Mark Bradley

By baloney

August 21, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Pretty much right on with the UGA fans. I find it pretty much acceptable for a younger student to mouth off during a game or after.But it is pretty silly for grandma and grandpa to mouth off about “them Dawgs” only while they are ahead.

By FLA DAWG

August 21, 2008 8:17 AM | Link to this

You might as well have painted a red target on your shirt Mark - though I agree with most of your comments.

The following blogs should be “interesting” to read.

By Call it Like it is

August 21, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

Hey Bradley,

Here are two words for you to Goggle:

F U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

By G. P. Burdell

August 21, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

There are just too many “Wal-Mart” UGA fans, meaning their only connection with the university is the UGA hat they bought at Wal-Mart.

By Call it Like it is

August 21, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

Hey Bradley,

Here are two words for you to Goggle:

F U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

By BSC

August 21, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

Nonsense spewed forth like a true eastern conference fan.

There is absolutely no way you could rank LSU behind Auburn and Georgia. Clearly has not been to a Sat night game in the slums of Baton Rouge.

By Fat Dawg

August 21, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

Just because I drank at the game don’t mean anything. I’m just there to watch us win cause it’s fun to be there. How can you not be excited to watch one of the best teams in the history of football? I don’t act like I’m in college. I don’t read those Tech books.

By UGA 3000

August 21, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

You may be accurate for the most part, but Tennessee has to be a number two. Having attented UGA and UT I know from experience.

By razorback_64

August 21, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

That is absolutely true. I went to the SEC championship game against Florida two years ago. The fans actually booed a 70 year old man because he had played for another SEC team 50 years ago. Talk about class…

By ABsgood

August 21, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

Neutral? Bradley, you are about as neutral as sulfuric acid. One can see your bias toward beloved Kentucky most basketball seasons, and more recently some football seasons. LSU “relatively polite”? Ask those on the busses about the “polite” sendoff they get when they leave Baton Rouge after beating those Tigers. Take off the blinders you got from the track in Louisville.

By Island Dawg

August 21, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

Thanks “Call it Like it is” - You just proved his point!

By unbiased opinion

August 21, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

No doubt about it…

GEORGIA FANS ARE THE WORST!

Just a bunch of trash talking people who feel they are better than everyone. The worst Georgia fans are the 25+ crowd.

By AltamahaDawg

August 21, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

Burdell, you need to work on your delivery a bit. Witty catchphrases tend to zing best, when not followed up by an explaination, as if nobody could have figured it out.

By Mark

August 21, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

I would rank UGA and Bama #1a and #1b….having experienced both of these places, I can speak from experience.

By SECCoachnDallas

August 21, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

You must not like living im Georgia?

By mike

August 21, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

You are an idiot. How can UGA fans not be number 1.

By Furman Bisher's diaper

August 21, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

The worst UGA fans are the ones who didnt go to college there.. sidewalk alumni! LOSERS

By wde

August 21, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

Hey Mark, how about you spend just one day on some of the main online Auburn blogs (al.com, auburnundercover.com) and then compare them to the UGA comments you get here, and tell me who you think should rank higher.

I know, I know, #3 is a pretty honest ranking for Georgia, right? Wrong. You do it by giving what they would consider a back-hand compliment. Paid to be neutral? Then what gives about your stupid aggregation blog and calling Urban “Urban Crier”. You’re a joke.

By Native Atlantan

August 21, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

Mark you’re such a joke. Is this the only way the AJC can attract people to its website? To bait them like this?

Everyone in the college football world knows the most obnoxious fans are UGA fans. Every national poll on this topic always has them in the top 3. How long has it been since UGA won a national championship? That’s right, keep barking…

I travel all over the southeast and the east coast to college football games, but I won’t ever go back to Athens. It’s just no fun.

By Jim

August 21, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

I definitely agree with Georgia fans being obnoxious, but Florida State fans have them beat by a mile!

By Not Even Close

August 21, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

UGA should be #1 by far. Too many obnoxious fans who’ve never stepped foot on campus. 1980 is long gone by the way.

By Tom Davis

August 21, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Florida fans think football was invented in the 90’s. Plus a majority of their fans are a bunch of yanks from NY and NJ area and they tell you so. Imagine that…a yank thinking he knows it all.

By AFnPC

August 21, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

Bradley, are you kidding me you Homer?! Auburn fans for harrassing bammers?! Go to al.com/auburnfootball and read the bammers that reak of dawgdom in their relentless lashing of everything Auburn and then you might begin to understand why you see lightning in the distance! You’re probably the type of guy that would call the cops if I smacked my son on the butt!

By ugasuxdik

August 21, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

UGA is the biggest bunch of liquor store clerk trailer trash knuckle draggers in the south. UF is the biggest bunch of tight jeans prics in the south and lsu are a bunch of swamp guinea aholes. The sec as a whole has an IQ of 3 not counting Vandy.

By Another Ed

August 21, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

This is completely subjective. Everyone realizes that. For most folks, the fans we find the most obnoxious are probably those that root for the team we hate most. That said, I have been treated poorly at UGA and FLA, been treated well at Miss State and LSU (back when they were no good) and seen fans that support the same team I do act in an incredibly obnoxious manner (Bama). In short, most teams have some group of bad fans. Realize that when going to a game.

By George P

August 21, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

Can’t you get anything right Bradley? UGA is #1 in all categories! Obnoxious fans, delusional fans, drunk fans, wal-mart fans…..

By ADL

August 21, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

This is the list on which UGA is truly #1.

Wal-mart UGA fans says it all.

By Sicem

August 21, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Aint nothing finer in the land than a drunk obnoxious Georgia fan!! GOOOOO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tennessee fans however are the worst period.

By David

August 21, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Mark, it is an interesting subject but everything depends on when they are winning and losing because ALL fans become more obnoxious when they win. You made that point with Alabama. And Georgia has become more obnoxious as the program has come back. One item on Georgia though….you are in Atlanta and surrounded by them. It would be different of you were in say, Birmingham.

The list is fairly accurate however you are totally wrong on LSU. They are clearly number 2. It is just that Baton Rouge is so far away and you aren’t exposed to them very often.

By reality check

August 21, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

There is not a fan of any SEC school that can rival Terence Moore when it comes to obnoxious.

By Fe

August 21, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

No arugment with the ranking for jean shorts and mullets @ UF. Surprised though UT managed to fly under the radar. Even more surpirsed where LSU ranked in your opinion. I thought Auburn fans were far more civil than either UT or LSU. But hey, you’re the expert. Let the season begin! Here we come, CUM. Tebow of Nazareth, look out!

By KR

August 21, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

Mark,

I seriously doubt that you’ve been to a game in all 12 stadiums. I have friends who have attended each of the SEC schools and your impression is completely different ours.

It seems more like a list of your own personal biases.

By AllVOL

August 21, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

I agree with just about everything you said here, with one exception. UGAy fans have got to be the most obnoxious fans and I would say run a close second to the Gaytors. I have lived here for 12 years and it’s nauseating to have to listen to these two team’s fans.

As a Tennessee fan, I would not step foot into The Bog simply because of how the Gaytors’ fans treat the fans from opposing teams. A football game is simply not worth risking your life.

By Wesley

August 21, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

FLORIDA FANS WEAR JORTS

Blog Over.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

I used to think Auburn fans were about the best. I don’t anymore. But maybe that’s just me.

By twodawgs

August 21, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Sure are a lot of Techmite responses on this topic!

By ADL

August 21, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Sicem @8:41,

“Drunk obnoxious Georgia fan” is just being redundant.

By Old Dog...

August 21, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Hello Mark, I am afraid that I agree with your comments so much, I am using an alias to protect my identity in this post. That should concern both of us. A couple of points: (1) You are absolutely correct in that is is sad that a lot of people can not appear to enjoy the game unless there is alcohol involved. There is at one place you can tailgate where no alcohol is allowed, and that is the Campus View Church of Christ located on Lumpkin Street across from the track. I have parked there for years and it is very family friendly. (2) You are also correct in saying Alabama is irrelevant; however, every Alabama fan I know is still screaming, “We got 12! We got Saban! Saban Nation! We won the National Championship in recruiting!” Hopefully, there will be enough Bama fans to read this, and will a clue that they are indeed no longer relevant! Thanks Mark!

By Clay

August 21, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

As a Georgia grad, I can admit we get obnoxious. However, the most obnoxious fans, by a long shot, are Auburn fans. Up here in metro Atlanta we focus on teams like Tech and UT; but, I used to live in Columbus and down there, it’s all Auburn. Auburn sits about 40 miles from Columbus and everyone down there walks around saying “War Eagle” as an answer to any question or as their greeting on the telephone. Most of those folks have no connection at all to Auburn except that it’s 40 miles down the road.

There are a fair number of Auburn grads/fans up here—and most I know believe Auburn is the end-all, be-all of college athletics; but, if they went to Columbus, they would fit right in.

By uga should be 1 or 2

August 21, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

simply because they never win!

Being obnoxious is worse when your team doesn’t win! 2 SEC football titles in the past 25 years is nothing to get so damn proud about dawggies. When your program gets better, and maybe it will this year, feel free to get louder and more pompous… but until then, please keep you mouth shut. Beating Ga Tech every year doesn’t make you a national powerhouse. UGA is 7-6 in their last 13 SEC games!

By lojak

August 21, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

Hey UGA 3000

So you think UT should be Number 2 since you have attended both UGA and UT…Well, did you notice that the UT band played the Georgia fight song to the UGA section before the game, just as we do for all visiting teams. Thats called “class” not obnoxious you fool.

By sambo

August 21, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

uga fans are the most obnoxius, arrogant, trash talking people in college football. i hate you all, go away.

By SEC Rules

August 21, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

We all have our good fans and our obnoxious fans, let’s be real. But I have a question for “Call it Like it is” - I can’t find the Goggle website??????

By reality check

August 21, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

Mark, one thing that would lend some substance to this blog is a requirement that bloggers identify the school they support.

That would provide an objective measure to the question you pose.

So far the most obnoxious seem to be from a non SEC school, Georgia Tech.

By What the?

August 21, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

Mark it seems that you are the only one with anything bad to say about Auburn fans. I guess you had to put someone above your favorite team.

By SEC Rules

August 21, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

We all have our good fans and our obnoxious fans, let’s be real. But I have a question for “Call it Like it is” - I can’t find the Goggle website??????

By Clay

August 21, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

Mark Bradley is the most obnoxious and least knowledgeable sports writer in America! There is no competition on most obnoxious fans. They are Tennessee Volunteer fans. They are fat, rude, uneducated, filthy mouthed, violent hillbilles!

By tim

August 21, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

you’ve gottta be out of your mind!… LSU fans are in the middle of the pack?… the visiting team (such as Auburn) has to wear their football helmets when entering or exiting the field to protect themselves from bottles, rocks, flasks, and a myriad of other projectiles raining down on the players… i recall one instance when a GA fan visited a port-a-potty and it was tipped over, rolled down an embankment, breaking the guy’s arm and when he crawled out covered in sewage, the LSU fans beat and kicked him mercilessly… no, there’s no way you can be worse than that.. and as for the Auburn/Alabama rivalry, yes many AU fans are crowing because the onslaught of Bama nation for years has absolutely insufferable… and it always goes back to..”well, if we had the Bear, then…”

By The Alpha Male

August 21, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Hey “Call it Like it Is”…. here’s a word for you to Google:

SPELLCHECK

By Cashews Clay

August 21, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Ranking obnoxious sports columnists

3. Furman Bisher: Crotchety old fart.

2. Terence Moore: I wonder if he watches sports sometimes. Also a race baiter.

1. Mark Bradley: Google those two words and come up with “talentless hack”.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

KR, I have indeed been to at least one game in each of the 12 stadiums. Plus Georgia-Florida in Jacksonville and Auburn-Alabama when it used to be in Birmingham. Plus the SEC championship game in both Birmingham and the Dome. You might disagree with my conclusions, but you should know that I’m not in the habit of making things up.

By Pat

August 21, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

GEORGIA FANS ARE BY FAR THE WORST!

By Pat

August 21, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

GEORGIA FANS ARE BY FAR THE WORST!

By office space

August 21, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

I agree with most everything you’ve said here Mark but I have to give an honorable mention to South Carolina. It was bad enough when they had a losing streak but after winning last yaer it’s like a million Steve Spurriers cloned and walking around yelling like homeless alcohlics that just found God. They don’t call them Cocks for nothin. Go DAWGS! castrate the Cocks!!

By Hilary

August 21, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

I think this Florida girl just got reminded to keep her mouthy trap shut a bit more lest I feed into this reputation founded primarily on our Walmart Gator fans and Jersey boys coming out of South Florida.

By Gator Girl

August 21, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

I think this Florida girl just got reminded to keep her mouthy trap shut a bit more lest I feed into this reputation founded primarily on our Walmart Gator fans and Jersey boys coming out of South Florida.

By Jag Dawg

August 21, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

Island Dawg, you stole my point. As someone who lives in S. GA., there is no way in hell there are bigger jerks than the FL fans here. Most are band wagon jumpers. I respect Tim Tebow for being a model kid and great athelete, but FL fans about make you want to puke when they start talking about him.

By Hmmmmm

August 21, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

Just a college football fan who has been to several events in the southeast.

IMHO UGA fans are the MOST obnoxious fans in the southeast. They seem to think that they should win every game no matter what! The general IQ is very suspect, and I don’t care how old the fans are, young or old they are the WORST!

By reality check

August 21, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

Sisyphus would be insulted by being called a South Carolina fan. He was mean as a snake, but not delusional.

Did you mean to say Sissypuss?

By Barry

August 21, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

Florida’s fans are far and away the most obnoxious. But Georgia’s fans aren’t far behind - and this is from a real, degree-holding Georgia alumn, NOT a “sidewalk alumn” or “Wal-Mart fan.”

Bradley is dead on: Too many of Georgia’s older fans spend all morning getting drunk on North Campus, and all afternoon acting like absolute jerks. The only reason Florida is worse is that their jerks aren’t limited to older fans. Their fans of all ages are drunk, tactless loonies - and not just on game day.

By Jackson

August 21, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

With coaches like Spurrier and Meyer, Gator fans are bound to be obnoxious!! It’s the mullet and jean shorts crowd!!

By mom3

August 21, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Right. Georgia fans are the only ones that drink to excess at football games. I guess that Auburn fan that I saw throw up at the game last year had food poisoning. Those hot dogs will kill ya.

By davonelson

August 21, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Bradley, you need to get out of your office and mingle once and a while. It would allow you to see things more realistically. I have lived all over the south for fifty years and can tell you that Georgia fans rank number one in being obnoxious not just at ball games but in every day life as well.

By Jackson

August 21, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

With coaches like Spurrier and Meyer, Gator fans are bound to be obnoxious!! It’s the mullet and jean shorts crowd!!

By Mark

August 21, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Clay, if TN fans are hillbillies, I would not know what to call GA fans. Hard to argue when your “poster child” of a fan is a bald, old redneck with a Bulldog painted on his head. NO ADULT SHOULD EVER WEAR FACE/HEAD PAINT.

By SEC fan

August 21, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

As usual Mark Bardley is way off base on everything. Why does the AJC keep this incompetent amateur on staff anyhow? I’ll correct his obvious mistakes and rank the correct order for most obnoxious SEC fans. 1. Tennessee (this ain’t even close!) 2. Florida 3. LSU 4. Auburn 5. South Carolina 6. Georgia 7. Alabama 8. Kentucky (#1 in basketball!!!) 9. Arkansas 10. Ole Miss 11. Mississippi State 12. Vanderbilt

By Dawg 'n IT

August 21, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

This topic was fun while in college but come on…

Isn’t it subjective as to which school has the worst fans? Does any school/team actually teach it’s fans how to be obnoxious with an official Obnoxious Camp? Every school has fight songs, cheers, and other traditions to root for the home team and root against the hated rival(s).

It’s the SAME everywhere when it comes down to behavior. The only thing that varies greatly is the scale of that behavior. Just look at the order of Mark’s rankings. You can clearly see the larger capacity stadiums and/or more traditionally successful programs towards the top of the list while the smaller traditionally insignificant schools towards the bottom. About the only schools out of place are Arkansas and LSU. Flip flop the two and it’s hard to argue.

Look at it from another angle. If this blog were about basketball guess who would probably be in the Top 2…Kentucky and Florida and that would only be due to them being the current top 2 basketball programs in the SEC (Florida with recent success, Kentucky with their storied history).

There is so much personal experience and opinion that goes into ranking “bad fans” that it’s pointless to do so. Anyone can have a bad experience with any fan at any venue. Heck, I’d say fans have more problems with their own than they do with another school if you look at social interaction 365 days a year.

Me personally? If I had to rank the conference I’d put Florida #1 but I’ll be honest and tell you why. Florida is UGA’s most hated rival. We play a neutral site game with a 50/50 split and have some serious venom and history behind the series. All of those factors means that if a Florida fan and a Ole Miss fan do the exact same obnoxious thing, I’d think the Florida fan was worse because that team is more meaningful to me as a UGA fan than the Rebels. It’s that simple. For the record Florida fans, I work with and have known many Gators in my day and all have been great people as far as I know and I’ve never been taunted during this 20 year run of dominance in the series.

To sum it all up, no matter how you want to define demographics, you’re going to find good and bad everywhere so stop trying to label one “something” as worse than other “somethings”.

By office space

August 21, 2008 9:00 AM | Link to this

sorry guys what I meant to do was add an ammendment to their ranking.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Ten years ago, I’d probably have put South Carolina No. 3 or even No. 2. But I’ve kind of come around on those folks, and I really do admire their persistence. And no other group — not even Auburn fans — has to put up with such terrible traffic at every single home game.

By hahaha

August 21, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

I seriously think UGA is #1. I mean comon, 99% of UGA fans DIDN’T go to UGA. For that matter, 99% of UGA fans didn’t graduated HIGH SCHOOL. Oh, and for all you UGA fans I shall explain my comment. 99% means for every 100 people only 1 of you actually graduated high school. High school is a place you go to build on the things you would have learned if you had finished middle school.

By office space

August 21, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

I think I need therapy, I’m wondering why we, The Dawgs, aren’t #1 here.

By Rick B

August 21, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Sorry, but any poll of this nature that has UT fans at 7 is freaking RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!!! Being born in Kentucky and living in Georgia doesn’t qualify you on this. Try living in Tennessee Bradley!!

By DestinEagle

August 21, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

I am a Georgia Southern Fan and spend part of my year in Destin Florida…the R&R capital of the SEC.

Personally, I hate them all…half never went to the school they “live and die for”.

But hands down…with 100% certainty…the absolute worst is:

LSU

I could fill a coffee table book of stories and pictures from down here at the beach.

By THEO

August 21, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

The most obnoxious thing about gator fans is all the jean shorts. You would think Gainsville was sponsored by Levi’s. They should tell the ladies down there that they come in different sizes for a reason!

By Voice of Reason

August 21, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Just from personal experience… You got Florida right. Alot of parents I know down there went to UF, then there kids who could only get into the local community college or none at all are the worst fans in the SEC. Parent alums ok though. Auburn…never had a problem there. As a visitor I have always been treated with class. Funny about the motorcycles reaving after they beat us. LSU…needs to be MUCH higher. It’s the only place I’ve been called “Tiger (or anything) Bait” to my face 1,000 times and there is nothing worse than a drunken cajun on Saturday Night. Tennessee…only place I’ve been spit on or someone tried to run over a whole crowd in their 4 Runner (including their own fans). Other than those, I’ve been treated with class. South Carolina…funniest fans for the reasons you noted. Of course, the worst single treatment I got was there after Quincy Carter threw those interceptions. It was a long walk throuh the fair grounds. UGA…yeah, there are alot of 25-35 who think because they CAN drink and act like they are in college that they SHOULD drink and act like they are in college. All the tailgaters and folks around me at the games are class though.

By Jim

August 21, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

UGAY has the most annoying fans ever. Being overrated every year really doesn’t help, but the fans bring the program to an all time low. You can see the lack of class everywhere, including the endzone in jacksonville last year. That move will ruin UGAY this year. Urban will win by 30.

By Toby Miller

August 21, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Dawgs fans are pretty obnoxious because year in and year out they ALWAYS think they are better than they are. They usually ALWAYS end up finding out that they are are not.

By check the reality

August 21, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

Good point reality check.

I support UGA, and we are the most obnoxious…

By AVinnieD

August 21, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

I’m gonna have to go with the Gators on this one. I have never seen so many people cheer when players get injured. Many of them will still boast about breaking Tyrone Prothro’s leg. I live in Gainesville and watch games with them and it is common to see group high fives when players on opposing teams go down. Of course if I had to wear orange and blue, I probably wouuldn’t have any class either.

By TS Fay

August 21, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

LSU is the worst. The hicks from the Red Stick are an abomination. No Class. You can’t spell LoU*S*y without L-S-U.

Thanks for your support.

By DHD

August 21, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

There is no question that it is the Dawg fans. When they win, red pickups with rebel flags and shotguns show up on Saturday night. Tobacco spitting rednecks yelling “how bout them dawgs?” It is a total embarrassment to education and the state of Georgia.

By Football Traveler

August 21, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

I’ve been to games in probably a dozen D-1A football stadiums, mainly in the SEC and ACC. There are obnoxious fans everywhere and there are nice fans (actual alumni most of the time) everywhere that appreciate you visiting their campus for a game and will share a beer or burger with you…

And then there’s Athens, where people pee off the bleachers onto crowds below, where drunk adults throw beer bottles at 10 yr old girls wearing the opposing team’s colors, where 85 yr old ladies curse alongside 3 generations of fans with no college degrees, and all that’s on a good day. Athens, where it’s no fun to attend, except to look at all the sorority girls who are more concerned with looking phenomenal than watching football.

By Southern by the grace of God

August 21, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

It would help if Mark Bradley actually attended and SEC football game.

The most obnoxious fans by far are Tennessee fans. LSU is next. Florida third, Auburn fourth.

Tennessee fans are the drunkest and most uncuth in all of college football. I’ve never seen one that actually went to college anywhere ot at least they don’t seem intelligent enough to have ever gone to college.

When it comes to being drunk, South Carlina fans rank way up there. But they are a much happier drunk than Tennessee fans who scream every vile word possible at fans of the other team and usually want to fight. Florida fans like to fight, too.

If we were ranking basketball fans, Kentucky would be the number one most obnoxious.

By **the finger**

August 21, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

i’m glad i smart enough to get into an ACC school. SEC people - ewwee!

By Damon

August 21, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Florida fans have to be the worst fans by far of any team in the SEC, sorry UF but its true. And truthfully 99% of the time its the students at the game that give the other fans a bad name.

By GatorG

August 21, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Bradley, I appreciate that you’ve been to games at every stadium. So have I, but the difference is that I was in the stands, not in the pressbox eating a buffet lunch and watching other games on the TV.

I’m also willing to admit that I’m not objective enough to rank UF. I can say, though, that we definitely have the loudest stadium. Call that obnoxious if you want to.

All that said, my top rankings are:

By Jim

August 21, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Fat dawg-

You are the reason that everyone thinks UGAY is a bunch of stupid rednecks. You..and because they are. Best teams in football history? ANother stupid redneck comment. UGAY has 1 national championship. They are a joke!!!!!!!!!!

By Sarah

August 21, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

How right you are about the FL and GA fans. I am an ARK fan (and I agree with you about ARK too). When I went to the GA/ARK game a couple of years ago, I had a GA fan who was at least 70 come up to me and berate me for having on an ARK shirt. And at my age (60) I just told him to shut up and walked away.

By Gwen

August 21, 2008 9:14 AM | Link to this

As an ACC alumna working at an SEC school, I have to say that ALL SEC fans except Vandy’s are r-u-d-e. But my most vivid memory is of a fellow alumna of my Alma Mater and me rescuing an older lady from being TRAMPLED TO DEATH by her own side’s “fans” because they were so eager to put their broad butts into the tiny stand seats at their home stadium. That said it all to me. PS - Thanks, Fat Dawg. You proved the stereotype to the world - be a drunk and don’t read books. Great.

By TS Fay

August 21, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

LSU fans are the worst!

The Hicks from the Red Stick are an abomination!

Few teeth. Zero class.

You can’t spell LoUSy without LSU.

By aaron

August 21, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

florida fans are the most obnoxious, hands down. one of my best friends all my life is a UF fan, and i can’t stand his guts on game day. blue jean shorts anyone? plus, that stupid gator clap makes me want to slap every idiot thats ever done that in my face.

on the other hand, i love UGA but we’re at the top of the list as well. a few years ago at a game in athens, another dawg fan right next to me was so drunk that he tried to pick a fight with me, and not 2 seconds later he decided that he wanted to start a cheer with me? so the alcohol thing is a real problem. besides that, the ideal “we’re the best thing ever” mindset of most UGA fans is very annoying. we can’t win national titles every year, so stop acting like we got screwed out of it every year!

By Thomas

August 21, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

I believe LSU fans are the worse. I am a Gator fan and I think gator fans are laid back ompared to others such as Alabama, LSU and Georgia. Georgia fans get really upset when you remind them they are just an average team.

By AU_Ken

August 21, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Auburn fans #2? You’ve got to be kidding, right? Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee fans are ALL more obnoxious than Auburn fans…mostly because they have a large contingent of “joe six-pack” fans who pull for the team because it has their state’s name on the school. Most Auburn fans actually went to school there or have family connections to people who went to school there (simliar to GA Tech fans).

Oh, and Tennessee has to be #2 in my mind (I agree with Florida #1) just because of how obnoxious it is to hear Rocky Top over and over….

By The General Feeling

August 21, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

You really “pegged” the Bama fans. Good one. I enjoy seeing the Georgia adults in their khaki pants and starched button-downs…and vomit. Lots of vomit last year at Neyland in the first half, by the way.

By AU_Ken

August 21, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Auburn fans #2? You’ve got to be kidding, right? Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee fans are ALL more obnoxious than Auburn fans…mostly because they have a large contingent of “joe six-pack” fans who pull for the team because it has their state’s name on the school. Most Auburn fans actually went to school there or have family connections to people who went to school there (similar to GA Tech fans).

Oh, and Tennessee has to be #2 in my mind (I agree with Florida #1) just because of how obnoxious it is to hear Rocky Top over and over….

By Everlasting Dawg

August 21, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

You have got to be kidding me. I stay silent as much as possible but this is so absurd I have to sy something. We are a week from Div 1 kicking off, and 3 days from div 2 kick off and this is the best topic we could come up with. This is a pointless and mind numbingly ignorant topic.

By Bill in Sandy Springs

August 21, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Vanderbilt: The best thing about Vandy is its academics. The worst thing about Vandy fans is their insistence in hitting you over the head with those academics.”

There nothing worse than having a conversation about football and somebody counters with the old line, “our school has better academics than yours”.(very childish AND STUPID) Your 4-7 team does not get a pass because of your good education.

However the few Vandy fans that I know are not like that. Most of them are kind of INDIFFERENT. They are thrilled if they actually win but I don’t think they are bitter about their situation like say Georgia Tech fans. Stop telling me about your salary when we are talking about football. Your team still sux.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

Far be it from me to defend any Gator, but isn’t this jean shorts thing getting old?

By Haywood Jablowme

August 21, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

Judging by the garbage littering the end zone in Tuscaloser at the conclusion of the UGA/Bama game last season, I would have to rank the Bammers as the #1 worst fans……totally classless.

By Real Rankings

August 21, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

The bottom 4 are irrelevant but heres how they should actually be ranked:

By Tom

August 21, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

A yapping Dawg that won’t shut up is much worse than someone saying WAR EAGLE. The worst though, are Bama fans, who never went there, still thinking the BEAR is coming back to save their world.

By Gratfuldawghead

August 21, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

Sorry…I developed a bad drinking habit watching the DAWGS during the Goff years! I saw us lose to VANDY at Homecoming! Now they are soooo exciting to watch drinking helps my nerves! Have a drink on me!

GO DAWGS!

By Cocksure

August 21, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

As a Gamecock, I’m a little surprised (but honored) we were ranked #6, but I could see where the Gamecock nation’s “delusions of granduer” could be pretty obnoxious.

Here’s my top three.

Dawg fans. Go to a game in Athens and you are likely to see numerous fist fights spilling out in to the streets of downtown Athens after the game … embarrassing.

By gary

August 21, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

I really think, without question, that we LSU fans are the nicest in the league.

By timthebrave

August 21, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

This article was annoying. There are good people that root for all of these teams and there are annoying people that root for all of these teams. Just keep it clean and talk about the teams and don’t make it personal. I have had good experiences with people from all of these teams. I don’t let drunk obnoxious people ruin my good time. As far as the person that said Athen is not fun…..excuse me…what??? It must have ruined your good time when your team got beat. Can’t wait for the season! Gooo Dawgs!

By Meme

August 21, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

The only SEC stadium that I haven’t been to is LSU. My husband and I go to a lot of games and he said he would not go back there because of the fans. Must be really bad.

By Voice of Reason

August 21, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

Mark, The jean short thing would get old if I could make one trip to Florida and see my relatives wearing something other than jean shorts, Gator jersey or Wal Mart t-shirt, and phat gold chains. Otherwise I would agree with you.

By TS Fay

August 21, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

Mark,

Once and for all, please tell these yahoos that it’s a totally baseless argument that : if you’re not an ALUM, you can’t be a FAN!

TAXPAYERS pay most of the freight for state colleges and universities.

Also: who cares where you buy your gear? How do you know if it’s from Wal Mart? Are you still a cashier?

Thanks for your support.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

Maybe I’ve just caught LSU folks on particularly good days. Or maybe I’m just a pushover for a coach who tells the media, “Have a great day.”

By Doodad

August 21, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Looks more like the rankings at seasons end.

By BAMMAR

August 21, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Mark, Have you ever been to Obnoxiousville? Tutorsee fans are the worst. And Nobody Drinks more Before, During, and After a game than LSwho fans.

By How 'bout them Dawgs!!!!

August 21, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

You have got to be kidding me, he is dead on about the Gators. I moved here to Florida (not exactly by choice) in 1989 and they are the most irritating fans in the world! They did not even join bragging rights in college football until Spurrier and even then Georgia still leads them in the series, don’t even get me started on the whiner Spurrier! The Gators need to get a grip on reality and look at their history before running their mouths. Georgia fans have a right to be obnoxious, if you call that, we have a history and loyal fan base to be proud of. Not all of our fans get drunk and rowdy so be careful when you post that. Our Coach’s have been some of the best, can the rest of you say that?

By Ray

August 21, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

My daughter would put TN at #1 after having the gash sewed up in her scalp from the beer bottle which was thrown at her after Auburn beat the Vols. TN…. a bunch of hicks with skinned knuckles to prove it.

By GatorG

August 21, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

Yes, I’ve never understood the jeans shorts thing. My assumption is that it was the only insult UGA fans could come up with when they were losing ever year.

The strange thing to me is that it seems to be an attempt to call Florida fans rednecks.

HELLO??!!

I grew up in Florida, and I’ve lived here in Georgia for almost 20 years. I’ve also traveled to every state in the Southeast. Let’s rank states for rednecks:

(I’d add Louisiana, but they’re a different type altogether)

Florida isn’t even close! It’s time to make up some new attempted insult.

By Jarvis

August 21, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

8th? LSU has the MOST obnoxious fans. I’m not saying that as an insult either. Good for them, but they are by far the most rutheless I’ve encountered.

By staugdawg

August 21, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Ed,

Any perspective?

By Craig

August 21, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

LSU fans are top. No ifs ands or buts about it. I do have to say UGA fans have rapidly moved up the charts since Richt came. No national titles but the arrogance…

By How bout them Dawgs!!!!

August 21, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

You have got to be kidding me, he is dead on about the Gators. I moved here to Florida (not exactly by choice) in 1989 and they are the most irritating fans in the world! They did not even join bragging rights in college football until Spurrier and even then Georgia still leads them in the series, don’t even get me started on the whiner Spurrier! The Gators need to get a grip on reality and look at their history before running their mouths. Georgia fans have a right to be obnoxious, if you call that, we have a history and loyal fan base to be proud of. Not all of our fans get drunk and rowdy so be careful when you post that. Our Coach’s have been some of the best, can the rest of you say that?

