Perspective from a 20-year N.C. resident
by Fsued on Mar 14, 2009 4:09 PM EDT
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PrintI can't tell you how much this win means to me personally.
I know you will all pooh pooh the following statement, but I know it to be true with all my heart: Carolina basketball fans are THE most obnoxious fans in all of college sports.
I can't stand the Gators because I'm a Nole. And yes, the have their own special brand of obnoxiousness.
But I moved here right out of college and for the last 20 years have developed a disdain for these people that rivals my dislike for the Gators and Canes.
And this hasn't happened because they are my favorite team's rival. It's because they are SO obnoxious and arrogant and stuck up that I have gravitated towards hatred despite myself.
The hilarious thing is that so many people walk around with that awful baby blue garb on that have never even SET FOOT on the campus itself. Many of them don't own a HIGH SCHOOL diploma, yet they live and die with the school's basketball fortunes as if they were the coach's wife.
So, for the past hour, here in a small town just outside Shelby, my kids and their FSU convert friends have been out on a street corner, waving our FSU fans, doing the chop and screaming the war chant at the top of their lungs.
The N.C. State/Duke/Clemson/Wake fans who have been driving by have been honking and smiling and waving.
The Carolina fans don't make eye contact.
It's not my style to talk trash. But today ...
They can suck it!
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great to hear!
hopefully we can shame the dukies tomorrow and you and your kids can lose your voices on the street corner. It was kind of the same feeling living in the bay area last year when the Rays beat the Red Sox and the Yankees didn’t make the playoffs (thanks to the transplants and bandwagon fans).
Kaz/Shields/Garza/Sonny/Price/Davis/Hellickson-necessitate a drool cup or a 7 man rotation
by CubFanRaysaddict on Mar 14, 2009 5:03 PM EDT reply actions
Cheers...
After two days of testing and weeks of studying…what a way to start the weekend. Watched the game on tape delay and still can’t calm down.
After watching the game, Ed….couldn’t agree more. UNC expected to win this game and when they didn’t get the calls they expected…they booed. I have a lot of respect for UNC and their “legacy” but grow up…
Can’t wait to write the preview for tomorrow’s game…
(And look at that…two Cub’s fans in the same post…welcome CubFanRaysaddict!)
Fsued I'm so glad you're getting your bragging rights.
So, for the past hour, here in a small town just outside Shelby, my kids and their FSU convert friends have been out on a street corner, waving our FSU fans, doing the chop and screaming the war chant at the top of their lungs.
Awesome
REALLY??
I LIVE IN RALEIGH AND THERE IS NO WAY THAT UNC FAN’S ARE NEARLY AS BAD AS GATOR FANS OR LSU FANS OR YANKEE FANS OR FANS OF MANY OTHER TEAMS.
PEOPLE HATE UNC FANS BECAUSE UNC IS THE BEST. THE VERY BEST END OF DISCUSSION.
Thank you ncnolefan ....
ncnolefan wrote: PEOPLE HATE UNC FANS BECAUSE UNC IS THE BEST. THE VERY BEST END OF DISCUSSION.
….for making my point so perfectly.
Here's another example
http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/
This story is another excellent example of the cover the N.C. media provides for the Tar Heels.
Message from this story: LOSING is what the Tar Heels WANTED so now the can be home and rest.
Honestly, it’s amazing people can write this stuff and the hordes of baby blue cult followers can read it all with a straight face!
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/5-things-to-watch-in-acc-final
Completely disagree with the point about Toney going to his left…
And here is their PodCast Preview about the ACC Championship game.
I love how UNC and Duke both got “exactly what they wanted.” Really…a loss? That’s what I want my team to do every week. I understand the point they are trying to make, that one less game might be good for a team that is banged up and maybe doesn’t have the deepest bench. But the first round of the tournament won’t be until Thursday at the earliest…I know there will be travel days in there and stuff…but seriously…you don’t want another ACC Championship…
I look forward to seeing UNC lose in the NCAA tournament and have no hardware at the end of the year.
ha ha ha
This is great. I have to live with one of these people you are talking about. My wife said she would pull for FSU vs UNC but didnt shes a sellout. Hes a NCST freak but will pull for the NC teams just because shes from there. Its BS and she knows nothing about sports. What is funny is my father-in-law called after we beat UNC and told me it was one of the best games hes ever seen. Almost as good as NCST back in the 70’s. All I know is that at least we so good news going on.
Why is the sky blue? Because, God Loves the Infantry
One quick clarification:
“The hilarious thing is that so many people walk around with that awful [orange and] blue garb on that have never even SET FOOT on the campus itself. Many of them don’t own a HIGH SCHOOL diploma, yet they live and die with the school’s [foot]ball fortunes as if they were the coach’s wife.”
You’re certain we’re not talking about Florida fans, Ed? Perhaps the two schools should co-op.
by TRMNole on Mar 16, 2009 10:40 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I was thinking the same thing...
