lillygator
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Oh Angie - isn't that awful?
Aside from the Tenn incident I can say from '92 on all the SEC games I have traveled to have been great whether a W/L.....the fans have been fabulous. I refuse to go to Tallahassee but will go to Miami when we do play them again (08). The older I get the less I am hung up on the result of the game. It still and always will be close to home but my hair is not so red anymore (read less temper).
Aside from the Tenn incident I can say from '92 on all the SEC games I have traveled to have been great whether a W/L.....the fans have been fabulous. I refuse to go to Tallahassee but will go to Miami when we do play them again (08). The older I get the less I am hung up on the result of the game. It still and always will be close to home but my hair is not so red anymore (read less temper).
Yep, this will make us officially winos I guess. 
We have gone to lots of big rivalry games (Notre Dame, UCLA) and lots of cross country games (Alabama, Oklahoma, Ohio State, on and on) and that is the ONLY team that made us feel anything other than "next year watch out" or us to them the same if we lost. Now it is funny that we have several nieces/nephews and my half sister that have graduated from WSU and they are all really nice. However, they did not go to the campus in Pullman, but attended off site campuses.
Washington State. Nasty place to play. DrHug and I went to a game there several years ago with the Portlan USC Alumni Club. It was the only time in many, many games we have attended over many years that we left early because we felt unsafe. The Cougar fans were throwing ice balls into the USC fan section, hit an old man on the head with one, then some young punks tried to pick a fight with this old man who was doing nothing but watching the game and holding his head. DrHug intervened and told them if they wanted to fight bring it on, several USC fans then stood up behind DrHug and the punks sat down and shut up. The harrassment with ice balls continued though. I went down to a security person by the field and told them people were being hurt up there and was told "we can't go into the stands." 
Just there to keep us all off the field I guess. Anyway, we left the game with 5 minutes left on the clock because we felt unsafe. We walked in a fairly large group back to the bus and were called awful names several times on the walk. Pretty sad that those people don't understand that it is just a game and if you lose there is always next year. Which is what we have always seen at the games, "we'll see you next year!" 'Cuse my rambling but everytime I watch this game I get rilled up. We have not gone up there for a game since. The Alumni Assoc stopped sponsering trips too. This year they had a trip again, first in several years, but we were not interested in going there. 