By StrayGator

August 21, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

From my experience, fans are more obnoxious when their teams are on the rise but haven’t won a championship or gotten the recognition they think they deserve yet. If you think UF fans are obnoxious now, you should have seen us when I arrived on campus in the early ’80s. We wrote the book on being unruly. I think we’ve mellowed quite a bit since then, but when some young kid gets enough alcohol in him, there’s no telling what he’ll do, regardless of what school you’re talking about. I used to live just a few blocks from Florida Field in the mid-90s, and from what I saw no fans were more obnoxious and full of themselves than LSU. In general though, across the board in the SEC it’s the younger guys and the ones who never went to college who get liquored up and give the fans of their schools a bad name. I love the atmosphere at Florida-Georgia in Jax with the fans jawing back and forth at each other, but in the end we should all have fun and remember that as wound up as we get every year it’s really just a game. One thing we can all agree on is the SEC rules!

By GADawg#47

August 21, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

The comment about alcohol was a low blow. Any SEC football game you go to is going to have alcohol involved. If any school should be singled out for its alcohol it should be LSU. LSU fans are rude, drunk, and violent.

By Rinny

August 21, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

What do you guy folks expect from a mangy ole nutt-licking dog - Class? Come on people, get real!!! They’re just dogs!!!

By How bout them Dawgs!!!!

August 21, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

You have got to be kidding me, he is dead on about the Gators. I moved here to Florida (not exactly by choice) in 1989 and they are the most irritating fans in the world! They did not even join bragging rights in college football until Spurrier and even then Georgia still leads them in the series, don’t even get me started on the whiner Spurrier! The Gators need to get a grip on reality and look at their history before running their mouths. Georgia fans have a right to be obnoxious, if you call that, we have a history and loyal fan base to be proud of. Not all of our fans get drunk and rowdy so be careful when you post that. Our Coach’s have been some of the best, can the rest of you say that?

By Paula

August 21, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

A LOT of “fans” who attend these games NEVER went to college, unless there is a University of NASCAR.

I’ve been to all 12 stadiums several times and the Gators are No. 1— in being obnoxious!

By gtforever

August 21, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Good Grief! No contest! The UGAY fans are the WORST fans in the country!

By DawgsRule

August 21, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Most obnoxious fans in the SEC? Easily the fans at florida—a bunch of arrogant, redneck type fans who act like they invented the game. Tennessee’s rednecks are almost as bad, but a lot dumber.

By Drums Please

August 21, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

… and the winner, by a landslide is…… #1. Tennessee

Tennessee and Auburn fans share a common demoninator, historically, there is little else going on in their region of the world.

By Gainesville, GA

August 21, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

TENNESSEE FANS ARE THE MOST OBNOXIOUS FANS!!!!!

Tennessee redneck hillbillies are the drunkest, fattest, goobers anywhere! They cuss and have no manners at all! Can any of them even read? I’d also suggest that Tennessee fans go to the dentist and get fitted for dentures. And please Volunteers - QUIT urinating in public!!!!

Auburn fans are the most likely to pick a fight. They are second!

Florida fans are the third most obnoxious! Cut-off blue jean shorts have been out of style since the late 70s but they never got the message. Gator girls have a minimum 12 tattoos each.

LSU fans are fourth. They are loud, drunk and mean but they can cook a great tailgate!

To round out the top five: KENTUCKY! The few football fans they have are pot smoking air heads!

By TELLITLIKEITIS

August 21, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

First of all, I am a diehard Georgia Bulldog fan. Ok, so now all of you people who hate Georgia so much can say what you want. I don’t care. And to those idiots that keep using that UGAY garbage, GROW UP LOSERS! That is so old. In my opinion, Florida fans are BY FAR THE MOST OBNOXIOUS not only in the SEC, but in any sport/school in the nation. I live in Florida, having moved here from Georgia 3 years ago. I knew this was “enemy territory”, but I didn’t, and still don’t care. Gator fans were obnoxious even before Spurrier. They just became worse when that LOSER came on the scene. When I think of CLASSLESS, I think of Spurrier first of all. Meyer is right there with Steve on that word. Every school is going to have obnoxious fans. At every game there are going to be some jerks drinking and acting stupid. Florida is #1, and Tennesee is #2, and I mean these two schools are neck and neck. For the last two years, Tennessee has come down here for the Outback Bowl. And each time, I went to see pep rallies at the beach. Two years ago, Penn State and Wisconsin last year. For the last two years a Tennessee fan started some crap when they saw I was decked out in my Dawg shirt and cap. And for those two years, when these idiots started something, I finished it. Two years ago, my girlfriend was standing near me and was cheering for the Penn State cheerleaders. This loudmouth Tennessee fan said some things totally unnecessary, and he wouldn’t shut up. After we had a verbal go, I finally just told him to GO F—- HIMSELF. Off he went like a coward. Last year, this drunk Vol fan had to run his mouth. This guy was worse than the first one. In addition to being sauced, the dumba— had obviously never heard of a washrag and soap. Anyway, he kept on and on, my temper went up, and I threatened to kick his butt. He shut up, sulking like a coward with his tail between his legs. I don’t have any problem with Auburn, Alabama, or LSU fans, just the Vol and Gator fans.

By Jarvis

August 21, 2008 9:41 AM | Link to this

You’re not traditional rednecks. You’re cheezeballs. The only reason you wear jean shorts during the fall is because it’s still to hot in Gainsveille to put on the orange and blue Zoobas.

By Sunny

August 21, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

You forgot South Carolina’s pathetic attempts to be called “Carolina”. snicker

By Lon

August 21, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Hi, I’m Mark Bradley. My editors needed a column to prove my relevance in a dying medium, so I posted this garbage I wrote while watching the Olympics last night.

Please enjoy this column that is supposed to get fans all “riled up” before the season. Ignore the fact that any student who has been to any SEC games during their college tenure could probably write the same column, except much better. Also ignore my haircut in my publicity photo at the top.

By Drew

August 21, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Way to stir the pot Mark, is this what we needed only 8 days from opening day?!?!?

I THOUGHT WE WERE ALL SUPPOSED TO PLAY TOGETHER IN THE SEC??!!!

GO DAWGS BABY!

By Amazed

August 21, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Nice article. You’ve managed to p@#$ off the fanbase of most SEC schools. That ought to be a positive move for newspaper sales and a tremendous career move. :)

By Randy

August 21, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

UK number 11? Next time you are in Lexington try wearing the opposing teams colors. Tell me what you think then.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Kentucky fans are “pot-smoking airheads”? No wonder they take losing so well.

Guess they switch to Red Bull during basketball season.

By Atomo

August 21, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Kentuckian… what can you say about football. Just shut the hell up. At least until basketball season gets here. Sheesh… what does a Kentuckian know about football other than LOSER. Googe that.

By dale

August 21, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

LSU is far and away the leader in this thread. I live in Orlando, attend all USC games, home and away. Have been to every SEC venue at one point in time, and the Korndogs are impossible to deal with on anything to do with football. Gators are second. For the most part, the Bulldogs at least understand the word logic.

By KR

August 21, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

OK Mark, I’ll concede that you’ve been to a game in all 12 venues. I’m sorry if I offended you.

But I have to wonder if your visits were confined to the press box or the luxury boxes. Otherwise, I question your powers of observation.

You do seem to have a particular problem with Auburn (my alma mater). Most of my non-AU friends have always ranked us middle of the pack on the obnoxiousness scale, somewhere between UT and SC. Would you like to elaborate on why you think differently?

By Fanman

August 21, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

My top 5 worst fans:

By D.Ellis

August 21, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Nothing shows class like when UGA went one and Done at BAMA last year and the team got pelted with whiskey bottles as they celebrated.

By Dawg4Life

August 21, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

LSU have the best food? If you like eating bottom dwellers from stagnant creeks mixed some mushy rice concoction…

We UGA people do drink to much though, I will admit that. Kind of makes you wonder why the LSU food doesn’t taste better…

Mark, we’ve got 9 days until kick-off buddy. Why don’t you make the next poll who has the best OL, or something like that?

By Jarvis

August 21, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

You’ll never meet an arrogant loser.

By KennyBanya

August 21, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

tim, your story is so obviously made up it’s not even remotely amusing.

By Diamond Dawg

August 21, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

Here’s my list:

TIE FOR #1 (no particular order).

UF, UGA, AUBURN, UT, LSU, BAMA

(RELEVANT)

TIE FOR 2.

USC, ARK

(THINK THEY’RE RELEVANT)

TIE FOR #3.

MISS, MISS ST., KENT.

(IRRELEVANT)

(DON’T CARE)

The bigger your fan base, the more you win, the better chance you’ll encounter an obnoxious fan from your side or the other side.

Excessive drinking happens at every school. Not just UGA. We do have “drunk obnoxious GA fan” in one of our fight songs though so we may deserve top billing there.

Rocky top wins for most obnoxious fight song.

UF wins for worst dressed.

By Runningfromthecops

August 21, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

GEORGIA FANS has to be #1 - great passion but misguided most of the time, about 90%.

Other schools like alabama, auburn, ole miss & miss state, south carolina, kentucky and arkansas. they don’t have anything else to do but but cheer for their SEC teams or wait until their “sisters” come in heat!!!!

By The Other Dog

August 21, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

As an MSU fan I’d like to make the following comments:

I’ll never forget being at Vanderbilt when a snaggletoothed Vandy fan stood up when MSU’s team ran onto the field pregame and proudly pronounced: “Go home hicks!” in one of the worst hillbilly drawls I’ve ever heard. And I’m from Mississippi.

Maybe I’m biased, but I’ve been to Baton Rouge at night. Lsu fans are far and above the most obnoxious. But they’re consistent: they throw empty bottles of Jack Daniels into their own fan sections as well as visitors’.

By Fat Dawg

August 21, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Hey Gewn at 9:14A.M and Jim at 9:13 a.m.

You two are just jealous that your not as good on the gridiron. You Tech nerds don’t play good teams. Clemson? Come on, we wiped the floor with them back a few years ago.

And yes, we are the best team. We don’t loose to bad teams like Tech does. And don’t talk about me reading books. When was the last time you read one? I read a lot. I just got Hershal Walker’s book for my b-day and I’m almost done. So shut up!

Sick me Uga! Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof!

By Brett

August 21, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about when it comes to LSU fans, which is probably because UGA hasn’t had to go there in a decade.

By Runningfromthecops

August 21, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

GEORGIA FANS has to be #1 - great passion but misguided most of the time, about 90%.

Other schools like alabama, auburn, ole miss & miss state, south carolina, kentucky and arkansas. they don’t have anything else to do but but cheer for their SEC teams or wait until their “sisters” come in heat!!!!

By saywhat

August 21, 2008 9:51 AM | Link to this

By far - Georgia fans are the most obnoxious. All they do is bark about how “great” they are; particularly the red-neck good-ole-boys who have likely never seen a college classroom. Growing-up in a town that was predominately “dawg” fans (they can’t even spell dog) - those that were not UGA fans were constantly ridiculed - and often times - not in good ways. UGA fans are the worst, even though it’s been nearly 30 years since the one the national title (will not happen this year either). Oh - BTW - for all the talk about dominance by the SEC - if you notice, I bet 90% of those players could not have gotten into their local community college, much less a major college.

By Kyle

August 21, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

LSU is by far the worst. Close second, and a tie, with South Carolina and Florida.

Ole Miss has, by far, the most polite fans.

Kentucky and Vanderbilt - I don’t really give them much thought. They seem nice enough.

The remaining teams are pretty much the same.

By Ty

August 21, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

Your about to see how irrelevant Alabama is……..I hope the AJC doesn’t pay you for this crap.

By Uncle Uppercut

August 21, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

The best thing to do at the GA-FLA game is to get hammered. Then at the game, get a running start from back in the stands running down the stairs, then take a flying leap and punch a Florida fan in the back of the head. If its a female, punch her in the womb so she can’t reproduce. WHOOOOHOOOOO, Yeah DIXIE!!!!!! SIC EM DAWGS!!!!!!!. Ohio State, Tennesee, and Auburn all suck too.

By saint nick

August 21, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

We are #1 simply because we have 12 NC and 21 SECC, and EVERY fan of ANY SEC school WISHES they had a winning record over EVERY team in the SEC and GT(for the idiots, they used to be in the SEC). AU fans are the worst bandwagon fans in the world, pre 1983 you couldn’t find an AU fan because they wouldn’t be any. NO shirts, car tags, flags on your trailers, or hats NOTHING!!!!!!!!! AU will have a bad season and then they will be in the bottom six of that poll. BUT WITH ALL BS ASIDE YOU SHOULD WANT TO BE IN THE TOP 5 OF THIS POLL, IF YOU ARE YOU HAVE A GOOD FOOTBALL PROGRAM!!!! I could care less if someone says our fanbase is obnoxious or not. They say these things because you have a good football team. the top six of this poll could be rearranged 20 different ways and it doesn’t matter, it’s that way because the SEC is the best in the country!!!!ROLL TIDE!!!!!

By Bob

August 21, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

By MikeJones

August 21, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

What the hell LSU fans do you hang around??? Made you had one too many last night and switch the LSU and UGA write ups.

By Rick

August 21, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

Mark Bradley was really fairly close with his list except that Auburn and Ga fans should be tied with Florida for that number one spot. LSU fans always ( well at least often ) are congenial and offer some of the best food and drink to visiting fans. Sure there is some “Tiger Bait” shouting going on but all in good fun and isn’t the food and good times worth a little chiding. For those not in agreement, there must be some ‘ball’ envy going on….ball envy…since LSU has 2 Crystal Balls and no one else in the SEC does. So LSU is not only the best at football and food….we’re modest as well. LOL

By Nuff Said

August 21, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

Mr Bradley,

I do believe you made your point as noted below:

“Hey Bradley,

Here are two words for you to Goggle:

F U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

By G. P. Burdell “

By tell it like no one cares

August 21, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

TELLITLIKEITIS Haha, you just proved such a great point about obnoxious uga fans, and why you are hated. So you “finished it” huh? You are a big tough DAWG arent you? Idiot. Why would you go to a UT rally decked out in uga crap? B/c you are a moron, an obnoxious uga fan, and you wanted to draw attention to yourself/start something. UGA wasn’t even playing and you had to be “that obnoxious uga guy” good job you stereotypical bozo.

Lon- that was very funny. Mark B. is such a tool.

By thenoseknows

August 21, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Mark, I’ve been on this planet a little longer than you, have been in most SEC stadiums, and have been you and realize there is NOTHING more obnoxious than a Tennessee fan. If you go into Neyland Stadium it is a reinactment of the movie Deliverance. There ARE only 2 teeth on the front row of the stadium. They DO have a pig farmer for a head coach that cries everytime something doesn’t go his way. Second has to be the LSU fans who even get into fights with the Vandy fan (singular)before Vandy discovered football.

By Uncle Uppercut

August 21, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Punch female Florida fans in the womb so they can’t reproduce. WHOOOOO DIXIE!!!! YEEEHAW!!! SIC EM DAWGS!!!!

By Will

August 21, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

Dear Urban Crier,

You better pay attention to this blog, becasue the turd fans are going to turn on you after another 4 loss season. They are the biggest spoiled brats in any level of competition- pro or college. Just ask the almighty Steve Spurrier, who was run out of town after a couple or “3” loss years.

By semitough

August 21, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

I’ll have an angry retort as soon as I sober up.

By Dean

August 21, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

I’m a Georgia alum and love the team but I have to say the worst of Georgia fans are pretty bad. It’s two types that make it so. The rednecks who never attended the school but manage to get tickets because the team is good now. They were hanging around Tallahassee and Gainesville in the 90’s and now they have swarmed onto our campus. Fat, drunk and obnoxious! The second worst are the former Greek graduates who want to relive thier frat and sorrority days. Big a** SUV’s and they think they have a God given right to do whatever they please. Rich, thin, drunk, and obnoxious. But, nothing compares to the obnoxious Gators. However, I do wish they would take the 1st fat, redneck group of Georgia bandwagoneers I mentioned first.

By steve

August 21, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

Every team has fans worth being ashamed of. I am a Georgia fan, but it would not be truthful to pretend UGA does not have their share of obnoxious fans. They certainly do! However, I currently live in Birmingham. Both Alabama AND Auburn fans would have to top my list. I think what is most obnoxious about them is that college football is a year around obsession around here. It is all they ever want to talk about. They both feel like their programs are among the elite and for the life of them they cannot understand why someone from another part of the country does not care about their team.

But all college teams have their drunk, loud, annoying fans. They are no fun to be around no matter who they pull for.

By jb

August 21, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

Why so much jealousy? I ma proud to be a Georgia Bulldog!

By epb

August 21, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

Anyone have information on whether or not the GSU/UGA game will be available PPV to DISH NETWORK subscribers. After an hour on the phone and finally able to talk to some Girl in Korea who did not know what I was talking about, I got an answer that the decision would not be made until 3 days prior to the game or that this was when the schedule would come out.

CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!

By Jarvis

August 21, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

You sure told it passionaltely for not caring.

By Jason

August 21, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

UGA fans comprise a collection of the worst elements of human nature.

By PTC Dawg

August 21, 2008 9:59 AM | Link to this

Talk about a pot stirring article. It was good for a laugh. Although, I think UGA could have been a little HIGHER myself.

By Steven

August 21, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

How can South Carolina fans not be the most obnoxious? They’re the one group that doesn’t get that you have to WIN before you can talk smack to other fans. Their mascot is a chicken and they have Spurrier for a head coach. I mean COME ON, Mark Bradley!

This one was a no-brainer. Nothing admirable about ‘c** fans.

By GatorG

August 21, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

Um, Rick, I hate to tell you, but Florida has two crystal balls, too.

By vandyman

August 21, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

Ok Bradley - I commend you for ranking UGA, Florida, and USC fans where they should be - top of the list. How are Miss. St. fans less obnoxious than Vandy fans? They have cowbells for God’s sake! Don’t blame Vandy fans for being proud of their academics - and that Vanderbilt requires their athletes to spell, (unlike most SEC schools). They are actual student athletes, which holds them back in the SEC for obvious reasons. The most obnoxious aspect of Vandy fans is their overall lack of passion - but not all of us! Go Dores!

By Jusin Simmons

August 21, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

I believe the true measure of a fans graciousness is how they handle victory. Being a Carolina fan, I have had ample experience at losing to all the other teams in the SEC (sadly, even Vanderbilt). That being said, Auburn fans are the most gracious, and it isn’t even close. Georgia fans are horrible, especially considering how ignorant they usually are regarding football, and even their team. And though this is about football, we should consider that they only time they remember they have a basketball or baseball team is when they make the Big Dance or make it to Omaha. I was in Auburn for the nightmare that was the 2005 Auburn-Carolina game. They beat us 48-7. By the second half, the Auburn fans around me were trying to distract me from the game, and reassured me that Spurrier would certainly ensure that lop-sided defeats would become a rarity. That second half could have lasted an eternity, but instead I actually enjoyed talking football, southern food, and college towns with some of the nicest people I have ever met. They might be a little proud at their recent success against Bama, but if you were in their shoes and had to live with Bama fans for the past several decades, you would be a little plucky too.

By auburn suxs

August 21, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

MOST ALLBARN FANS ARE GRADS or have family that are grads, that is the biggest load of crap I have ever heard, also I am sic of hearing about auburn going undefeated, and how tommy is the winningest coach in the sec, if auburn fans or all their grads beleive that ,it must be really easy to get into auburn and get a degree.I just tip my hat to all the auburn grads that post on this board every day , because it looks like you grads either own your own bussiness or YOU DON”T EVEN HAVE A JOB. I THINK THE RANKING SHOULD BE LSU 1 , UF 2 , AU AND BAMA 3,4 AND UGA 5, BECAUSE most uga fans don’t even go to school there or even know anyone that goes there if you read these boards. Most of the fans that post on this board know that anyone can be a grad of any school on here, that is what is so great, everyone can be something other than what they truly are and that is the truth…GO DAWGS ( UGA GRAD 1980 National champs )

By Too funny

August 21, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

I think that nearly 90% of uga posters on here have just showed that they should be #1 on the list.

Fat Dawg- congrats, you read a book by one of H. Walker’s 7 personalities. Only a moron uga fan would brag about being almost finished with a book.

It is too funny how ignorant the uga posts are. You guys take #1 AGAIN, congrats.

By auburn suxs

August 21, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

MOST ALLBARN FANS ARE GRADS or have family that are grads, that is the biggest load of crap I have ever heard, also I am sic of hearing about auburn going undefeated, and how tommy is the winningest coach in the sec, if auburn fans or all their grads beleive that ,it must be really easy to get into auburn and get a degree.I just tip my hat to all the auburn grads that post on this board every day , because it looks like you grads either own your own bussiness or YOU DON”T EVEN HAVE A JOB. I THINK THE RANKING SHOULD BE LSU 1 , UF 2 , AU AND BAMA 3,4 AND UGA 5, BECAUSE most uga fans don’t even go to school there or even know anyone that goes there if you read these boards. Most of the fans that post on this board know that anyone can be a grad of any school on here, that is what is so great, everyone can be something other than what they truly are and that is the truth…GO DAWGS ( UGA GRAD 1980 National champs )

By Paul from Milton

August 21, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

Isn’t it funny that when most Georgia fans list their most obnoxious fans its always the schools that best them regularly? I bet Tennessee fans wouldn’t seem so obnoxious if Georgia wasn’t getting regularly spanked by them.

By MikeSlater

August 21, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

LSU fans can be bad, but georgia fans are the worst..Ole P** fans are bad too, i mean if the north face and costa del mar went out of business, the frat boys would likely all be jumping out of 4th floor windows.

By king

August 21, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

you say UGA is #1 but yet all the fans on here are uga haters. so obvisouly whoever you’re a fan of should be #1

By Jarvis

August 21, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Rich, thin, and drunk…these are bad qualities?

By middleagedwhiteguy

August 21, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

I will never attend another game in Athens. If GA played the Russians, I would pull for Russia. GO VOLS !!

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Be serious, Will. Steve Spurrier was not run out of Gainesville. (Maybe out of Washington, D.C.) As I recall, the masses wanted him back after Ron Zook was fired and were mad when Jeremy Foley didn’t oblige.

By Randy

August 21, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

The most obnoxious fans are those mullet head Gators! Yes! FLORIDA fans are the most obnoxious!!!! Mark Bradley did get that one right. Gators are the biggest rednecks in the SEC. Don’t forget that every Gator chick has a huge tramp stamp to go with their cut off jeans and the guys match their cot off jeans with mullets and like to scream “Yeeehaa Hoodie Hoo Go Gaytors!”

Coming in a close second are those redneck hillbilly hicks from Tennessee. They are by far the most rotund fans in the conference. Somebody put those Volunteer fans on a diet because they are huge! Not tall, just wide! Stick a WIDE LOAD sign on their butts and fix their teeth.

Third most obnoxious is a tie bewteen LSU and South Carolina. They have extremely drunk fans. LSU drinks to celebrate and South Carolina drinks to drown their sorrows. The C** cheers of South Carolina are funny and amusing, though.

Place Auburn fifth just because they like to fight.

By Dwayne Gilbert

August 21, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

it is obvious you have never been at an LSU home game and been an opposing fan. If you had you would know who the worst fans are

By DirtyDawg

August 21, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Wait a minute there…we’uns have worked hard for our title of ‘DOGF’ (Drunk Obnoxious Georgia Fan) and I for one won’t stand for the likes of Mark Bradley to rate us so high (or low, as the case may be). I don’t have a problem with the label, cause it generally means the opposing fans usually are leaving the stadium(s) upset at the sight of DOGFs celebrating.

Now UF, sure they’re about as ‘Obs’ as any, but since they already hold the title of ‘Most Arrogant’, they need to leave the ‘Ob’ title to us. As for LSU, never been to Baton Rouge to a game, but my Cajun friends and relatives are just too ‘laid back’ to actually be obnoxious - I mean who doesn’t like to ‘Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez ‘?

Don’t mind the Orange or Rocky Top? You’re kiddin’ right? That color orange - the one that’s been left out in the sun too long - is irritating to the eye and the mind.

Auburn? You hit it right on the nose. Tuberville is a ‘preening’ you know what and the AU fans seem to be proud of the little p**.

And finally, we love our ‘sidewalk, or WalMart, or whatever’ fans, cause it means they’ve got somebody to pull for in their state that sends them home happy, and since, as I said, we’re also comfortable with the ‘Ob’ label, we’ll just do a Georgia version of ‘Let the Good Times Roll’ right here all season long.

By Haywood Jablowme

August 21, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Judging by the barrage of trash, beer cups and other garbage that littered the end zone in Tuscaloser at the conclusion of the UGA/Alabama game last season, I would rank the Bammers as #1. The use of garbage to express their displeasure is not limited to football games, either. If you don’t think so, just check out a NASCAR event in Talladega. Every time someone NOT named Earnhardt wins there, it’s another near-riot as garbage pelts the winner’s car and the track. It must be something unique only to Bammers.

By AUWDE

August 21, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Bradley, you’re a hack. UGA and LSU are the worst. The only time I’ve been legitimately scared while tailgating was in Baton Rouge. They are ruthless and the whole “Tiger Bait!!” thing gets annoying after the 100th time. Auburn fans, in my experience, are nothing but nice.

By Joe D.

August 21, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Alabama - No. 1 Georgia - No. 2 Auburn - No. 3 LSU - No. 4

Florida is in a class all by itself when it comes to “Obnoxious” Fans…Really not fair to compare them with others…Need a seperate category like “Mega Obnoxious” or “Over the Top Obnoxious”

By MG

August 21, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Tim, the dumbest person to comment on this story said:

“i recall one instance when a GA fan visited a port-a-potty and it was tipped over, rolled down an embankment, breaking the guy’s arm and when he crawled out covered in sewage, the LSU fans beat and kicked him mercilessly”

I was there in 2003 when this incident happened, saw it with my own two eyes and thats not what happened. A drunk, obnoxious UGA fan broke in the line - went stright to the #1 spot - at the port-a-pottys and was willing to fight anyone who challenged him. He was a disgusting redneck of a UGA fan. When he went in he got tipped over.

no broken arm.

no beating.

just covered in poop as karma would have it.

and laughed at.

he deserved it. UGA fans are intolerable rednecks.

funny how LSU fans are so bad that UGA fans have to make stuff up.

By AllVOL

August 21, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

“TENNESSEE - drunk, rude, foul mouthed, hillbilly, redneck, brawling, FAT, uneducated, illmannered, hateful & violent, FAT, FAT and might I add obese”: Dude, have you looked around at the Georgia fan-base? You want to talk about a bunch of Mouth-Breathing, Knuckle-Dragging Miscreants? Look in the mirror!

By Nate

August 21, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Okay, so it’s so subjective that there really is no point in arguing any of your points here, but I do have one question…LSU is 8th?
C’mon, back in the 90’s maybe but once those cajuns got a little taste of success its like they became toothless swamp animals with two words in their diction…Tiger Bait. And a big helping of saliva came with it.
I’m a Georgia fan and think a lot of us are very obnoxious and I wouldn’t even complain if you had us #1 but LSU needs to be right there. My $0.02

By haha

August 21, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

King

You are a genius. Your logic is flawless.

By xaudiver

August 21, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

You have got to be kidding about Auburn!!!!! Unfortunately I feel their are only a few teams in the SEC with any class left!!!! Vandy because they have too. MSU,USC,UGA and AU. Bad poll Bro!

By Fat Dawg

August 21, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

TOO FUNNY How many times does it take a Tech fan to post something before he realizes that their might be a delay before its shown? Apparently about 50 for you. And don’t make fun of Hershal. How many Heisman’s did you win? How many championships did you win? None, that’s right, none.

If you read the book then you’d now that he’s got a disease. If you want to make fun of someone, go make fun of your Pwee Wee football offense. Your not funny, your just dumb.

By Haywood Jablowme

August 21, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Judging by the barrage of trash, beer cups and other garbage that littered the end zone in Tuscaloser at the conclusion of the UGA/Alabama game last season, I would rank the Bammers as #1. The use of garbage to express their displeasure is not limited to football games, either. If you don’t think so, just check out a NASCAR event in Talladega. Every time someone NOT named Earnhardt wins there, it’s another near-riot as garbage pelts the winner’s car and the track. It must be something unique only to Bammers.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

I see I need to post the boilerplate reminder: Just press “post” once, please. It’ll take a while, but your submission will go through.

By Happy Gator

August 21, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Hey Mark, If the Gators are so obnoxious, how come you had to go back to 1971 to find your example?

By 7 Days!

August 21, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

Hey Fat Dawg, “Just because I drank at the game don’t mean anything”. I have a feeling with your level of grammar that you don’t act like in your in college because you never went and don’t know how to. Your UGA Team (not sure how you are a part of it other than your mustard stained, grease smeared UGA overalls) has not even played a game yet and you are saying one of the best of all time. I bet you are as uneducated as you are fat, which is not a good mix, I bet life has been tough on you. UGA fans are terrible, I’m a Tech fan I was in Athens when I was 12 and a 45 year old man was trying to pick a fight with me, just child, real classy. I would be willing to bet that without 95,000 people with their back they would strongly rethink about mouthing off now, simply put UGA fans are Cowards. I know that there are great UGA fans I have had the pleasure of tailgating with a few, so it is not everyone at UGA, just the majority. Anyway only one more week and the toe meets leather.

By dan

August 21, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

Eh….my top 5 would be Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and LSU. I’m a Dawg fan, but I totally agree about UGA fans being a little over the top. I mean cussing out visiting fans, it’s just redneck. It just reflects how low some people’s self esteem is to take a college football game THAT seriously. There’s nothing wrong with a little good natured trash talking, but let’s keep things in perspective people!

By Dean

August 21, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

I’ve been to most SEC stadiums only once and here is what I took from each one. Alabama- I only encountered classy, very knowledgable fans who congratulated me on the Dawgs victory. I was impressed. Auburn- Passionate fans who are generally nice. No congratualtions on the victory but a few fingers. Understandable and no big deal. South Carolina- Mostly trash talk and overconfidence. Don’t understand where it comes from. Heard some “FU Georgia” upon leaving. Kentucky- Pretty good. Passionate fans but when the game isover they could care less. Tennessee- Pretty obnoxious. Tried to verbally intimidate me during game. Kept on yelling and telling me to go home after game. Pretty obnoxious. Ole Miss- I spent most of my time looking at the girls as were the Ole Miss fans. Nothing to note here. Vandy- Felt like a Georgia home game. Florida- Unbeleivably obnoxious, threatening to start fights, throwing things, acting like spoiled brats. Horrible and nothing else in the SEC compares. Georgia- Pretty obnoxious, read my post above about Georgia fans. Never been to Arkansas, LSU, or Miss State.

By gtforever

August 21, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Good Grief! No contest! The UGAY fans are the WORST fans in the country!

By I'll get 100% on this test

August 21, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

GEORGIA BULLDAWGS

By Vick should have fought bulldawgs

August 21, 2008 10:14 AM | Link to this

Haha….UGA has the most obnoxious and least classy fans of any college in the country. Nuff said!

By GWH

August 21, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

As a Georgia fan of 40 years, I have attended hundreds of SEC games in Athens as well all road games. The only major disagreement I would have is having LSU ranked to “low”. I would put them second behind Florida. Don’t get me wrong, it is a GREAT atmosphere, but LSU fans are VERY obnoxious.

By Tech Fan

August 21, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Nothing compares to the unclassy UGA fans.

By Mark

August 21, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Mark, I’ve been on this planet a little longer than you, have been in most SEC stadiums, and have been you and realize there is NOTHING more obnoxious than a GA fan. If you go into Sanford Stadium it is a reinactment of the movie Deliverance with fat chicks and a redneck who paints his bald head. There ARE only 2 teeth on the front row of the stadium because of the adults who paint their heads or faces.. They DO have a Helen Hunt look a like for a head coach that has to pull out gimmics like celebrations and “black outs” to motivate his team because he is too much of a sissy to just coach his team. Second has to be the LSU fans who even get into fights with the Vandy fan (singular)before Vandy discovered football.

By JK

August 21, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Being a Georgia alum, I can see how some may think we are one of the most obnoxious, however that’s just a small part of the fan base that makes us look bad at times as fans. The fine folks at UF take the cake - you can’t beat the jean shorts w/ the nice bright Orange muscle shirts or wifebeaters, coupled with the way they act just exudes the high-class fans that they are. And they’ve never lost a game to a better team - it’s always the referees or the weather to blame the loss on. And the Gator Chomp….so gay.

By jeremy

August 21, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

in my book all schools are about the same, you have the good side and the bad side. you also have those who attended the school and those who have a hat from walmart, either way theyre still fans. they all rank 1 or 2 maybe vandy is about the classy of the bunch from my years of experience watchin UGA home and away.

