To NYTiger03 and a few others

Jul 5, 2010, 1:19 AM

Some of you need to relax, max.

They just won it five days ago, not five weeks, five months, or five years ago.

I was born and bred in South Carolina. I had like a great, great Uncle who played sports at South Carolina. I have distant family members who played sports at Clemson wayyyyy back in the day as well. One of them played baseball in like the 50s, but has passed on now.
I have to deal with coot family members on a weekly basis, and the coot family members I have are NOT good sports, either. They love to dish it out, but cannot take it. If you do not have any coot family members, and are still complaining, you seriously to move on, either way.

One of my coot Uncles has always said that it doesn't bother him to lose to Clemson, and he would rather win the SEC. Well, a couple of years ago my cousin's husband, who is a diehard 'Bama fan, told me the truth one night about my Uncle. He watched a SCAR game with my Uncle. He told me all about how my Uncle was lying his azzzz off about Clemson not bothering him. He said that the game they were watching a coot football game one day, that was tied in the fourth quarter. Clemson was playing at the same time that day, and we were up by a touchdown in the 4th quarter. He told me my Uncle was flipping back and forth, and actually watched the Clemson game more than the SCAR game. My Uncle told him that he would rather see Clemson lose any day of the week, than he would for SCAR to win, and he was more excited seeing the team against us scoring, than seeing South Carolina score. The entire time he was flipping back and forth, he was cursing Clemson using every name in the book, and was rooting more for whoever our opponent was that day, much more than SCAR. And the real shocker he told me is this: "Auburn and Alabama is a bitter rivalry, but I have never seen anyone in Alabama act that serious towards their rival. I have never seen Auburn/Bama this bad, I never knew it was that serious here in South Carolina."

I have dealt with this my entire life. My immediate family is all Clemson, but my extended family is split about right down the middle, between Clemson and SCAR. When we played SCAR the weekend before Thanksgiving, we nearly had a family brawl over the CU/SCAR game. This was in 2000, right after the so called "push-off game." My Aunt, Uncle, and Cousin started walking out the door, after a huge argument about that game, before eating Thanksgiving lunch. My mom got furious, she had put so much effort into preparing that meal. She started yelling at them as they were walking out, and told them this: "No person is guaranteed another day on this earth, and if you guys are all going to leave over what 18-22 year olds do on a field, then you are a sad bunch, and I will never forgive you. What if we have a member of the family that passes away by the next Thanksgiving?"

They decided to change their minds about leaving after that, which was a good thing for them. After this my mom enforced a rule that no Clemson or SCAR game could be discussed on Thanksgiving, any longer.

But, now we play the game after Thanksgiving. When the schools decided to do this, my mom said we could talk football, but no negative talk about any person's team, and no predictions about the upcoming game.

Some people, like them, make these games out like they are a life or death situation, and that is pathetic. Some Clemson fans do the same as well. In the end, all it is is a game, and that is it.

And to put the icing on the cake, my sister went and married a Gamecock fan and alum. I will never escape it. Some of you are annoyed by what is in the paper and on the news and internet, and some of you do not even have Rooster relatives, that you have to face all of the time. If I can deal with it, anyone can. I have no choice but to deal with it in my situation.

People on both sides of this need to put things in perspective, and realize the game of life is much more important than the game of football/baseball. Their baseball title talk will die down little by little every day that goes by, until football season starts.

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My wife is a native of N. Carolina, and yes, she is a Puke fan. She will sit and watch and go to Clemson games with me. She is a very good sport about it, I'm sorry, i could never pull for puke in nothing. And i sure as h$ll would never (not even for a million bucks) pull for usuc even if they were were playing the Taliban national terrorist team.
I swear this is a true story. I was dating this real nice girl when i was 23. That relationship ended the first time i went to meet her parents. Her dad was a coot grad, and i saw war after war breaking out between him and I every time we saw each other. I told her after we left that it would never work between us because her dad was a coot grad. She told me that she hated sports and that me being a die hard Tiger did'nt make any difference to her. I'm a believer that blood is thicker than water. I told her that it would'nt last between us b/c, it would be only a matter of time before i would kick her dads butt over me or him saying something about Clemson or the coots. She did'nt think that would ever happen. I knew in my heart that it would, so when i took her back home, i never went back. I saw here a few months later and she told me that her dad said it was for the best we broke up. And he told her the same thing i said except, he said he would end up kicking my butt.

To NYTiger03 and a few others

describes my coot-loving brother to a T.

Let people live their own lives.If they are that passionate

that's what jebus would do. but when they are in your face

My 9 year old coot daughter hates Clemson so bad....

Re: My 9 year old coot daughter hates Clemson so bad....

Re: that's what jebus would do. but when they are in your face

+1***

Re: To NYTiger03 and a few others

Same Here - Coot Brother

3 things

You are wrong about one thing........

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