Last night, I watched a great game. Carolina fought hard. Clemson fought hard and both teams left it all out there on the field. As a Carolina fan, I can appreciate games that are played like this.
You have to hand to the Clemson football team; they made the plays that they needed to win the game in the last minute. Normally, like with any other team, a game like this is one that I can turn to the team’s fans around me and say: Damn you guys played a hell of a game. Not this one.
Once again, the experience of the game was marred by the Clemson faithful who just can’t seem to conduct themselves in a dignified manner. I understand that the game has high emotions and you get pumped up. However, I watched two Clemson fans sitting very close to us, pick fights with no less than 6 different Carolina fans.
The sad thing about it was who they chose to mess with. On one occasion, a father turned around and asked them to please quit saying: “Fuck you Gamecocks” in front of his 4 year old son. The two Clemson fans responded by saying “FUCK YOU.” The father was rightfully upset but took the high road and moved. Of course, the Clemson fans gave him shit all the way saying things like: That’s right get the fuck out of here.
On another occasion these same two Clemson fans hurled insults at a much older Carolina fan.
It is a sad thing that I simple cannot have a great experience watching Carolina vs. Clemson. It doesn’t matter if it is at the game or watching it in a public place; if a Clemson fan is around they are going to do whatever they can to make it a miserable experience.
I have said it on many occasions but the bottom line is that Clemson fans are the trash of NCAA football. The only fans that rival them are LSU fans.
I too would like to take the high road. So here is my attempt.
Clemson fan,
Congratulations on your win. Your team played a hell of a game and managed to pull it out in the final seconds. It was a good game and one that I can truly say that Clemson deserved to win.
However, your conduct during the game was unbecoming and served to discredit your team’s heart. You are not acting as ambassadors to your team and make it very difficult for us as Carolina fans to ever give the Clemson players the nod and respect they deserve.
In the future, win or lose please remember that this is a game everyone wants to enjoy the game and like his one, there is plenty for both teams to be proud of.
So, please for the betterment of this rivalry, try and act as if you are not troglodytes and watch the game with the class a team of your stature should.
Sincerely,
The Cool Chicken.
I hate to lose to Clemson. Not because of the football team or the university itself. It is because of the fans.
Clemson fans have the IQ most likened to a dog’s, mud or somewhere in between. In other words they are stupid, ugly and worst of all arrogant. They are relentless is their babbling pride. They seem to think their misbegotten talent in football is somehow linked to their overall social status.
Losing to Clemson and having to this listen to these troglodytes brag for 365 days, is like a stomach churning, cramp of nausea that just refuses to go away.
Unfortunately, as Carolina fans, we have to deal with that a lot. For whatever reason, Clemson has had our number for the better part of the rivalry. They lead the all time record and have been dominating in the last decade. Their quote stealing coward of a coach Tommy Bowden has only lost to South Carolina twice during his tenure.
Tomorrow the Gamecocks will take the field against the Tigers and I have strong doubts that Tyrone Nix can come up with a defensive plan to stop Clemson’s talented running game. Still, the garnet blood coursing through my veins always gives me hope and refuses to allow me to pick against the gamecocks.
If we win it will be because we come up with 5 strong defensive stops in the game. That is my key to the game. 5 stops. Make them punt or turn the ball over a total of 5 times. Given that much space, I do have confidence that Coach Spurrier can make them pay.
I will be at the game, in the cold, cheering for my Gamecocks. Hopefully, I will experience the same thing that Bill Murray did when he finally awoke to a new day in the movie Groundhogs day.
My prediction: South Carolina 42 Clemson 35
In reference to Clemson's loss to Boston College and their ACC dreams being smashed, stomped and destroyed this past weekend... Tommy Bowden had this to say:
The annual Palmetto State football game between the University of South Carolina and Clemson University has been set for a 7 p.m. kick off at Williams-Brice Stadium on Nov. 24, it was announced today. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN2.
Clemson leads the all-time series 63-37-4, but the Gamecocks won by a 31-28 score last year at Clemson Memorial Stadium. South Carolina (6-5) has a bye week this weekend, while Clemson (7-2) hosts Boston College on Saturday.