By SEC FAN

August 21, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

By Bobby

August 21, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

I dont know where you get that LSU fans or polite. They are the worst fans in the SEC. They are rude to everyone they meet

By ginsk

August 21, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

“i recall one instance when a GA fan visited a port-a-potty and it was tipped over, rolled down an embankment, breaking the guy’s arm and when he crawled out covered in sewage, the LSU fans beat and kicked him mercilessly…”

man that story gets better each time it’s embelished. next time you tell it, will the guy have just finished changing his baby’s diaper too? and the mob then deep fried the baby and ate it?

and the whole “rocks and bottles thrown at players from the tunnel” thing is just ludicrous. and do you not watch football? you realize all teams wear their helmets entering the field right?

By DawgGirl

August 21, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

As a GA slum, I’m one of those who believes that games must be accompanied by mass quantities of rum and coke…and I love being at the game with 92,000 of my closest friends is the best way to spend a Saturday. I completely agree that FL is most obnoxious…and don’t get me started with their love affair with Jorts!

By Too Funny

August 21, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Fat Dawg- another quality uga post. I believe you mean you’re not funny. As in * you are* not funny. I do not own the not funny, so your doesn’t work there. Just thought I would help you improve your grammar (your b/c you do own that garbage grammar). But hey, atleast you can read, you beat out about 75% of the dawg nation with that.

I post numerous times to make sure you morons get the point.

By ginsk

August 21, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

“i recall one instance when a GA fan visited a port-a-potty and it was tipped over, rolled down an embankment, breaking the guy’s arm and when he crawled out covered in sewage, the LSU fans beat and kicked him mercilessly…”

man that story gets better each time it’s embelished. next time you tell it, will the guy have just finished changing his baby’s diaper too? and the mob then deep fried the baby and ate it?

and the whole “rocks and bottles thrown at players from the tunnel” thing is just ludicrous. and do you not watch football? you realize all teams wear their helmets entering the field right?

By sports fan

August 21, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

Interesting…before thjs article I thought SEC fans were all equally obnoxious

By hilary

August 21, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

Wow! Clearly Mark has never really met an LSU fan.

By TOD WATKINS

August 21, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

FANS WHO DIDN’T GO TO MY SCHOOL ARE THE MOST OBNOXIOUS.

By THE Ohio State Buckeyes

August 21, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

LOL. I think it’s a “big time” draw. An absolute 12-way tie for First Place! LOL.

First place in most obnoxious conferences as well: SEC, ACC, PAC 10, Big Esat, Big 12, Sunbelt, WAC, Independents, Mountain West, Conference USA, Big 10.

By gatorhater#1

August 21, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

WHO CARES!!! I can’t believe you wasted your time writing this. No wonder the AJC circulation continues to dwindle. BTW - I wish all of you idiots would learn proper grammar and how to spell. All everyone on this blog does is further cement the stereotype that southerners are slow and stupid.

By UKCAT

August 21, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

The gamecocks must be higher. The Thur. Night games last year was unreal. I have never heard more hell raising towards Kentucky.

USC - Thinks they have the history of Alabama with Vandys trophy case.

By Go 'Bama

August 21, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

TENNESSEE is by far the most obnoxious. They are fat, rude, redneck, classless, staggering drunks that like to cuss and fight.

LSU and Florida fans are the next most obnoxious. Both have a high percentage of redneck trash, but not as many as Tennessee.

Give Auburn, fourth place. I hate them but they still aren’t as bad as those hillbilly redneck Tennessee fans and Florida and LSU.

Do any educated people come out of Tennessee? If so, they don’t attend Tennessee football games.

By Tech'92

August 21, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

I hate to say this, but everytime I have been to Athens I have been treated pretty well even being a die hard Tech fan. Even offered beer many a time by Dawg fans tailgating. I caught it for being a Yellow Jacket, but it was almost always in good fun. Of course there are drunk rude fans, but Tech has those too.

By Jeff

August 21, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

Ranking LSU fans that low? Mark you sure you have been to a LSU game?

By Steve

August 21, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

SEC FANS as a whole aren’t that bright. Cannot appreciate good football when they see it unless it is their own team. UGA will end the season with at least three losses and will play Florida State or Clemson in the Peach Bowl. Thus you folk won’t have to travel far to see loss number 4.

By laughin at the w*******

August 21, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

Dawggirl- so im sure those mass quantities of rum and coke don’t make you an obnoxious cum-dumpster do they? Or do you just drink all of that so you can go open your legs to numerous uga frat boys, and pretend that you don’t remember it? You got it write with uga slum. Go drop your panties and bend over, cum dumpster

By design4q

August 21, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

irrelevant…. Wow! interesting and ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!

By Travis

August 21, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

What a ridiculous amount of comments. Allow me to fix this list.

Georgia - Big state school with obnoxious, drunk fans Florida - Big state school with obnoxious, drunk fans Alabama - Big state school with obnoxious, drunk fans LSU - Big state school with obnoxious, drunk fans Auburn - Big state school with obnoxious, drunk fans Tennessee - Big state school with obnoxious, drunk fans SoCar - Big state school with obnoxious, drunk fans Arkansas - Big state school with obnoxious, drunk fans

“Yeah, I’m fired up this mornin!!! Can’t believe Bradley said this about my team!!! ARGHHHH!”

Yikes.

By Fat Dawg

August 21, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Hey 7 Days

You canmake fun of my grammer all you want. But this dawg know not to end a sentence with a prepositional phrase. You Tech people don’t know how to write either. So buzz of their, friend.

I have a feeling with your level of grammar that you don’t act like in your in college because you never went and don’t know how to.

See, I’m right, right? You talk about toe meets leather. When we take on Tech, your going to see foot meet tail cause were gonna kick yours up and down. And yes, this is the best team ever. Get over it cause we’ are going to beat your stink off!

By dawggrl

August 21, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

I have to say - I am totally shocked that you have so much love for Tennessee fans! Not to mention that my friend was just telling me how all the LSU fans would throw things at the UGA fans during the SEC championship game. I agree that some people tend to get too drunk at UGA games and I hate that is representative of the school I love, but I feel these rankings are just a little bit off…

By fes

August 21, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

switch uga and florida and bump ut up to #4 and you are dead on. the sec is filled with some of the most arrogant, pompous windbags in the nation. i’m glad i’m a fan of the acc instead!

By UnderDawg

August 21, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Ive said it once, and I will say it again, no matter how many people bash me for it…..NOTHING says drunk, obnoxious, belligerent and ignorant like a night game in Baton Rouge.

By TheRaid

August 21, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

If you are paid to be neutral, you are one of the most overpaid people in the world.

Oh, and what is more obnoxious than your stab at the Gator flop reference? What does that have to do with anything?

Shall we rank most obnoxious Georgia fan media members who are paid to be neutral?

By Leroy Rogers

August 21, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Wrong Mr. Blue. LSU fans worst by far! UT tied them in 1982 in a night game. Swift running Willie Gault ran a kick off for a td to tie and UT missed a late field goal to win the game and it ended in a 24-24 tie.We had taken our big Orange and White silver eagle church bus down and as we were leaving the parking lot a fan broke out one of the windows with a stadium seat. However, this didn’t end the disappointment in Bayou country. We stopped for a stop sign and our innocent bus driver politely asked a traffic cop which turn to make and the rude cop just sreamed: “get that pile of srap iron out of here!’ Of couse we will never forget 1959 the Billy Cannon run for the win, which failed. Guess that still sticks in the Cajuns craw! From the Hills of Rocky Top. Leroy Rogers, Maryille.

By Gerald Tinnon

August 21, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Your rankings are a bit off from the perspective of this life-long SEC fan. The #1 ranking should have been awarded to LSU easily. Perhaps you have never been to a LSU game as a visitor and had to endure their childish abuse and behavior. Recently, at an Alabama game, about 100 LSU fans gathered outside the stadium and chanted, “Tic,toc,tic,toc,tic,toc,tic..all Bama fans can suck my dick.” Of course, they didn’t care if families were passing by with young children. At the SEC baseball tournament in Birmingham, I observed a group of LSU fans, sitting together, releasing gas and competing to see who could make the most noise and release the worst smells. These two incidents, plus having my car keyed at Tiger Stadium, are more than enough to tag them the fans that are most obnoxious and with the least class.

By It's Ironic

August 21, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

When fans from Alabama, Auburn, UGA, UT, Fla. and Arkansas accuse eachother of being rednecks and white trash. I’ve been to each of these stadiums to see a game and trust me. You could take all the “rednecks” and “white trash” from each of these schools and fill up Neyland Stadium!!!

By Kentucky Girl

August 21, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

This isn’t even close! TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS!!!! They are the rudest, most redneck, most illerate, most obnoxious fans in the SEC in any sport!

By DP

August 21, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Yet another illustration that the central mission of AJC sports columnists is to write inflammatory stuff to stir the pot.

Speaking of irrelevant, what a joke of a newspaper the AJC has become.

By Dixie Dog

August 21, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Mark,

Pretty close to all but LSU. I lived there for three years and thought the folks were great until my wife and I went to a game there. You must have gone to a day game or had plenty of bodyguards or state police with you when you went. You were right on target about their food though. Love to go down there but will never go to a game in Baton Rouge again without a police escort.

By MG

August 21, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Yeh, dawggirl, it was LSU fans throwing stuff at UGA fans.

don’t be an idiot. UGA fans are ridiculous drunk jerks at the SECCG game.

By Stryder

August 21, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Been to SEC games in every venue except Columbia, Fayetteville and Lexington. No doubt about # 1 and # 2. LSU should be #3. GA, TN and AL should be #s 4,5,6, as the game being played is the only difference.

By fishtales

August 21, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

If Bama is so “irrelevent” then why do you d-bags keep talking about us? And I know of no Bama fan that still talks about the Bear anymore…we’ve actually one a title since him. Yet all the other SEC folks seem to keep bringing that up. Inferiority complex maybe? And to the idiot Dawg poster (there are so many) it doesn’t matter whether we have 12 or 7…it’s still more than 2. Keep dreaming you’ll get another one this year…ain’t gonna happen. Athens is the biggest cesspool outside of Awbarn.

By life is good

August 21, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Hands down, LSU # 1, FLA # 2. Who paid you to rank the most rude and obnoxious fans #8, Mr. Bradley? When was the last time YOU were hit in the head with a beer bottle???

GO DAWGS-

By Fat Dawg

August 21, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

Too Funny

You still don’t now how to click once so you lye to me about posting it so many times so I can get it. Your just not smart enough to get it. Go back to your math books.

By the way, after we win the sUGAr bowl again this year and the national title, you will be saying that this is the best team of all time. Best coach to. We have the QB, RB, the best WR in Mr Green, the best DL, Lbs, & secondary. The only thing we don’t have is the kicker but when you win every game by two TDs, who needs one?

Well, six TDs when we suit up against the Tech winos.

By It's Ironic

August 21, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

When fans from Alabama, Auburn, UGA, UT, Fla. and Arkansas accuse eachother of being rednecks and white trash. I’ve been to each of these stadiums to see a game and trust me. You could take all the “rednecks” and “white trash” from each of these schools and fill up Neyland Stadium!!!

By TigerEducated

August 21, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Whoa…Broken arm? Beaten mercilessly while covered in raw sewage?

The ultimate fish story…

That one gets better and better, every year…

Or, the one about the Auburn guy-who did admittedly have cancer-that got hit by some folks tossing a football back and forth as they walked through a tailgating area…

I still can’t believe there weren’t any “urine filled bags” being thrown comments…

LSU fans are having a hard time hearing all you haterade drinkers, out there…

You see, we don’t win national championships in February, like ‘Bama Fans…and no, we don’t revel in Pre-Season #1 rankings…

It’s sort’ve hard to hear other teams in the conference crow about that, what with two BCS ADT Waterford Crystal Trophies lodged in our ear canals…

Dude…How seriously idiotic are you people? We rolled a Pot-O-Gold down an embankment, and then beat and kicked a guy “mercilessly” while covered in raw sewage?

Everyone knows it was a little old lady with a walker who happened to have Red & Black on!

By Old Teach

August 21, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

*Fat Dawg * You know enough not to end a sentence with a preposition, not a prepositional phrase. Ending with a prepositional phrase is ok. I don’t normally correct anyone’s grammar on a blog but you were being so nice about it and I wanted you to be right.

By Donna Outlaw

August 21, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Mark got LSU right on the money. And for those that don’t understand, redneck trash doesn’t usually have the 3.0GPA needed to get into LSU. I think most LSU fans would also agree with your top picks - Auburn and Florida but UGA quickly rose the laddder after last season. LSU lived through the same thing the year before and was disappointed at first we “had” to go to the Sugar Bowl but we got over it and weren’t STILL whining how about it the rest of the year. WE got robbed of the chance to play for the S.E.C. title because we had beaten Arkansas and we wondered what the point is of having divisions if you don’t consider the record of your division first and at the end of the season, even after UF won the BCS Title, all sports people were aknowledging LSU was the best S.E.C. team that year, much like UGA people feel about UGA last year. The difference was we went on with our lives and won it all last year - and WE DESERVE IT. Now, who wants some fried gator and gumbo?

By Scott Hornibrook

August 21, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

You gotta be kidding !

UGA fans are the most obnoxious fans in the country ! They have no other life but football season, except for their continuing effort to learn how to read and write.

By MG

August 21, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Lee Roy Rogers, it was 1982. Try and get over it dude. I was at that game and as usual UT fans were a bunch of hillbillies making their first trip to civilization. Playing UT is like stepping back in time to 1930. Next time, leave your moon shine at home.

By gatorhater#1

August 21, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

fishtales - Did you get your education at Alabama? Ha!! “we’ve actually one a title since him” I think you mean we’ve actually “won” a title since “then”…moron!

By David

August 21, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

It’s the AJC, so I’m not surprised UF is number 1. But in reality (which is where the rest of us live), its… 1. LSU 2. UGA 3. BAMA 4. UT 5. UF 6. USC (when they think they can win) 7. Auburn 8. Arkansas 9. Miss st 10. Kentucky 11. Ole Miss 12. Vandy

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

Also getting old: Jokes about other people’s teeth, or the lack thereof. (My dad was a dentist, and I’m sensitive about the subject.)

By Adam

August 21, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

Tennessee Vols what about there coach…Fat and always trying to get other schools into a mess. There rednecks at home and aweful how they treat the vistors. Colors are loud and uncool.

By TS 7

August 21, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

I’m an Atlanta Gator fan. I’ve never been treated so poorly in my life then when I went to Kentucky last year. I can take a little banter but they were ridiculous. All of their fans were obviusly drinking inside the stadium and one fan dumped a cup full of bourbon on a kid sitting in front of him. You not only get kicked out of the game but lose your season tickets if that happens in the swamp. UK #1

By Adam

August 21, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

Tennessee Vols what about there coach…Fat and always trying to get other schools into a mess. There rednecks at home and aweful how they treat the vistors. Colors are loud and uncool.

By Joe Cool

August 21, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

Are you freaking kidding? Any poll like this that L.S.U. isn’t in the top 3 has to be laughed at. Everybody knows the Bayou fans are the worst. They tried to flip the Auburn team bus a few years back. You need to pull your head out.

By Get it right

August 21, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

Are you out of your mind? Hands down the worst fans I’ve ever encountered are LSU fans. Quickly followed by Florida and Tennessee. Don’t get me wrong, Auburn, Georgia and Alabama do have some pretty bad fans as well but LSU takes the cake. Mark, you really need to get out more.

By auburn suxs

August 21, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Ohio State Buckeyes , what are you doing on this board/ Don’t you know your days of beating everyone on your weak schedule and making it to the NC game and having the officals give you the game on the last play with a flag are OVER, everyone in college football knows that OHIO st’s days of going to the NC game and winning are done . When college football goes to a play off, your team will be knocked out in the first game.

By DJ

August 21, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Tenneseee then Florida. Flordia’s fans either are beer-drinking, smoking (not hot - just smoking), over sun-burnt hanger’s on that did not go to the school 95%. The other 5 percent are just ARROGANT. Tennessee pulls them in out of all corners of the state and hills - AND EVEN THE ALUMNI are LOUD MOUTHS (Five years ago when UGA beat them there all I could hear was the whole UT second of alums behind us CRY ABOUT every call the REFS MADE….It was irrational.

By Joe Cool

August 21, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Are you freaking kidding? Any poll like this that L.S.U. isn’t in the top 3 has to be laughed at. Everybody knows the Bayou fans are the worst. They tried to flip the Auburn team bus a few years back. You need to pull your head out.

By MG

August 21, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Leroy Rogers, it was 1982, get over it dude. I was at that game and as usual playing UT is like traveling back in time to 1930. Next time leave your moon shine and Granny back at home.

By FLA DAWG

August 21, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Gotta agree with you about SC. Those fans support their team no matter how bad they play - even if it’s the last game of a losing season.

By Publicenemynumberone

August 21, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

The saddest part of this?

I went back to Gainesville that last two years for games (I graduated in ‘88), frankly the atmosphere was subdued. It was almost sad. Maybe Jacksonville is different? I made it a point to skip this game when I was in school. It was the game where all the “locals” would come and start trouble. Folks that actually went to the schools seem to respect on another (and for the most part we were trying to bed your coeds.)

By Born 2 Bark

August 21, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Dawgs fans party, there’s no question about it! The Athens scene and the feeling of being amongst 90K plus of your best friends and watching my Dawgs play between the hedges just makes me thirsty. I like the comment about the Walmart UGA fans. It is true that there is some trash that clings on to UGA football and don’t understand the word class.

Gamecocks and Gators are the worst. The “cocks” truly earn their name. They are the sorest losers on the face of the earth! I have seen reprehensible behavior in Columbia. Gaytors talk the most trash, but they wont have much of reason to talk the next few years! Welcome to the KNowshon era.

LSU is a hostile environment, but the people are actually pretty nice.

By Common Sense

August 21, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Look, you all want to get back at Mark? Stop responding. You’re giving him what he wants. Of course he doesn’t know crap, that’s the point. What he should’ve admitted is outside of the (bottom? top?) 4, all the power schools in the conference are the exact same. I’ve seen trash, liquor, cups, etc. thrown at many stadiums by various fan groups. To truly look at things, you have to look at how the different groups break out. First, you call it a draw for the frat sections…they’re all obnoxious and drunk by the end of the game. Then there are the rest of the students, the “wal-mart” fans (read rednecks that didn’t go to school there) , the working alumni, and the RV set. Apply your focus to each of those groups, then add it up.

If you want to add an interesting aspect, you add in some reducion factor of success. Those teams that have historically had more success will always be more cocky. So you balance out success against mediocrity and determine where the worst fans are based on the level of their team.

But really, just stop commenting and making Mark smile. Perhaps if the thinks no one is reading his stuff he might just try to be a better reporter.

By GreenJacket

August 21, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Georgia fans are by far the most obnoxious and I have to hear it all the time from them. I have been to Auburn and thought their fans were great. I think the obnoxious redneck barking is the most annoying sound I ever heard.

By Gen Neyland

August 21, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Your obnoxious, rude, misbehaving children may the the sweetest things to fall from your loins, but to me, they’re brats that need a good smacking…Go Vols

STEAL IT

By PTC DAWG

August 21, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Kentucky deserves a higher ranking, if for nothing else the BOURBON Distilleries in the area.

By AllVOL

August 21, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Adam, “Tennessee Vols what about there coach…Fat and always trying to get other schools into a mess. There rednecks at home and aweful how they treat the vistors. Colors are loud and uncool.”; Careful, your education (or lack there-of) is showing. You really should learn the difference between There, Their & They’re

GO VOLS!!

By BBR

August 21, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

Definitely FL and AU. They are obnoxious 12 months a year with their comments!

By Brian

August 21, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

By fishtales

August 21, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

Gatorhater- Oooh…you got me there. Every post all you do is complain about grammar and spelling. Go back to your Webster’s and jar of Vaseline and leave the football talk to the big boys.

By man hands

August 21, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

you wouldn’t think it, but Vandy fans are the absolute worst. After my team gave them a major beat down, Vandy fans started throwing pudding and oreos at us as we walked to our car.

By SEC Fan

August 21, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

This list can go so many ways but the truth is that every team in the SEC except for Vandy and Kentucky are very obnoxious when it comes to football. I would have to say Miss State and their cowbells are very obnoxious so I don’t know how they got 12. There is NO way to point out one school over another period. I have been to games at every stadium in the SEC and they all have their groups of buttholes who have to mess up a good time. I am very upset when I see fans of UGA getting in old peoples faces from other schools but I have had it happen to me especially at Auburn and tennessee. What it comes down to is we have the best football in the country and the most obnoxious fans. Oh Well! I will take that rather than the worst football and fans who don’t care.

By Curt

August 21, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

The bottom line is that very few people think that the fanbase of “their team” is as obnoxious as everybody else. Tennessee gets a bad rap, but I’ve been to games in Knoxville and was treated very well. As a Bama fan, I know we can be annoying so #4 is fair I think. I have heard very good things from Tennessee and Auburn fans about how they were treated when they came to T-town, but I’m sure bad experiences happen. The two worst experiences I’ve had were at Georgia and at LSU, but they weren’t so bad that I would degrade the entire fanbase (after all, alcohol can make anyone become a blithering idiot). Even though plenty of folks have commented on how their team’s rival is the worst (usually UGA or Auburn posters), we all know that every fanbase covers the entire spectrum. By the way, even Bama fans need to remember that unless you have actually played for “your team” using the words “we” and “us” as if you are strapping it up every Saturday is stupid. As a fan, when it comes to your teams accomplishments, your actual contribution is somewhere between Jack and Crap. And Jack left town.

By Supper Club Lifetime Member

August 21, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

It’s true Auburn fans are obnoxious TO BAMA FANS, but not so much to everyone else. We’re actually quite fond of our litter mates at LSU. But anyone who says that people who paint their faces red and get in your face and bark like a dog aren’t right up there with Florida fans just hasn’t been getting out much. I wouldn’t come within a hundred miles of Jacksonville when those two get together and take obnoxious to a whole new level. Yuck!

By G12

August 21, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

Tennessee has, hands down, the worst fans in ANY sport. They just do not know when to SHUT UP!!! I’ve sat in the Auburn section when they were kicking the Dawgs a*, and no one said a word about my red and black. Been to Jacksonville for the Cocktail Party, and guess what- the party continues after the game- regardless of who one. Never would happen with that bunch from Bleckville. To much talkin, not enough teeth.

By just more idiotic ranting by morons

August 21, 2008 10:57 AM | Link to this

This whole discussion is idiotic. The most obnoxious fans are the ones who just beat you. It is totally subjective and impossible to determine. It’s all a matter of opinion and who is beating whom.

And Mark, why on earth do you read these and respond?

By man hands

August 21, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

you wouldn’t think it, but Vandy fans are the absolute worst. After my team gave them a major beat down, Vandy fans started throwing pudding and oreos at us as we walked to our car.

By guy

August 21, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

When UGA wins,their fans all of a sudden become more obnoxious than before.A winner looks good and a loser b*** and gripes. As for Native Atlantan,the games at UGA in Athens WILL SURVIVE without you. Those that can’t stand the heat need to stay out of the kitchen.(and college football games)

By man hands

August 21, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

you wouldn’t think it, but Vandy fans are the absolute worst. After my team gave them a major beat down, Vandy fans started throwing pudding and oreos at us as we walked to our car.

By HDFatboyTN

August 21, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

LOL Opinions vary!

War Eagle!

By office space

August 21, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

I guess the ACC fans want to enter the fray. So just to give equal time here the most Bizzare game I’ve been to being a Dawg was a game between Ga. Tech and Maryland. I tried to get into the game but the Tech Geeks are so impressed with their Technological feats that at the end of a play no announcement for a flag on the play or whether a 1st down was made on a close play,no, it’s a fricken Huge screen Flashing a Coca-Cola commercial with the decibal level of a “Who” concert. The fans were yelling ‘yea’ not kill the sob.I had to give up and just watch the fans.Then I hear them yell ‘Block that kick’ for a kick-off!! My brother pointed out to me there was a row of six guys wearing pocket protectors,white buttondown shirts and ties!! my God it was the Twilight Zone.I still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat over this. No, I’ll take all you drunk son of a b*** in a group hug before I go there again.Go you SEC bottom feeders, kick a* and take names!

By secfan

August 21, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

Hey Clay - I’d rather say “War Eagle” than walk around barking and drooling like the dawg fans do.

By **COCKY**

August 21, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

** I FIND THAT YOU CAN FIND ALL TYPES OF FANS AT EVERY STADIUM. IT ALL COMES DOWN TO ”YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR” IF YOU BUY A $20 TICKET THEN YOUR GOING TO GET A $20 FAN, IF YOU WANT CLASS YOUR GOING TO HAVE TO PAY FOR IT.

AND SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF GAMECOCK FANS EVERYWHERE …. ” THERES ALWAYS NEXT YEAR.”

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

Joe Cool, this wasn’t intended to be a poll. These rankings, such as they are, are all my doing.

By THE Ohio State Buckeyes

August 21, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

auburn suxs:

What does “suxs” mean, Moron? Sucks twice? LOL.

“When” college football goes to a playoff sysytem”? LOL. Are you really that stupid? Maybe you should read something more than bloggs once in a while, MORON!!!

That’s what I mean. That’s the problem I have with you people in the south. You are truly ignorant when it comes to REAL college football, college football issues, college football conferences and college football tradition. There is zero chance of a playoff system in D-1 college football. EVER. “Ain’t gonna happen”. Yet morons like auburn suxs really seem to be banking on it!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

By Matt Thomas

August 21, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

You have obviously never been to a game at Jordan-Hare if you would rank Auburn fans as the second most obnoxius fans in the SEC. I have been to every SEC stadium for a game, and they are mostly class fans with the exception of Florida and Alabama.

By office space

August 21, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

I guess the ACC fans want to enter the fray. So just to give equal time here the most Bizzare game I’ve been to being a Dawg was a game between Ga. Tech and Maryland. I tried to get into the game but the Tech Geeks are so impressed with their Technological feats that at the end of a play no announcement for a flag on the play or whether a 1st down was made on a close play,no, it’s a fricken Huge screen Flashing a Coca-Cola commercial with the decibal level of a “Who” concert. The fans were yelling ‘yea’ not kill the sob.I had to give up and just watch the fans.Then I hear them yell ‘Block that kick’ for a kick-off!! My brother pointed out to me there was a row of six guys wearing pocket protectors,white buttondown shirts and ties!! my God it was the Twilight Zone.I still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat over this. No, I’ll take all you drunk son of a b*** in a group hug before I go there again.Go you SEC bottom feeders, kick a* and take names!

By uga blows

August 21, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Yeah, I think that Vandy and UK fans are the worst. After they beat us two years ago, they were celebrating and laughin, and it hurt my feelings. They have no right beating the mighty dawgs! Then this year, after we barely came back against vandy, we showed them by stomping on their logo. Those classless jerks deserved their logo being stomped.

By G

August 21, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Can’t believe that LSU wasn’t listed 1-12!!! Everyone else is mild compared to those fans. Especially for the ones that actually attended school there….oh wait….most of them DIDN’T go to school there and can’t even spell LSU

By No Respect

August 21, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

This is just another example of media bias. If we’re number one in the AP and the Coaches Poll then we should also be the tops in this list. Until we get the credit for being the most obnoxious fans then I will never buy another paper, patronize another ajc advertiser and if I ever see Mark Bradley I will have no choice but to berate his ability to write anything resembling an original thought. I always feel dumber after reading his columns and I get the sneaking suspicion that I read the exact same thing 10 years ago.

By Joe

August 21, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

By AltamahaDawg

August 21, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Incidentally, I was pretty damn cool when I WAS in college, so I don’t consider acting like I still am on occation as a negative.

By auchamp

August 21, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

This entire thing is a joke. Can’t you fans of each school understand your simply being played like a chump. This guy does not care who he insults or if you all insult eachother. He’s going to his boss laughing, and says; look how much traffic I brought to my blog this time. We all have our good fan’s and our bad. I’ve been to every stadium in the SEC, I had a great time at each win or lose. If you enjoy the exoerience of fighting and your looking for trouble, then you will find it. If your looking to experience fun it’s easy to find at each location. Shame on you Mark for writing this crap. Remeber fans; its the SEC against the rest of the college football world!!

By gatorhater#1

August 21, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

fishtales (Forrest Gump) - Well you got me there so I guess I’ll have pull out my schools (and yes I am an alum) multiple #1 rankings this pre-season and multiple defeats of Alabama this decade to shut you up. Not like that is hard seeing how you can barely read and write.

By Ex college football player

August 21, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

As a former football player let me say that I hate all fans, even the ones who cheered for us. Most of my teammates felt the same. Most of you are front runners who are nothing but jerks living vicariously through us. It’s important for us, but for god’s sake get some perspective and live your own life!!!

By jv

August 21, 2008 11:06 AM | Link to this

David wrote”

“It’s the AJC, so I’m not surprised UF is number 1. But in reality (which is where the rest of us live), its… 1. LSU 2. UGA 3. BAMA 4. UT 5. UF 6. USC (when they think they can win) 7. Auburn 8. Arkansas 9. Miss st 10. Kentucky 11. Ole Miss 12. Vandy”

I’m not sure where David went to school, but I almost completely agree with him. Bama and UGA are a tossup - otherwise he is dead on in my book. The UF fans are obnoxious on game day - just not as much the rest of the year. You say AU fans are trash talking? I haven’t really witnessed that, but what about the Bama fans? They are still talking and they have lost 6 in a row to their instate rivals. LSU - I have seen actual violence and destruction of property, multiple times, from their fans - I’m not sure that can be topped.

By G designate butthole

August 21, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

I’m glad rednecks put G’s on their vehicles. It’s easier to pick out the buttholes on the road. GA by far has the worst fans. What do you expect from the worst state?

By 7 days

August 21, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

Fat Dawg, Please keep proving my point about how ignorant UGA fans are. Tech has 4 Football National Championships to UGA’s 1. I know math is hard for you, but it cant be worse than your grammar. I assume you can figure out who has more.

By Dawg One

August 21, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Poor GT, they can’t get ranked in anything.

By AltamahaDawg

August 21, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Brian, I think the difference is that Alabama fans probably do not hang out in thier big rival’s blogs every flipping day, begging to get frosted the way Tech fans do.

By heady

August 21, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Mark, there’s a reason UGA had to designate ‘family friendly zones’. And there’s a reason why they are not used. I dare you to put your mom in opponents colors and walk her through campus.

By mike

August 21, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

As a UGA alum, UGA fans are pretty bad. UF is and always will be the worst. LSU below Auburn???? The comment about getting what you pay for is stupid. UGA tickets are $10,000 plus and most of them are not classy. I almost refused to get my tickets this year because of the rapidly declining class in our fanbase.

By Greg

August 21, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Agree with G. P. Burdell except that I don’t think the insightful comments can be limited to Georgia fans. The fans of any SEC school with the least amount of class always seem to be the ones who didn’t go to that school.

Having said that, Mark - can’t support putting Georgia behind Auburn. I remember during my days on the Plains (78-82) a very close AU-UGA contest at Jordan Hare that Georgia won. Both teams played well and deserved to win. Georgia fans were the most obnoxious fans I’ve ever heard after the game. If you can’t win with class, you’re not a winner.

By TS 7

August 21, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

I hate you all equally and can’t wait for the season to start next Thursday! It’s been too long.

GO GATORS!

By Nealgator

August 21, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Although I am a UF fan and Grad, probably have to agree with you about having the most obnoxious fans. I think we have a good excuse though, although we are the southern most state, we have kept the least ammount of southern hospitality and courtliness of all the other SEC states, as we have been overrun by retiring yankees for generations!!! thoughts?

By Tiffany

August 21, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

By Hopper46

August 21, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Not having Alabama #1 is absurd. Getting drunk and being obnoxious is one thing, but when your team is terrible and you have a bunch of west Alabama rednecks screaming this is the year “two-thousand and Saban” it takes the cake. If Alabama fans would just accept that they keep losing then Auburn fans would not have to keep reminding them……….

By Brad

August 21, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

IT’S GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER!!! Let’s hear everybody out there say it, “WAR DAMN EAGLE!!!”

By jimthorpe

August 21, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Nice article, Mark. Perhaps you should forego forecasting (forever), and stick to humor?

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

Good line, Man Hands — “pudding and Oreos.”

