media references to Tyler Hansbrough and "his will" have been shoved down the throats of residents in the Triangle. Talk about deja vu!
As the night of the NCAA championship game winds down, I can only hope that the idiots who flood Franklin Street, no matter what the outcome, get what's coming to them: the clap, explosive diarrhea, or a night in jail.
As the night of the NCAA championship game winds down, I can only hope that the idiots who flood Franklin Street, no matter what the outcome, get what's coming to them: the clap, explosive diarrhea, or a night in jail.
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Wow, thanks for this awesome post. As a Georgia Tech grad I identify very well with it! I just can't imagine why anyone would latch onto a school they never attended and become obsessed with it. I suspect that some of these people aren't even aware that these "universities" offer classes!
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