Is Oxford the new Baton Rouge?
My first trip to Oxford, I saw police searching students headed into the student section with Garrett wands. That's when I started getting worried, because you shouldn't have to do that crap.
Anyway, Alabama wins 29-20 in a tremendous downpour, and on the way out of the stadium every Ole Miss fan I saw was looking at me like he wanted me dead. The pregame smack was all of a "oh, welcome to the big city, Mr. Country Bumpkin" -- which is hilarious in itself given where Oxford, Miss. is located -- after the game, it got ugly. Way too much alcohol in Oxford on game day.
As to stickers, flags, etc., my best friend had flags snapped off his car at Vanderbilt of all places, so that goes on everywhere.
Ole Miss is better behaved, I've found, than Mississippi State. More alcohol in Oxford, but the attitude isn't quite as mean. It's more elitist -- again, hilarious given we're talking about Ole Miss. For a state school located in Mississippi, they sure have convinced themselves that they're something special.
Bottom line, I've had problems in both places.
As to the people-pulling-against-Alabama thing, that doesn't go on in my house. My wife and I talked about it this year and we came to the understanding that if we were going to have a get-together on game day, either it would be all Alabama fans, or the ones that weren't had to be respectful.
Before I met my wife, I dated a girl after college that I really liked a lot, but she was as much an Auburn fan as I am an Alabama fan. That ended up being the thing that broke us up. I didn't see much point being with someone who I wouldn't be happy around for an entire season of the calendar, and she was adamant about raising whatever kids she had as Auburn fans. Not happening.
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