By borodawg

August 21, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

I guess first ya gotta define ‘obnoxious’. Is just yelling ‘how bout them dawgs’, ‘war damn eagle’, ‘go cox’, playing rockie top incessantly, etc obnoxious? Listen up Bulldog fans; yelling in opposing fans faces IS obnoxious. Even if you don’t agree with the list, take heed and please govern yourselves accordingly. A true Dawgs fan will have a modicum of humility, not be a braggart, and will be gracious in defeat or a win; will just be a good sport. Look to CMR as a guide on how to act. Thank you.

By mayretter local

August 21, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

At least we don’t wear jean shorts - GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!

Clean old fashioned hate!!!!

By fishtales

August 21, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

Gump. Another classic. Anything you’ve come up with on your own? Not sure Henry W. Grady would be pleased with you stealing other peoples’ material. Your #1 preseason ranking means about as much as your degree…nothing.

By dobearsbare

August 21, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

What, no aggregation?

Vandy stays in the league for the money

By LW Mclintock

August 21, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

Who is everyone fooling on this thread? The SEC is worst, classless conf. in the nation by far. The SEC often boasts loudly that it has the best conf. because they have the most talent, the best coaches, the best overall teams, etc… but they never take into consideration that maybe their greatness is all an illusion. They often play each other relatively close in conf. games and brag about how bad they beat each other up. In my opinion they are all a bunch of nancy boys that need to strap it on and go play a conf like the PAC 10 in a close game. Last I recall, ARK got blown out by a team from the best conf in the land. Another reason the teams in the SEC are terrible is there inability to decided on what their mascots are. For example UGA started off as the goats, yeah that’s right check your own history in the 1890’s, http://www.uga.edu/ugazine/past/f2005/bulldog.html. and then went through about five other mascots before picking the bulldogs.

If you want to see some true football, try looking outside your microcosm in the southeast. Go explore the teams in the northeast, like Rutgers and teams in the soutwest like Texas. Those boys really know what tradition is all about.

By Donna Outlaw

August 21, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

Oh Lord it’s hard to be humble when you’re perfect in every way……. GEAUX TIGERS… Frlom readon all the UGA vents over thas past 9 months, I bet you thought I was typing about the Dawgies, didn’t you…lol LSU fans calling other fans “Tigerbait” is just one of the things we do and all teams have traditions like that but if you didn’t respond do obnoxiously drunken, we’d feed you and we’d all have a great Cajun time. By the way, whoever called us rednecks needs to figure out the difference between Cajun and redneck and being Cajun is a racial heritage so your comments about Cajuns are insulting and crude.

By Richard

August 21, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Please!!!! This is a joke. LSU fans are the worst by a mile!!! Tiger Stadium is the only place I’ve ever seen students urinating! I guess they have to mark their territory.

By Old Teach

August 21, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

*Fat Dawg * You know enough not to end a sentence with a preposition, not a prepositional phrase. Ending with a prepositional phrase is ok. I don’t normally correct anyone’s grammar on a blog but you were being so nice about it and I wanted you to be right.

By TG

August 21, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Imagine that the intellectual hack Bradley saying we have the worst fans. Shocking. That’s okay. Coming from a school that hasn’t won much an MNC of late, they sure do talk a lot of crap. Go ahead and crown yourselves champs. The SI cover curse is in affect.

By AllVOL

August 21, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

You know; any time I see or hear anyone use the term “Class” or “Classy”, all I can think of is some gum-smacking, big-haired, wanna-be miscreant who wouldn’t understand the concept of refinement or understatement if it came up and smacked the gum out of their mouths. If you have to use the terms “Class” or “Classy” to describe yourself, then you obviously don’t own it.

GO VOLS!

By FL fan

August 21, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

I’m sorry, but I think it’s disgusting that UGA fans “bark” at a lady. I thought you were supposed to be southern gentlemen? I am not one to start smack talk; however, I have often had GA fans come up and bark at me just b/c I have “Florida Alumni” around my plate. Also, I kept quiet when the Gators beat UGA year after year, but coworkers were flat out rude to me when UGA finally beat UF.

By Emuga

August 21, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

I’ve come to realize that the most obnoxious fans are with whom I’m in close proximity. When I lived in West Georgia, I thought AU fans were the worst; now I thing they’re among the best. When I lived in Tennessee, I thought they were the worst. Having married a UT gal, I now just bite my tongue whenever I hear Rocky Top. Now that I live in Augusta, I’ve come to learn that Gamecock fans are the worst. They’ve never won anything, yet they believe they invented football and that SOS is going to lead them to the promise land.

By Gator Girl

August 21, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

I beg to differ with you, while I am a little bias being a recent former student-athlete at Florida (now living in Atlanta), I have NEVER met ruder fans than those who support UGA. On more than one occasion I have been taunted, harassed and even “spit” on by Georgia fans. Liquor bottles being thrown from buses into my sunroof while at a stop light in Jacksonville, girls running up to us screaming in our face while walking away from a loss at the stadium, and a Frat boy literally out of NOWHERE calling me obscene names and eventually spitting on me when I told him to have some class. Auburn fans on the other hand were some of the most generous host at our last game in Alabama.

By THE Ohio State Buckeyes

August 21, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

Rocky Top:

What’s the difference between a porcupine and Neyland Stadium? I’ll tell you. A porqupine has 100,000 pricks on the “OUTSIDE”.

By Greg

August 21, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

Most Obnoxious Fans = AUBURN TIGER fans!!!! They urinate over the sides of the stadium. They scream nasty curse words at visitors. They have roving large groups of redneck fans that try and catch one or two vsiting fans to physically assault. Auburn fans have no class whatsoever. They are the nation’s worst group of trashy rednecks! They get very drunk. Auburn fans are the biggest sore losers in the SEC. Florida and Tennessee are next worst.

By GASUX

August 21, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

WOW at the pathedic Ga. fans!!!!!! Funny that everyones, ME-ME-ME. Come on maybe when Ga. has a little success.. That’s right! Ga. has (1)ONE NC.. OK they DO have the most pathedic fans… Ga.’s #1!!!!!

By AtlMike

August 21, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Wrong! Tennessee, LSU, and South Carolina in that order are far worse than GEORGIA. And the most classless fans outside the SEC in all of college football is georgia tech. You would think they would know how to lose by now.

By Reaves

August 21, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

Hey Bradley, The ‘Gator Flop’ doesn’t count to Flurduh Fans as it’s BS (Before Spurrier).

That’s as far back as their memories go these days.

By NCdawg

August 21, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

I disagree with UF being No 1. I have meet far more obnoxious Auburn fans than Gator fans.

By Coach Richt

August 21, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

calm down fellow uga alumni, students,Pres Adams and pundits of SEC etiquette, I know our fans are the most obnoxious drunk illiterate scum bags in the south but they consistenly turn out every weekend to support our over ranked hydrant humpers and for that I am so grateful,I cant wait for the Gators in jacksonville because I will have another trick up my trousers to get you obnoxious drunk illiterate scum bags all pumped up again even if we lose …..carry on fans MR

By Sowega

August 21, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Well, I’m a UGA Alumnus, but I have to say that I can respect Tennessee for one incident of great valor. Some years ago—I wasn’t there, I was working—my mama was in the middle of a big crowd squeeze while walking over the bridge in front of Sanford. A big, burly Vols fan held out his arms and made a “fence” for my mama and another woman to keep them from being squashed or pushed over the railing. She was most appreciative, and I’m thankful for his strong valor and respect.

I still hate hearing “Rocky Top” though! ;)

By office space

August 21, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Dear Ex football player, First of all you must have played for another team than Georgia where the players are revered and I’ve found appreciate the support.They know that without the fans they’d be playing in a field being filmed with a camcorder,if they could afford it. Yeah, for 3 hours a week we live vicariously through you but the rest of the time we’re making the world go round for you.Don’t be Hatin!

By Hollis

August 21, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

TENNESSEE VOLUNTEER FANS! MOST OBNOXIOUS! MOST REDNECK! MOST DRUNK! MOST UNEDUCATED!

By Ron Roberts

August 21, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Gotta pull L.S.U. closer to number one, Mark. Having lived in Louisiana for six years as a Georgia Bulldog, I know, first-hand, how friendly LSU fans can be, but when they get arrogant and full of themselves, they’re horrid to deal with.

Some memories that come to mind:

September 20, 2003 @ Baton Rouge. Pre-game tailgating was delicious and friendly. Folks were very respectful of Georgia fans and vice versa. Let’s remember, at this point, it’d been MANY years since LSU’d enjoyed much success on the football field.

Dude, that was an ugly scene after-the-fact, when you’re trying to leave the stadium and drunken, obnoxious locals are hurling objects and filthy words at you. Was a great game; great atmosphere, too. But those folks go from friendly to obnoxious on a dime. Living in Louisiana after that game and the ensuing SEC Championship game was damn-near misery.

Of course, it was only that much sweeter when we smoked ‘em 45-16 in Athens the following season, in Athens, then did it again in the SEC Championship in 2005.

I rode with some LSU buddies in an RV from central Louisiana to Athens for that home game, and those two were all mouth on the way, and all wound-licking on the way back, btu insistent that it was a fluke. A 29-point fluke, and they’d, of course, return the pasting in Atlanta.

We lost the following week to Tennessee (still smarting from that one, frankly), but when we did meet ‘em in Atlanta, in 2005, they were again, loud and in-your-face obnoxious.

Then we smoked ‘em 34-14.

To understand the LSU fan is to experience living in that state. There’s nothing else for those folks to hang their hats on; the state’s in disarray, the Saints will always be the Saints (though, they, too, are obnoxious fans when they experience a hint of success), and their only real claim to superiority, outside of LSU sports, is that they’re not Arkansas.

By Milo H.

August 21, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

If you were to make a national list, my vote for most insufferable would be the fans of the OU Sooners. Nebraska’s ex-coach had it right when he called them a bunch of ##$@** hillbillies.

By atlanta dawg

August 21, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

LSU has the worst fans, and it’s not even close. I used to think UF fans were bad but they dont even touch LSU. I went to Baton Rouge in 2003 and had multiple empty handles hurled my way, grandmothers spitting on me, and we didn’t even win the game. Couldnt imagine what it would have been like if we would have won.

By gatorhater#1

August 21, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

I could come up with more on my own but seeing you have an IQ of 42 you wouldn’t understand them. I noticed you had no rebuttal for my comment on UGA’s dominance over Alabama this decade. I guess continually losing to UGA cannot be rebutted. Maybe this year though, who knows? Just pray Alabama doesn’t get caught cheating…again.

By **COCKY**

August 21, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

JOE

** THE ACTUAL SAYING IS ” YOU CAN’T LICK OUR COCKS”

IF YOUR GOING TO MOCK AT LEAST DO IT CORRECTLY!

By WOW

August 21, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

You will hit 400 posts by noon. Congrats Mark B. You have learned how to incite the white trash.

By Ron Roberts

August 21, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

GASUX…it’s spelled…

P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C

…not pathedic.

Somebody hand the guy a towel so he can wipe the egg off his face.

By Ed

August 21, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

The no. 1 obnoxious ranking for Florida fans is right on. They haven’t changed a bit since the team learned how to win (only took 60 years or so). They are the only fans I’ve seen who will brag and talk trash after their team loses. Any fans of another SEC team who has lived in Florida know what I mean. In the mid-80s, they once booed a hotshot freshman QB recruit so mercilessly after his mistakes resulted in a tie against Rutgers (back when Rutgers was still Rutgers), his career was practically over before it began.

When it comes to obnoxious SEC fans, Gators are no. 1 in the same manner that Tiger Woods is the number 1 golfer in the world - no one else is even close. Throw in the mullets, jorts, bad bleach jobs, and retired Yankees that become instant UF fans once they move to Florida, and you have an unbeatable mix.

I disagree with the Auburn ranking. I attended a game there once, and the people I ran into treated me like a visiting relative rather than an opposing fan. It was a great experience.

As for fellow Georgia fans, my experience is that we are obnoxious at the Cocktail Party, but very polite at Sanford. Not sure that deserves a no. 3 ranking. Agree that LSU fans are very hospitable.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

I’m willing to concede that my perception of LSU fans might not coincide with everyone else’s. But I can only go on what I’ve experienced, and I’ve never ridden a team bus into Tiger Stadium or gotten into a fight at a Port-a-Potty. (I save all my brawling for those times someone tries to plop down 11 items in the express line at Publix.)

By they all suck

August 21, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

SEC people - yuck

By Fat Phil

August 21, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

Hey Volunteers!!! Let’s all go to McDonald’s and supersize our value meals. Yummm! That’s some good Tennessee eating. Almost as good as chitlins and possum stew (the 2 favorties at UT tailgates!) Yes, we are FATTEST and MOST ILLITERATE fans in America. And being a sore losing, obnoxious, hick of a Volunteer I want you all to join in and condemn Mark Bradley for not naming TENNESSEE the most obnoxious fans in the SEC. We know we are the most obnoxious and the rest of the SEC knows we are the most obnoxious. We can out drink, out fight, out publicly urinate, out puke any SEC fans around. We are ignorant drink, uncuth hick hillbillies and damn proud of it. GO VOLS! — Your loving coach, Fat Phil

By Dolemite64

August 21, 2008 11:48 AM | Link to this

UGA sucks!!they always think they have a National championship team, snap out of it bulldogs, Herschel Walker is gone bye bye.I predict you’all to lose 2 games this yr.,or just enough to again spoil your National Championship chances.

By JT

August 21, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

I sense a lot of jealousy toward the Bulldawg Nation and I love it. Look, we’re not snobs, we’re just better than you. If you can’t handle it get in your usual fetal position and cry to your mamma. Hate all you want but the Dawg fans are the most passionate and loyal fans in the SEC. Everyone knows that we are a bunch of drunk obnoxious GEORGIA FANS!! So GO Dawgs, Sic em, woof, woof, woof. We can’t help it that all of you other fans are weak and a bunch of babies. Grow up and learn how to be real fans without pouting. GO DAWGS!!

By SouthernFootballFan

August 21, 2008 11:51 AM | Link to this

This whole list makes me laugh. It is to bad Atlanta does not have a good newspaper. Mr. Bradley your own class shows thru with the Kentucky comment. Hopefully the AJC goes the way of other daily rags and folds it tent and goes away.

By nashtndawg

August 21, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

Mine would be…

1)Tennessee 2)Florida 3)LSU 4)South Carolina 5)Bama 6)Georgia 7)Auburn 8)Arkansas 9)Ole Miss 10)Vanderbilt 11)Kentucky 12)Mississippi State

By jim

August 21, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

you seriously might be the dumbest sportswriter in America. if they ajc were smart they would have you covering girls jv softball in paulding county. kys

By Gator Bill

August 21, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

Because of all the mean things said about the Gators on this blog, we Gators will double our efforts of urinating in cups and tossing them it on visiting fans like we always do! We will double our efforts to beat up single visiting fans by mobs of Gators like we always have. And we will double our efforts to stomp on redneck hillbilly hick Tennessee fans!

By Kyle

August 21, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

This is ridiculous. People on here insisting “we’re not the worst! Everyone else is hillbilly fightin’ rednecks!”…Then wonder why you’re ranked soooo high. I find it funny that Alabama is ranked high even though I didn’t see ANY Alabama fans screaming about everyone else on this thread (like everyone else is doing). ALSO…. BAMA FANS NEVER HARP ABOUT BEAR BRYANT, EVERYONE ELSE JUST INSISTS THAT THEY DO! The only people I ever hear talk about the “Bryant” days is everyone else.

Here’s my rankings:

1a. LSU 1b. Auburn 1c. Georgia 1d. Florida 1e. Tennessee 1f. LSU/Auburn

2a. Alabama 2b. Arkansas (coming on recently)

I just don’t like seeing fans of teams slammed when they aren’t here to defend themselves.

By cobbdawg

August 21, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

big difference between passion and obnoxiousness. My Top 5-

Florida #1 and #2 - win or lose, no fans exhibit less class. I ahve seen it firsthand, since the 80’s (when there was a lot of losing).

South Carolina - #3

Alabama - #4

Arkansas - #5 mainly because of Petrino

TN, LSU, Auburn fans while certainly passionate seem (to me at least) to accept Bulldawg beatdowns better than others.

By Pat

August 21, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

Having gone to all UofTenn games a few years ago, Rocky Top drives me over the edge. But, that Gator Chomp….I’d put FL number one, and TN number two.

By CarolinaDub

August 21, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

HAHA, if I’ve heard the c** joke once, I’ve heard it a million times. That line is so lame and played out. About as much as our “Wait till Next Year” peptalks. But call it what you will…even when we went 0-21 in 2season, Williams Brice was still a packed house!

UGA fans are by far the most delusional and obnoxious! Not to mention they have the biggest band wagon of fans. Its easy to be a Bulldog when things are going good, but I’ve come across my share of UGA fans who were quick to toss the team under the bus when they couldn’t beat a lousy Gamecock team last year. LOL.

Here’s to a repeat in Columbia!

GO GAMECOCKS!

By Bham Dawg

August 21, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

Braldey - Your assesment of LSU is way off. They are rude, drunk, classless people. They are mean to you whether you win or lose.

By SEC bst

August 21, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

here’s a little unbiased view for you. I’ve seen all 12 schools in action and i’ve experienced all the fans. Obviously all of the fans aren’t like this. The worst are uga fans. They’re obnoxious, drunk, and violent (throw quarters at the opposing fans from the upper deck). Next is LSU. Same qualities except they seem to have more fans that redeem the others. Next is UT (never been flipped off so much in my life) then auburn (way to obnoxious to have never won consistently), florida (bad sports), alabama (I don’t think they’re inconsequential but some are too attached to the past and the sweet home alabama thing is annoying), arkansas (calling the hogs), MSU (cowbells), south carolina (that horrible gamecock call over the loudspeaker), ole miss, kentucky and finally vandy. That’s how the list should look.

By from cali

August 21, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

tha rednecks from georgia are #1 in this list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By iamtheaxe

August 21, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

LSU is No. 1 with a bullet.

You are way off on this. LSU fans can cook, but their “normal” is Bourbon Street. Auburn’s normal is Toomer’s Corner. There’s a huge difference in community norm and acceptable behavior.

Today, the list should be: LSU, Bama, Fla, Georgia, Tennessee - if Bama starts winning again move them up a spot. Same thing with Tennessee.

Maybe I’d put Auburn, Ole Miss, and Miss State in the next group. The rest are totally tame.

By Ed

August 21, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Florida experience: First, it was a lot of fun. Two-bits doing his thing, the crowd is ear-splitting loud, and the fans are passionate about their team. I have to give credit where credit is due in that regard. But they are obnoxious almost beyond description.

I attended a UF-Ga. Southern game there once. It was probably in the late 80s or early 90s. Florida won of course, but Ga. Southern was very competitive. Final score was something like 38-21. I rode with a friend who had FSU stickers on his car, and when we were looking for parking, we drove by a tailgating family, all decked out in Orange and Blue. They looked like the perfect middle-class family enjoying a picnic on a college football Saturday. The idealic scene was shattered when the daughter, who was probably 12 or 13-yrs. old, showed us her middle finger. The dad saw her do it, and just laughed. That’s UF fans in a nutshell.

By dawggirl

August 21, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

My disclaimers:

Huge UGA fan, but I’m an actual alum, and avoid Wal-Mart like the plague.

Have never been to another stadium, so I only have blog posts and visiting fans in Athens to go by.

I really am sorry that other SEC fans have such a negative view of us. I have tried to be as hospitable as I can be at games. I had to sit in the visitor’s section at the S. Carolina game last year, and hopefully will never have to repeat that experience again. I admit that we do have fans that drink a lot (my brother’s best friend - also alum - especially), but he’s the fun, happy kind of drunk.

Is there really a degree of drunkenness that you don’t experience at other SEC stadiums? I thought that was what SEC tailgating is known for, that and great food, of course. Since I’m actually allergic to alcohol, I promise I’m not one of the obnoxious, drunk fans. You can come up to me and say hi. I won’t be mean, well maybe to the Gator and Vols fans, I just really have an adverse reaction to the color orange.

My two cents on Auburn is that they generally are okay. This is one rivalry that I truly, truly enjoy. The games are always competitive, no real advantage being a home game, and it’s usually down to the wire. I remember I was babysitting my best friend’s little girl a few years ago, when Auburn won in Athens by one point. I had to keep my screaming to a whisper so as not to wake her up. Also, Auburn usually beats the other teams that we need them to beat, so plus for them there.

LSU fans I’ve encountered were always cool with me too. No real problems with the SEC West in general. It’s definitely the East teams and not Vandy and Kentucky. You can fill in the other three on your own.

By moresense

August 21, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

This is the most ridiculous ranking! You’ve obviously never been on the receiving end of some of the crap these fans spew! A more logical ranking: 12) MSU 11) Kentucky (football) 10) Vanderbilt 9) South Carolina 8) Arkansas (proud tradition of football; some scary fans, but generally okay) 7) Ole Miss (classic wannabes: if they won more, they’d be like Alabama) 6) Auburn (generally polite to guests, except for idiots who rush the field after winning (refer to UGA and the hoses)) 5) UGA (if they dance on sidelines this year, they’ll move up) 4) Florida (used to be higher in 80s; not as much bad behavior from fans; still think they’re cream) 3) Tennessee (fans can be violent) 2) LSU (they should be #1 or #2 on everyone’s list! Obnoxious drunkards) 1) Alabama (always delusional; sometimes violent if the odds are in their favor; they never get beat- they give the game away)

By Fred G Sanford

August 21, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

The side-walk Uga fans are the worst.The one’s that actually go to school are not that bad.Just goe’s to show you can’t beat an education.

By Gen Neyland

August 21, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

356 comments in 4 hours. Pretty good, MB…Mama Cox will reward you with a gift certificate to QT…

By Tom

August 21, 2008 12:08 PM | Link to this

Well, it looks like Mark finally got people to write a comment after an article he wrote. Although I’m sure it didn’t take much effort trying to figure out how to p*ss everyone off, did it. You can now brag to your boys at the paper that you got more response than ever before. woo-hoo

By who dat

August 21, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

I agree that MSU, KU and Vandy should be at the bottom of the list but that is b/c there fans are irrelevant. But to rank Auburn and Georgia ahead of LSU, BAMA and Tennessee is just absurd.
The last time i checked, when a team came into auburn or UGA, fans weren’t shaking or throwing rocks at the buses like they do at LSU. OH yeah, and as for Alabama, all they do is talk about a dead coach(bear bryant) and how many national championships they have won. that gets annoying!

By Richard

August 21, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

Good stuff.

AND CONGRATULATIONS TO UGA FOR WINNING THEIR 20TH CONSECUTIVE PRE-SEASON NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP !!!!

By plainsman

August 21, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

I have

By AUGirl

August 21, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

I had to remove any Auburn stickers from my car before driving to LSU for the game for fear that it may be vandalized. NOT UNCOMMON at LSU! Also, while living on The Hill (girls dormitories) in Auburn, Tennessee fans would get there the Tuesday before the game and begin blaring Rocky Top. Tennessee and LSU would have to be tied for most obnoxious.

Also, why are there no prostitutes in Tennessee? They are all VOLUNTEERS

By GOVOLS

August 21, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

sicem’s mating call must be “BOY! am I drunk!!!!!”

By FLGator

August 21, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Thank you Mark, just another thing to add to the list that Florida is Number 1 in.

By MountainDawg

August 21, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

The Flowerida Gayturdz, LSWho Tigerettes, Alabuma Crumscum Tide & Tennessee Volunqueerz fans should be at the top of the list without a doubt!!! All these mugs on here claiming UGA fans are the most obnoxious are jealous of the Dawgs #1 ranking & the fact we’ll be bring the national title back to Athens this season! GOOOOOOOO DAWGS!!!

By Bibble

August 21, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

For what it’s worth, an old Air Force buddy of mine who’s a Colorado alum working in Atlanta attended the UGA-CU game two years ago. He and his wife were dressed in CU black and gold, and he says they were treated good by the home crowd. Even invited to have a beer with some Georgia fans a time or two.

By LAURA

August 21, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

WAR EAGLE…….WE ARE THE TYPE OF FANS THAT ARE DEDICATED TO OUR TEAM REGARDLESS IF THEY ARE WINNING OR LOSING. IT HAS TO DO WITH THE HISTORY AND THE FACT THAT THE TIGERS WHOOP *!

By gp

August 21, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Mark,

Arguably the best idea for a response-generating column of all time – insult almost every fan base in the SEC. The denials, affirmation and anecdotes will rattle around cyberspace forever. You should turn this one into a fully developed website of your own.

BTW, I’m a dog alum and I know we are obnoxious, I’ve never met a winning SEC fan base (in any sport) that wasn’t. Clearly we have work to do though as #3 just won’t cut it. We know we are the best!

By Fan

August 21, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

“Just goe’s to show you can’t beat an education.” Obviously, a quote from someone that went to Georgia.

By Nativebird

August 21, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

the Gator Flop was in 1971! You ranked Florida #1 based on an event occuring over 30 years ago? the endzone stunt by the CURRENT bulldog HC (weak Richt) was the all-time show of poor sportsmanship… and low class..and like it or not, your beloved Bulldogs did it.

Your a joke.

By TS 7

August 21, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Mega ditto FLGator. Just last week we were voted “America’s #1 Party School.”

Keep them coming!

By GM31

August 21, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Everyone in the college football world knows the most obnoxious fans are UGA fans. Every national poll on this topic always has them in the top 3.

I assume you have links to back this up? I won’t hold my breath…

It’s always amusing when the haters pretend to speak for the national viewpoint, when it’s likely most of them rarely leave their mom’s basement.

And add me to the “LSU only 8?” crowd. Everything I’ve heard, from various fanbases, would suggest that that is WAY low.

By SASQUATCH FOUND

August 21, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this

Here is the ranking in my opinion most obnoxious. 1. ALABAMA 2.LSU 3GEORGIA 4.FLORIDA 5.ARKANSAS 6.MISSISSIPPI STATE 7.OLE MISS 8.TENNESSEE 9SOUTH CAROLINA 10.VANDERBILT 11.AUBURN 12 KENTUCKY I AM AN AUBURN FAN AND WE OWN THE RECORDS AGAINST FLORIDA ,GEORGIA, TENEESEE ,ARKANSAS, MISS STATE ,O,LE MISS SOUTH CAROLINA VANDERBILT, KENTUCKY SLIGHTLY BEHIND LSU AND ALABAMA ONLY BY A FEW GAMES SO DONT KNOW WHAT THE LAST GUY MEANS BY INCONSISTENT WINNING.WE WON THE SEC IN 83 87 88 89 1993 UNDEFEATED 1997 SEC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME 2004 UNDEFEATED SHOULD HAVE BEEN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSWHEN WE DONT WIN WE BARELY LOOSE SO WE WILL NOT TRY AND JUST GIVE THE LAST TWO GAMES AGAINST GEORGIA WITH 8 INTERCEPTIONS WE WILL BE COMING AT YOU WITH SOME BIG TIME WEAPONS GET READY.WE STILL REMEMER THE GEORGIA PLAYERS ALONG WITH THE CBS ANNOUNCERS DANCING TO SOULJA BOY ON THE FIELD AND IN THE BOOTH.WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A GOOD OFFENSE THIS YEAR REMEBER THIS YEAR RULES CHANGE ON TIME I AND MANY ARENT GOING TO LIKE IT THE GAME IS GOINGTO BE SHORTENED UP BIG TIME.

By VolstuckinGA

August 21, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

The responses on this blog prove that UGA has the most obnoxious, rude fans anywhere. I went to a game in Athens a few years ago and set up to tailgate and was told I had to go elsewhere because I was a UT fan. I’ll never forget that!

By Charlie

August 21, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

The WORST fans in the world are Boston Red Sox Fans!!! They do not know anything about being humble. I knew 2 Sox fans my whole life. They win the World Series in 2004 and thousands of fans come out of the woodwork spewing hate and venom. Winners do not carry themselves like that!

By Fan

August 21, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

As neither a UGA nor a UF fan I find it humorous that UGA is desperately trying to become what they say they despise about UF. A classless when at all costs football team. We’ll be seeing jean shorts on UGA fans in Athens in no time.

By UnbiasedOpinion

August 21, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

Having played many of the SEC schools in Football, I can say the top three idiot fans are without question

UGA and LSU were bad, but not near as disrespectful as these idiots! Having things thrown at you and little kids cursing to you has gotta be an effect of imbreeding. And very few of there fans even attended the school or anyother school….lmao.

By sobedawg

August 21, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

Ever been to Knoxville? Tennessee fans are by far the worst on Earth…and the most uneducated…and most inbred… :D

By Gen Neyland

August 21, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

A great follow up to this blog topic : ‘Which SEC School Has The Most Loose Women’…

By plainsman

August 21, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

I have been to EVERY venue in the SEC,most on more than one occasion.EVERY TEAM HAS FANS THAT ARE OUTTA LINE,and every team has good ones.This is the proper ranking IMO based on personal experience.

By Paul Stephenson

August 21, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

“Taking their lead from the preening Tommy Tuberville, Auburn people won’t shut up about how they’ve come to dominate Alabama. This is precisely the thing that used to frost these same folks when they were being dominated. They have become what they beheld.”

First of all, Coach Tuberville doesn’t brag all the time about beating Alabama. He knows that is important to keep his job and he reminds people that he’s done it 6 years straight. Secondly, he broke out the “seven” fingers in Iraq because he was being egged on by Auburn AND Alabama fans serving our country. He and Richt were there giving some “normalcy” to the lives of our true heroes overseas. As for Auburn fans, those that live in Alabama have to put up with all Alabama all the time media coverage, while trying to find news to slander Auburn AND a delusional fan base that acts like they’ve beat us for the last 6 years AND the second coming happened when they hired the GREAT Sabear. Give me a break. #1 is still Alabama & #2 is LSU. Those people vandalized visitors cars and threaten the safety of the visiting fans, esp. if it’s a night game.

Oh, ask non-conf opponenents how Auburn is. A Syracuse writer wrote a phenomenal article and the USC fans that came down in ‘03 loved the campus (even prior to the game).

You have a right to your opinion, but I think you are off.

By Russell Brewer

August 21, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

Florida, and it’s not close. Prior to Steve Spurrier, the Gators had won exactly zero SEC titles. You would think they invented football, to say nothing of the recent basketball success. Act like you’ve been there before.

By AUGirll

August 21, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

I grew up in Atlanta but I am an Auburn girl so that #2 ranking stung a little bit. Until I realized that this is totally subjective. I have had full bottles of liquor thrown at my head and been told off by a three year old for not being an LSU fan while his mom and dad egged him on in Baton Rouge, Auburn had to change tailgate rules after UF destroyed the campus in ‘93 when we beat them, and don’t even get me started on how I was treated in Athens… and my best experience has been with Bama fans! Auburn has had multiple news sources inside and outside of SEC country write articles about how gracious the fans are. I’ll take that any day.

By gman

August 21, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

Good God Gators, GET OVER IT!

WE all spent the 90’s watching you guys shamelessly running up the score whenever possible. There is a truth to the saying, “if you don’t like it, do something about it.” We couldn’t do much about it at the time so it sounded pretty ridiculous when we complained about it.

Now though watching the Gator Nation’s collective outrage and the non-stop complaining over the end-zone stunt is hilarious. You had approximately 55 minutes to do something about it last year. You didn’t because you couldn’t. Shut the f up and deal with it!

By RollTide1984

August 21, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Your columns are as worthless to read as your career is to follow.

By M Ryan

August 21, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Florida fans are the worst, Had and Grandpa giving me Sh*t on MARTA before the the NC basketball game at Philips. Of course he had 3 other younger guys and 3/4’s of the car filled with gaytors fans and I had my girls. Instead of busting his head (would not do that in front of my girls). I told him and his buddies to come back and talk once they had a little traditions and a few more NC’s.

By Mark Biles

August 21, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Bama fans are still obnoxious even though they don’t win anymore—much more obnoxious than Auburn who is a winner.

By CAT FAN IN ATLANTA

August 21, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Mark, I guess since we’re both from KY and went to UK our opinions are along the same lines. I love TN too and always sing along to “Rocky Top”. The only thing I will have to disagree with is your top three are a bit out of order.

By Richard

August 21, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

I’m suprised the Georgia fans arent angry for not topping your ranking MB.

Anyways my top 5 obnoxious nation wide:

And fanbases that I found suprisingly polite:

By DawgFan

August 21, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

GOOOOOOO DAWGS! Sic ‘em, Woof Woof Woof

By Jortgia fan

August 21, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

I love Jortgia Football!