You want a prediction about the weather, you're asking the wrong Phil. I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life. - BILL MURRAY "GROUNDHOG DAY."
NO! NO! NO! Clemson! What are you doing?! Don't you say that the South Carolina Gamecock fans are the ones that are racist?
Clemson= Inbred racist trogs!
Clemson University and the NAACP said Tuesday they are investigating an off-campus party held during the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend that offended some black students because their white peers drank malt liquor and at least one student wore black face.
Pictures from the party were posted online, and Clemson officials learned of the Jan. 14 party this past weekend. The school is probing whether students were harassed or whether there was underage drinking.
Umm... What is this Clemson player doing during the Kentucky game?
(Thanks to EDSBS.)
The picture below is alarming. Viewer beware.
No wonder they could not beat Kentucky they more important things at hand.
-Cool Chicken
A lesson in football 101. You attitude affects your whole team. Take Tommy Bowden. All he does is cry about this and that and make excuses... now his star running back is doing the same thing.
I love it.
James Davis has watched fellow tailback Reggie Merriweather fade into the sunset.
And Davis is worried he sees himself. Clemson’s sophomore standout said he has not gotten over the disbelief he felt two weeks ago when coach Tommy Bowden overruled running backs coach Burton Burns and subbed Davis for Merriweather during the Tigers’ final drive against USC. Combine his own dropping production with heralded freshman C.J. Spiller’s surge, and Davis said he is concerned about being fazed out.
“I look at that and I’m looking at my future here, too,” Davis said. “I don’t want that to happen to me.
“I made all-ACC, and I made that really off the (first) eight games I played. But when I saw what happened to Reggie, that right there questioned my future. ... I think I’m the type of guy where I can start anywhere, Reggie can probably start a lot of places, and C.J. I just think they ought to treat us all equally. I ain’t never seen anything like that, where a guy’s doing good and they just take him out.”
Tommy... has lost... institutional control. Sad isn't it?
NAH!
I'm smiling.
Another reason why I hate Tommy Bowden...
Tiger Bites: Clemson coach Tommy Bowden joked about his South Carolina counterpart, Steve Spurrier, and the nearly $500,000 a year raise the Ball Coach got last week. "It's amazing how this thing works because I'm at a place where seven (wins) gets you fired. He's at a place where seven gets you a raise," Bowden said.
He just can't help it can he? Despite getting stomped (the final score should have been much worse than it was) he has to take shots at South Carolina. This is the vomit that is Tommy Bowden. I would have a little more respect for him if he would just say what he means. Which by the way if you missed it is: "Clemson has higher standards than South Carolina." Of course he could have been just crying again about how unfair everything is to him. Grow a pair Tommy
The COol Chicken.
I give props to the two of the three Clemson fans in the videos below. They may not be the brightest people in the world... but they were good sports.
Video #1.
A Clemson Fan Admits he has a new daddy.
Video #2.
At a little bar near Gaston South Carolina it is a yearly tradition that one fan of the team who lost the rivalry game between South Carolina and CLemson must give up their hat. This year it was especially sweet because the hat was purchased for $28.00 not a full 24 hours before South Carolina won the game. What do we do with the hat? We shoot it. With a shotgun. I love it.
From the good to the ugly.
Video #3.
A South Carolina Fan (me) attempts to give a Clemson fan parenting lessons.
Obviously, a bar is no place for your kid and really you should try and limit the number of F-bombs you drop in front of your kid if you happen to be in a bar. The guy below... well the video speaks for itself... The kid in the video is his son. Not the older kid... the younger kid.
Lessons:
1.) Don't take your kid to a bar. Not really an enriching enviroment.
2.) Don't say f*** in front of your kid... more than... well 0.
3.) See a dentist.
-The COol Chicken.
The State of Gamecock Football… and things related to it.
