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How to choose your SEC school: a primer for disinterested fans

Let's assume we're all sports fans. Let's assume that you've watched some television over the past month. If you're anything like me, your regular bowl game, NFL playoff, and NBA (hahaha, gotcha!) viewing has been punctuated by breathless announcements from Verne Lundquist about tonight's national championship game (full disclosure: it might be Gary Danielson, Bob Costas, or anyone else. For the life of me I can't tell those guys apart.) Since it is an intra-SEC matchup, and television contracts have all but assured the Sabanization of your Autumn weekends, we at the Cup created a flowchart to help disinterested sports fans fine-tune their rooting interests. Much like that scene in Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade, your pathway to enlightenment follows after the jump.

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So you want to be a SEC fan?
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Do you like football?

YES
Is winning often important to you?

YES
Are blue jean shorts and Crocs acceptable clothes to wear in public?

YES
Florida


NO
NO
NO
Kentucky

Vanderbilt. Have fun running for Senate, nerd.

Well, do you own more than one blue blazer?

YES
Unwarranted elitism--good thing, or the best thing?

YES
Hotty Toddy, you're an Ole Miss fan.
NO
NO
Texas A&M. Welcome to the party, next time bring some female cheerleaders.

NO
Would you like for your coach to be an insufferable ass?

YES
Does anyone in your immediate family own a tractor?

NO
That's okay, your journalism degree makes up for it, right?

YES
Missouri. Blaine Gabbert is the best NFL quarterback who is named after a Homecoming queen.
YES
NO
Arkansas. Admit it, you'd rather be in Dallas.

NO
Does the local media always cover subjects you dislike? Is the government run by a bunch of snooty jerks?

YES
Mississippi State: the only school in the country where finishing fifth in the division is considered a championship.

Congratulations on employment. If given a choice between Masters tickets or Super Bowl tickets, would you go to the Masters?

YES
Do you know someone who lives in Buckhead?
NO
YES
NO
You're an LSU fan, but you probably knew that already. Please let me know next time you're cooking.

YES
You meet someone named T-Mike. Without asking him, do you know his father's name?

NO
Do you have a problem killing unusual animals and eating them?

University of Georgia. I hope you own bow ties.

South Carolina. Do yourself a favor and Google "Hoppin' John" before you step outside.
NO
YES


No matter. Would you like to have a dubious number of championships?

NO
Tennessee. Remember your Holy Trinity: Peyton Manning, Johnny Majors, and Krispy Kreme.

Have fun complaining about the lawyers in Birmingham, Auburn fan.


YES


Alabama. Roll Tide, and remember, Bear Bryant is still dead.






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stupendous, sir.

Remember the Rose Bowl: The Story of the Alabama Crimson Tide & the Grandaddy of Them All

by kleph on Jan 9, 2012 10:18 AM EST reply actions  

fantastic.

i laughed after “kentucky” and didn’t stop laughing until the end.

make them hate themselves.

by HoundstoothHeart on Jan 9, 2012 10:49 AM EST reply actions  

second. well done.

...I'm probably in Hume Hall

by Nerd the Rebel on Jan 9, 2012 12:53 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions  

Bravi, bravi, bravissimi

"Well, if that ain't a show, I'll kiss your ass." - Gov. Jim Folsom Sr. (D-AL), 1948-52

by VandyImport on Jan 9, 2012 11:13 AM EST reply actions  

Magnificent

http://sportsandgrits.com/

by Mr. Sanchez on Jan 9, 2012 12:47 PM EST reply actions  

You had me at..

The crocs and blue jean shorts. Haha I can testify that this is true and does happen with UF fans. And don’t worry, I landed on ole miss haha great chart!

"Dont taze me bro"

by Bringing the Pena on Jan 9, 2012 1:49 PM EST via mobile up reply actions  

Hell...I'm an Auburn fan now??? Do i have to?

The extra blue blazer cost me my Rebel fandom.

Don't quote me, boy...'cuz I ain't said $@#%

by ThemRebsIsHellDontThey on Jan 9, 2012 2:10 PM EST reply actions  

Yeah Cost me my rebelness too

Whats the female equivelant of a blue blazer? A Blue Cashmire sweater?

Graduated University of Mississippi Leonard McCoy School of Medicine, 2481

by SkylarkThibedeau on Jan 10, 2012 9:44 AM EST up reply actions  

flow chart

Outstanding!

Deserve's got nothin' to do with it. Will Munny, The Unforgiven

by Old Soul on Jan 9, 2012 3:34 PM EST reply actions  

Unwarranted elitism

Oh yeah. And make it Blaine up in here

The spectator is compelled to look directly down the road and into the middle of the picture. -Baldessari

by Old HWY 6 on Jan 9, 2012 4:25 PM EST reply actions  

have you rec-ed this post yet?

well why the hell not?

SB Nation's The Historical: Because all those games way back when matter.

by kleph on Jan 9, 2012 4:29 PM EST reply actions  

bravo!

Editor, "Dawgsports"

"The ball ain't heavy." Herschel Walker

by tankertoad on Jan 9, 2012 6:19 PM EST reply actions  

Just one tiny, small, itsy bitsy, glaring, huge, massive problem...

In order to be an OM fan, one has to select “winning is important to me”. Obviously, that’s not a requirement.

At all.

by OxpatchReb on Jan 10, 2012 10:10 AM EST reply actions  

Ahhh, it's plenty important to normal, active and concerened fans (like ourselves) but to say that it's important to the

majority of OM fans would probably be incorrect. I would slaughter 1,000 cows in the Grove on a Saturday for it not to be true, or to change that fact, but the bottom line is that your average, everyday OM fan really doesn’t get their panties in a wad over loses. It’s the main problem, imho, with our current situation. If our fans gave a collective shit like you and I do about wins and loses, we wouldn’t have pissed away the last 40 years in complete obscurity and mediocrity and would most likely be in much better shape right now…

by OxpatchReb on Jan 11, 2012 10:04 AM EST up reply actions   1 recs

Based on that chart...

I should have gone to Texas A&M, as I only own 1 blue blazer and my brother owns a tractor. Can the fact that I own 7 sportscoats/blazers, 1 of which is tweed with suede elbow patches and another of which is corduroy, give me a pass? Please….

Just another "good for nothing law school grad".

by RebelBarrister on Jan 10, 2012 3:49 PM EST reply actions  

judge says yes.

I really should have made that just say “sport coat,” but eff it.

give the governor a harrumph

by Sir Francis Drank on Jan 10, 2012 5:25 PM EST up reply actions  

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