By KJ

August 21, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

1Georgia-Barking in the face of children to the point they cry,and the elderly too.Have seen this more times than I can count. 2LSU-P* in empty coke cups and slinging it over the crowd in the game from up top and rocking buses along with fights and slashed tires/broken car windows*

LOL @ ranking “barking” over “peeing on people and destroying property”.

Keep it coming, it’s always fun watching the haters make azzes of themselves.

By Chris Von Offen

August 21, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

As a middle aged transplant from Big 12 country, I’ve had the opportunity to attend games in Auburn, Knoxville, Birmingham (Ala), Columbia, Baton Rouge and Athens. It’s not even close. Georgia fans are the most dispicable on the planet. From throwing bottles at the oppositions fans, to keying cars, to urinating off the top deck they take the cake of being the most obnoxious. They thrive on gang or herd mentality, picking on individuals or smaller groups. When they themselves are seperated out, they tuck their tails like wounded prey and run off like cowards. Whomever coined the phrase “Wal-Mart UGa fans” nailed it. 85% of the trash that attend their homegames, who run their mouth, never stepped foot on the campus to attend a single class. And they generally smell of like corndogs.

By chuck Allison

August 21, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

When publications have made this a matter of polls including the entire nation, UGA always comes out on top with the most offensive and obnoxious fans. The only consolation that UGA can take is that most of their fans have never set foot on campus. Alcohol is no excuse for rude, boorish behavior.

And, in the ACC, VPI comes out on top with the most obnoxious fans.

By lewie

August 21, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

UGA fans are the most obnoxious fans i’ve ever come across.

i’ve had older men an women tell me to go f-myself….after they’d beaten my team.

easily the least gracious fans on the planet

By Toby

August 21, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Damn! Once again Florida is ranked where UGA wants to be. (I think the dogs deserve this title)

By me

August 21, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Miss State should be one or two. Those cowbells are the most obnoxious things I have ever scene at a game. When they played at the Peach Bowl several years ago they were throwing glass bottles at their own players.

By bayoubruce

August 21, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

Hey Ron Roberts…how bout this LSU Memory…..LSU getting its 2nd BCS National Championship trophy last year…..Geaux Tigers

By War Eagle 02

August 21, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

Have you ever even been to an SEC game? LSU fan’s polite? They are the scum of the earth!

By DawgMan

August 21, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

I would have to agree with the Auburn girl. While there always always drunk fans that are obnoxious at any school (seems my Athens is at the top), I think Auburn has some of the classiest fans. I must say the Baton Rogue has got to be the WORST haven for obnoxious fans that are violent. We visit there this year, and I’m sure there will be lots of fights just because it’s LSU fans involved. It’s too bad Katrina didn’t wipe that town off the map.

By KJ

August 21, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

When publications have made this a matter of polls including the entire nation, UGA always comes out on top with the most offensive and obnoxious fans

Again, links or STFU.

By Joe Mac

August 21, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

Mark Bradley looks cute in that little UGA cheerleader outfit. Sorry, no pom-poms in the press box.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

I’ve been to games at Miami, Clemson and Ohio State, and I didn’t find any of those places all that bad. (Though I do remember Clemson fans throwing things at Georgia Tech’s Bobby Rodriguez when he caught a long touchdown pass against the Tigers in 1989.)

By Dave in Marietta

August 21, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Mark, how about a list of the most obnoxious AJC columnists? You’d finish first no doubt.

By thomas

August 21, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

You lost all credibility when you ranked LSU that low. UGA and LSU and 1/2—pick ‘em and most SEC fans who don’t have an agenda will tell you that. Very poor article. LSU #8?????? ever been to BR for a night game???

By Gators > Dawgs

August 21, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Since I’m a Florida fan, I can’t rank UF. I don’t doubt that we’re in the top 3, though.

3: Georgia - Maybe it’s because UF / UGA is an emotional rivalry, but I just can’t stand how the majority of UGA fans thing their team is the greatest team ever to walk on the field. They are annually overrated, especially this year - the juniors and seniors on this year’s team lost to Vandy at HOME and bareley beat them last year (not to mention the classes act of jumping on the “V” after squeaking one out against the SEC doormat). Tell me, UGA fans - how many National Championships has UGA won in the past 25 years?

2: Tennessee - Rocky Top. Over and over and over again. Confrontational fans. Hard to say more, but at least they have a right: they’ve won an National Championship in the past 25 years.

1: Alabama - I can not believe how outright awful these fans are. They easily take #1 in my book. I watched first hand in Tuscaloosa as a bunch of drunk tailgating Bammers (who didnt have tickets to the game) knocked over a 65+ year old man for wearing the wrong school’s colors. And they have that lovely way of insulting you without insulting you…”Well, y’all had Spurrier and we had Bear, and you KNOW there will just never be another Bear!” Bear is dead, get over it. (PS UGA Fans: Even Bama has won a National Championship in that past 25 years…)

By Gadawg

August 21, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Awbarn, I can’t really believe your not claiming your position as rude Fans,quit being so pathethic,after all, Dawg fans are Over but have not forgotten how you stormed the feild in Athens and destroyed the hedges and the following year when it was our turn to retaliate you had water cannons fired at small children and the elderly it didn’t matter.So when you have that Dawg barking in your face just remember YOU EARNED IT!. Go DAWGS!

By gator grad

August 21, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

i live in florida and graduated from there and i agree. the gator idiot nation is boring ton us. but boston fan is still worse

By Russell

August 21, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

Has this guy even seen any SEC games?

In my experience:

1) A MSU fan came up and screamed in my wife’s face after a game in Starkville, another tried to start a fight with my brother at another game in Starkville, great fans.

2) Was cussed at and had a bottle thrown in my general direction at LSU, easily the drunkest fans in the SEC. A lot of fun after the game though.

3) Was spit on in Tuscaloosa by an errant shot by a UA fan while walking next to a UT fan. Probaby the lowest class thing I have witnessed, I am sure the late Bear Bryant would not have sanctioned spitting on the opposition. But as they would have to read that now, how are they to find that out?

4) I have been obnoxious at Auburn, but never rude to opposing teams fans, that shows no class. I am also proud of the way AU fans stick with our team no matter the score, we don’t leave (unless Rammer Jammer is coming).

5) Dominating UA is something that those of us who grew up in the 70’s needed, saying we are like they were must be because now we are the ones winning. We will get it back one day, but for right now, the State of Alabama is our house and we will let you know.

6) Ole Miss has great, easy going fans. A trip to Oxford is a lot of fun.

7) UGA has great fans, they love football Saturday’s and in my experience, like AU they will party with anyone, been there when we lost one and when we won one, great fans both times.

8)I have not been to the swamp, but if thier traveling fans are any indication what a bunch of dopes. There sweat suits are second only to UT’s orange clad nightmare and they act like they have been winning forever. Hey UF, before Coach Hall, you were Vanderbilt, try and find that thing called sportsmanship.

9) No trips to Knoxville either, but outside of the prison issued suits every one of them seem to wear to the games I have seen, they are ok.

That is my litte opinion.

By AD

August 21, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

GEORGIA IS THE WORST… by far.

Haven’t done anything since 1980 and the mutts still continue to yap…

By destinfun

August 21, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Can’t we all just get it o….. I mean get along??? :->

GEAUX TIGERS!!!!!!

By Gratfuldawghead

August 21, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

I have been spit on by a Gator-Girl! That ranks them #1 in my book.

By Buck Fu**eyes

August 21, 2008 12:56 PM | Link to this

Most obnoxious - Ohio state by far. Obviously none of you have been to the OSU-Texas game couple of years ago.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 12:57 PM | Link to this

I’d agree that Auburn fans used to be among the most gracious anywhere. But from my experience — again, this is only from MY experience — that has changed.

By kh

August 21, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

UGA fans are THE WORST by far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have lived all my life in Georgia and HATE UGA because of their fans!!

By Oledawg

August 21, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

Mark- I’m still laughing as I try to type. Boy-Oh-Boy, did you ever turn the hounds of hell loose with this article. So many replies-so much angst. As kids we used to put two ants in an empty soda bottle, shake them up and watch them go at it. You have upset our friends at Gainesville such that they keep using their cheer for ole’ FU with all the exclamation points after. Each exclamation point stands for !diot and they use it liberally in frustration to your article. Lookout, I think they are getting to a frenzy where they threaten you with,”I fart generally in your direction.”.

You and the other writers are probably cherry picking comments and sharing them hilariously with each other. You are probably claiming title to the “How Many Ants Can You P** Off at One Time” Award given to the most inflammatory preseason article in sports media wtiting at ajc. Kudos! It was tame and funny and I couldn’t read through 1/5 of the replies. I’ll bet you were surprised by the feeding frenzy as they fell all over themselves to take the bait and instantly prove your statements were right-on. I’m still laughing! Come on…what’s your secret? Set’em up with a few articles and roll the bomb into their midst? …Especially the FU fans. Now everyone knows what the “F” stands for when they wear it on their head! Just don’t everyone giggle every time you see it because they may take it off and try to blend into the rest of society…but the white hood most use for backup headcover will expose them again.

Challenge to the ajc Sports Writers: Do a preseason article of the GA/FU game, break it down into qtrs and have at it! I’ll bet you could really get a conflagration going that would last until gametime. You people must be in writer’s heaven about now.

By LSWho?

August 21, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

UGA fans aren’t just obnoxious, they’re frigging retarded too. And LSU #8? Are you kidding me? They are the WORST in the SEC.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

Me, I love the sound of cowbells. Truly melodious.

By auburn suxs

August 21, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

after hearing the auburn fans cry about being #2 on this board I changed my mine, they are number one just because they think they are better than everyone else it must sux to be a plainsman, warealge, tiger fan……

By kh

August 21, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

UGA fans are THE WORST by far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have lived all my life in Georgia and HATE UGA because of their fans!!

By KJ

August 21, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

They are annually overrated

Out of all the retardation these mongoloid haters like to spew, this one might be the best. Over the last 11 seasons, UGA has finished higher than their preseason ranking in 7 of them. Pretty sure that hardly qualifies as “annually overrated”.

By Brian

August 21, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

War Damn Eagle 6 is here and 7 is near

By John

August 21, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

Way to go Mark. Go way to try to get some street creed here in Atlanta by picking the Gator fans as most obnoxious. Way to get all the UGA people on your side.

You can’t actually think that can you?

I guess it’s always just easier to take the easy road in life. That should get more people to read your junk next time.

Maybe you forgot about how the Gators have beaten the pulp out of Georgia for oh, pretty much the last 15 years.

By Shep

August 21, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Nice idea for an article, and its always good to hear opinions about SEC fans.

However, you have LSU WAY to low. LSU should be top 3. While Florida fans are cocky, and UGA may be drunk, but LSU fans are SCARY. These are the folks that will get in a fight with you for wearing the wrong colors around their stadium.

I know beat writers for UGA who will not wear Dawg colors until the day of the game when they travel to LSU. Now that’s homefield advantage!

By Johnny Majors

August 21, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Tennessee Volunteers are definately the most obnoxious fans in the SEC. Hell, every major sports publication consistently ranks the Tennessee fans as the most obnoxious in the nation. Only Tennessee combines that outrageous mistique of being the truly most obnoxious and uneducated redneck fans that only a horde of classless toothless hillbillies can be. And add to that Tennessee has the highest paid players in the nation and receive the most fixed grades. Yeeeeehaaaaaa! Go Vols!

By gumbodave

August 21, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

LSU should be closer to the top of the list. The gene pool in Florida produces an unusually high percentage of trailer park/red neck riviera trash which is evident anytime you attend a game at the swamp. Georgia and Auburn fans are terrible too. As far as Alabama, who cares, they suck and are irrelevant. I have been to every SEC town and the hottest women are the ladies of LSU.

By auburn suxs

August 21, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Kh why don’t you move out of Ga if you hate it so much, we don’t like you either

By Mac

August 21, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Hey FatA**Dawg,

In answer to your questions, how many championships has Ga Tech won - 4; in 1917, 1928, 1952 and 1990. And the Heisman trophy is named after a coach named John Heisman who coached at a school you may have heard of - Georgia Tech.

By gatorman770

August 21, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

When your school wins 3 National Championships in 2 major sports in 2 years(4 football national championships, based on the Ugaly count criteria, since Ugays 1980 football national championship), declared the Nation’s No. 1 Party School by the Princeton Review then your bound to be obnoxious.

“…mullet and jean shorts crowd!!” where does this come from? I workout 4 days a week at Bodyplex in Gwinnett County and the only dorks with mullets and jorts or 1970/80s Dolphin striped running shorts (usually 2 sizes undersized with rolls of blubber trying to explode out)wear UGA t-shirts!

By AUloyalTiger

August 21, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

How could you possibly rank Auburn as an obnoxious program? Were you looking at the whole season or only when it comes to Bama? If you take out the Ironbowl, where is Auburn obnoxious? I’m not convinced you’ve ever spent any time on-campus either. Most radio programs make jabs at Auburn for not calling in and making more cracks on Bama and bragging when we’re doing well. Or, questioning why Auburn fans are so quiet about it all. You could not have spent any decent amount of time with Auburn folks if this is truly what you think. Come to gameday at AU and see how many folks offer you more food than you can possibly eat and great hospitality. War Eagle.

By Hellinahandbasket

August 21, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

UGA has the most obnoxious, rude, immature and rabid fans ever. I have seen them intimidate small children because the kids were wearing Tech t-shirts. Heck the kids were so small they didn’t even know what kind of shirts they were wearing but these ‘men’ taunted them while their terrified mother backed out of the store. I went to talk to her and she was fearful of her and her children’s safety, she was shaking and her children were crying. The thing is she wasn’t even from around here, the shirts were given to them by a friend and it was just something to wear ! I also have a sister who had just moved here from Florida, she’s not a fan of any team but had some old t-shirts in the rag bin she used for painting. She had to run to the Walmart in Athens for more brushes. It was a Florida gator t-shirt so old and faded and covered in paint she didn’t think anything of it went to Walmart and was accosted by some UGA guy with his fat wife in the parking lot. My sis didn’t know why this guy came stomping up to her telling her to take the ‘shirt off and turn it inside out’ she was in shock and just stood there looking at this moron and his smiling one toothed wife like they were nuts, which of course they were. Anyway the guy told her several times to take the shirt off and to never wear anything like that in athens again or she’d pay. My sis is standing wondering what the heck he’s screaming at her about so she just backed away and went on in to walmart, shaken up. I told her she might could have called the athens cops but they would have been on that morons side and she would have probably been arrested for threatening him! I went to UGA and am proud of the school but these rabid fans are an embarassment, NEVER are UGA fans treated like that when we go to other schools to play and although Tech is our rival I have to admit that when my family goes to a game there all decked out in UGA stuff we never get bashed or attacked. I am almost ashamed to admit I did graduate from UGA as its ridiculous the way the majority of the fans there treat others.

By Charley Pell

August 21, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

I for one agree with Mark Bradley. the FLORIDA GATOR fans are by far the most obnoxious in the SEC. They are also very willing to help a coach with thousands of dollars in cash when he needs to recruit some blue chip athletes. When I was head coach at Florida we were able to supply every scholarship football player with his very on sporty car and thow in a few thousand dollars of cash for each. The faculty was very helpful when one of our Gators needed a passing grade to keep him eligible. I loved Florida. Of course the NCAA did put us on probation and called it one of the worst cases of cheating in NCAA history. I was very proud of that as was every Gator.

After Gator fans I would rank Auburn second. Their school has received the most NCAA probation of any in the history of the SEC. Their fans are all alcoholics, scream the vilest cuss words and like to start fights. Tennessee Volunteer fans are third most obnoxious in the SEC. I’d rank them higher but they can’t read or write. They can cook up a ton of great dishes using possum meat and boy do Volunteer fans love possum. Evidently, possum rots the teeth, as very few Tennessee fans has a whole set of teeth unless they’re dentures. Tennessee fans consistently show a great lack of class. And Rocky Top is a gay rights activist fight song!

By Bystander

August 21, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

Please explain how Alabama is irrelevant and Georgia, Auburn, and Tennessee are relevant? Very odd considering Georgia has done little in the last 25 years, Tennessee has done nothing in the past 10 years, and has Auburn never done anything. Oh, forgot Auburn’s probation NC of 1957! Yeah, those schools are very relevant. I guess this means only LSU and Florida are relevant…

By Panama City Beach Bum

August 21, 2008 1:21 PM | Link to this

It’s those dumb,fat toothless, redneck, loud mouth,camouflage wearing jorts,copenhagen dippin, inbread Georgia fans hands down.You can hear em a mile away and smell em two miles away.

By Steve

August 21, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

I graduated in 1980 before north end of the stadium was enclosed and the railroad tracks were exposed. In those days we had a cheer that went… “What’s that coming down the track? The big machine, the Red and Black; Ain’t nothing finer in the land; Than a drunk, obnoxious Georgia Fan; Go Dawgs, Go Dawgs…”

We thought we were obnoxious (and proud of it) so I assume the rest of the Conference must have thought the same.

The Bear said, “It ain’t braggin’ if you done it”. We did it in 1980 and let’s do it again so we can be obnoxious again.

By Jackson

August 21, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

Georgia fans are by far the most obnoxious. I hope UGA loses every game.

By KJ

August 21, 2008 1:23 PM | Link to this

Maybe you forgot about how the Gators have beaten the pulp out of Georgia for oh, pretty much the last 15 years.

Been in a coma for 4 years, have you?

By MariettaDawg

August 21, 2008 1:24 PM | Link to this

Ignorant f-ing haters, I get so tired of you people ragging UGA fans that didn’t go to school there. I went to West GA College, but was raised in GA and was a Dawg fan early on. Does that mean that I am less entitled than you to go to Athens and watch a game? Do I not deserve season tickets?

I guess we should start telling children that they can’t be college football fans until they actually go to the college that they are cheering for. After all, they can’t possibly have any “connection” to the University until they are students - right?

If you are a Georgia fan, you should feel proud that Wal-Mart sells all that merchandise. I don’t see them mass marketing for teams that suck. You should get over your pompous attitude problem. Better yet, why don’t you take your worthless opinion and shove it straight up your arse?

By WE ARE NOT SNOBS, WE JUST BETTER THAN YOU

August 21, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

UGA DAWGS ARE GATOR BAIT! GO GATORS!

By Rhonda

August 21, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

I went to the University of Tennessee and have to admit most Tennessee fans never went to college and are complete and total rednecks that are a true embarrassment to the school. Please don’t judge the academic reputation of the University of Tennessee by the vast crowds of unruly drunk obnoxiois and uneducated Tennessee Volunteer fans. They are surely the most obnoxious anywhere. And I have to agree that an unusually high number of Tennessee fans are obese.

By David

August 21, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

Ohio State fans are by far the most obnoxious but Florida is a close second and definitely leading the race in the SEC. Keep it up jacka$$es.

By Gratfuldawghead

August 21, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

Tech’s national title in 1990 was SPLIT with Colorodo! Tech beat #16 Nebraska for their bowl. Before that Tech was good when “The Dodgers were in Brooklyn”!

Anyway: WHATS THAT COMING DOWN THE TRACK?

By hold em

August 21, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

Milo H.,

OU fans are considerate and have class, have you even been to an OU game?

By KJ

August 21, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

although Tech is our rival I have to admit that when my family goes to a game there all decked out in UGA stuff we never get bashed or attacked

You’ve been lucky.

By hotdogandacoke

August 21, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

If only a small percentage of the anon Tech posters on this list actually bought season tickets they might have home field advantage in their big games. As it is they prove they’re experts at mouthing off, but come game time they get smashed.

By dan

August 21, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

LSU number 8? Umm……..

And Auburn ahead of Georgia? Let’s see- one school likes to refer to its community as a “family” (not nation) and the other has a cheer boasting about being drunk and obnoxious. I’ve had more than one UGA fan throw beer at me during a game. I’ve NEVER (not to say it hasn’t occurred) seen and Auburn fan do that to anyone.

And, you obviously have never lived or spent much time in the state of Alabama b/c the winner of the Iron Bowl is practically legally entitled to a year of bragging rights. It’s always been that way and always will be. And, let’s be honest, a six year streak over your in-state rivalry (in the greatest rivalry of all) is a big deal.

By man hands

August 21, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

all I’m saying is that my Aunt Peachy was kidnapped by some young men in a gold Pontiac Grand Am with black interior and Tennessee plates. It wasn’t at a game, but I think we can put two and two together. That’s just bad fandom.

By dan

August 21, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

LSU number 8? Umm……..

And Auburn ahead of Georgia? Let’s see- one school likes to refer to its community as a “family” (not nation) and the other has a cheer boasting about being drunk and obnoxious. I’ve seen more than one UGA fan throw their cocktails at opposing teams’ fans. I’ve NEVER (not to say it hasn’t occurred) seen an Auburn fan do that to anyone.

And, you obviously have never lived or spent much time in the state of Alabama b/c the winner of the Iron Bowl is practically legally entitled to a year of bragging rights. It’s always been that way and always will be. And, let’s be honest, a six year streak over your in-state rivalry (in the greatest rivalry of all) is a big deal.

By B. Thenet

August 21, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

It’s a 12 way tie, just ask the fans of any other conference in the country.

Congrats SEC

By BuckyGator

August 21, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

We’re #1 - - Woo Hoo.

Go Gators!

Good blog topic by MB. Spikes the readership of a sinking news publication - - even if only for a day. Great work Mark, probably kept your hack a* employed for another week.

By sls

August 21, 2008 1:33 PM | Link to this

I dont think any of the sec school fans our as obnoxious as the bigots and racist that post on the so call Falcon fan blog.

By Native Floridian

August 21, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

Having grown up in Florida I can attest to the fact that anyone from Florida knows that the University of Florida is where all the rednecks go. Mark Bradley is right on about Gator fans. They are the most obnoxious around. They are poor winners, sore losers and worst of all have no class whatsoever. How so many kids from trailer parks can attend college is beyond me? And they never advance very for in life either. There is disproportionate number of U. of Florida grads in Florida prisons. They are the worst kind of drunks possible and there are a tremendous amount of fights at their football games. Gators are just low class and that’s all there is to it.

By How bout them Dawgs!!!!

August 21, 2008 1:34 PM | Link to this

As to the tech fan, you need to do your homework. UGA had 2 National Championships, 1942 and 1980 and also 12 SEC titles……NOT 1 National Championship, SIC “EM DAWGS!!!!!!!!

By man hands

August 21, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

all I’m saying is that my Aunt Peachy was kidnapped by some young men in a gold Pontiac Grand Am with black interior and Tennessee plates. It wasn’t at a game, but I think we can put two and two together. That’s just bad fandom.

By Glad I'm Back In GA

August 21, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

As a dawg who once lived in Louisiana - the only team that can out-do UF in being obnoxious is LSU. The only difference is that LSU fans typically know about football - can’t say that about UF. And for anyone who has not enjoyed a football game at Tiger Stadium as an opposing fan on a Saturday night - then you have no idea what harassment is all about.

By LSU1999MS

August 21, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

While LSU may have it’s share of obnoxious fans, the bulk are of the “Wal-Mart” or “sidewalk” variety as defined below. All schools are equally guilty of having this unwanted fan base. I’ve had bad experiences at Georgia & Tennessee, simply for the reason they put us next to the student section…but I’d expect such. Kentucky fans kept screaming stuff about “finishing what Katrina started”, but of course these individuals didn’t appear to have graduated high school, much less UK. Outside the SEC is no different, I’ve been to LSU-A&M games at Kyle Field when I was a child and spit on by “trailer park specials” wearing wife beaters. Point is, these rankings like the associated comments, are meaningless…here are the facts: Bear Bryant is dead, UGA didn’t win their division so didn’t deserve to play for a national championship in ’07, and LSU has two crystal eggs…see you in Baton Rouge!!!

By Steven

August 21, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Auburn refers to their fans as a family because they are a family. One big inbred, overall-wearing, backy chewing family.

By J Hyche

August 21, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

LSU fans polite? Put down the pipe, and if you’d grown up with Bama fans kicking Auburn when it was down you’d be reveling in the current streak as well. They desereve every bit of it. They are without a doubt the most obnoxious fan base as can be seen by the fact that despite the recent dominance, they still won’t shut up.

By Bamagrad

August 21, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

It worked! People are reading your work! Web site traffic is up! Congratulations!

By How bout them Dawgs!!!!

August 21, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

As to the tech fan, you need to do your homework. UGA had 2 National Championships, 1942 and 1980 and also 12 SEC titles……NOT 1 National Championship, SIC “EM DAWGS!!!!!!!!

By Georgia Fans the Worst

August 21, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

Not a college football fan but having to listen to all those retarded Georgia fans kills me. 95% of them never attended UGA nor have any of them attended 1 game much less find Athens with a GPS but they are UGA BIGGEST FANS. Yeah right. Have you ever seen grown men scream, cuss,face turning blood red, like their head about to pop,throw things at the tv during a UGA game with the kids in the same room? frighting

By SalannB

August 21, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

Mark:

Have to agree with you about Florida. I went to a I-AA school (Indiana State University) and by some quirk of the schedule, we ended up playing U-F AT Gainesville…yikes.

Florida was ranked 5th in the nation at the time. Predictions were U-F 55, ISU 0. Final Score? U-F 17, ISU 13. We barely made it out of Gainesville alive. I was in the flag corps with the marching band and the U-F fans lined the route back to our buses after the game. We kept our flag poles diagonally across the front of our bodies and kept U-F fans from “breaking” our ranks. We got pelted with oranges and ice.

I was terrified.

By Oledawg

August 21, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

Chris Von Offen- Just because we are Dawgs doesn’t mean you have to smell our butts to tell us what we are eating. Uneaten corndogs taste much better. You might try one. They sell them at the games. You should go for the fresh ones, but I’ll bet you are an FU fan so that means you prefer the recycled ones.

By martin

August 21, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

from a non biased view ( did not attend an sec school), I can say UGA fans are by far the most annoying and least knowledgable of all fans I have encountered. This is a football only comment, not talking about other sports. UGA football is a 2 lose team at best and will never be anymore. I tired of people saying they are uga fans b/c they are the only in state school with a decent team. Last time I checked, GT won a national title more recently.

By Brooke

August 21, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

I went to an Auburn-Miss. State game at Auburn as a neutral observer with some friends. I saw Auburn fans cuss the Miss. State fans and throw drinks and bottles at them. All game long Auburn fans verbally abused the few Miss. State fans that attended. When we got back to the car 6 Auburn fans were beating up 2 Miss. State fans. The 2 Miss. State guys were smallish guys about 19 or 20 years old. The 6 Auburn guys were all large guys over 6 feet tall and looked to be upper 20s and early 30s. They beat those 2 guys senseless. 6 on 2 is just so brave and macho isn’t it? I never want to hear an Auburn fan make the false claim that they have class and dignity. If they do they are nothing but a liar!

By and...

August 21, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

Nice try Gratfuldawghead. Go smoke some more.

I’m sure UGA would have given back a shared National Title because it would have been sooo beneath them.

UGA is the “Wisconsin” of the SEC. All hype all the time.

By Gamecock Henry

August 21, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

I would say in the south that Georgia and Clemson has the most obnoxious fans anywhere hands down. When these two teams played each other in the 80s they were really obnoxious to each other. Clemson really give Fla. State fans heck too. Just like UGA fans and the Gator fans are obnoxious to each other. Hey Mark… The most loyal fans in the conference hands down are Gamecock fans, unlike the fair weather fans of UGA!

By Hockeyfan

August 21, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

For professional sports (irregardless the sport) the worst fans are from Philly.

Besides the Flyers, the worst fans in hockey are for the Toronto Maple LEAVES and the Sabres. Leaves fans seem to forgot that 1967 was an awful long time ago. Sabres fans are mostly bandwagon jumpers that hopped on when they were winning. One more season like last year and Sabres “fans” will help put the team back in bankruptcy.

By Southern Gal

August 21, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

Wow, you must have set a record with the comments… I agree with “Southern by the Grace of God” and “Real Rankings”. And “Yes , the Bear could come back and save the world “. My Dad’s good friend ,Dick Coffee (Monster, to me) and also Bear Bryant’s friend and biggest fan would also agree. So I was raised Roll Tide and graduated from UGA , so I’m not an uneducated Wal Mart shopper. I know what I am talking about…but you know what they say about opinions…… Go Dawgs!

By Matthew

August 21, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

Hmmm, I like this list. But a few things— I’m no Bama fan, but I don’t see how they are now irrelevant, they had a #1 recruiting class and are a preseason top 25 team.

Second, LSU fans. The fact they are not #1 is odd. The fact they are so low is shocking. You’ll never meet a more drunk, obnoxious fan base in the entire world.

Third, good call on Georgia. While I enjoy going to games in Athens as much as the next person, let’s be real. Most UGA fans never went to school there, and therefore the abundance of rednecks are going to be there. They don’t act like they’re in college Mark, it’s impossible since they never went there. (My apologizes to those that did.)

By Demetrius

August 21, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

TENNESSEE FANS ARE THE MOST OBNOXIOUS IN THE SEC!!!! Those classless jerks are scum!

By destinfun

August 21, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Totally agree with your reassessment of AU fans, Mark…. IMHO from several visits there vs LSU …. worst behavior in the league… down to grandmothers challenging you to see your ticket stubs before the game even starts cause “surely you couldn’t afford them” … had to call security …. WTF? Mind boggling ….

* Can’t we all just get along??* GEAUX SEC ….

* GEAUX TIGERS!!!*

By acedawg

August 21, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

I’d say LSU is most obnoxious. The LSU fans that I hung around when tailgaiting there a few years ago were fun because our UGA group had mutual friends, but the rest of their fans were super obnoxious and threw any object they could at UGA fans after beating the Dawgs. They are ok when your team isn’t playing them though.

UGA and old men acting like college students is the best part!

I don’t find Bama or Auburn as bad as they are credited for. Tennessee should be higher than both.

That said, all the fans are great and obnoxious with the exception of the least successfull football schools - Miss. St., Vandy, Kentucky, etc

What’s obnoxious is being a fan of an ACC team and speaking about them like they are a good team!!

By Bryan

August 21, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

Auburn fans like to fight! Auburn fans go to games and try to start fights. That’s real classy ‘eh? Auburn ranks number one in most rednecks!

By Comin' Down The Track

August 21, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

I am a Dawg (class of ‘92) and I must say, sadly, that we’re just the worst. I worked in the service industry when I was younger, so I have seen them all… at their worst. Having written that, I must admit that I am not blameless. Why as recently as last season while crossing the bridge after just exiting the Stadium following the Auburn blackout game, I said rather too loudly to my friend (as well as anyone else within earshot), “Man, oh, man. How much does this suck?! After getting stomped like that, to then have to drive back to Alabama!” Oh, well. There goes my glass house. I told you that we’re the worst. I would have rated 2-12 in order of most jerks to still-plenty-of-jerks-just-not-as-many-as-the-schools-listed-ahead thusly: Auburn, LSU, Florida South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Miss State.

By Kent N

August 21, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

No team in the SEC talks more about yesterday than UGA ! Those are the worst fans. If you talk down about a team that beats you consistantly without going back 25 years you are the worst!

By dogfoo

August 21, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Dawg fans and Gator fans are the worst. I worked for CBS for 17years as a camera man. Win or Loose the best fans in the SEC are without a doubt at LSU. I personally root for the gators. I have had beer and who know what else thrown, spat at me from fans of all ages at both places. Dawgs get ready for yet another runer up or worst finish in the east. When was the last national chanmpionship won by the dawgs? How Longs it been????? Was I even alive???

By Max Berean

August 21, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

I’m for sure all the Northern transplants are getting a big laugh reading how we Southerners are treating each other over something like College Football.

I’m a proud Southerner, but I hate our Idolatry of College Football.

There is nothing wrong with cheering for a team from your home state, or a team from the school you attended, but here are two things I don’t understand:

By Make over Mabel

August 21, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

I hate to admit it but my hubby after consuming mass quantities of adult beverage, relieved himself over the back of the upper deck on an Auburn fan. That was a few years back when we lost on that darn 4th down play and when we got to the car he smacked me around a good bit. Mabel

By Billy Bob Thornton

August 21, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

Let’s not discount South Carolina just because they have NEVER won a football champiosnhip of any kind. Even Vanderbilt has a better history than the ‘Cocks. True ‘C** fans are loyal to their team. You just can’t hide stupid, though! South Carolina fans are just as obnoxious drunk rednecks as any. In fact South Carolina may lead in the highest percentage of sloppy drunks who pass out cold at football games, with Tennessee as a close second. South Carolina fans are still poor losers even though they’ve had a century of practice. They never had enough winning seasons in their history to judge whether or not they are good winners. They’ve won less than 30 games against their two biggest rivals in the last 110 years while losing over 100. ‘Cocks have the worst inferiority complex in the entire NCAA and why not, they’ve earned it.

