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.