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Back in the day - I used to like the Rebels.
Coach Tark started his college career at my town's local city college so I felt inclined to follow anyone from my small(ish) town.
Larry Johnson, Stacy Augman, Armon Gilliam, Greg Anthony and Anderson Hunt would appear twice a week on our local television channel on their way to final four appearances and ultimately an NCAA title.
In fact, the reason I hate Duke is because they beat UNLV to win the NCAA championship.
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Yosemite Sam was just the dimwitted foil of Bugs Bunny.
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Even the mascot of Ole Miss looks more like Colonel Sanders than a Klansman.
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And almost everyone remembers the General Lee from the Dukes of Hazard.
The imagery from the South is both a celebration of ones history and the admission of defeat.
Maybe all these Tea Baggers are just holding out in the hopes that the "South will rise again".
5 comments:
OMG!!! THAT IS THE SAME REASON WHY I HATE DUKE. SEE THAT IS THE REASON WHY I FOLLOW YOU. LOL.
Whenever I hear someone say something like that about the south, I think that it's my grandfather's south too. It's the south that I came home to each summer. It's the south I've grown to love over the years.
I don't like Duke because when I lived in Louisiana David Duke was my state representative. He was a former Klansman and he used a logo just like Duke's when he campaigned.
That imagery of Ole Miss is something that I think about every single time my team plays Ole Miss. Someone is forever waving a Confederate battle flag at their games or on their campus. But then again, whenever I think of my team, The Crimson Tide of Alabama, I sometimes think of George C. Wallace standing in the door barring students of color from entering.
I always liked Jerry Tarkanian too; but I could never understand why he kept chewing on those towels....what was that about?!?
Oh and I never thought that Daisy Duke ever had enough butt meat in those shorts of hers.
@ Frecks - Oh, and they beat Georgetown too.
I HATE Duke.
@ Reg -
The South?
It ain't as bad as it used to be.
One of my uncles died because the white hospital wouldn't take him (In Louisiana).
By the time he found a Negro friendly place - he done died.
I used to alway come visit as a child but I was always surrounded by one group of cousins or another.
I never saw all the problems.
Being from So.Cal. - all the Bill E. Bobs were just harmless dudes from Deliverance.
Back when the show was on, I had no idea what ass looked like.
All the little girls my age had butts like Daisy so I thought hers was fine.
(Okay... that's enough "Bama" on THIS site for the next decade. I already gave it up to them for beating Texas. (I hate "Bama" too))
I hate Duke because they're one of the only persistently top ten teams that starts 3 to 4 White dudes each and every year. Even the 1 or 2 Black Dudes they start are usually high yella's. If this happened more infrequently, okay. But every year 3 or 4 White starters? Come on! If they were trying to field the best basketball players, 3 to 4 White dudes would not starting (even taking into account any academic standards they might have). It's not like the White dudes are from Europe either. These are straight American oki-dokes. It's not like they are in the Ivy League. They are going out of their way to get those White dudes. See North Carolina.
I know all this is highly racist, I'm just trying to keep it true. Maybe in 5 to 10 more years you could consistently start 4 or 5 White players in a top 10 program because those were the best players you could find, but Chekevszky (I know) has been doing this for years. There are a lot of White dudes that can ball, but there aren't that many yet that five starters end up at a top 10 team every year. Duke, come on! Something aint right!
UNLV threw that game with Duke... I liked the "Run and Gun" style...but they threw the game..
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