OT: My Sentiments Exactly

by **DiamondM** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:46 am

So I was finally getting around to reading my favorite college football blog, Every Day Should Be Saturday, after basically trying to forget this bowl season ever happened, when I stumbled across this excellent diatribe against the [deleted] who wear the shirt of a team not involved in the game you're attending (yes, I'm talking to all of those who wear frickin' Texas shirts to our games). It made me smile. http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2010/12/30/1904332/a-note-on-gameday-attire#storyjump Excerpted below, with slight editing to avoid the bad word detector.

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This is addressed to you clunkminded jackoffs who show up to other people's games in your team's gear. Nowhere else in society do you enter someone else's sanctum, someone else's chosen site of sports worship, and then fart in that closed car of transit from first to fourth quarter by wearing your team's colors.

The intellectual palsy of this cannot be understated: you are literally spamming the event with your person by butting in and making the event all about you. When you show up in another team's jersey, you're saying "You know, this is all right, but my heart's really thinking about being somewhere else with a superior football team whom I JUST HAPPEN TO BE LUCKY ENOUGH TO PULL FOR OH LOOK AT ME EVERYONE." You are the single issue voter interrupting a thread about golf to declare how mad you are about that d**ned [Insert President here] and how he wastes time on the golf course when he should be getting on that economy horse! *$*%^ YOU AND EVERYTHING YOU ARE.

This game is not about you. You don't see Jews strolling into churches with yarmulkes on sitting in the wings making wanking motions during the homily. (Though the visual on this comparison does have real humorous potential.) You don't wear scuba gear to go fishing because, "Well, it's water, but it's not my kind of water-thing, but DURRR FISHING IN SCUBA GEAR." You might go to a Thai restaurant with friends and then talk about how awesome Italian food is, but this would make you what all these other things make you: a sh*tnaped tardprat who just has to insist on this being all about you.

So yeah, Ohio State couple in their forties dressed head to toe in Buckeye gear at the Alamo Bowl, where Ohio State wasn't playing? We're going to your house, and when you're making love we're going to walk into your bedroom, put on a shirt that says "SOMEONE ELSE," and talk about how awesome it would be if we were somewhere else watching another couple make love. And when the police arrest us, they'll say we were guilty of the crime. Some definition of justice, America.

by **ponyfan84** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:18 pm

Haha I'm the same way...hate it. I remember being real pissed when I was at a Stars-Blues game a while back and some dipsh!t was wearing a red wings jersey...we get it guy, you're a Detroit fan, but they're not playing. Wear black/green/gold or something neutral but don't be THAT guy.

by **mrydel** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:35 pm

Personally if I were to attend an Arkansas game here in Little Rock, I am wearing SMU gear. Sorry. And I had no problem with the TCU fans wearing their gear at the AFB. But it is the SMU students wearing the UT gear to our games that drives me crazy.

by **ObeyMyDog** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:49 pm

SMU students wearing other college gear drove me insane when I was in school and still does to this day. You go to SMU, wear smu gear. If you love the other school (UT, Ohio St, USC, Alabama etc..) why the hell did you not go there? if it's because you did not get in then that is seriously embarrassing. The only exception in my book is if you have deep family ties to that particular school and you willingly broke out of the mold to go to SMU. I only know of one instance where this is true and the guy was a huge SMU fan also, so it's a rare excuse.

I had friends with me at SMU who were rabid UT and Alabama fans and I wanted to punch every one of them really hard right square in the face on Saturday's. Really really hard. The Alabama kids even brought those ridiculous pom poms they use to school, still makes me cringe.

by **Junior** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:56 pm

At concerts, you're probably the guy wearing the shirt of the band you're seeing, huh?

by **SMU2007** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:57 pm

ObeyMyDog wrote:SMU students wearing other college gear drove me insane when I was in school and still does to this day. You go to SMU, wear smu gear. If you love the other school (UT, Ohio St, USC, Alabama etc..) why the hell did you not go there? if it's because you did not get in then that is seriously embarrassing. The only exception in my book is if you have deep family ties to that particular school and you willingly broke out of the mold to go to SMU. I only know of one instance where this is true and the guy was a huge SMU fan also, so it's a rare excuse.

I had friends with me at SMU who were rabid UT and Alabama fans and I wanted to punch every one of them really hard right square in the face on Saturday's. Really really hard. The Alabama kids even brought those ridiculous pom poms they use to school, still makes me cringe.

was my experience as well. i'd bet that at least 80-90% of the people i knew considered smu a distant #2 to their #1 school (texas, florida, georgia, alabama etc.) - and the other 10-20% were apathetic altogether...granted there wasn't much to be a fan of on the field while i was there, but i think that's a trend that still continues today. hopefully it'll change when we start winning but wouldn't be surprised if it didn't.

by **NickSMU17** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:57 pm

ObeyMyDog wrote:SMU students wearing other college gear drove me insane when I was in school and still does to this day. You go to SMU, wear smu gear. If you love the other school (UT, Ohio St, USC, Alabama etc..) why the hell did you not go there? if it's because you did not get in then that is seriously embarrassing. The only exception in my book is if you have deep family ties to that particular school and you willingly broke out of the mold to go to SMU. I only know of one instance where this is true and the guy was a huge SMU fan also, so it's a rare excuse.

I had friends with me at SMU who were rabid UT and Alabama fans and I wanted to punch every one of them really hard right square in the face on Saturday's. Really really hard. The Alabama kids even brought those ridiculous pom poms they use to school, still makes me cringe.

I Like this guy...

by **ponyboy** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:12 pm

A very excellent diatribe this is. Those people drive me nuts.

by **Nacho** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:34 pm

is it okay to wear a pro cap and white shirt?

by **ObeyMyDog** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:46 pm

Junior wrote:At concerts, you're probably the guy wearing the shirt of the band you're seeing, huh?

Of course I do, I wouldn't want to stick out at all the Nickleback concerts I go to.....

Kidding.... and if I offended anyone who actually listens to Nickleback/goes to their concerts... good

by **EastStang** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 4:53 pm

I heartily agree. My biggest peeve is the Longhorn stuff. Old SMU alums truly hate UT with a passion. Seeing SMU students/fans in UT garb is tantamount to treason. Might as well wear Froggie gear. Any SMU student/fan who wears A&M garb, needs to have a full psychiatric evaluation. Because to be an Aggie fan requires a certain fundamental lack of sanity.

by **ponyte** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:08 pm

The current students were not old enough to remember the old SWC and the rivalry with UT. Add in 2 decades of crummy SMU football and it isnâ€™t hard to see why someone would pick UT over SMU.

Of course I think anyone that goes to a game and doesnâ€™t intend to support either of the teams playing should wear a pleasant pink outfit with matching lip-gloss.

by **mrydel** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:30 pm

ponyte wrote:Of course I think anyone that goes to a game and doesnâ€™t intend to support either of the teams playing should wear a pleasant pink outfit with matching lip-gloss.

OK. Since I respect you as a friend and former player, I will wear a pink outfit with matching lip gloss if I go to a game in Little Rock. But I will wear my SMU lapel pin.

by **Mexmustang** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:40 am

In that case why don't you wear some Tea Sip gear??

by **soccermom** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:34 am

Bothers me more that our TEAM doesn't wear our colors!!!!!!!