By heady

August 21, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

Mark, after reading most of these comments, isn’t it obvious that UGA has the most obnoxious fans?

By MN

August 21, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

As a UGA alum and lifetime fan I have to admit you’re right about us, but LSU fans are awful

By Noneya

August 21, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

Here’s one poll that UGA is a legit number 1….no one else even comes close.

By Johnny Majors

August 21, 2008 2:03 PM | Link to this

I saw an Auburn fan relieve himself over the side of the upper deck on visiting fans below. More than once I’ve seen Auburn fans try and pick fights with outnumbered visitor fans. That says it all. Auburn has no class!

By N.O.Tiger

August 21, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this

I’m rather surprised to read UGA fans consume too much alcohol for the games, I always just kind of figured nobody outdrank LSU fans on game day.

And before anyone thinks I’m trying to brag or something, no, I don’t think Louisianians can hold their booze better than anyone else, I think they’re just USED to not holding their booze.

By Johnny

August 21, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this

I saw an Auburn fan relieve himself over the side of the upper deck on visiting fans below. More than once I’ve seen Auburn fans try and pick fights with outnumbered visitor fans. That says it all. Auburn has no class!

By DawginLex

August 21, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

This just in:

5 Star QB Morgan Newton just committed to the University of Kentucky. In doing so, he told crier meyer and tommy bow wow bowden a resounding “NO”. He was offerred by most of the big boys including big boy wannabee SC.

This QB has committed to UK along with 4 star Ryan Mossakowski.

Kentucky will pass SC,Fla and UT as 2nd best in the east within 3 years.

By Bamaman

August 21, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

You missed it on Tennessee and LSU. Their fans are awful, in your face and worst of all- hey don’t know they’re obnoxious. Kind’a like that goofy uncle that stays way past his welcome. Perhaps you don’t get the same flavor from the press box as I do from the the cheap seats.

By 'BAMA FOREVER

August 21, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

As an Alabama fan and alumni I can tell you the two most obnoxious and unruly group of fans to visit Tuscaloosa are Tennessee and LSU. They’ve proved themselves to be classless, obnoxious rednecks over and over again. The two best fans from winning tradition schools to visit Tuscaloosa are Florida and Georgia. The fans of those schools have shown a lot class as a group when they’ve come to Tuscaloosa. I truly hate Auburn as an institution but their fans, though I hate to admit it, are much classier than Tennesse and LSU.

By lsu

August 21, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

LSU HAS BY FAR THE WORST FANS, ITS NOT EVEN CLOSE. WHERE ELSE CAN YOU GET BEATEN, ROBBED, AND EVEN RAPED FOR BEING AN OPPOSING FAN?!

AND YES CAJUN PEOPLE ARE NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF LOWDOWN DIRTY REDNECKS.

By GARY

August 21, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

ANYBODY NAMED ” BUBBA ” AND WORKS IN A WAREHOUSE IS GENERALLY A UGA FAN

By war eagle

August 21, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

You clearly have never been to Baton Rouge to see a football game. LSU fans are the worst and they know it. Any Auburn fan has way more class than any Alabama fan. I agree the Florida and Georgia fans are bad, but no fan is as obnoxious as an LSU fan.

By THWG74

August 21, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

Auburn fans have never been anything but gracious to us at games and in general contact. GT has a long history with Auburn and that makes it all the more fun! Sad that our in state rivals haven’t taken a page from their book…

I would never take my 12 year old to a game against UGAg because of the dispicable behavior I have seen at Tech/Georgia games (in ATL and in Athens). It is sad when a grown man thinks that it is acceptable for him to bark and spit at an elderly woman just because she is wearing old gold and white. I feel bad for many of the UGA fans (mostly alum) that I personally know who are embarrassed at the bandwagon fans that give their school a bad name.

KJ — http://www.worstfans.com/ for one…

By Ogeechee Dawg

August 21, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

HERE IS THE REAK LIST!!

10.(TIED) OLE MISS & KENTUCKY

3.ALABAMA, ARKANSAS, AUBURN, GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE

From experience - football is a very passionate sport - all of the schools have their obnoxious, over the top fans.

you can pretty much mix and match…no difference as they all are the same.

However, Florida and LSU can take home field advantage to a new level - not just talking about how loud the stadiums are - which both can absolutely bring int the noise - but I am talking about smack talking and being obnoxious.

However again - it’s all about sustained winning - Tennessee and Florida were both tied for #1 when they both were perenial top 10.

LSU has replaced Tennessee - and Georgia is starting to separate from the pack to join LSU and Florida.

By Gamecok Henry

August 21, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

Hey Billy bobbit… Too bad you never seen a UGA - Gamecock game before because you are already passed out before the game is started. Then your Georgia urchin buddy’s tell you who won the game two days later. Do you remember who won last year Billy Bob? 16 - 12 at Sanford Stadium. Be glad to send you a video of the game. So go back to South Geogia trailer home until the big game in Columbia when the Gamecocks make it two in a row over you overrated mutts.

By How bout them Dawgs!!!!

August 21, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

I am a relative of the late Paul “Bear” Bryant, but grew up in Georgia, only met him as a baby so I do not remember him. But football is in my blood and I love my Georgia Bulldogs, even though I moved to Florida in 1989, ever since I met the great Coach Vince Dooley. You all can say what you want about the fans of the SEC but you cannot deny their loyalty and we are all not trashy or drunks. I have been here among the Gator fans and must say they are the most irritating, whining bunch of fans I have ever met. I do not agree with the ranking of his poll except with the number 1 position.

By DawgFan

August 21, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

I go to all the UGA games and see very few drunks. Usually they are the visitors. Mark Bradley has always been a sportwriter with no class. No surprise that he is also a liar!

By Phillip

August 21, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

Guys, he is obviously trolling. It is an immature tactic to boost his column and name. Remember, with these desperate types, any recognition and replay = GOOD recognition and replay. One day he may be established and secure enough to have better integrity with his penmanship. Don’t fall for any of it. He structured it not accurately, but purposely to yield the greatest response from the readers.

really sad……

By Dawg Fud

August 21, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

Yawn…

…and here is a news flash for some of you - Fat Dawg is a poser blogger.

By Bradley is a lunatic

August 21, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

This is awful. Mississippi State last? Have you ever had to sit and listen to that annoying cowbell racket for three hours? Didn’t those get outlawed several years back?

Auburn 2nd is laughable. Alabama only 4th is just as bad. Rocky Top alone puts Tennessee in the top 2 or 3. Florida’s jean shorts and jersey-wearing fans make them a great top pick. South Carolina is only mildly annoying because they always think the next year is the one. Kentucky and Vandy are just Kentucky and Vandy - how can anyone pick on them?

Ole Miss, Georgia, Auburn aren’t really annoying. They have some annoying fans, but everyone does. Nothing over the top with these three. Here are my rankings:

By Make over Mabel

August 21, 2008 2:17 PM | Link to this

I hate to admit it but my hubby after consuming mass quantities of adult beverage, relieved himself over the back of the upper deck on an Auburn fan. That was a few years back when we lost on that darn 4th down play and when we got to the car he smacked me around a good bit. Mabel

By DawginLex

August 21, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

Gamecock Henry,

Most likely, you will nowhere to be found the day after UGA invades Columbia and whips the cocks. Make it 3 out of 4 over visor boy. 31 points against us in 3 years, WOW IMPRESSIVE.

Last time UGA shut them out up there.

Maybe richt will get up by 4 td’s and go for 2.

By dallasdawg

August 21, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this

georgia is #one in every way because we have earned it. by the way you dont have to win the NC to be #one in the SEC and that is what this blog is about georgia won over 73 games in the last seven years more than any other team in the SEC which includes those with NCs

By M T

August 21, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

I have been to all these places as well. The worst was Athens where beer was thrown on us, hit in the head with a program at halftime, & had our car beaten on as we were leaving the stadium. The best experience was at Notre Dame when we did not take our band. At the end of the game, the Notre Dame band marched over to our fans & played the Alabama fight song.

By UGA #1

August 21, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

Gator fans are bad, especially in Gainesville. But you have to listen to Dawg fans 365 days a year, even when you just kicked their tails the day before. They are definitely the worst!

By Chris

August 21, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

Auburn fans are the worst and very fair weathered. I worked security at the games and they swear they are better than everyone else. The faculty used to try and sneak stuff into the games and when I caught them they would whine and cry saying they were teachers like I would give them a pass. Then u have to hear WAr Eagle screamed more than Rocky top is played for Tennessee. They give a way tickets when they dont play anybody great which is usely four or five games a year because nobody wants to see the games. I saw a player spit on opposing fans and they hosed down opposing fans at least once. Auburn is trash!!!!!!!!!!! End of Story

By checkitout

August 21, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

This is one situation in which UGA is a true National Champion. Dont have to go to agame to see, just read their blogs.hehehehe

By Chris

August 21, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

angry mob

By AllVOL

August 21, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

I love it when people get all upset over Rocky Top. How stupid is it to rank a team’s fans as the most obnoxious based solely on a song? Y’all are just jealous that you don’t have anything even close to a great song as Rocky Top. Rocky Top may not be our “official” fight-song, but dang, it sure does get the fans and team fired up. Best of all, y’all get yer knickers in a twist every time you hear it!

GO VOLS!!

By Arnie

August 21, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

Auburn fans are drunk rednecks that start violent fights. That is the worst kind of fan.

By Roger

August 21, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

This is a fact and was heavily reported by the TV and print media at the time. Last year when UGA scored the winning TD in overtime Alabama fans threw liquor bottles at the celebrating UGA players. That is the absolute lowest in classless behaviour.

By KJ

August 21, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

worked for CBS for 17years as a camera man. Win or Loose the best fans in the SEC are without a doubt at LSU

You should try removing the lens cap next time, IMO.

hit in the head with a program at halftime

How awful for you. Did it require stitches, or did you just apply some Vagisil?

By Gamecock Henry

August 21, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

DawginLex….. You will have a looooooonnnng face and a looooonnng ride back home after the game. Maybe you’ll be passed out and wont know the outcome for 2 to 3 days later. If I were you I would keep that suicide hot-line telephone # nearby. Gamecocks will make 8 wins to 11 loses since 1988. Will you be sober enough the day after the game DawginLex?????

By Randall

August 21, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

In 25 years of attending SEC games I’ve only seen Tennessee and Auburn fans throw drinks at the other teams fans. I’ve seen Auburn do it the most.

By LarryH

August 21, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Just how long have you been around and how many games have you been too and what fans are you around on a daily basis and game day basis?

YOU ARE WAY off base you IDIOT!!! Except for UF. Their fans are obnoxious for sure. But Bama and LSU rank up their with them.

By GATORZONE

August 21, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

UT fans in my experience are great! They are very accomodating! UGA fans are redfaced and stupid drunks who also are the most obnoxious.

By Nachos

August 21, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

UGA fans are the worst by far. Just a bunch of sidewalk alumni, drunken, tattoed losers who love to run their mouth. LSwho is second. they talk smack whether winning or losing. auburn is next because they are all douchebags. SABAN!

By Tiger

August 21, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

I think you should have ranked Alabama #1 so the Gumps could claim yet another National Championship.

GEAUX TIGERS

By UGASlobberknocker

August 21, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

For once Bradley has a clue.

Being a GA grad and season ticket holder for 34 yrs, Mark is not far off in his ranking of Dawg fans, but his reasoning is bad. I also have been to all of the SEC venues. Everybody drinks and Ga fans dont drink anymore than anyone else. The real reason people think GA fans are obnoxious (and I do not consider myself in this category) is that a lot of my fellow GA fans tend to act like we Dawgs invented college football. Also it is hard not be a little smug about how cool Athens is compared to everywhere else.

on the other rankings Fla def #1..but in my mind Auburn fans are not bad..the Tenn fans are much worse. totally agree about LSU and SC. Re;Alabama..I never minded their superiority complex because until the last 10 yrs, it was warranted. Now, though, it’s a little pitiful, like a 60 yr old man still reveling about his high school football team. Bama fans, turn the page. As for the The rest of the SEC fans, who cares?

One last note..among the worst fans w/o question are Ga Tech, and also Clemson..not in SEC, but both are at least as bad as Fla and thats saying something. Tech fans are the worst..I hate unwarranted arrogance.

By Tiger

August 21, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

I think you should have ranked Alabama #1 so the Gumps could claim yet another National Championship.

GEAUX TIGERS

By Chad

August 21, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

Hey UGA Fans, don’t forget you have only beaten the gators 3 times in the last 18 years. That right, your record against UF since 1990 is 3 - 15.

By Bama fan

August 21, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

lsu should be no.1. It’s like going to an inbred family reunion down there. No wonder so many businesses have left that state and their economy sucks.

And auburn fans aren’t that bad either. My no.1 rival but it’s ok down there.

By Sucks isn't spelled with an s and an x

August 21, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Worst in the country is Syracuse.

By UGA00

August 21, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Mark - overall I agree with you.

As a student I hated it when all these drunk rednecks - who have no affiliation to the school except maybe living in the state - somehow found their way to campus on game days. They certainly shouldn’t have been driving there.

I’m a pretty big dude, but nothing is scarier than a drunk, obnoxious redneck UGA fan on campus on game day. Surprisingly, it’s even worse after a UGA win. Seriously, they only hurt the reputation of UGA fans.

By Ed

August 21, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

Florida ranks no. 1 in many other categories, including most years without an SEC title (59), major probations, and fired coaches.

By Thomas

August 21, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

While not in the SEC, Georgia Tech fans hurl the most curse words at opponents. Tech students often have one student acting like a choir leader leading the Tech student section in obscene cheers and insults that seem like they’ve been practicing all week before the game. Other than that Tech fans are not at all intimidating. There are not many of them and none are physically impressive.

Auburn has the scariest fans. Thery have a lot of big south Alabama farm boy types that look like they’ve been in and out of jail alot. They get really drunk and mean and like to fight, especially with numerical odds in their favor. When you don’t respond to their insults and start walking away Auburn fans will hurl drinks and objects at you.

By Thomas

August 21, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

While not in the SEC, Georgia Tech fans hurl the most curse words at opponents. Tech students often have one student acting like a choir leader leading the Tech student section in obscene cheers and insults that seem like they’ve been practicing all week before the game. Other than that Tech fans are not at all intimidating. There are not many of them and none are physically impressive.

Auburn has the scariest fans. They have a lot of big south Alabama farm boy types that look like they’ve been in and out of jail alot. They get really drunk and mean and like to fight, especially with numerical odds in their favor. When you don’t respond to their insults and start walking away Auburn fans will hurl drinks and objects at you.

By Vol 1977

August 21, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

Thanks for the recognition! Rememeber each time that “Rocky Top” is played is a result of a score or great play! You will be hearing Rocky many times in 2008!

By Matt

August 21, 2008 2:47 PM | Link to this

I have lived in Georgia for 27 of my 31 years and I love Alabama football. I used to think that Florida had the rudest fans until Georgia, after finally going somewhere, decided to play some real football in Athens. Now all I hear is “How ‘bout them dawgs?”. It used to be that the only Georgia fans you found were the ones in the nursing homes and the ones who vaguely remember their one National Title in 1980. I know that Alabama fans can be bad too, I realize this, but we have always had a fan base. even through the last 10 years when we have just plain sucked bad, you could always find loyal fans. Georgia fans come and go but Bama will remain. I am ready for them to go because they think they are God’s gift to football. And to the blogger who made the comment about Bear Bryant and our National Titles…people are always jealous of things they never had or can’t get.

By Gamecock Henry

August 21, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Make over Mabel…….. If I were you I would invest in some type of protective gear that could sustain blows by your hubby. You are gonna need it with all the overrated hype of the dawgs and especially after the big Gamecock win in Columbia. Otherwise you may need to move out of your trailer home.

By sherry

August 21, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

Gotta be the Gators Fans.

By Lawson

August 21, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

Tennesse and Florida are the most obnoxious in the SEC. They have the highest percentage of trashy rednecks. Florida fans are really bad about fighting. Tennesse fans don’t usually get violent but scream obscenities at you from afar. Both Florida and Tennesse fans are mostly sloppy nasty staggering drunks.

And several posters have alluded to Tennessee fans as being fat. I’ve noticed this, too. Volunteer fans on the whole are a very fat bunch. WOW!

I have also noticed that Gator fans sport the most tattoos and have to agree that a lot of them wear mullets.

By Gamecock Travis

August 21, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

Mr. Bradley, all you have to do to see who the most obnoxious fans are, is to read these blogs. And UGA fans are definitely #1 in the country in this category!

And concerning my Gamecocks, since when is obnoxious synonymous with loyalty?!

By Belvedere

August 21, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

Couldn’t agree more with the sentiment that (many, not all) GA fans take classlessness to a whole new level. I’ve been to one game involving Georgia, when they played at Clemson in the mid 90’s. When a drunk middle-aged man threw a Jim Beam bottle at my head, it cemented my opinion that these were the most ill-mannered and embicilic lot of them all. For the record, I was just a 12-year-old kid at that game. Takes big cojones for a grown man to start crap with a kid. Anyhow, I’m off my soapbox for the rest of the day. Y’all take care.

By TexTheTiger3

August 21, 2008 2:55 PM | Link to this

From a die-hard AU fan. Let’s be honest, we ALL have obnoxious fans. I vividly recall two Auburn games I attended (one in Austin against UT & 2004 Sugar Bowl) where AU students were drunk and obnoxious.

In Austin two under aged jerks spilled beer on my girlfriend and used profane words all night long. Another group tried to pick a fight with a VT fan in the Super Dome. I was embarrassed not to mention a little pizzed at the way they acted in front of my son. I got all in to these kids stuff about how they are making fools of themselves and embarrassed Auburn. They spilled beer all over my new camera. They toned it down eventually when the police escorted two of them out. And I gladly pointed them out.

None of that compares to the crap I have been exposed to in Baton Rouge. LSU fans #1 - are the absolute worse. There is not enough space here to talk about my experiences with them. #2 - Bama fans. Wake up. Your beloved team doesn’t rule anymore. Close 2nd - Arkansas. 4th - UF but the cut offs don’t bother me lol!

By tony

August 21, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

something about mullet heads and cut off jeans is just dead wrong unless your a flordia fan than its just normal. But why are we arguing about this why not just talk about how georgia is going to beat everyone they play this year. oh yeah remember florida fans wiil send you post cards from miami and will charge the field and celebrate in the endzone just for yall.

By tony

August 21, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

something about mullet heads and cut off jeans is just dead wrong unless your a flordia fan than its just normal. But why are we arguing about this why not just talk about how georgia is going to beat everyone they play this year. oh yeah remember florida fans wiil send you post cards from miami and will charge the field and celebrate in the endzone just for yall.

By tony

August 21, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

something about mullet heads and cut off jeans is just dead wrong unless your a flordia fan than its just normal. But why are we arguing about this why not just talk about how georgia is going to beat everyone they play this year. oh yeah remember florida fans wiil send you post cards from miami and will charge the field and celebrate in the endzone just for yall.

By AUROB

August 21, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

Clay,

I am from Columbus and I think you have mistaken your description of AU fans with how thUGA fans act here. I have seen more Florida alumni stickers here (one actually) than thUGA alumni stickers on cars. Most thUGA fans pull for them because it’s their state. Just like most UAT fans in Alabama. We like to call them sidewalk alumni.

By Jimmy Williams

August 21, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

UA-Tuscaloosa has to be #1. Any fanbase that cheers “Rammer Jammer, we just beat the h3ll outta you” after beating a winless Duke team and Alabama took the lead late in the third quarter has to be the most obnoxious in the conference.

By john2008

August 21, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

As a UGA alum, I hate to admit it, but that list strikes me as pretty fair. I think that most alum and students are fine, but some fans seem to forget that UGA is not a NFL team.

That being said, God help us all if Spurrier ever wins the conference at South Carolina. Those fans are poised to take the title of World’s most obnoxious—I think that they could compete with some European soccer hooligans in terms of ridiculousness.

By Common Sense

August 21, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

Most of the Anti-Georgia posts on this blog are Georgia Tech students trying to pass their posts off as fans of other SEC teams. We can clearly see through the bull.

By Make over Mabel

August 21, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

GameCHICKEN Henry What business of yours is it when it comes to my personal life with my hubby. At least he has a TEAM to pull for that wins games. Your Chickens aint nuttin but chickensh1T and if you wanna come on down to Eastanollie ,Ga Ill kick you chicken butt while hubby watches. Why dont you go to a Klimpson Tiger blog …oh yeah they have the chickens # too . Come on down Henry Mabel Frudd, Eastanollie, GA.

By AJC Rules

August 21, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Mark - the Pulizter people just called. They want to know where to send the award? Also, is it possible for the AJC to take the $14.21 they pay you and give that to Tony Barnhart so he’ll stay on?

Thanks

By dogshavefleas

August 21, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

UGALY fans are the most obnoxious because they haven’t done anything “since Herschel”. UGALY hasn’t had an undefeated team since 1980, haven’t beaten ANYBODY in the regular season west of the Mississippi in over 40 years, beat 2, 9-4 teams last year and those were their biggest victories, etc. My God little Markie Mark, the fans who walk around barking at other fans are the most obnoxious. BTW……..you look like you hang out on Spring Street a lot.

By AUTiger97

August 21, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

“Taking their lead from the preening Tommy Tuberville, Auburn people won’t shut up about how they’ve come to dominate Alabama. This is precisely the thing that used to frost these same folks when they were being dominated. They have become what they beheld.”

First of all, Coach Tuberville doesn’t brag all the time about beating Alabama. He knows that is important to keep his job and he reminds people that he’s done it 6 years straight. Secondly, he broke out the “seven” fingers in Iraq because he was being egged on by Auburn AND Alabama fans serving our country. He and Richt were there giving some “normalcy” to the lives of our true heroes overseas. As for Auburn fans, those that live in Alabama have to put up with all Alabama all the time media coverage, while trying to find news to slander Auburn AND a delusional fan base that acts like they’ve beat us for the last 6 years AND the second coming happened when they hired the GREAT Sabear. Give me a break. #1 is still Alabama & #2 is LSU. Those people vandalized visitors cars and threaten the safety of the visiting fans, esp. if it’s a night game.

Oh, ask non-conf opponenents how Auburn is. A Syracuse writer wrote a phenomenal article and the USC fans that came down in ‘03 loved the campus (even prior to the game).

You have a right to your opinion, but I think you are off.

By J

August 21, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

Your ranking of LSU in 8th place is proof positive that you have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about. Have you ever been to a game in Baton Rouge?

By allen coefield

August 21, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

You almost got it right. Auburn is the worst. From hosing down the dawg fans to running around their field screaming “National Champions” during a year they couldn’t go to a bowl game or the SEC Championship game…they take the cake. They don’t understand no one across the country hardly knows where Auburn is and they can’t even make up their mind what their mascot is. Remember Michigan’s coach’s wife being asked what she thought of Auburn just before the big “Tie” game? Her answer was…”Where in Texas is Auburn?” If Auburn drops football…no one is going to care and if anything it will help the intelligence pool of the rest of the conference

By Brent Fullwood

August 21, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

How dare Mark Bradley not rank Auburn number one Most Obnoxious in the SEC? We know that we are #1 Most Obnoxious. Florida sucks. Those weenies are annoying little twerps in their mullets and all but their fans are way too wimpy to be obnoxious. At Auburn we are proud of being obnoxious. Visitors suck and we don’t like you there. Bite a big one! At Auburn we don’t care much about academics and that’s obvious but we love football. The rest of the SEC can kiss our collective butts.

By GAMECOCKBOY

August 21, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

most of the article i agree with except lsu and tenn should be rated higher…. and tenn doesn’t wear orange unies…they wear yellow unies…

By GAMECOCKBOY

August 21, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

most of the article i agree with except lsu and tenn should be rated higher…. and tenn doesn’t wear orange unies…they wear yellow unies…

By GAMECOCKBOY

August 21, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

most of the article i agree with except lsu and tenn should be rated higher…. and tenn doesn’t wear orange unies…they wear yellow unies…

By tdog

August 21, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

It will get worse for us now that Richt has to have his gimmicks. With the different color shirts every game and running all over the field and taunting the other teams, we will only watch as fans become more and more like Richt is making the team. Lord help us, we will soon be number 1 in this category.

By gsu grad

August 21, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

Hey, anyone wearing jean shorts is obnoxious. UF deserves to be number 1 just for that.

By Kent N's Daddy

August 21, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Kent N…. am i gonna have to whoop you son for being on the computer? yer momma has to shop fer her trinkets… Get your game day shirt you wears to Neyland stadium and shoot sume squrrils fer dinner. then you can go work your community service without changing shirts. Man i wish my son would plays some football for ole phill instead of wearin suits looking likes a tv preachin man

By Your Mom

August 21, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

Auburn fans are always wearing camouflage to the games. Do they hunt cows in Lee County?

By Bubba

August 21, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

As a Gator alum and fan I am thankful to Mark Bradley for recognizing Florida Gator fans as the most obnoxious in the SEC. I hope you give us a beer bottle trophy or something. We get the drunkest, we win the most fights, we scream the loudest and we have the rudest comments for all the other SEC teams’ fans. We can also out cuss anyone! Florida is defentaely the #1 most obnoxious and damn proud of it too.! Go Gators!

By Meld

August 21, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

I am not from an SEC school but I have been wondering about something that has been discussed on this thread:

What is the deal with these jorts I see people wearing down here?

By me

August 21, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

Me, I love the sound of cowbells. Truly melodious.

You have to be pulling my chain. No one likes some ringing a cow bell for 3+ hours in your ear. Banning them from the SEC title game a few years ago was the best thing the old SEC commissioner did. I’m sure more stadiums and bowls will ban them too. I really don’t think Miss St will have to worry about going to a bowl game this year, though.

By OrlandoDAWG

August 21, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

Mr Bradley, I do agree that Florida gator fans are the worst, and the most obnoxious fans on Earth. I tend to compare them to much like the soccer fanantics of Europe. I been mired(living) among these gstor fans for far lomger than I care to remember (over 40+ years). After Florida come Tennessee, then Auburn. Which makes me wonder if the color orange has anything to do as a reason for their behavior? In my own observations, I belive the nicest fans are in order Georgia, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, and Kentucky fans. There are some Georgia fans that can be ruthless at times while indulging in alcohol, but understand not every Georgia fan is just like the way you have categorized all of us. There are far more decent, sane, and dare I say … sober Georgia fans around than the drunkards you have described us all to be. Still intoxicated or not, all Georgia fans unite under one cause, and that is to back up the best football team in the land. All of us love our DAWGS, and all of us will live and die with them every Saturday. Which is better behavior than most of the schools in the SEC.

By

August 21, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

You got it wrong on LSU — they are some of the most obnoxious, hateful fans I’ve ever come across — they give UGA, UF and Bama fans a run for their money. UGA and LSU have always been the worst for me…..fans screaming in my face when they win a game upsets me more than anything — and these are the only 2 schools whose fans have done so many times.

By

August 21, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

You got it wrong on LSU — they are some of the most obnoxious, hateful fans I’ve ever come across — they give UGA, UF and Bama fans a run for their money. UGA and LSU have always been the worst for me…..fans screaming in my face when they win a game upsets me more than anything — and these are the only 2 schools whose fans have done so.

By KingGator

August 21, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

Bradley, there are TWO kinds of FANS. Those that are GATORS and those that WISH THEY WERE GATORS!!

GET A LIFE LOSER!!

KINGGATOR HAS SPOKEN

By KingGator

August 21, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Bradley, there are TWO kinds of FANS.

Those that are GATORS, and those that WISH THEY WERE GATORS!!

KINGGATOR HAS SPOKEN

By KingGator

August 21, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

Bradley, there are TWO kinds of FANS.

Those that are GATORS, and those that WISH THEY WERE GATORS!!

KINGGATOR HAS SPOKEN

UF-#1 PARTY SCHOOL!!

By Gerry "G" Glanville

August 21, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

UGA will need to operate in the black before they can win a National Championship.

By VolDude

August 21, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

Mark, You really missed it big. I am probably the biggest Tennessee Vol fan around and we are the number one most obnoxious and love it! We drink massive amounts of Jack Daniels ( distilled in Tennessee) and party harder, louder and meaner than those wimps from UGA, Florida, LSU and especially those Alabama panzies! (and South Carolina fans are just amateurs.) We are the loudest and crudest. No one can touch us! Rocky Top! Rocky Top! Rocky Top! Waaahooo! Go Vols!

By Miss State Fan

August 21, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

It appears that MSU fans and other schools are considered “irrlevent” because of our non-winning tradition. But as a MSU fan,I enjoy each and every moment of the football season,knowing the football gods are probably against us, but enjoying it as though we had won championship after championship. After all, the anticipation and comradery with those who eagerly await and possibly celebrate each game with us is what makes SEC fans the greatest fans in the nation.

By Truth

August 21, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

The best thing about a Gator fan is the cut-off jean shorts…

By SEC Fan

August 21, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

To quote Furman bishers diaper: “The worst UGA fans are the ones who didnt go to college there.. sidewalk alumni! LOSERS”.

Are you kidding me!?!?!? 89 % of ALL Vol fans not only didn’t attend UT, but they didn’t even finish high school.

Look at Polk County TN - all wearing the orange and singing Rocky Top as the whole countly shares one set of teeth. You don’t have to an alumni to be a fan you inbred hillbilly Jack@ss.

By Paul Finebaum

August 21, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

Mark: Yes today on Paul Finebaum radio show Paul said have you read Mark Bradley’s list on the ajc.com. He states: 1. UT #7 Lsu #8! 2. That you have never been to an SEC football game in 30 years. 3. It is time that you start covering and writing about Ballet!

By BamaFan

August 21, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

The Gator Fans are by far the most obnoxious. I can still remember the year that Alabama beat them in The Swamp and The Georgia Dome. Every Gator fan that I ran into had a hard time accepting the fact that their team just flat out got beat. They just kep’t saying things like “Well if so and so had just caught that pass, then the game would had been over with. I know that a lot of Bama fans can be obnoxious, but I have never heard anyone of them say things like that. Basically, you just have to move on when your team gets beat.

By Oletiger

August 21, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

I have been going to SEC games for 45 years. All drunken Students are obnoxious at their place. I ignore them and stay away from them. LSU folks do yell Tiger Bait…get over it. Other than that we treat folks Ok unless they mouth off. In fact I find that to be true everywhere. I love to go to other Stadiums. The SEC has great traditions. The Only time I ever almost got my self in trouble was at an SEC championship game with a drunk Georgia fan…..I walked away and had a great trip even though we lost…….we are going to kick there a$$ in Big BR this year. Come on down Tiger Bait!

By ole dawg

August 21, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

I would say Tennessee has to have the most obnoxious fans with Florida second, Alabama third, LSU fourth, and Auburn fifth.

By Auburn Bubba

August 21, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

I can truthfully say that at Auburn we are much more obnoxious than Florida. Hell, Tennessee is more obnoxious than Florida. At least UT fans get falling down drunk and use a lot of curse wors at their opponents’ fans. Florida fans shrink away! Remember, Gators eat boogers but can’t beat Auburn!!! ha ha Gatorboys - losers! Why do so many Gatorboys wear super short silk shorts to their games? That’s kind of fruity isn’t it? Auburn RULES!!!! We are OBNOXIOUS!!!!

By skidawg

August 21, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

I (UGA) just don’t like being ranked behind my sister (au) and husband(au) in any poll. They’re already braggin’.

By skidawg

August 21, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

I (UGA) just don’t like being ranked behind my sister (au) and husband(au) in any poll. They’re already braggin’.

By MoDawg

August 21, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

Miss St. - What would they have to be obnoxious about? Ky -Basketball school not obnoxious about football because there’s no reason to be. Vandy - Bradley’s take is “on the money” Ole Miss - Should be obnoxious, but only because they have the hottest women. LSU - Some of the nicest, well fed fans around. Hard to be obnoxious with a belly full of gumbo. Tenn - Only obnoxious when they win. Silent when they don’t. SC - Passionate stupidity and optimism confused as being obnoxious. Ark - No Comment. Alabama - The Bear is gone, get over yourselves. UGA - Herschel isn’t playing any more and we have been good, not great. More drunk than obnoxious. Auburn - Like Tennessee, obnoxious when winning, except whiny when they aren’t. Florida - Football began in the 90’s and how dare you try to look at the ENTIRE series. Why would anyone want to play us?? UF and UT are, by far the most obnoxious fans in the world, followed closely by Auburn, UGA and Alabama. Ga Tech was not in the discussion, but they might even surpass UF because they are obnoxious Vandy-wannabees who wish they were UGA.