Every time I see a UF tag on a POS junker it makes me sad because I know that in a darkened room, in a doublewide somewhere in the state of Florida, there is a dirty-footed, mulleted child, curled up in a fetal position on a stained matress on the floor in the corner who had to go without some basic essential as a result. It kind of follows the “It’s a Wonderful Life” principle behind regarding angel wings and ringing bells.
Needless to say, I’m sad a lot.
ha ha ha my wife is so funny
So I told her about this post and she told this is so wrong.Duke fans are the worst. My poor wife. Shes from Raleigh NC so forgive her. She thought you were talking about UNC not the Carolina’s as a whole. Then she asked about ECU. I told her that they are just a party town thats all they are good for. She got mad.
Why is the sky blue? Because, God Loves the Infantry
Growing up north of Charlotte, you learn to hate Carolina from an early age. They are truly the biggest a-holes on the planet. Thanks for supporting the cause.
I know you will all pooh pooh the following statement, but I know it to be true with all my heart: Carolina basketball fans are THE most obnoxious fans in all of college sports.
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So, for the past hour, here in a small town just outside Shelby, my kids and their FSU convert friends have been out on a street corner, waving our FSU fans, doing the chop and screaming the war chant at the top of their lungs.
There’s something about the combination of those two sentences, but I just can’t put my finger on it…
Anyway, good luck in the NCAA’s, and sorry you couldn’t beat Duke.
Wow, that's good stuff right there, TH.
All of us are whimpering and sucking our thumbs because of your comment. No one’s gonna dare touch this because… what will you say next? I mean, the way you pointed out how Ed called UNC’s fans obnoxious but then… OMG, you’re right! – he and his kids were acting just as obnoxious in return! None of us noticed that! But thanks to you and your biting sarcasm – what was it you said again? – oh yes, “There’s something about the combination of those two sentences, but I just can’t put my finger on it…” – damn, that’s good. That really paints the whole picture for us, doesn’t it? You nailed us. And here we thought we were just having some good old-fashioned fun, waiting to see if some internet-trolling loser with clearly smaller-than-average manhood would waste his time commenting on our site. Well, what do you friggin’ know? It’s you, TH. You’re today’s loser. In all your glory. Say something stupid. Go ahead, it’s your time. “Sorry you couldn’t beat Duke.” [laughter from the crowd] Wow. I didn’t think you’d go there again, but I gotta say, it was even better the second time around. (And just so you know, they’re laughing not because it’s really that funny, but because people sometimes do that when they question one’s sexuality. Be offended.)
No one here really cares that much about basketball, TH. Or about North Carolina. Ed’s post was a passing diversion because your school sucks at sports that really matter, like football, and anything that doesn’t have the word “polo” and “women’s.” I know, I know, Butch Davis, blah blah, and what about basketball? We don’t care. All your comment did was confirm everything Ed put out there about UNC fans. And now I have a new reason to dislike the school. You. As if baby blue and Tyler Hansborough’s crying like a baby aren’t enough.
Thank you, Ed. (I’m done with you, TH. Go away.) You were dead on right about these clowns, and to think I actually once thought that the Carolina crowd was the cool one. (I mean, compared to the Dookies?) But it took just one encounter with a tool that used a crybaby’s initials as his screenname to realize that perhaps UF does have a rival.
I was just browsing through TH's Carolina March
And noticed nobody is commenting. Wonder how many members there are?
by basbalstr101 on Mar 24, 2009 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions
I relocated to Huntersville, NC
About 6 years ago from Jax, FL and, couldn’t agree with you more about the Tar Heel fans… I will always loathe the Gators more because well, I’m a Nole and most of my life has been spent in FL surrounded by those nimrods but the UNC fans up here make it easy to have someone local to despise as well. To beat them in the ACC tourney was SO satisfying!
O Town Nole
“Every time I see a UF tag on a POS junker it makes me sad because I know that in a darkened room, in a doublewide somewhere in the state of Florida, there is a dirty-footed, mulleted child, curled up in a fetal position on a stained matress on the floor in the corner who had to go without some basic essential as a result. It kind of follows the "It’s a Wonderful Life" principle behind regarding angel wings and ringing bells.”
I noticed we see eye to eye on many things. I generally try and cut the gates some slack because you know it is a pretty hard life when you come back in from a day running crab and catfish lines just to realize another wheel on the trailer is flat and fire ants are back in the worm beds.
Worse than a flat wheel
The trailer could have been fire bombed instead. I don’t know what I would ever do without the colorful denizens of Bithlo and their zany antics.
By the way, ever notice how all of the jail/prison outfits are either orange or blue? Just sayin’.
by O-Town Nole on Mar 25, 2009 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
I'll go ahead and chalk it up to simple geography
If I had stayed in Tally after I graduated, I wouldn’t be such a grumpy bastard now. I am a pilgrim in an unholy land.
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