Let’s get the negative out of the way first. Ron Morris is still a tool. I always thought the media was supposed to be fair and balanced. Apparently Ron Morris missed that class. One of the things that truly bothers me about the man I will now and forever more refer to as “The Tool” is that he refuses to admit his bias. He blasts South Carolina every chance he gets and yet still pretends as if he isn’t a closet Clemson fan. If only he would come out of the closet (I am sure it is cramped in there with Jad Dean) and say: “Hey… I love me some Clemson.” I might be able to respect him a little for at least being honest. Why the rag known as The State newspaper even allows such a talent less writer on their staff escapes me. It seems as if they in some way support his hatred of all things Gamecock. It is a huge part of the reason I refuse to pay for The State. If not for his articles coming up when I google search the name “Spurrier” I would not read it at all. Another thing that bothers me is that he represents South Carolina in other media. I listen to the Pac-man in the afternoons with exception to the days Ron Morris is a guest talking about Carolina football.
This is why I have started an online petition to encourage The State newspaper to either move Ron Morris away from South Carolina football or fire him out right.
Click Here to Sign.
Speaking of Ron Morris he of course wrote an ass wipe of an article today speaking about how Spurrier should be suspended from coaching one game (I bet Morris would love for that game to be against Clemson) for Spurrier’s comments in regards to SEC officials. He also used this opportunity to take a shot at Carolina fans for feeling vindicated by some of Spurrier’s comments.
Of course as Spurrier said today when asked directly about Ron Morris; “He is entitled to his opinion and a right to say it.” Let me add but does not mean I have to read it.
Persoanlly, I think Ron Morris would like nothing better than to see Spurrier leave South Carolina. Ron knows Spurrier has us on the right track.
At this point in the article I am going to walk away from Ron Morris and move on to this subject. I really despise giving him so much attention to begin with.
The rule itself is based on the American Football Coaches Association Code of ethics. It officially states: On and off-the-record criticism of officials to players and or the public shall be considered unethical.
There is no other group in football anywhere given that luxury. Not the players, not the coaches, not the Ads… hell not even the grounds keepers get that kind of protection. I disagree with this rule with every fiber of my being. Why does this rule exist? If a player gets hosed on a call… he should be able to say so. If a team gets hosed on a call, the coach should have the right to say so. This rule can only exist for one reason and one reason only… so that the team that gets hosed by a bad call is kept in check thus protecting the conference from the fan bases anger which in turn prevents a movement in which the SEC loses revenue through attrition or even attendance at games. This is a PR move plain and simple. Give me one other legitimate reason! Please.
He is my thought process. If a fan base feels they were housed on a bad call… they have no one to affirm it. Even though most college football teams exist now as a way to bring revenue to a university, revenue provided by the fans, we are to be kept as disconnected from the teams as possible. Now if a coach can walk out and say… hey you guys are right we got shafted. What happens? We get angry. We get mad. At who? The officials which are an extension of the conference in this case the SEC. This can lead to a lot of things including the tarnishing of the image of the conference and as I said before which could lead to losses in revenue and respect. After all, who wants to play in a biased league if it is indeed biased? What bothers me the most about such as rule is how many times has a game been decided by one of these bad calls and there was no accountability because it was all kept hush and hidden in the closet? How many times have calls cost teams a win? Not just South Carolina but all teams?
I may speak for just me but I am do not trust a lot of people in this world. I might need to seek counseling, I don’t know. But I surely do not trust organizations that police themselves. There are too many self interests that get involved. The NCAA and the conferences have ‘gentleman’s agreements” that things that can be kept quiet are. The only time you see the NCAA or a Conference truly get involved is when there is some sort of obvious violation or public out cry.
Think of it like the government and I am no politician or whatever so I may have a warped view… the president is kept in check by congress and congress is kept in check by the people. The people are not involved in this aspect of college football and that can only be because there is something to hide.
Last thing on this… Coach Spurrier did agree to coach in the SEC. This means he agreed to the rules and regulations implied and written out. One could say he could choose not to coach in the SEC and not abide by the rules. I guess it is similar to us as Americans. We have a choice to abide by the rules implied on us by our government or we could move to another country. The difference is the people have a voice in our government that we do not in the SEC. For him to give up coaching in the SEC would mean he would have to give up coaching at this level entirely. This rule is pretty rampant in all of college football. If we did have a voice would this rule exist? I think not. It is a win win for the SEC. Our only avenue of revolt is through our money and we love our teams too much to revoke our support of them. So the SEC will never have to face it’s own hypocrisy.
