Simple. Their better than you attitude.
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Simple. Their better than you attitude.
They are a bunch of pseudo and fake elitist snobs. I'd like to buy them for what they are actually worth and then sell them what what they think they are worth.
Don't give them the credit of thinking they are elite. Same class of people we are, they just like to play dress up and act out fantasies.
Common sense
Just a little bit of everything was said above, it started very early and has festered, boiled and bubbled thru the years and i have it down to a science now.
Even though my banker, cpa and lawyer are all ole missy, that pretty well ends my association with them, I see any form of attire, car tag etc, I just automatically have a sneer and a little smirk and look watch them out of the corner of my eye for them to do something stupid.
One day at Was-Mart I spied a little Mercedes Sport Coup in a handicap parking spot without a sticker. I waited for 30 minutes with phone camera at the ready, but out comes this old 80 yr old lady out and gets in. Ruined my day.
They think they are a much bigger deal than the actually are. That's what it boils down to for me.
I've hated that place as long as I can remember. My dads side was all State people my moms side mosty unm. State is me. I'm just an ol country boy, grew up a country boy and State people are my people. No pretense, no I'm better than you, no putting on airs. As I grew I came to understand everything about unm and its people is just a facade, everything's fake and everything's for show. As Aaron Lewis said "that's not me, that's not who I am". I was brought up to love all people, not just one race or creed. Unm is a symbol for all that's wrong in this world about people hating others that are different from them and living in a truly awful past. I'm thankful for being brought up the right way and I've raised my children the same! I'll be a Dawg forever!
HailState
When the cheerleader would not carry the rebel flag. Then the PC police started to take away their flags.
Now it is more due to their fan base,,,,,, being Ass Wipes!
I was born this way.
Somewhere somebody has this as their signature, but I feel like it is pertinent to this conversation:
"Oxford, MS: 10 square miles, surrounded by reality."
I think that's all we need to know about that place.
Great discussion, and great stories.
I guess mine differs from some, but my hatred began in High School. Heck, I'll say it, I've even worn an OM sweatshirt as recent as 9th grade (which was MULTIPLE decades ago), and got picked on when TSUN got railed 63-3 one weekend, can't remember who whooped them, but I digress.
My hatred began at the same time my love for MSU did. It was 1992, Alabama vs MSU at Scott Field, I was in High School and drove up for the game. David Palmer was coming off his DUI, and I got to sit in the student section with my brother. Seeing those full size Palmer cut-outs with "This Bud's for you!" on it was classic! State was leading the game going into the 4th, but in typical Bama style, they pulled it off in the end and went on to the national championship.
At that point, as they say, I was all-in. Yep, a loss to Alabama made me an MSU fan, but really it was the atmosphere and I just felt "at home." Three short years later, I went to the games as a real State student, and watching as TSUN tried to "get" Jackie, and ultimately doing it in the end, pissed me off beyond belief.
Now, my in laws went to TSUN...we don't do Egg Bowls together. They are good folks, hard working, blue collar...should have gone to State. But my "uncle-in-law" on that side is a TSUN lawyer. Nice guy, but when you talk football or TSUN...he changes...it really is like Jekyll and Hyde. So the two-facedness of the majority of their fan base that continuously invigorates my disdain with TSUN.
Born into it. Life experiences have done nothing but confirm why my Dad and Granddad hated them long before I was around.
When I was growing up in the 70s/80s there were two types of ole miss fans - the country club elitist pricks who thought they were better than everyone else because of daddy's money OR the confederate flag loving redneck racist. I didn't fall into either of those categories. I never understood why so many "blue-collar" types liked those elitist snobs until I was old enough to understand the whole confederate-flag, the south-will-rise-again mentality. And don't mistake it, that's how they grew their fan base.
Dated a girl from UNM when I was at a Juco. Went to a party where the first question asked was what frat are you in (none since I am at "Juco college"). Next question what does your dad do ("Engineer"). Oh really, where did he go to school ("No where, he worked his way up from an Electrician"). At this point my girlfriend would try to sugar coat my answers but most people would just walk off. This happened about 3 times before I decided that most UNM people were what is wrong with the world in general. Best thing to happen to me because it made sure I went to MSU.
Going to games where they threw whiskey bottles into the visitors section or threw a cup of beer at MSU fans as we walked out of the Egg Bowl in 98. A MSU student almost went up there and started a fight but an older MSU fan grabbed him and said "We have more class than that". That has always stuck with me and pretty much defines the difference between MSU and UNM fans. MSU fans have class where UNM fans think they bought it even if they are standing in the grove with a case of Natural with a blue jean jacket with Dragons sewed onto it (true story).
