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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stupendous, sir.
Remember the Rose Bowl: The Story of the Alabama Crimson Tide & the Grandaddy of Them All
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
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
I'm pretty sure your flowchart caused me to have a reaction somewhat similar to this:

I always say 'beer me.' It gets a laugh, like, a quarter of the time.
by BeerMeAHottyToddy on Jan 9, 2012 2:40 PM EST reply actions
Everybody's got a hobby.
Different folks, different strokes.
I always say 'beer me.' It gets a laugh, like, a quarter of the time.
by BeerMeAHottyToddy on Jan 9, 2012 3:06 PM EST up reply actions
What you did there, I see it.
And I laughed.
flow chart
Outstanding!
Deserve's got nothin' to do with it. Will Munny, The Unforgiven
I joined just to say...
… that this is brilliant.
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
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.
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.
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".
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
I liked it. And it led me to my alma mater, Texas A&M, immediately.
And we own no less than 10 tractors.

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