By sedimenjerry

August 21, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

Well at least race hasnt been brought up. Yet.

By Ole Smokey

August 21, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

Mark Bradley SUCKS!

As usual Mark Bradley has greatly underrated the Tennessee Volunteers! We are extremely obnoxious. Why else do you think all other SEC schools hate Rocky Top so much. We Vols are hard drinking mean assed cusses and party harder than those f* Gaytors! Tennessee fans should’ve rated Most Obnoxious. I’ve never seen a Vol lose a fight after the game. We pick fights and we win ‘em! Go Vols! Rocky Top all day and all night long!

By Jt

August 21, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

Mark. I live in GA, but am a Crimson Tide fan. I have a daughter at UGA. I try to pull for them when they play any game but ALA.

But I HATE their fans. They haven’t won a national championship since 1980- until last year they have been FL’s b#$#&s since I don’t know when and they think they have the best college football program in the country every year.

They are not only obnoxious, but delusional

By bull-gator

August 21, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

What a waste of cyberspace.

By SavTechIE

August 21, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

The least obnoxious appear to have the smallest stadiums, leaving room for only legitimate school supporters. The larger stadiums admitting the masses - - undoubtedly provoke a primal animal pack mentality.

By Georgia Tech Engineer

August 21, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

I wish we had more obnoxious fans! I wish we had more fans!

By Ghost of Paul Bryant

August 21, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Mark:

We at Alabama want to rank higher than Auburn in anything and everything, so please rearrange your list and rank Alabama number two as most obnoxious fan base in the SEC.

Exhibit A: Auburn was awarded the 2004 National Championship by Golf Digest, finishing #1 in their esteemed and universally recognized college football ranking. Auburn fans didn’t even take that seriously. Alabama would have counted it as their 13th national championship. Got 13? shirts would have materialized overnight. Now that is obnoxious!

Auburn used to get offended by our insults and superior attitude. Now they just laugh at us because they are on the way to 10 straight wins over the TIDE. How in the name of Bear did that happen? What year is this?

Please reconsider your rationale for this column and restore Alabama to its rightful place as more obnoxious than those pesky Auburn people. You have to call them alums, I guess, because most Auburn fans actually went to school there, whereas Alabama attracts fans who can’t spell Tuscaloosa or find it on a map.

War Eagle (oops I forgot, Roll Tide)

By Ed

August 21, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Florida also leads in another fan category: middle-aged to older women with bleached blond hair, brown, leathered skin from years of solar abuse, wearing orange t-shirts and jorts with spider veins protruding from their overtanned legs. Optional accessories include a pair of shades, a smoldering cigarette, sandals with painted toenails and an ankle bracelet, and an overweight husband who thinks the head coach is an idiot and loudly proclaims so for the whole section to here. With the current trends, we’ll see these same types sporting tattoos in the next 10-20 years.

Hope I didn’t ruin anyone’s lunch, but if you’ve been to a few UF games, you know the type.

By Pitbull

August 21, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

I know we are talking SEC schools, but nobody could ever accuse Georgia Tech of having obnoxious fans.

They don’t have any fans.

Now their students and alumni are sociopathic narcissists that think they are smarter and better and more entitled than everybody else in the world.

But one must remember that in order to qualify for admittance to Georgia Tech one must have been diagnosed with a Character Disorder.

For more information on this subject, please Google Reuban Houston or Joe Hamilton.

Or watch Bill Curry do an ESPN2 telecast.

By Tommy Bow Wow den

August 21, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Clemson has the best fans in the southeast bar none. We always fill up our stadium with the loudest fans and have lots of pagentry with thousands of pretty orange and purple ballons. Clemson does its talking on the football field when we pound opponents when we should ie..Central Mich, Clemson won 70 - 14 last year. Bet the dawgs cant do that. Hang over 60 points on the chickens like a few years back. Best College Game opening with Howards rock and running down the hill which is secnd to none! Goooo TIGERS! # 9 and moving on up!!!

By SEC

August 21, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

UF fans are by far the most obnoxious. I hear them say the same argument all the time…”Since they dominate the SEC in both athletics and academics, they think their competition is more the other great state schools like Michigan, Virginia, Texas, N. Carolina, etc…So they look down on the rest of the SEC.

Their fans are so stupid - I even hear them compare the size of their endowment to ours…Either way I still love my UGA…Some day we will overtake them in the US News Rankings - we should all donate to UGA since their endowment is x3 the size of ours.

By RIchard

August 21, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

This article is terrible! I cant believe he gets paid to do this!

UGA fans are probably the most annoying in the SEC and not even mentioning the students but the FACT that a huge portion of GA residents looooove the bulldogs and they have never even gone to school there though I would agree that going to a school isnt a requirement for fanhood All I am saying is its annoying to the max listening to drunk overweight rednecks scream “go dawgs, doot doot doot, I am an idiot”

By SEC

August 21, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

UF fans are by far the most obnoxious. I hear them say the same argument all the time…”Since they dominate the SEC in both athletics and academics, they think their competition is more the other great state schools like Michigan, Virginia, Texas, N. Carolina, etc…So they look down on the rest of the SEC.

Their fans are so stupid - I even hear them compare the size of their endowment to ours…Either way I still love my UGA…Some day we will overtake them in the US News Rankings - we should all donate to UGA since their endowment is x3 the size of ours.

By SEC

August 21, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

UF fans are by far the most obnoxious. I hear them say the same argument all the time…”Since they dominate the SEC in both athletics and academics, they think their competition is more the other great state schools like Michigan, Virginia, Texas, N. Carolina, etc…So they look down on the rest of the SEC.

Their fans are so stupid - I even hear them compare the size of their endowment to ours…Either way I still love my UGA…Some day we will overtake them in the US News Rankings - we should all donate to UGA since their endowment is x3 the size of ours.

By Bareman from Mississippi

August 21, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

I’m from Mississippi originally but like the ACC better than the SEC. Mark, will you rank the Most Obnoxious ACC fans next week. There may not be very many of them but the few Georgia Tech fans that exist are truly obnoxious rednecks who are Ivy League wannabees. they are a bunch of pseudo-intellectuals who are legends in their own mind. Go Clemson!!!! Grrrr!

PS. South Carolina fans are obnoxious falling down rude puke on themselves drunks.

By SEC

August 21, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

UF fans are by far the most obnoxious. I hear them say the same argument all the time…”Since they dominate the SEC in both athletics and academics, they think their competition is more the other great state schools like Michigan, Virginia, Texas, N. Carolina, etc…So they look down on the rest of the SEC.

Their fans are so stupid - I even hear them compare the size of their endowment to ours…Either way I still love my UGA…Some day we will overtake them in the US News Rankings - we should all donate to UGA since their endowment is x3 the size of ours.

By USC 83

August 21, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

UGA has to be in the #1 spot for obnoxious. Outside of the SEC, Ohio State has to be the worst. Talk about a bunch of know it all yankees! I love living in Atlanta, but having to put up with UGA fans during football season is a “treat”. They are poor losers and will show their worst when we beat them on Sept 13th in our house. USC fans, carry an extra tire, b/c dawg fans are known for vandalizing and being lewd. To the previous blogger who mentioned that grown up UGA fans get too drunk, let me tell you that the fall is a time for all alumni to reflect on those happy years long ago. We grew up on college football, graduated from our beloved SEC school, and will always…celebrate win or lose. I am a SC alumni who only had one hang over last year - when we beat the Dawgs. I got so excited, I lost count. PS. Alumni, make sure you order your USC car tag. We are working toward the 1000 applications. Hopefully, we will be sporting these for the 2009 season, and will join Auburn and Florida on the roads. Go Cocks - Spur the Dawgs!!

By Zach

August 21, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

Have you ever been to an LSU game? They are BY FAR the WORST fans. I have been to 5 LSU games, and have had bags of p** thrown on me from the upper deck 4 out of the 5 games. Even the UGA fans dont do that.

rest of the sec

By Buzz

August 21, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

100% of our fans at Georgia Tech are obnoxious! That’s right – all 12 of us are extremely obnoxious!

By Meld

August 21, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

Florida academics? Isn’t that an oxymoron?

By UF

August 21, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

Hey SEC -

Thanks for your humblenesss…I think Vandy leads academics and then UF but UGA isnt far behind…The rest of SEC is embarrassing

As far as endowments. UF is smaller than Vandy but larger than the rest

As far as sports go, UCLA and UF only school to be top 10 in All Sports Ranking past 20 years. Enough said

Also, UF has most international students (and northerners - so lots of yankees). Its really the only “non Southern” school in the SEC - which is probably why it gets a bigger following nationwide. So yes we are not humble and yes our competitors are not within the SEC - they are the other powerhouse universities.

By Bimbo Luvs Strippers

August 21, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

Mark Bradley must’ve used cut-off jean Daisy Duke shorts, halter tops and mullets as criteria for ranking the Gator fans most obnoxious. And that’s just describing the men. Gaot chicks look almost as bad except with a helluva lot more tattoos and piercings!

If Mark had used being toothless, uneducated, cross-eyed, bald, fat and drunk that would’ve been the University of Tennesse. And yes! Their men look almost that bad, too, except they are wearing orange jail jumpsuits.

If he’d used small headed-big bodied, one-eyed and brainless, can’t read or write. AUBURN!!!!!

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

I’d like to thank all who have taken the time to read and respond, and I want you to know that I don’t find any of you obnoxious.

By Anita Bryant for Florida Orange Juice

August 21, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

The University of Florida may not be much for academics but they do have a big endowment. You’ll find DD’s in halter tops all over that campus!

Also, Florida has more shirtless professors than any other university in the USA.

By N.Augusta Gamecock

August 21, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

I remember a game in Columbia at the fair grounds when two Georgia ladies dressed in black had passed out and lying on the ground. One of the girls had puked on the others long blond hair. Truly classless,disgusting and the girls seemed loose with their behavior beforehand.

By SEC_GURU

August 21, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

MARK,

You say maybe you have caught LSU on good days. Them being #8 makes this list hilarious of how skewed that on is. Lets just say a LSU night game is not one I would dare take my kids to. I have been 3 times and been cussed, beer thrown at,, had my car window broken just because I left my AU magnet on it while I was in the game. I traditional fan of our who has a van called “tiger tail” was set on fire a few years ago.

MORAL is if you get stupid LSU fans who love to start drinking bourbon at 9am for a night game, you have the arm pit of fans in the SEC.

By doug

August 21, 2008 4:14 PM | Link to this

Your article lost all cred when you ranked LSU #8. Apparently you’ve never been to a big game in Baton Rouge.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

Oh, and one thing more: Understand that I didn’t just use fans’ behavior at home games as the sole determinant. That was part of my methodology, if in fact I could be said to have a methodology, but not nearly all.

By Florida Dawg

August 21, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

I live in Jacksonville and the Gators are the most obnoxious fans of all. You can ask FSU fans and they will agree. They ALL wear Timmy Tebow shirts…even to church. Makes me want to puke!!! They “think” their football program started in 1990!!!

By Rowdy Rascal

August 21, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

As any Floridian knows the University of Florida is that state’s REDNECK UNIVERSITY!!!!

The better classes of people in Flordia pull for and send their kids to Miami, FSU. Central Florida, South Florida, Florida Atlantic, U. of South Florida, etc. But only rednecks go to Gatorville!

By jeff

August 21, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

Ha..I live here in the panhandle of Florida and there are more Alabama fans here than anywhere for some reason. They still think Bear is coaching there…

By The Dean

August 21, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

If you aren’t smart enough to go to a real college or university you can always go to Auburn.

By SEC Fan

August 21, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

The bottom line is SEC fans are by far the most passionate fans. All this talk of stupid rednecks/cajuns is absurd. As an LSU fan thats been going to games for 30 years and have never seen any visitors getting beating up etc. What i Have witnessed is we chant “tigerbait” at the fans who are decked out in their team colors. We are laughing while doing it and get roll tide roll back etc. I think visiting fans need to learn to be more respectful b/c they instigate most of the problems. People hear “horror” stories of this and that happening and its all of a sudden factual. At tiger stadium we enjoy having a good time and if the visitors want to be friendly they will be treated with respect but come in and act arrogant when 120,000 tailgaters are drinking and your asking for trouble and that goes for anywhere even Vanderbilt. I would also like to say LSU needs to move all visiting fans to the nosebleed sections instead of providing all you crybabies great visiting seats.

By Albert

August 21, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

I went to a USC game in Columbia, SC. Two South Carolina coeds in short skirts were super sloppy drunk and puked all over each other and the fans around them. Before long they had passed out cold and fallen over, everyone in the section could see that neither girl was wearing panties. C** coeds show so much class. NOT!

By Pro Hater

August 21, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

I think Georgia and Florida should be tied for 1st. Some of the most annoying people on the face of the planet. To all the Georgia fans, don’t buy into all this hype of Georgia being ranked #1, they will lose at least 2 games. Get prepared for a major disappointment and it will be soooooo funny! Stafford is the most overrated player to put on a Georgia jersey in recent memory.

By son_sir

August 21, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

I’ve been to quite a few SEC/ACC football stadiums, as well as Nascar races at Atlanta, Daytona, Charlotte, and the infamous infield at Talladega on several occasions. Sanford Stadium is the undisputed king of loud mouth intoxicated idiocy. I’ve seen more fights and blood at SS than at all the others combined.

My uncle, a UGA grad, used to take me to many UGA games in hopes I would be a Dawg. I witnessed enough lunacy to ensure that I would always be an anti-UGA fan.

THWG !

By fishtales

August 21, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Come on people. Please try a little harder. The Bear is dead. We know that. We are over ourselves. Really. We can take other schools making fun of us all day long. Promise. But, GET SOME NEW MATERIAL!!! I admit it was kinda funny the first 3,000 times I heard it…but you are borrowing on really tired material. It’s just like the toothless, hillbilly jokes you can apply to any school in the country. Used to be kinda funny but it’s so played out now. Keep ‘em coming but get something new! A lot of ya’ll are really creative…I know you got it in ya!

By Go You Hairy Postmen

August 21, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Gawja, Georgia, Uga - doesn’t matter how you say it they are the worst and most obnoxious fans in the country.

Examples: 1980: Uga vs USC (Herschel vs Rogers). A little coke salesboy was walking through the steps of the alumni side of the stadium behind the uga bench trying to sell some cokes. He happens to get in front of some uptight uga fan during the play. The fan (an old white man) jumps up and pushes the kid down the steps yelling get out of the way N-word. The kid fell down the steps Cokes and all - no one did anything to help. I was 10 at the time.

2) 1984 GT beats Uga for the first time in years. After the game, I walking across the bridge minding my own business with GT jersey when a lovely lady uga fan jumps in my face and gives me the bird and a big FU.

3) 1990 GT opens a can of whipping boy in Athens. After the game, walking through lovely north campus I happen to make brief eye contact with a gagger. I am not wearing gold or red at this game understanding the dangers of Athens. The gagger challenges me to a fight - yelling what he.. are you looking at. I just walk on - rednecks.

4) 1981 ugag vs Clemson - my dad attends the game and is challenged to a fight by a gagger for not wearing red or orange colors.

5) 1983 Ugag vs Auburn in the Ugag alumni section - two ugag older female fans get so drunk they got in a fist fight with one another fan on fan / female to female gagger violence.

6) Wine bottles and urine falling from the gagger student section on to innocent fans below.

7)Their players just year have taken to beating random people up - including hitting pregnant women.

You get the picture - they are the worst most obnoxious group of turds you could be with on game day. Decent folks by themselves, but get them together and you have some serious georgia redneck trouble.

By Go You Hairy Postmen

August 21, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

Gawja, Georgia, Uga - doesn’t matter how you say it they are the worst and most obnoxious fans in the country.

Examples: 1980: Uga vs USC (Herschel vs Rogers). A little coke salesboy was walking through the steps of the alumni side of the stadium behind the uga bench trying to sell some cokes. He happens to get in front of some uptight uga fan during the play. The fan (an old white man) jumps up and pushes the kid down the steps yelling get out of the way N-word. The kid fell down the steps Cokes and all - no one did anything to help. I was 10 at the time.

2) 1984 GT beats Uga for the first time in years. After the game, I walking across the bridge minding my own business with GT jersey when a lovely lady uga fan jumps in my face and gives me the bird and a big FU.

3) 1990 GT opens a can of whipping boy in Athens. After the game, walking through lovely north campus I happen to make brief eye contact with a gagger. I am not wearing gold or red at this game understanding the dangers of Athens. The gagger challenges me to a fight - yelling what he.. are you looking at. I just walk on - rednecks.

4) 1981 ugag vs Clemson - my dad attends the game and is challenged to a fight by a gagger for not wearing red or orange colors.

5) 1983 Ugag vs Auburn in the Ugag alumni section - two ugag older female fans get so drunk they got in a fist fight with one another fan on fan / female to female gagger violence.

6) Wine bottles and urine falling from the gagger student section on to innocent fans below.

7)Their players just year have taken to beating random people up - including hitting pregnant women.

You get the picture - they are the worst most obnoxious group of turds you could be with on game day. Decent folks by themselves, but get them together and you have some serious georgia redneck trouble.

By Roscoe

August 21, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

The University of Florida recruits yankees for students because they need some students that can read and write. They can’t find that amongst the trailer park Gator fans of Florida.

By Good Old Rocky Top

August 21, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Yea, those guys from the Au Barn can be obnoxious. But since their players do not actually have to go to college to play for Au Barn, they have an advantage. At other schools the players have to contend with athletics AND academics. Not so on the plains. Too many professors there are Ho Eagles fans.

Those Roll Turd guys used to be obnoxious before they had to finally admit that a certain coach died and their program got so messed up that they hired Bill Curry, which wasn’t as bad as the guy who went to the strip club. Did I mention that I ran into Saban at Tattletales last night?

But I cannot fathom how anybody from Alabammer can be obnoxious about anything.

The same thing goes for Lousyanna. I mean I carry handiwipes to disinfect with after touching some of those people when I go to a game in Baton Rouge, which is French for Red Neck.

And San Francisco has nothing on Gainesville, Florida which is home of the Gay Turds. Florida Field officials should make all Florida fans put on a condom before entering the stadium. I always wear my best alligator shoes to the games there, but I sep on so many bare feet.

The funniest thing is that South Carolina actually thinks they belong to the SEC. We just let them into the conference so we could have 12 teams and a championship game. When a great coach like Spurrier can only win 6 games at a school, then the school is a football dud. It should have stayed in the ACC where it belongs.

By Villa Rica DAWG

August 21, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Wait a minute…. Is he talking about me?!

By thenoseknows

August 21, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Rocky Snot you’ll always be, fatter and dumber than me.

By MrWrestling#2

August 21, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

Based on my visits to SEC venues my rankings are:

By Ike Clanton

August 21, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

Since when do you have to attend a certain college to be a fan of that college? Some of the remarks in here make me nauseous. Anyway, I would have to go with Tennessee from what I read in here from time to time.

By tiger7_88

August 21, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

(Mark Bradley mode ON)

“Tommy Tuberville was meeeaan to meeeeeee waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!”

Here’s a link from an ACTUAL journalist who is a true neutral without a chip on his shoulder (unlike our mildly retared Brother Bradley):

Bud Poliquin/Syracuse Post-Standard LINK

By BCS CRYSYAL

August 21, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Hey Good Old Rocky Top….Nothing sux like a big orange…..Geaux Tigers…SEC Champs over ut….again!!

By BCS CRYSYAL

August 21, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

Hey Good Old Rocky Top….Nothing sux like a big orange…..Geaux Tigers…SEC Champs over ut….again!!

By Fan

August 21, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

• In 1978 Georgia Tech students throw thousands of dead fish at Notre Damee for beating them.

• In 1981 Georgia Tech players spit on Herschel Walker and call him racist names!

• In 1981 Georgia Tech students throw liquor bottles at Georgia players on the sidelines. Several UGA players have to receive stitches. Tech head coach Bill Curry apologized to Georgia.

• In 1987 Georgia Tech students by the thousands in unison scream curse extremely vile words diring the prayer and national anthem. several instances of Tech fans thrwoing drinks at UGA fans. Some UGA fans are hit from above by Tech fans tossing cups filled with urine! You call that classy, Tech?

• 1988 Several Tech football players get arrested for beating up a petite female student.

• 1993 Goegia Tech players start a bench clearing brawl with georgia. The Dawgs whip them and chase them back to their side of the field.

• 2003 Georgia Tech gets caught for fixing athletes grades to make them eligible during the 1998-2000 seasons. The NCAA puts Tech on probation. 11 athletes were starting football players.

• Tech student makes bombs and tooses them out dorm window

• 2007 Tech student arrested for terrorism and aiding terrorists.

• 2008 drug use by Tech athletes has sad and tragic results.

• 2008 Tech great, Joe Hamilton, director of player personnel, charged with DUI, Hit & Run and marijuana possesion.

• 2008 Tech football player arrested for rape. Tech football players arrested for underage drinking.

By man hands

August 21, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

Back in ‘87 I was at a Vandy game and their fans started doing the wave. I remember thinking “you obnoxious fans, you’re endzone isn’t even enclosed. You can’t do the wave.” That really rubbed me the wrong way. They even threw the delay in their where the wave would have continued if there were seats. Unbelievable. I tried to stop them…you know…for Aunt Peachy’s sake.

When they got rid of their athletic department I thought “how arrogant.”

By Villa Rica DAWG

August 21, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

Go You Hairy Postmen:

First of all, your “examples” wreak of BS. No way someone knocked an employee down screaming the N-word at him without getting his a$$ kicked in Athens, 1980 or not.

Second of all, the student section is on the lower level and there aren’t any fans below them, unless you count the cheerleaders, UGA, and Hairy.

And finally, thanks for the laughs. I can see your little nerd a$$ walking around Athens in your “Jackets” gear getting harrassed like crazy. HAHA!

Nerd…

By The Truth

August 21, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

Mark,

Nice try on your rankings. However, there’s a big difference between watching a game in the press box and watching them in the stands at all 12 stadiums. Here’s the real rankings … 12. Vandy. Their fans almost always know their team is going to lose and they’re OK with it. 11. Mississippi State. I like cowbells, too. And their fans are somewhat benign. 10. South Carolina. They’re definitely obnoxious if your team loses to them, but they’re more for their team than they are against yours. 9. Kentucky. Their fans can get really rowdy in hoops, but football not so much. 8. Arkansas. They’re so far away and haven’t been in the SEC long enough to rank higher, but their fans can get the big head and aren’t afraid to tell you about it. 7. Ole Miss. For a team that hasn’t done anything for more than 30 years, they sure think highly of themselves. Plus, I hate hearing chants of Ole Miss By Dam when I’m in the bathroom. 6. Georgia. Their fans are mostly hospitable but can get really rowdy at night games. 5. Alabama. Their fans still think their team is as good as when Bear stalked the sidelines. 4. Auburn. I got punched once at a game by an Auburn fan. Never know when they’re going to hose you down either. 3. Tennessee. I used to like Rocky Top and Knoxville … 2. LSU. These cajuns are fun to party with, but insufferable if you lose to them. 1. Florida. These Johnny-come-lately fans are so obnoxiously delusional that they think they’ve owned the SEC since its inception.

By Truth

August 21, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

T. Martin the QB that led Tennessee to their 1998 national champioship admitted on national TV that he was paid thousands of dollars to play football for Tenessee and that he never went to class that entire season, yet, was given passing grades.

By Stand Tall

August 21, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

NONE MORE OBNOXIOUS THAN THOSE STUPID, INFANTILE, BACKWARD A$$ FEEBLE-MINDED GA FANS

JUST BECAUSE YOU LIVE HERE DOES NOT MAKE YOU AN ALUMNI.. BUYING YOUR “DAWGS” HAT AT WALLY WORLD ISN’T ENOUGH FOR YOU TO LAY CLAIM TO BEING BETWEEN THE HEDGES. THE ELITIST WAY IN WHICH THESE SO-CALLED FANS ACT IS UTTERLY DISGUSTING. I MEAN, C’MON, WIN SOMETHING IN THIS CENTURY AND BECOME RELEVANT …. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!! EVERYONE KNOWS THEY ARE GONNA CHOKE IT OUT AND NO-SHOWN IS GONNA BLOW OUT HIS KNEE AND MARK RICHT WILL BE DEEMED A CHEATER WHEN THEY FIND OUT THAT 32 OF THE PLAYERS THEY RECRUITED HAVE NEVER BEEN TO CLASS. …AND GA FANS… PLEASE, STOP THE INBREEDING WILL YA?? JUST BECAUSE UGGA IS THE SPAWN OF HIS OWN BROTHER AND MOTHER DOES NOT GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO SLEEP WITH YOUR SISTERS TOO…. JEESH!!!

By Sam

August 21, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

Wow, way to play to the home crowd Bradley putting Georgia’s two biggest rivals at #1 and #2. Georgia fans are the most obnoxious fans and they are proud of it with the little saying they have.

By UGA fan

August 21, 2008 4:52 PM | Link to this

I don’t like Tommy Tuberville, though I respect him as a football coach. However, if he was mean to Mark Bradley, I may rethink my feelings about Tuberville and starting liking him alot more.

By COCKFAN

August 21, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

A very drunk UGA fan hurled on my beautiful homecoming date’s outfit back in 1977, and they’ve just as bad today… right down in the gutter and as bad as Clemson Fans….

GOOOOOO COCKS !!!!

By Charlie

August 21, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

None of these schools fan bases can compete with the Boston Red Sox Fans who are by far the lowest life forms out there. Totally classless bunch of losers!

By the duck

August 21, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

I have found that in general if you don’t act like an a-hole, you don’t attract the a-holes.

If a drunk idiot does yell something at you, just smile and say “Good Luck!”

Works for me and I’m one of those horrible UGA fans.

People just need to chill and have fun instead of taking everything so personally.

By Sam

August 21, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

Wow, way to play to the home crowd Bradley putting Georgia’s two biggest rivals at #1 and #2. Georgia fans are the most obnoxious fans and they are proud of it with the little saying they have.

By Billy Bob Thornton

August 21, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

According to major sources UGA has 2 national football championships and Georgia Tech has one-half of one.

Using Tech’s criteria (the very same sources that named Tech #1) UGA has 5 national championships. I admit Tech’s criteria is rather liberal. But I guess it has to be for Tech to conclude that they have 4.

By johnny t-bone

August 21, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Very simple answer here - Ugag is #1. This is the poll they would always top, withough even being overrated.

One dope mentioned they are one of the best college football teams in history. Really? How many national titles does ugag have? 2.
Let’s compare that to your nearest in-state rival, Gt: 4 National Titles. Historically you aren’t even the best in GA.

Ugag always claims, rather rudely, that they are deserving of a higher ranking, which has never once been the case. This year they get to prove everyone wrong being the pre-season overrated #1. Unfortunately they have to play FL again this year, don’t they? Oh yeah, they always do, and will get crushed again this year, partly due to payback for that childess act last year. The Gators will crush Ugag, as usual, and the Ugag faithful will complain they should still be #1 and National Champs.

Obnoxious in their blindness as to how ordinary a program they have always been. Ooooooh, 1980. Big year. Had 1 player. wow. And, let’s not forget the overrated annoyance that is Vince Dooley.

And, by the way, us Yanks do know everything.

By Villa Rica DAWG

August 21, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

COCKFAN:

You are a Cockfan.

By Villa Rica DAWG

August 21, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

COCKFAN:

You are a Cockfan.

By Charles

August 21, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

I can’t believe it’s come to this for the Mark Bradleys of the world. Solid, solid sportwriters having to stoop to this level to accrue hits. Oh well, here I am posting, so I’m as much to blame as anyone.

Every school in the SEC has a ton of awful, obnoxious fans.

The thing that seperates Florida’s fans, in my experiences, has been the fact that they know so little about football to begin with—it’s going to amuse me to no end to watch them lose four games this year, not because their offense can’t score (it certainly can), but because their defense is going to be bad, bad, bad. No tackles and one safety equals long, long day against the big boys. Yet Florida fans, and the national media (which is inherently ignorant because it can’t do enough in-depth research—so I give it a pass) believe the Gates will simply because of Harvin and Tebow. Sorry, folks…you win in the trenches and with defense (see your 06 title team), and you boys just aren’t built for the rugged SEC right now…just like last year…laugh now, but you’ll see…

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve met some wise Florida fans over the years, but most of them have seen the good and the bad.It’s the Johny-come-latelies that have brought their fanbase down, and it will be that same bunch that is screaming bloody murder after Tennessee upsets them and Georgia runs rough-shod over the high school defense…stopping Tebow and Harvin enough to win convincingly…again.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this

To Tiger 7 88: I’ve freely admitted I used to hold Auburn people in higher regard. And I notice your link is to a column written in 2002.

By Anonymous 'Cos

August 21, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

And just when i was going to put my two cents worth in, i come across the following :

**By Uncle Uppercut

August 21, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Punch female Florida fans in the womb so they can’t reproduce. WHOOOOO DIXIE!!!! YEEEHAW!!! SIC EM DAWGS!!!!**

Are you kidding me? I am a UGA alumni and i find this to be disgusting. Based on this comment alone, i would have to put us closer to the top. There is absolutely no excuse to even think this comment in one’s own head, but to actually type it out and hit “enter”…??? How can UGA fans (true fans, that is - not all the uneducated rednecks that claim to be fans) even attempt to counter a comment like this? People like “Unkle Uppercut” make me ashamed to be a fan of the state university. And to think he is an unkle to some poor unfortunate child that will be raised under his influence. I only wish his family had taken his advice, as well as his own parents. You disgust me, and anyone else who so much as snickered at his comment. You only proved everyone’s points about the Dawgs’ fans being unruly. GREAT JOB, and i can only hope karma is real, so this WILL come back at you ten-fold.

By Jim

August 21, 2008 5:03 PM | Link to this

Can we as fans make a list of insufferable sports writers?

If so, Hack Bradley wins the #1spot with a unanimous vote.

By adawgfan

August 21, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

I guess it’s all perspective but I live in N. GA and here the wind always blows north cuz UT S..!

By Reggie Ball's Boy Friend

August 21, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

Hey Stand Tall; perhaps if you got some counseling you could let go of all of that hateful rage and “johnson” envy that you seem to have.

Grow up son. Life is too short (but then again so apparently is your tallywhacker).

By Jack

August 21, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

Mark, you are wrong. There is not one ounce of doubt that Georgia fans are the most obnoxious. Hell, half of my family are Georgia grads and come football season they are insuffurable. I hope they go 0/12. Maybe we would not have to put up with these people and their mouths if that happened.

By C Puller

August 21, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

You could not be more wrong. Try living 365 days a year in Alabama during a time when auburn is having their best run ever. Your eyes will be opened up wide at what you see.

I’d rank Tennesee and Auburn tied for #1, LSU 3rd although they’re making a strong showing for #1 since Alabama somehow “stole their coach from them”, Gators 4th. The rest you pretty much have right.

By Go You Hairy Postmen

August 21, 2008 5:08 PM | Link to this

Villa Red Dog

I was there in 1980, you weren’t. It did happen and nothing happened to the man who did it. You must be young because the students used to sit in the upper deck too. I know as I have sat there before.

Now back to business - I would like french fries with my order.

By Unbelivable

August 21, 2008 5:13 PM | Link to this

Homer, you are a complete idiot.

By Fred

August 21, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

UGA by far. Go to a game in Athens. It starts with the cars. They all have their “G” on the front, favorite NASCAR number on the back and a variety of magnets, flags and other accessories plastered across their cars. It gets better at the stadium. Middle age men, barking like dogs, dressed up in red costumes, people screeming, barking……………

By scooter

August 21, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

I think a simple equation is in order:

IF team isIn SEC AND Team=”WinningProgram” THEN “FanBase” = “Obnoxious”

By Pitbull

August 21, 2008 5:20 PM | Link to this

COCKFAN - THE REASON I HURLED ON YOUR HOMECOMING DATE IN 1977 WAS BECAUSE SHE WAS SO UGLY!! DON’T GET ME WRONG. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH A HAIR LIP.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HER ANYWAY? OH, YOU MARRIED HER. WELL, LOOKS ARN’T EVERYTHING. I MEAN BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. TAKE MY ADVICE THOUGH AND NEVER EVER GET AN EYE EXAM

By BR

August 21, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

Tech fans can’t be obnoxious. First of all, they have NO reason to be—in any sport, and second, they can’t even fill their own stadium with their pathetic “fans”. Teams who have obnoxious fans are the ones with the most loyal fans—UGA, UF, UT, etc.