Yep, 90% of the Ole Miss "Fans" i went to HS with when asked why they were for OM would say, 'Because they wave the flag and don't like N-----rs"
The other 10% because of family or Archie QBing the Saints.
These 90% would have been looked down on and laughed at had they EVER went on that campus at that time. Hell, half those idiots would have been looked down on at USM.
Had a good friend that was at State with me. He was from another town but we had become friends thru sports and other stuff. Most of his close friends and his GF went to OM. He decided to transfer to OM.
Now this guy drove a very high dollar foreign sports car, was in a frat at State, and his family was well off. He lasted one semester, he said , like you, 1st question was " What frat you in?' Then what did dad do.
He said he knew that had he not been a frat guy and from a well off family they would have hated him. But they sucked up just because of his frat membership and his family money.
He got his ass back to Starkville where he belonged.
I thought it was weird the first time and maybe it was just that group of people at that party but it happened every time I went there. It even happened when my buddy and I went a visited one of his friends that was in a frat. When someone found out we weren't in that frat at UNM then the same damn questions were asked. I wonder if there is a damn initiation for freshmen where they give you the proper list of questions when meeting a fellow student. I knew it wasn't the place for me when my girlfriend at the time said her parents said she could have a car or a sorority and she didn't even hesitate because the sorority was required to not be an outcast on campus. My wife's roommate went from the Juco to UNM and was a cheerleader. She said it was a huge relief when she made the cheerleader squad because she wouldn't have to join a sorority.
Hatred gives power to the hated.
Demonizing a group of people is a bad human trait that is neither Christian nor a productive thing in a society.
Now here's why I hate a significant number of their fans.
1. Condescension. Why yes Mr. OM fan, we are a school of engineers, ag majors, teachers, business majors, and other folks who make the world work.
And yes we ring cowbells, hope that makes you feel better about yourself so you can get through the day.
2. Racism. Why yes Mr. OM fan, I love all of God's children. Even ones who look a little different from me.
Why don't you walk down behind your bench and repeat what you just called me a few times?
3. Coarseness. Why yes Mr. OM fan, I do love my mother, just not in that way. Is that common where you are from? Yuck!
4. Culture centered around alcohol. Why yes Mr. OM fan I understand you hate us stupid MF, NL rednecks, but could you please throw up in the other direction.
I've had season tickets since 83, only 1 Egg since the early 90s because of their fans behavior.
The last straw was the 5th bottle that grazed Mom's shoulder.
As a child it was easy to differentiate the 2 fan bases.
Drunk and coarse, versus sober and polite.
Unfortunately we've trended toward them some in recent years. Last few we've gotten better.
I had more than my fair share of football discussions and arguments from elementary to high school because I was the State fan in the group. It was hard to make a case for MSU football in those days, too. Needless to say, I've been ****ed over by many OM acquaintances, and women in my life, but honestly, I've always hated the majority of Ole Miss people.
Let me be honest with you guys.
I went to ole miss for six weeks my freshman year in Fall 1989. Those six weeks changed my life. Friends from high school acted like I didn't exist when I tried to speak to them on campus. Some drunk whore at an ATO rush party told me, very rudely and loudly, my shoes were out of style, "Those were in style, like, two years ago. Oh my gawd."
I hated it. It was the most miserable six weeks of my life. From that moment on I HATED ole miss with a burning hatred.
I was there guys. I saw it all first hand. Those m'fers think they're better than everybody else and that their shit doesn't stink. When you say cult I nod my head in agreement. It is.
A lot of em are as arrogant (and aloof) as some of the worst Bammer Fans and they've less than zero justification for said arrogance....
Billy Brewer
Just growing up a normal adjusted human being.
Which is ironic, because they're morally, spiritually, ethically, and genetically inferior. I've been around om fans over the years, and their inferiority simply oozes out. They lack the basic need to improve themselves. They're mired in inferiority, and want the rest of The State to be as inferior as they are.
It's amazing we all have the same stories about them. It goes to show you rebel fans are the same all over. Classless and pompous!
My freshman year at state me and my buddy were hanging out with some girls. My buddy drove an 06 Silverado single cab. Ya know a decent enough truck. Well a couple of these girls we were hangin out with were from ole miss. We decide to take them out on the town.
When we walk out to my buddy's truck the 2 ole miss girls throw a fit because the truck is a single cab they refused to ride in a single cab truck. How shallow those people truly are.
We did have inducements.....but (from his father's mouth to my ears...not hear say) those bastards offered basically the same. Those low lifes could not accept that he took out offer instead of their. This is when my "hate" started. They really do think they are better than us.