HBCU Football

By 84Hondarida

September 26, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

FAAAAAAAAMM-UUUUUUUU…FAAAAAAAAAMM-UUUUUU…FAAAAAM G**MN UUUUUUUUUU….the Rattlers will strike…strike…and strike again!!!

By ken

September 26, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

Can’t stop those Golden Tigers avg 38 pts/game. Hey Tuskegee…

By Skegee

September 26, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Tuskegee all the way baby!!!!

By J Lew

September 26, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

Bold: SCSU Bulldogs all the way!!

By ROLL TIDE

September 26, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

ROLL TIDE

By chriscosmo

September 26, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

I have mad love for all HBCU’s they have made many of us into the great men/women that we are. But let’s not get it twisted. FAMU vs. tsu is the best classic going today. And to break it down even further, FAMU is the best HBCU going today. As 84Hondarida said so eloquently earlier; “FAAAAAAAAMM-UUUUUUUU…FAAAAAAAAAMM-UUUUUU…FAAAAAM G**MN UUUUUUUUUU….the Rattlers will strike…strike…and strike again!!!” The streak will continue this year.

By Darryl Moore

September 26, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

T-U-S-K-G-E-E TUSKEGEE!!!

By KC

September 26, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Sigh, all you historically black college folks need to go to a real football game. All I have to say is GOOOOOOOOO DOGGGGGGS sic em WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF!!

By ThatDude

September 26, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

T-T-T-T-S-S-S-U…Tigers, Baby! We’ve already beaten Jackson St, Southern & AL A&M….DAMU is our next victory!!!

Last HBCU to have a player drafted in the 1st Rd. of the NFL draft!

By Vonnie

September 26, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Go Albany State RAMS!!!!! Class of 2001

LOVE Albany!!

By Fentress

September 26, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

Go Big Blue TSU all the way!! Hey KC a football game is a football game it doesn’t matter if it’s HBCU or another college game. It’s all about supporting your team and having fun. Don’t knock it unless you have experience it! TS—TS-TS-TSU!!

By Old School Al

September 26, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

Heeeyyyyyy Tuskegee!!!

By chriscosmo

September 26, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

HBCU alum, why is that person KC posting on our blog? In case you failed reading 101 at UGA, the title of this blog is HBCU Football: Who’s going to win this weekend?

Please find another place to share your ideas and thoughts. We really don’t care.

By Old School Al

September 26, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

KC,

When were you enrolled at UGA?

By Donna J

September 26, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

SCSU…..I thought you knew!!!

By bj

September 26, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

KC, we like to watch games where the players actually graduate. Not the 9% of players that normally sit on the bench.

By Y

September 26, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

There’s always KCKKK in the group. Try to keep it positive, there’s enough negative things already happening. One World, One People!

By Winners

September 26, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Who’s going to win this weekend?

Any service station with gas!!

By HBCU

September 26, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

I must admit I never heard of a HBCU until I moved from the Western US to Atlanta. I somewhat understand the need for their establishment, but why do they still exist - tradition, history,???

By Carrie

September 26, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

KC & HBCU??? Why?

By Whatever

September 26, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

HBCU — are you saying they should shut down?? Why don’t they shut down Brigham Young? I understand the need for their establishment, but why does it still exist?

They still exist because they are institutions of higher learning… that’s why. My great-grandfather, grandfather, and father ALL GRADUATED from Morehouse, I went to Spelman (graduated in ‘86 with Honors), and my son plans to go to Morehouse in 2012.

HBCU’s still exist for the same reason Yale & Harvard still exist. They are HISTORICALLY Black Colleges… that doesn’t mean they are EXCLUSIVELY Black Colleges. There IS a difference.

(My apologies if I seem curt… when white people ask black folks “why” they have certain things, it ticks me off.) During the time when my great-grandfather couldn’t even APPLY to a white college, he had to go where he could and there is where he was embraced and loved. He passed that love onto his family.

HBCU’s are our legacy to our children. They were created out of necessity by people who only had tenacity, drive, ambition, and dreams. Why even ASK to dismantle something like that???

By SW

September 26, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

To HBCU @ 12:27

Your comment wreaks of stupidity and ignorance.

By K&K's Mom

September 26, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

SCSU Bulldogs… Enough Said

By Milton Anderson

September 26, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

HBCU…I was a proud member and starter (Inside Linebacker #63) for the 1971 Texas Southern University “Fighting” Tigers…This was the year we upset #1(Sheridan Poll) Tenn. St. that was led by the late “Jefferson Street” Joe Gilliam and Ed “Too Tall” Jones…As I rememeber, this was the only lost these men experienced during their careers at that great institution under Coach Meredith…Hard to beleive 37 years have gone by, time flys when you are…Keep the HBCU footbal alive…Thank-you…

By Chris

September 26, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

Better question is who cares about these games? Bad football at low level athletic universities.

