The more you know.

     I will be continuing on with the history and traditions of Mississippi State University, this week's blog will cover "rivalries" I was totally unaware of. Of course, when I came to State I was well aware of my new found hatred of Ole Miss. In my defense, I never liked Ole Miss, even as an Auburn fan. When I was about ten or so, I went to an Auburn vs. Ole Miss game and needless to say their fans are not very nice. I am sure that like any sports team some fans just make all of them look tacky collectively, but these people were awful. I was sloshed with beer, sworn at, and just plain offended by these, grown adults. Have some class Ole Miss. Anyway, when I ventured out to Mississippi I was told I needed to learn to hate Ole Miss, as much as I hate the University of Alabama. I am not sure if I'll ever hate anything as much as I hate "Bamers"...but I'm trying. Since everyone knows about the "battle of the golden egg" I will move on to the rivalries I did not know existed.

     Apparently, Mississippi State and Alabama are rivals. I had no idea, being from Alabama myself, and being around the biggest rivalry in college football I didn't know Alabama had a rivalry with anyone, but Auburn and Tennessee. To my discovery I get to have yet another reason to hate on Bama, and love a cow college.The battle for highway 82, seems absurd, why would you ever want highway 82 it's boring and the worst part of my drive home to Montgomery. Keep 82 Bama, I don't like it anyway. Of course, sadly, the wins/losses records between us are not great, but that won't keep us down. We are winning when it comes to number of fans that actually went to this school, or have ever even been to Starkville, or its campus. So there Alabama, you might win the game, but your fans are strictly bandwagon, also they are rednecks. 

     The next rivalry I had no idea that we are supposed to be rivals with the University of Kentucky. As far as basketball goes, us Mississippi State fans are rivals of everybody, because we are good. Aside from a basketball rivalry with Kentucky, apparently there is a football rivalry too. This rivalry is one I'm not really on board with. Of course I will pull for my school, but as far as any dislike I cannot dislike them. My mother's entire family are all from Kentucky, and are huge fans. If I would still like to be cool with my great-grandparents I better show up in my UK sweatshirt at Christmas. It is humorous to me that all of my family in Kentucky thinks that I go to Ole Miss. My cousins and extended family continue to ask me every time I see them how life in Oxford is, and I always answer,
      "I don't know, I've never been there." Since, my family doesn't even know that there is more than one school in Mississippi, I would hardly consider this Kentucky thing a rivalry. 

     The final listed rivalry is with Texas A&M. I actually had heard that us State people were rivals with Texas A&M. This year State will be playing them in the "Snow Bowl" or that's what I hear it's called. I do consider this rivalry to actually make sense, because the school are both agricultural & engineering. We also share the same colors, once had the same mascot, and both had Jackie Sherrill as head football coach. In my opinion, we are more like siblings than rivals, we share everything, but we don't like it...or at least that's what I hear.