This is not just a South Carolina football issue. It is an issue for all of football. So what do we do? I am open to ideas.
Now… on to South Carolina specifically. I am torn at this point. Do I think my Gamecocks got homered and or hosed on some calls? You are damn right I do. Does that give me comfort? No. It does not.
Let me explain. South Carolina is a good team. As proven by how we played against some of the top teams in the country this year. We took teams to the wire and we proved you can’t just beat us in the first half. You have to play all four quarters to beat us. This is much different from teams of the past in which the game was decided at half time and the team gave up. This year we have played whistle to whistle. Unfortunately, there have been calls, bounces that cost us the game and that is why we are only a good team. A great team wins anyway. A great team has bad calls and horrible bounces and yet they still win the game. So, no having knowledge that we could have, should have, would have won some games if the ball would have bounced down versus up or if a call would have went our way does not give me comfort.
What does that mean in the overall scheme of things? It means 2006 has been a good year for South Carolina but not a successful one. Even if we beat the orange headed troglodyte unwanted step-children from the upstate this year, you cannot count this as a successful year. If we go to and win a bowl game it goes from a good year to a better year but still is not a successful year.
I consider this a good year because of the way the Gamecocks played. No team has had a walk in the park when they faced the Gamecocks. Unless we have put the starter out of the game, the backups for other teams have not been on the field. Coaches have had to sweat and players have had to bleed to beat us. From one point bullet sweating losses to unbelievably lucky bounces to interceptions dropped, to tipped balls, teams have had to rely on us to beat ourselves or the football gods to give them a gift in order to squeak out wins. We lost by a combined 7 points to two national title hopefuls in Arkansas and Florida. We played our hearts out against Tennessee and Auburn (both ranked in the top 13 when we played them) losing to both by a touchdown or less and we lost a fluke game to Georgia* who was also ranked in the top 10 at the time. We have scratched, clawed and continued to fight and held our own against all of them. Some of the best games I have watched or attended as a Carolina fan took place this year. The only thing better would have been hitting that field goal, or making that interception and pulling out a win. The games we have won, we won by an average of 17 points.
*Considering we stomped Vandy and beat Kentucky who both beat Georgia, I consider it a fluke game.
Still a loss is a loss and I do not believe in moral victories. I do not come away from a loss feeling like we won anything. I can be encouraged by the teams play and be impressed upon to look for a better future… but I do not feel like a winner.
As the old battle cry goes, look to next year as a bench mark. Based on the starters we have coming back and how well the team has played, we should come in to the preseason ranked. We should also have some of these teams who escaped with their lives shaking in their boots at the prospect of playing us next year.
The Cool Chicken
REPOSTED:
PUTTING CLEMSON IN CHECK... AGAIN
A READER REQUEST:
If you still have the pictures you posted last fall about the fight, would you please bring them back out.On CUTigers.com they have posted a picture of (Newton) running down toward the hill on his side of the hash marks. If memory serves me right he never went past the hash marks and the tater players actually had to turn left to come over to meet him. If they had only gone to their side of the field there would have been no problem. GO HERE FOR THE THREADPlease go over there and show the pictures you had and dispute their so called claim that (Newton) was at the bottom of the hill in their entrance. All this (Newton) got what he deserved for starting the fight and should never walk on the hallowed ground of Death Valley again has really made me hate the taters even worse. Thanks, Cocky from Mauldin
Sigh. How many times do I have to put Clemson fans in check? To be quite honest it is getting old and pathetic. Clemson started both fights and they are furious that Carolina took the highroad first. They are also furious that they can't legitimately pin their not going to a bowl game on us. Unfortunately, Clemson has repeatedly proved that they do not teach the word responsibility to their students, players, coaches and fans. Time and time again they attempt to blame their problems on someone other than themselves. I displayed this very well in this infamous post.
