Man I'm old. It used to just be "Go! Fight! Win! Kick ***!" when I was a student. The opposing teams fans coming into the student section to start crap was always entertaining though.
I saw this on three separate occasions from a UGA fan, 2 Kentucky fans, and several LSU fans. All 3 incidents resulted in an a$$ beating and/or police escort . My very first home game as a student is when the UGA guy got mashed. He was walking past the student section in a UGA jersey taunting and cussing and smiling with his girlfriend close behind looking mortified and embarrassed. At first everyone just booed and jawed but then someone on the front row said something that pissed off the UGA douchebag and he turned around and bowed up to the Carolina guy. Big mistake. The Carolina guy immediately knocked him out without hesitation. I mean literally knocked him out. The cops showed up quickly but too late to identify who had hit him. Anyway, he got exactly what he asked for. The girlfriend was inconsolable.
Second time was when we played Kentucky on a Thursday night game, and this is when Kentucky was ranked like 8th or something. Anyway, 2 guys wearing Kentucky gear were sitting on the top row for the entire first half. I believe they were USC students, but UK fans. They received some innocent taunts, it was just Kentucky after all, but nothing serious. But in the 3rd quarter the game got intense and the UK kids started getting too comfortable and obnoxious. A chant of "Get the f*** out" started throughout the entire student section and things quickly spiraled out of control. A shoving match started with some nearby students until the cops came up and escorted the UK kids out. The UK kids were furious and flipped everyone off on the way down. They got bombarded with drinks and water bottles. The cops got rained on too. A few USC students got arrested after that.
The LSU incident was the most intense. Three guys in LSU gear sitting on the front row, clearly not USC students and probably not students of any kind. These were big fat guys too. I'm not sure what led up to this particular incident, but before the game even started there was an all out brawl right behind the end zone. Shirts were ripped off, there were blood stains all over the concrete, and obviously multiple arrests were made. One LSU guy, who I assume was the instigator, was beat up really bad. Eyes swollen, lip busted, head bleeding, etc.
Two points to this:
1. Never go into
any student section with opposing-team gear on. And certainly don't talk trash. The combination of hot weather, copious amounts of alcohol, and thousands of 18-22 year olds with raging hormones in an already intense setting can turn a nice football Saturday into a violent mob scene very quickly.
2. Kids will be kids.