I live in NC and hate all the NC teams, except NCSU, but at least
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I too live in North Carolina but attended Duke for one semester (job related) so I do lean towards Duke a little. I attended South Carolina and wear my colors proudly. It amazes me how many Tar Heel fans make a snide comment when I do. They never brag because the program is stained at the moment but they really let you know they hate South Carolina. I pull against ALL North Carolina schools except Duke but for my friends up here I just don't show it at game time...lol.
This post was edited on 4/7 5:29 AM by superflyby
This post was edited on 4/7 5:29 AM by superflyby
I live here too (Raleigh area), and I always wear my Gamecock gear.
When I get some wiseacre saying something about Carolina, I merely reply "There's only one Carolina and it's located in Columbia."
I always go out of my way to talk to fellow Gamecock fans if I see them with a hat or shirt on.
Talk about bandwagon fans. 80% of the people sporting UNC jerseys couldn't even get into that university by my reckoning. They have a funny name for them, the "Walmart Nation" since that is where they seem to buy it all from.
I also understand the NCSU hate by Gamecock fans, especially after they knocked Todd Ellis outta the game with a cheap shot in the late 80s. However, I have tried to explain to both Gamecock and NCSU friends that we have much more in common with each other than differences. Few want to hear it or embrace it. For years NCSU has been my "chosen" team around here and when the Cocks were playing out of town (and not on TV... you know, when we really sucked), I'd go to Carter-Finley to get my college football fix.
Duke is sentimental to me only because they gave my dad and my step-dad such good care before they both passed.
I was, however, pulling for Wisconsin as my high-school BF is a professor there these days.
When I get some wiseacre saying something about Carolina, I merely reply "There's only one Carolina and it's located in Columbia."
I always go out of my way to talk to fellow Gamecock fans if I see them with a hat or shirt on.Talk about bandwagon fans. 80% of the people sporting UNC jerseys couldn't even get into that university by my reckoning. They have a funny name for them, the "Walmart Nation" since that is where they seem to buy it all from.
I also understand the NCSU hate by Gamecock fans, especially after they knocked Todd Ellis outta the game with a cheap shot in the late 80s. However, I have tried to explain to both Gamecock and NCSU friends that we have much more in common with each other than differences. Few want to hear it or embrace it. For years NCSU has been my "chosen" team around here and when the Cocks were playing out of town (and not on TV... you know, when we really sucked), I'd go to Carter-Finley to get my college football fix.
Duke is sentimental to me only because they gave my dad and my step-dad such good care before they both passed.
I was, however, pulling for Wisconsin as my high-school BF is a professor there these days.
So long as we beat the NoCarolina teams, I'm okay with them - sorta. I still like seeing any of them lose - in anything and to anybody. I cringe when I come upon a NoCarolina license tag in SC.
The only soft spot I have for any NoCarolina sports is, perhaps East Carolina - again . . . sorta. Then, I think back to that time in Greenville, NC when we played ECU on the road ('89, I think), and that idiot who was screaming at USC fans, 'I wish Hugo had wiped you assholes completely off the map!' Nice. Real nice.
The only thing I like about the state of North Carolina is the mountains. The Piedmont? It's the REAL Nawth C'lina - the Heart of Tar Heelia; Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, etc. Ugh! Not for me. The remote, wind blown outer banks beaches? Nice for paintings and photographs, but they can have it. Charlotte's the only decent city in the state and that's because it's right on the SC border - very parochial town, however. Its attitude towards SC gives the appearance of a small town view of the world, imo. You just don't see that kind of attitude in Kansas City.
The only soft spot I have for any NoCarolina sports is, perhaps East Carolina - again . . . sorta. Then, I think back to that time in Greenville, NC when we played ECU on the road ('89, I think), and that idiot who was screaming at USC fans, 'I wish Hugo had wiped you assholes completely off the map!' Nice. Real nice.
The only thing I like about the state of North Carolina is the mountains. The Piedmont? It's the REAL Nawth C'lina - the Heart of Tar Heelia; Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, etc. Ugh! Not for me. The remote, wind blown outer banks beaches? Nice for paintings and photographs, but they can have it. Charlotte's the only decent city in the state and that's because it's right on the SC border - very parochial town, however. Its attitude towards SC gives the appearance of a small town view of the world, imo. You just don't see that kind of attitude in Kansas City.
I despise both North Carolina and Duke, particularly because of their fanbases. Both schools have an inordinate amount of fans that have zero connection to the universities at all. These fans just woke up one day and said, "I'm gonna root for the best team"... then they turn around and try to trash talk and look down on fans who actually have a connection to a school and have been rooting for a middling program all their lives. If being a sports fan was as easy as picking the best teams then it wouldn't be fun in my opinion.
No. They were always in cahoots to bash and hold back South Carolina when we were in the ACC. Those two schools antics against us were the main reason we left the ACC, Thank God.
I was born and raised in NC but I hate NC (except for Brevard). The night I graduated from high school I left for OD, worked and played there all summer and went to Columbia that fall and enrolled at Carolina.
Incidently my heritage is in SC,(Union and York cys). My folks settled there in the early 1800s as recent immigrates from Ireland. As a kid I spent most of my free time hunting and fishing in the Allison and Mills creek watershed to the Catawba river system.
I was born and raised in NC but I hate NC (except for Brevard). The night I graduated from high school I left for OD, worked and played there all summer and went to Columbia that fall and enrolled at Carolina.
Incidently my heritage is in SC,(Union and York cys). My folks settled there in the early 1800s as recent immigrates from Ireland. As a kid I spent most of my free time hunting and fishing in the Allison and Mills creek watershed to the Catawba river system.
