NCAAFB fans, look who I just met.

There's a Duck!

 

I have always liked the Oregon Ducks colours and logo/mascot.

 

Let me know when you graduate to big boy pants and cheer for an SEC team. I'll give more respect to a Vandy fan than any PAC 10/12 team.

Rocky Top, you'll always be home sweet home to me......

 

What is the difference between the Pac 10 and SEC? Bigger schools or it is more of an West coast/east coast thing?
I am even more clueless on college football than with the NFL stuff but your post has piqued my curiosity.

 

It's regional rivalry, conference identification, intraconference rivalry, interschool rivalry... there are multiple levels of fun!

ps: Oregon consistently has the UGLIEST uniforms in organized sports!

 

I have to vote University of Idaho Vandals for that from what I have seen. The colours are hideous and the mascot not much better.
I think the cougars are not much better, but I do tend to have kneejerk reactions to dislike local teams wherever i have lived outside of Oregon.

Disliked the Jaguars when I lived in Jacksonville and I never have even followed that football business.

 

The SEC is the most dominant conference in the game at the moment. And has been for the past decade. In the last 10 years, the Big 12 has won one national championship, the PAC 10/12 has won 2 and the SEC has won the rest. The SEC is made up of Southern schools, primarily Deep South, and we play the game faster. There might be a corner cut here or there, but it's for the betterment of the sport. And we're some of the most rabid fans of any sport on the planet. For instance, one of my high school friends will not buy gas in the states of Florida or Alabama - he lives in Georgia. I know of a couple that missed their daughter's wedding because it was scheduled during a Tennessee/Alabama game - they said that she knew when the game was when she scheduled her wedding and she could have picked an away weekend or a nonconference weekend. The mothers of the kids I went to school with not only knew all of the players' names but the backups too. And where they were from and whether or not they had any younger brothers that might later go to UT.

I didn't go to the University of Tennessee - I could have gone for free but opted not to - but lots of SEC fans didn't attend the school they cheer for. It's something you're born into. Case in point - my oldest likes to say he's a Green Bay fan because he knows I like the Bears (because of Willie Gault, the first Vol player I ever knew personally). That's fine, and it's all in good fun. But if he says he's a Gator fan or a Tide fan, it will stop being funny really fast.

 

College football fans do seem to more rabid/devoted than the NFL fans.
If I won tickets to the Superbowl/big bowl game I would seriously sell them for maximum profit before going to such things personally.

 

I actually find that surprising. I've had many conversations with fellow SEC fans - of multiple schools - in the wake to the Giants fan beating and the 49ers fan shooting. Pretty much all of us agree that similar things would be pretty much impossible in the SEC. You don't see fights between rival fans - to the contrary, I've been invited to tailgates by complete strangers while wearing my gear at their stadium. I've been heckled during games - and given it right back - but usually whoever is sitting around the loudmouth is going to tell them to shut up.

I've been to Tiger Stadium in my Tennessee gear before, and it was a pleasant experience, depsite losing. They must have exiled all the dickheads to Texas. Which explains a lot if you think about it.

 

even though we are 0-2. i still bleed red and black