On to the bad news... as much as I would like to repost all of the pictures from my post "The Fable of The Hill", I cannot. That post has been lost to cyber demons. IN that article, I took video and frame by frame showed the fallacy in the theory that they Gamecocks "blocked' the hill. At the same time I also showed how the Clemson players left the hill and made a beeline for the Gamecock players who were standing off to the side in the end zone. While I have never defended the Gamecocks for standing there as really they should have been on their sidelines, I still do not fault them with starting anything. At the time there was nothing in the rules against Carolina being where they were. I fault Clemson for being so hotheaded that they ran over to the Gamecocks to start some thuggery. Also, I must decline the invitation to post on CUTIGERS. I simply cannot bring myself to lower myself to post over there again.
However, just so the faithful COOL CHICKEN readers know what we are talking about below is the picture of Syvelle they are referring to.
CLICK THE PICTURE FOR A LARGER VERSION OR CLICK HERE
Now, even though I cannot bring back the fable of the hill post I can offer the picture below which clearly shows the Gamecocks standing away from the Hill and Clemson players approaching them. This should be enough for you to prove your point. The hill is clearly not being blocked and the Clemson players are clearly the aggressors. CLICK THE PICTURE FOR A LARGER VERSION OR CLICK HERE
Here is the best part... if you look at the bottom of the frame you can see good ole LUCKY #13 SYVELLE NEWTON walking away from the hill and back to the sidelines.As far as how Clemson fans are celebrating our loss of Newton... what do you expect? They are Clemson fans. You should expect them to be disgusting and morally retarded.
-The Cool Chicken
"Putting Clemson fans in check way more than they deserve to be... hell it's not hard."
I really do not like to crawl through the mud with Clemson fans but I just thought I would share with all of you exactly why I have a hard time liking... well Clemson in general.
Of course last week you will recall I posted my prediction for the 2006 Carolina Gamecock season. A Clemson fan apparently posted a link to my prediction on troglodytenet... oops I mean tigernet and of course instead of debating the validity of my prediction by talking about the football teams... they decided to come here and bash me. They really have had some witty things to say as well...
Such as: (as always Clemson comments are in orange)
Chicken Curse is alive and active this year. Lamecocks will get thier a$$es kicked. Clemson dominates. Clemson owns Lamecock U. Cocky_ghost
Good one!
You are a total douche bag.
Glad he cleared that one up for me. I wasn't sure if I might just be a partial douche bag. Now I know... I am a total one.
The guy is a idiot!
Spoken like a prophet.
and thus far my favorite one...
Hope you didn't blow a Mammery Gasket with your emotional picks there, PunkWorld! You got as much chance at going 10-2 as we Tigers do about keeping a straight face over the Moe Thompson lawsuit. Com'n, how thick were your beer goggles when you wrote this? I'll give you this MensaBoy, you will win at least 7, but come November, you'll be so used to Strawberry icing on those cupcakes, you'll be barfing up the beefsteak you'll see the rest of the way.Live It, Love It, Dig it...DEAL WITH IT, Dr. Nikola Tesla
Now I have never claimed to be a genius. I am sure many would agree I am just an average guy who might be slightly vociferous when sharing my opinions. Really that is all I am. So... I do not like taking shots at people who apparently take quite a bit of pride in their ability to turn a phrase and who consider themselves to be... witty. But... at times you have to at least acknowledge the ironies that beg to be noticed.
I find it quite ironic that a man would have the arrogance to sign his name Dr. Nikola Tesla* and yet misspell the word mammary** while attempting to harpoon someone's intelligence by referring to them as Mensaboy***.
Again I am not one to attack someone's grammar because I am sure there are many things on this blog which are misspelled. However, I do not sign my posts Einstein.
The last thing I am going to say in regards to this post is this: Writing is hard. Being witty when you write is even harder. I write as things come to me. If people like the way I write then good... I hope something somewhere along the way entertains or informs. But, when you are writing... if you try and force wit by peppering your sentences with one too many turns and or attempts at sounding smart (Mensaboy, mammery gasket, punkworld, barfing up beefsteak etc...), you come off as well... forced and as if you are just trying too hard.
So... in your next attack on someone, try and keep is spot on subject and just type what you are thinking. Content matters way more than presentation.
-The Cool Chicken