By Derbygirl84

September 26, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

TS-TS-TS-TSU, go State - Class of 83 (nursing)

By Blue Devil

September 26, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

Seriously, being the best school in this so-called league is like being the smartest kid with down’s syndrome.

By E

September 26, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

chris, Blue Devil, KC

Why even post on this blog? Really, its for fan of HBCU schools. Do you have no life that you sit a your computer (where no one can see you) and be litte others?

By Whatever

September 26, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Why does AJC even open topics like this as blogs?? All is does is bring out the sheet heads. Sad reality is not one of the people typing racist crap would say something like that to a black mans face. Cowards.

By HBCU-never heard of this

September 26, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

Are all the HBCU attendees going to be cruising around down, wasting gas, having sexy time in public and creating an all around ruckus for ATL?

Just want to know if I should head for the mtns.

By brian

September 26, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

i wish you people that dont have a comment about hbcu’s would go to another forum, and please believe, if not for all the money and stealing schools like uga does, those star athletes would be at an HBCU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway……to the person that said that the atlanta classic was the best better watch nbc thanksgiving weekend.SSSSSSSSS U….SSSSSS U…..

By HBCU

September 26, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

“Whatever” and “SW” - my apologies. Being a recent transplant to the “south” a lot of this is new to me and I’m trying to learn and understand the history and culture.

That said your being “curt” and SW’s comment only shifts the perception and assumptions to reality!!!

By HBCU-never heard of this

September 26, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

HEY Whatever- anytime, Red Lobster Holcomb Bridge, no guns

By Blue Devil

September 26, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

Attention: The crowning of the Powder Puff champion will proceed immediately following the crowning of the HBCU champion. That is all.

By Whatever

September 26, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

HBCU - That’s YOUR perception and YOUR reality. You’re new to the South, so you don’t know that “we” have to justify our very existence to some people here. Don’t be offended, darling. Just know you moved to a land filled with landmines and that’s divided deeply by race. Black folks have always had to vigorously defend themselves - while we stand by and have whites call us paranoid and “overly sensitive” and tell us to “get over it”.

So with THAT being said… Welcome to Atlanta.

By skegeePrincess

September 26, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

T-U-S-K-E-G-E-E will carry the crown this weekend.

By Whatever

September 26, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Never heard of HBCU — it must make you feel like a real macho man to call a lady out to fight at a Red Lobster! A cheap restaurant for a cheap person. Like I said… you can call ANYONE out on a blog. My elderly grandmother is tough on the computer. You create no fear here dear. My husband played for the Jets for over 7 years — I don’t need a gun… I have him.

By HBCU-never heard of this

September 26, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

Are you saying you are a woman with a black mans face or what?

Confused in Dunwoody

By HBCU-never heard of this

September 26, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

fact of the matter is these teams/players cannot compete on the athletic, nor academic playing field with others outside of the HUBC. This is a racist org that needs to identify themselves with a conference or independent in the NCAA. Keep this “black” labeling up and nothing will improve.

By scott

September 26, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

Any Rattlers in the House? The clock is ticking before the weekend begins.

By johnny too good

September 26, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

I support that “Dirty Blue Defense” and those mighty Golden Rams from Albany State

Shouts out to the Tigers down at Savannah State

By Cobb County

September 26, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

I graduated from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In football, Southern competes in Division 1-AA (I forget the goofy new name for it) as part of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). I can’t speak for all schools and conferences, but Southern and most other SWAC schools face non-HBCU opponents on a yearly basis in their non-conference games. The SWAC may not be the SEC, but it is not grossly inferior to any other Division 1-AA conference.

I think some of the comments come from both hate and a lack of knowledge. I find it amusing that someone would be quick to call a SWAC or MEAC school “inferior” but would not say that same about predominantly-white institutions that happen to compete on the same level. To call schools like Southern, Grambling State, Florida A&M, Tennessee State, and the like “inferior” while not doing the same for other Division 1-AA schools such as Georgia Southern, McNeese State, Youngstown State, and the like is both backhanded and shortsighted. By the way, one of the schools in question in this weekend’s Classic (Tennessee State) is a member of the Ohio Valley Conference, which consists mainly of predominantly-white institutions.

I do not see any self-segregation or hatred. If anything, I see tradition. Taking race out of the equation, it is traditional for schools such as Southern, Grambling State, Jackson State, etc. to be in the same conference due to rivalry and proximity just as it is traditional for schools such as Georgia, Alabama, Florida, etc. to be in the same conference for similar reasons.

I am not going to call anyone a racist, but sometimes race tends to cloud logic for some folks.

By Rattler in NC

September 26, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

Well said Cobb County…… The Georgia Dome will be crawling with Rattlers this weekend. Tigers….be afraid, be very afraid. Why? Cause the Rattlers will STRIKE and STRIKE and STRIKE AGAIN!!!