By KingoftheRing

August 21, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

…and who the hell is Sisyfuss???

By Ed

August 21, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Gators are just tacky. Wearing too much orange will do that to you. And their women are ugly.

By AUnPA

August 21, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

Though I have lived in Pa for the past 28 years, I grew up in and was educated in Auburn. After returning to my car (in Auburn) after a tough loss to Tennessee several years ago, to find my trunk had been jacked open and a stop sign had been uprooted from it’s base and placed in my now ruiened car trunk, I am convinced there are no worse sports than Tennessee fans- and I saw them all after living in Auburn for 22 years.

By Pro Hater

August 21, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

I didn’t go to Georgia Tech, but I bet there are a whole lot of UGA alumni working for GA Tech alumni.

By Forget the SEC

August 21, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this

For those of you that are reading the rankings and feeling insulted about your school’s ranking, don’t worry…..none of these schools can begin to be as rude as the fans of WVU. They win the prize hands down.

By Richt

August 21, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

UGA Fans are the worst hands down. The most uneducated low class bunch of rednecks I’ve ever seen. The Dawg nation (if you can call it that) needs to wake up and realize that 1980 is over and Hershel is now a schizophrenic.

By Randy

August 21, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this

Since the AJC felt it necessary to run a column like this let’s see if they will archive it and let’s all go back at the end of the season and see who has the right to holler the loudest. Georgia has all but been handed the national Championship, it’s theirs for the taking. Now all they have to do is win one game at a time each week in and out. At the end of the year if they have not done that then they can sit down and shut up. It’s theirs for the taking, if they don’t succeed then go back to crawling under the porch and start whining like dawg’s always do.

By Bill

August 21, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

Actually more Tech alumni work for UGA alumni. Just ask Mark Bradley and the AJC research staff.

By D.Ellis

August 21, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

Dude-This sheeot is one of the funniest things I have ever read in my life.

THANKS MARK!!!!!

By SlimG

August 21, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

Why do all Tech fans complain about UGA fans who didn’t attend? Tech’s newest ad campaign should’ve shut these idiots up but they’re still talking.

By Jeff

August 21, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this

LSU fans number 8? Are you kidding me? Have you ever been to tiger stadium on a saturday night? Nobody hates their opposition and treats them worse than LSU fans in Baton Rouge. Well.. maybe except gator fans.

By Jeff

August 21, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

LSU fans number 8? Are you kidding me? Have you ever been to tiger stadium on a saturday night? Nobody hates their opposition and treats them worse than LSU fans in Baton Rouge. Well.. maybe except gator fans.

By Rambo

August 21, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

Georgia Tech fans may be very few in number, very few, and very fair weather, but they still find a way to be extremely obnoxious. They have no cuth and as an engineering school they have an inferiority complex to superior math schools such as MIT, CalTech, Virginia Tech, Texas Tech, Southern Tech, Tennessee Tech, Lanier Tech, and U. of Alabama.

By Obama for President

August 21, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this

Tennessee has the most obnoxious fans. No wonder since they are family. All Vols are cousins, one big family tree that doesn’t branch. That’s why you see so many mutant Tennessee fans. They can be rather rotund. Tennessee fans usually get work as extras on Star Trek episodes because they don’t need any make up.

By THE Ohio State Buckeyes

August 21, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

How can you argue with South Carolina fans that still think a c** in the hand is worth two in the bush?

By ATLBOY

August 21, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this

UGA fans pelted the Auburn BAND after halftime at last year’s game. Talk about trashy, obnoxious behavior.

By Neighbor to a GT Student

August 21, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

I thought GT stood for Gwinnett Tech. A neighbor’s son went there and now he fixes cars.

That boy can’t play football though and I caught him with a blow up doll behind my garage last month.

Don’t the new Tech colors look like White and Day Old Baby Poop?

By Dr. Merkwurdigliebe

August 21, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

The news that Mark Bradley is from Kentucky clears up a lot of mystery, including his ridiculous fan rankings. Slow news day Mark?

By shiftdad

August 21, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

Alabama and Georgia are 1a and 1b…you can go to eithers campus and be cussed and spat on for no reason.At tuscaloser me and a buddy were followed around by some drunks trying to provoke a fight. Ga is our oldest rival and when i go to Athens i am dissappointed in those drunks. I drink so for that to bother me is bad. Every school has an azzhole or 2, if we all try to eliminate those people it would be alot better.

By shiftdad

August 21, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

Alabama and Georgia are 1a and 1b…you can go to eithers campus and be cussed and spat on for no reason.At tuscaloser me and a buddy were followed around by some drunks trying to provoke a fight. Ga is our oldest rival and when i go to Athens i am dissappointed in those drunks. I drink so for that to bother me is bad. Every school has an azzhole or 2, if we all try to eliminate those people it would be alot better.

By LACock

August 21, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this

Hey I know this a board about SEC unruly fans, but as a USC Trojan man I have to say the worst was when I went to Jordan Hare in 03 and watched my men of Troy crush Auburn. Basically us Cali fans were booed walking around campus and called things like “liberal f*#$s” and that we don’t play real football?!? All the SC fans I was with were just excited to be there and wanted to experiance the SEC feel of a game. Instead we were treated to beer bottles being thrown at us and Auburn fans saying there was only one USC, that of South Carolina. I couldn’t even get a single Auburn fan to say hello during tailgaiting and our conferences hardly have anything to do with each other. I was sad, I was expecting a little southern hospitality to only have it exchanged for contempt. Plus it didn’t help we crushed them. When we got back to the hotel SC fans were complaining to the front desk that their rooms had been broken into. I couldn’t believe it! I watched some 20 twentysomething camoflagued ball cap wearing douchebag pour his beer all over a little girl from California and when security showed up they ended up escorting the drunk and the girl’s father away. I just hope in the future when USC matches up with the SEC they can show a little more hospitality like the Arkansas fans got when they came to Los Angeles. Thank you and FIGHT ON TROJANS!!!!!

By Blue water

August 21, 2008 6:18 PM | Link to this

I rather have aids that to be an Auburn fan. Every year they talk about this is the year of number 1. They have no history and never shut up brag about nothing. I hate em. They did cure my dog of aids though.

By FinanceBuzz

August 21, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

thUGA is too low. Auburn fans were about the best I have ever come across. Never played UF so I cannot comment. I can say that the most disgusting experience in many college games was with thUGA fans at Stankford Stadium. As for those thUGA fans who say they ahve seen worse, I expect you guys inspire the worst behavior in your opponents.

Also…if you doubt the record of thUGA fans, just think about this. Can you name one other school that has the sheer number of “rivalries” that thUGA has? I expect when you play them regularly, you come to hate dealing with them and you circle the game date on your calendar.

By Smoke

August 21, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

Just curious Mark, when was the last time you actually bought a ticket and sat in the stands with everyone else? Maybe you should crawl out of the press box every once in a while and then you will have the correct insight to accurately write on this subject.

By SECFan

August 21, 2008 6:24 PM | Link to this

Hey hahaha…you said “99% of UGA fans didn’t graduated high school.” Did you even go to high school? Did your high school teach English? You are a moron.

By Phil

August 21, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this

Note to “Call it Like it is”:

Q - What do Florida players get on their SAT? A - Drool.

And now for a question of my own: Why in the world do so many of you people get emotionally out of control over a GAME?? If a game, any game, is the high point of your life, then something is seriously off track.

At the end of your life, will it matter one bit who won the SEC Championship game this year or in any other year? No. None of this will matter, including my silly Florida joke. If you spend so much time obsessing over sports that you don’t have room for things that are a lot more important, then it’s something that should be examined.

Seriously.

By pozman

August 21, 2008 6:32 PM | Link to this

blue water I have AIDS and am a graduate of UGA. May God forgive you.

By pozman

August 21, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this

Blue Water I am a graduate of UGA and I have AIDS. May God forgive you and your studipity.

By pozman

August 21, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this

Blue Water I am a graduate of UGA and I have AIDS. May God forgive you and your stupidity.

By pozman

August 21, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this

Blue Water I am a graduate of UGA and I have AIDS. May God forgive you and your stupidity.

By CGA

August 21, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this

Georgia fans win the obnoxious competition hands-down. That’s the ONLY thing that UGA deserves a number #1 ranking for this season!

By DH

August 21, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this

Loved the comment about your being as neutral as sulfuric acid. Now that is good. Everybody agrees about UF that has been around more than a year. The rest. it is kind of like saying Bisher is the best AJC writer and the rest are ranked in descending order. I ike your writing. It is light and entertaining, not to be taken seriously. Even in the sports world. What ever happened to Jeff ? with his weakly, sorry weekly predictions. Funny. PS i always thought you were a Dawg homer.

By Me

August 21, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this

Gotta be UGA hands down. For 60 years old to get drunk and bark like dogs is just sad. At least they could save this behavior for the games.

By travis

August 21, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this

hey Badley, stop breathing up all the good air left in the world and get to cooking my quarter-pounder at McDonalds. Your are a complete waste of time. How long did you spend on the column? you spent 99 percent of the that time deciding where to put the dawgs just to MAKE you look neutral. Just let me know when you and your twin Tony Barn. stop humping each other!!!!!!

By CurseofWmPenn

August 21, 2008 6:57 PM | Link to this

Well actually…we Yanks DO know it all.

By Blue water

August 21, 2008 7:34 PM | Link to this

Sorry pardner if you are sick because of a blood transfussion, but if it’s the other, may God have mercy on you for the reason you contacted it.

By Sherry

August 21, 2008 7:39 PM | Link to this

I think most of the trash talk on here plays into the stereotypical “redneck” jokes that we are all accustomed to hearing. It is a shame that adults are behaving in such a manner as threatening to hurt pregnant women, calling each other names, etc. I love my Bulldogs but I am embarrassed by some of the fans comments on here. Show some class people! You can be a fan without all of the vileness. Every team has its good and bad fans but don’t lump us all into the same category.

By Lee

August 21, 2008 7:45 PM | Link to this

South Carolina should be much higher than that.

By joe

August 21, 2008 7:46 PM | Link to this

LSU fans are really good fans. They support their team and definitely know how to throw down. After UGA beat LSU in Athens about 5 years ago, the LSU fans partied with us all night. A few of them even wore LSU shirts saying, “Win or lose, we still booze.”

I do agree that Florida is the most obnoxious. Their fans typically fall into two categories, self-important yankees and in-bred rednecks. One group lacks class, the other lacks intelligence.

Bradley’s right, we Georgia fans are obnoxious and tend to drink like we are still in college. Old enough to know better, too young to care.

By dude

August 21, 2008 7:47 PM | Link to this

I don’t really care for this article or this writer. I’m a MSU fan and the only thing I wanted to say is that MB is an idiot if he thinks that his ridiculously retarded article in 2005 has any kind of impact on State fans. This is now the second article I’ve read by this guy and all he’s proven is that he’s not a very good writer. If you don’t believe me check out the article back in 2005 about the State/UGA game. He unjustifiedly bash Starkville and said maybe two words about the actual game. This guy make my balls hurt

By Toomrtim

August 21, 2008 7:49 PM | Link to this

Mark, Mark, Mark,

You remind me of Paul Finebaum. (That was an insult just in case you didn’t know.)

Obviously you have NEVER, NEVER been to an LSU football game in Baton Rouge on a Saturday night when they lost. I, being an Auburn fan, however, have many times.

Georgia fans can’t even hold a candle to the drunks at Baton Rouge. Obnoxious isn’t even the word.

You are obviously not qualified to rank the fans in the SEC.

By David

August 21, 2008 7:54 PM | Link to this

Auburn at number two? That’s simply odd. Mark, are you sure you’ve been to any games when LSU was playing?

By Orkin man

August 21, 2008 7:57 PM | Link to this

Wrong, Mark.

I have actually been at opposing stadiums.

You are too hard on ‘Bama fans, they are gracious in defeat (see, UGA, 2002 and 2007, I saw it), and much harder on their own coaching staff.

LSU Cajuns are drunker than UGA fans. My God, they wake up with a vodka, and with most of their home games at night, they are so sh-tfaced by game time they are out of control. And you rank them 8th????

South Carolina is worse than Auburn, especially now that they have such a good role model. They get loaded in their “C**-a-booses” and raise so much hell it’s not even funny. Not that Auburn fans are saints - they are up there - but not above the Cocks.

UT fans are on the boats on the river at dawn getting liquored up, more than Georgia, but not more than LSU. They derserve to move up. And that dog is butt-ugly.

I believe Ole Miss has quite polite fans used to an a*-kickin’ and content to let their drop dead gorgeous coeds grace The Grove before game (I drew wood just thinking about them) and thinking about the Archie Manning days.

Unfortunately, this year, Ole Miss is as irrelevant as Arkansas, Miss. St., Kentucky and Vandy.

I will give you credit, you did hit the nail on the head with UF. Those jean shorts wearing, El Camino driving, mullet-wearing, parachute pants wearing 75 IQ morons with air brushed license plates they made in prison morons are indeed no. 1. Us Georgia fans are just better people than them and God will so ordain on Judgement Day.

So….the top 7 (excluding the irrelevant schools, with 7 being more polite and 1 the worst):

Best of all, Tech still sucks.

By john

August 21, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this

Gator Flop- yeah they lost one game Bradley and 2 out of the last 4 ( 2 out of the last 4 is worth bragging about for UGA fans)The most obnoxious fans are the ones who have owned you for the past 20 years? Stopped going to the game in Jax a few years back- tired of the redneck UGA students who can’t handle their alcohol and start fights. UGA fans are without a doubt the most obnoxious and they are definitely rednecks.

By GoTideNC

August 21, 2008 8:02 PM | Link to this

How can you have LSU ranked so low?? Have you never been to that drunken yuk fest on saturday night?? LSU and AU fans are the poster children for “Winning with absolutely no class”. Oh, and that irrelevant fan base will soon become very relevant.

By Larry

August 21, 2008 8:02 PM | Link to this

No one is as obnoxious and downright mean as Auburn fans. They really should learn to exhibit some class. I guess Auburn’s record of receiving the most punishment handed out by the NCAA of any SEC school is indicitive of their fan behaviour also. I have never witnessed a more redneck bunch who are always wanting to start fights than Auburn. They definately are the most immature fans in the SEC.

By Orkin man

August 21, 2008 8:07 PM | Link to this

Re: my last post, the AJC inserted bullet points instead of numbers, so please read it as worst fans (UF) to better fans (UGA) from bottom to top, as in Mark’s column. I point this out for the Florida fans who might have the ability to read this.

Best of all, Tech still sucks.

By Get Real

August 21, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this

What is with all of these SEC school’s fans criticizing other states and programs for fan support that has no tie to the university (i.e. the largely rural, uneducated, or non-affiliated fans). This is hypocrisy at it’s finest. I don’t care if you are in Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, or California. College football is an entertainment form that long ago blew by being the domain of alumni. To suggest that fans who didn’t attend a particular school are some how lesser citizens of the realm is arrogant and mean spirited. Now I’ll admit, many of those folks are among the most obnoxious in any program’s fan base. However, they have just as much a right to support the team enthusiastically as a blue blood frat boy who is a fifth generation legacy.

Let’s face it. This is a by-product of the sport selling its soul to television and becoming a mass media revenue source.

Surely there is no surprise in this. So get off your high horse and have some fun.

They are all OBNOXIOUS and that is part of the FUN!

You name callers should stop taking yourselves so seriously….Please.

If you want exclusivity……go to Yale.

By Honestly

August 21, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this

Mark, did the AJC pay you to write this idiocy? If so, you should really return this week’s paycheck. In addition to this being a modest collection of garbage, this “article” is not in the best interests of your employer. The AJC would like to be perceived as a regional or national publication. This kind of nonsense throws the AJC back to local status, only.

By UF

August 21, 2008 8:27 PM | Link to this

What schools have been in the top ten of All Sports Rankings the past 25 years? FLORIDA and UCLA

What SEC school has been accepted in the Association of American Universities (prestigous research organization) VANDY and UF

What is the order of SAT requirements to Enter VANDY, UF, UGA

What SEC school has most atheletes at olympics? UF

What is the highest ranked university in the most releveant college academic rankings? UF (Vandy is ahead but private)

Oh…2 BB Natl Champs, 2 FB Natl Champs and 2 Heisman winners

I wonder why we are most obnoxious at UF

Rest of SEC can make their jokes, but they arent in the elite group that UF competes (I will give some credence to UGA since it is pretty good school too)

By Tim Tebow

August 21, 2008 8:32 PM | Link to this

Please, can’t we all get along? It is what Jesus, my personal Lord and Saviour, who helped me win the Heisman Trophy last year, would want us to do.

And after much prayer, I have concluded Mark Bradley is a sheepf**cker and I do not want his Heisman vote. May we all have mercy on his soul, what is left of it. And pray for Terrence Moore, who authors columns and expresses opinions on TV without any personal regard to whether he believes in them, so long as he can say “Michael VicK” as many times as he can and advance his declining carrer.

May God bless you all.

By sam

August 21, 2008 8:38 PM | Link to this

Flip flop Auburn and LSU, and then flip flop Arky and TN, then your list is decent. I’d put LSU at #1 though. And #2 would be a DISTANT #2 behind LSU. Most LSU fans are just trash.

By act like you’re still in college.

August 21, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this

Mark, Good effort, but you missed the fact that most UGA fans never darkened a college room’s door. So it is not possible for them to act like they were STILL in college.

By Spurrier

August 21, 2008 8:43 PM | Link to this

WRONG-O! There are NONE more obnoxious than the UGA fans! The 21st Century version of THUG-U!

By KJ

August 21, 2008 8:51 PM | Link to this

A very drunk UGA fan hurled on my beautiful homecoming date’s outfit back in 1977

Puking on livestock just isn’t that big of a deal, IMO.

By Truth

August 21, 2008 8:56 PM | Link to this

UGA fans are THE worst. And a fair share of their players are thugs and hoodlums (see arrests in Clarke County, Georgia). How many THIS week?

By Bucky

August 21, 2008 9:04 PM | Link to this

Well, we know what topics fires folks up.

Here’s my take…

I’ve been to all the stadiums except Arkansas. Everyone has obnoxious fans. That’s what happens when way-to-intense passion and alcohol mix.

Technically I never ran into any obnoxious Vandy fans in all the times I’ve been there. And my time at UK was pretty pleasant although I had some rough UK fans sitting in front of me in another stadium once.

Aside from that, if you get around enough you have to agree, they are all over. In my 25 or so years of going to games, I’ve had my car rocked and beat on at Auburn. I’ve had strategically placed cow bells rung in my ear an unnecessary amount of time. I’ve had flags torn off my car and magnets stolen in Knoxville. I’ve had loud staggering drunkeness in my face in Athens and Baton Rouge and Tuscaloosa and Gainesville. Whiskey bottles pelting our section in Oxford. Cups from higher sections bombarding us like bombs in Auburn & Baton Rouge.

You just put that many people in an environment like that. It’s going to happen. You just have to mind your business and hope someone doesn’t get hurt.

You can’t really judge based on your individual experience because it all depends on the situation….how their season is going, who you happen to run itno, how you are acting, how your season is going, what hangs in the balance, what time of day it is, etc.

By Mark

August 21, 2008 9:11 PM | Link to this

LSU takes the cake here. It goes beyond obnoxious there. Those people are down right scary. I have been to Knoxville, jacksonville, Bama etc. LSU isnt obnoxious they’re cruel. Too bad we won anyway

By FSUBraves

August 21, 2008 9:16 PM | Link to this

Mississippi State fans are not too bad in terms of being pretty nice folks, but they are easily the most obnoxious with those damned cowbells they bring to games. Try sitting surrounded by idiots ringing cowbells with all their might while making barking sounds. It’s beyond obnoxious!

By jay bilkey

August 21, 2008 9:17 PM | Link to this

Mark, you are a true idiot…Visit all the stadiums, tailgates, and do some real homework before you write something like this. This is a genuine indication that you have nothing else worth while to write about and most of all, that college football season really needs to start NOW. Way to be creative Mary. Stick to something you know…like women’s bowling. Enjoy Van Halen!!!!

By Bama12x1

August 21, 2008 9:20 PM | Link to this

Hey, UF, Aug 21 8:27PM !!

Too bad they didn’t teach you how to spell…

prestigous atheletes releveant

…at that wonderful school of yours.

By jack ivey

August 21, 2008 9:22 PM | Link to this

Nobody is as obnoxious, exhibit poor sportsmanship as the Gators, They were as poor losers in the 60, 70,80, 90s as they are winners.In the SE, their called Johnny come as of late. Arrogant, nasty and rude, whatever the record.

By Max Berean

August 21, 2008 9:24 PM | Link to this

Want to see College educated people act like a fool? Go to a SEC game or have a newspaper ask the readers to rank which SEC team has the most obnoxious fans!

I’m for sure some of the people posting are just having fun, but for the most part, I truly believe most are dead serious. How many of you here who are in a position to hire someone, have actually turned down someone because you hate the school that they attended?

By 2N4YEARS

August 21, 2008 9:27 PM | Link to this

“By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

Far be it from me to defend any Gator, but isn’t this jean shorts thing getting old?” YEAH, that’s the point, Mark; they went out-of-style years ago. And I could not help but notice your bias; TENN ranked 7th??!! All of those Orange Flags, Oramge shirts,106K Orange-clad fans singing that ole red-neck song ‘Rocky-top’, and you rank them 7th??!! TENN is THE worst, with FLA a close 2nd, then S.Car,AU,UGA (I’m also a UGA fan),ALA,MissSt,Ark,LSU,KY,Miss & Vandy.

By Bulldog Bill

August 21, 2008 9:35 PM | Link to this

Every SEC team has it’s freaks. Some have better freaks than others. Absolutely NO other team has freaks that compare to LSU. I’ll never forget the belly dancer at the SEC championship, 2003, I think. This guy was stinking drunk and dressed head-to-toe in full belly dancer regalia. Make no mistake; the guy didn’t have the body for it!!! He must have had an entourage of some 50 people following him around.

Auburn fans have always been most gracious. Kentucky fans just seem to be deeply steeped in reality. They, like Vandy fans, really have nothing to be obnoxious about.

Gotta give Clemson fans credit. They’re not just bad losers; they are also sorry winners. i can remember trying to leave Death Valley after a loss and having Clemson people get in your face begging you to take a swing.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 9:38 PM | Link to this

I once saw Urban Meyer address a Gator gathering in a ballroom at the Cobb Galleria, and he was wearing shorts. But they weren’t jean shorts.

By nelson

August 21, 2008 9:38 PM | Link to this

Pretty spot on, Mark. And even though what you write is correct, I’d still move Bama up to 3.

By Mark C

August 21, 2008 10:05 PM | Link to this

Based on my experience, which goes back for three decades, some of these are accurate and some are not. First, as a Georgia graduate, I will plead guilty to behaving badly in my younger days. More recently, I will admit to having been embarrassed by the behavior of other Georgia fans. I also spent a year of graduate school at the University of Florida, and those folks do take the prize for most obnoxious. I have also attended games at Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Auburn. I have to stand up for the Auburn fans, or at least those of many years ago. They were very hospitable despite my being a less than gracious guest. The Kentucky fans, at least in years past, have been pleasantly disinterested. Vanderbilt fans were likewise disinterested, but a little more snooty and condescending. (I am privileged to say that, as I also hold a graduate degree from Vanderbilt.) Tennessee fans are a rowdy bunch, a little rough around the edges but at least tolerable. I, too, enjoy “Rocky Top,” but I prefer the Osborne Brothers’ version.

By Mark C

August 21, 2008 10:07 PM | Link to this

Based on my experience, which goes back for three decades, some of these are accurate and some are not. First, as a Georgia graduate, I will plead guilty to behaving badly in my younger days. More recently, I will admit to having been embarrassed by the behavior of other Georgia fans. I also spent a year of graduate school at the University of Florida, and those folks do take the prize for most obnoxious. I have also attended games at Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Auburn. I have to stand up for the Auburn fans, or at least those of many years ago. They were very hospitable despite my being a less than gracious guest. The Kentucky fans, at least in years past, have been pleasantly disinterested. Vanderbilt fans were likewise disinterested, but a little more snooty and condescending. (I am privileged to say that, as I also hold a graduate degree from Vanderbilt.) Tennessee fans are a rowdy bunch, a little rough around the edges but at least tolerable. I, too, enjoy “Rocky Top,” but I prefer the Osborne Brothers’ version.

By Mark C

August 21, 2008 10:08 PM | Link to this

Based on my experience, which goes back for three decades, some of these are accurate and some are not. First, as a Georgia graduate, I will plead guilty to behaving badly in my younger days. More recently, I will admit to having been embarrassed by the behavior of other Georgia fans. I also spent a year of graduate school at the University of Florida, and those folks do take the prize for most obnoxious. I have also attended games at Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Auburn. I have to stand up for the Auburn fans, or at least those of many years ago. They were very hospitable despite my being a less than gracious guest. The Kentucky fans, at least in years past, have been pleasantly disinterested. Vanderbilt fans were likewise disinterested, but a little more snooty and condescending. (I am privileged to say that, as I also hold a graduate degree from Vanderbilt.) Tennessee fans are a rowdy bunch, a little rough around the edges but at least tolerable. I, too, enjoy “Rocky Top,” but I prefer the Osborne Brothers’ version.

By Mark C

August 21, 2008 10:08 PM | Link to this

Based on my experience, which goes back for three decades, some of these are accurate and some are not. First, as a Georgia graduate, I will plead guilty to behaving badly in my younger days. More recently, I will admit to having been embarrassed by the behavior of other Georgia fans. I also spent a year of graduate school at the University of Florida, and those folks do take the prize for most obnoxious. I have also attended games at Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Auburn. I have to stand up for the Auburn fans, or at least those of many years ago. They were very hospitable despite my being a less than gracious guest. The Kentucky fans, at least in years past, have been pleasantly disinterested. Vanderbilt fans were likewise disinterested, but a little more snooty and condescending. (I am privileged to say that, as I also hold a graduate degree from Vanderbilt.) Tennessee fans are a rowdy bunch, a little rough around the edges but at least tolerable. I, too, enjoy “Rocky Top,” but I prefer the Osborne Brothers’ version.

By red and black

August 21, 2008 10:08 PM | Link to this

GaterGirl-Your fans are the biggest losers here in fl.they run over fsu mailboxes and steal bulldog magnets of our trucks.They suck in the fact they dont know UGA colers are red and black and they think those colers belong to fsu.They dont know that UGA is in athens not atlanta.They can only count to 17,the number of years UF has been playing football{atleast thats their story.}They are ignorant in not knowing UF has been loosing at football since 1904.It took 51 years to get ranked.It took 88 years to get a sec title.It took 92 years to get a nt………In US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT-Ga NOT Uf was ranked in the top 100 schools, in 5 categoriess,in the usa,Uf was only ranked once.Sorry to burst UF’S bubble.I live in cen.fl,and i know how far the apple falls from the retard tree.

By EvesPlumb

August 21, 2008 10:14 PM | Link to this

UGA wears red because….it matches their rednecks,of course.

By Villa Rica DAWG

August 21, 2008 10:17 PM | Link to this

Go You Hairy Postmen:

Okay, I have one order of fries for you. How about your little hobbit friend? Oh, I see you are feeding him something else already.

By the way, did I mention I can see the nerds practicing from my office window? I gotta say, their practice jerseys look better than their new game day ones. That’s freaking sad…

By AtlMike

August 21, 2008 10:21 PM | Link to this

Wrong! Tennessee, LSU and South Carolina are worse. And outside the SEC, georgia tech has the most obnoxious fans in all of college football. You would think they would be used to losing by now. To HELL with tech!

By Bama12x1

August 21, 2008 10:23 PM | Link to this

On ganeday your just going to run into all kinds no matter where you are….good and bad.

But what is it with Auburn folks and their holier-than-thou attitude toward everything? Have you been there? It isn’t pretty. They’ve won, what, the same amount of SEC titles as Tulane and Tech? They have 1 national title. They’ve been on probation literally more than any other school except for SMU. The constant reference to the Auburn ‘family’ makes me ill. How was that tight knit family when your athletic dept was trying to hire Petrino when Tuberville was still coaching away? Or how about that family when you turned on Terry Bowden and made him out to be the devil in no time flat? They talk about how tight they are….they are no different than anyone else.

I know also that if I wasn’t a Bama fan, hearing about the history of UA football would get old quick, but there’s nothing more irritating in my opinion than someone who poses to be someone they aren’t and to me Auburn fans almost seem like a propaganda machine of a communist country or fascist regime in the way they present themselves and the (say it like a brainwashed zombie) ‘Loveliest Village on the Plain’.

An example, straight out of their media guide (really, go check)….Does anyone truly believe the whole War Eagle story, btw? I don’t doubt that some guy possibly even an actual student, had an eagle somehow, and he may have brought it to games and it may have bcome a typical sight that people got used to, but the rest of it???? Come on! For those that don’t know. This is what those bozos claim. The guy found the eagle while fighting with Robert E Lee (of course). It was the worst day of fighting (of course) and he got wounded and the only other living thing in sight (of course)was a wounded (of course) baby (of course) eagle (because an older eagle just doesn’t tug at your heart as much I suppose) and he nursed it back to health (of course). At the very first Auburn football game (of course) to start the South’s oldest contiuous rivalry (of course) which was also called ‘the game of the century’ (of course), Auburn scored their very first touchdown in their history(of course). At that moment (of course) as if it knew, the eagle broke free and soared above the field (of course). The Auburn fans (I’m sure they meant to call them family in the media guide) recognized the eagle and shouted ‘war eagle!’ [THIS IS THE GOOD PART] At the end of the game which Auburn won 10-0 (of course), the eagle collapsed and died ‘presumably having given his all in pursuit of victory for Auburn’(of course). He may have died that day but his ‘spirit lives forever in the hearts of Auburn people’(I’m sure they meant family, here, of course).

Just an example.

By Donna Outlaw

August 21, 2008 10:24 PM | Link to this

Bags of p* thrown at you from the upper decks at LSU? A gator fan rolled down a hill in a porta-potty at LSU? Both of those are bull and there is no way security would allow anything to be thrown from the uppert decks. The upper decks are mostly older people anyway there with their children and you are full of it to even try to say something like that. All 5 games you went to it happened? Please! Anyone stupid enough to believe is as ignorant as that comment. Anyone who has truly been to LSU games and has acted in an adult manner has had the same given in return even when we trade rivalry exchanges. Of course, if you want to come here and start sh, you WILLL get the same in return if you’re not arrrested first. The cops are ALL over the place before, during and after the games directing traffic and making sure no one gets too unruly. I go to 4-5 home games a year and have been since the mid 60’s and I’ve never witnessed anything close to what you say happened to you. Wake up from your dream.

By lsuistheworst

August 21, 2008 10:28 PM | Link to this

Dude,

you are totally wrong on LSU fans. During my trips to that craphole called “Red Stick” I have personally seen vehicles set on fire (Auburn Fan’s Van) and Portable toilets with fans in them tipped over (UGA fan. How great would that trip be? I went several years back to an LSU game when they beat Florida and I personally witnessed some punk flipping the bird and talking trash to a Florida fan that appeared to be in her sixties. My friend, there are no fans that have less class than those that dwell in Baton Rouge…That I can asssure you. On a side note, LSU fans are also some of the most fairweather in the country. I remember when they sucked back in the 90’s (I spent a couple of my HS years living in Baton Rouge) people would give you tickets for free and there were only like 60k in the stadium…Truly a pathetic bunch.

By Tusk

August 21, 2008 10:33 PM | Link to this

Hey AtlMike,

You found a Tech fan?

By kibby

August 21, 2008 10:33 PM | Link to this

a complete waste of print. find something better to write about.

By Donna Outlaw

August 21, 2008 10:39 PM | Link to this

I (LSU) don’t know where anyone would get that we don’t like Alabama because they “stole” our coach. We are VERY happy with Les Miles who has more class in his pinky than Saban has in his entire body. As for Auburn,UGA is running strong for 1st place since last season and during the 15 years I lived near Atlanta, UGA fans were mostly nice, nothing like they are now. I’m still laughing at someone wanting anyone to believe the 5 times they were in Tiger Stadium they got pi** thrown on them from the upper deck.

By missB 2U

August 21, 2008 10:49 PM | Link to this

bama 12x1 “on ganeday”? you did go to uat, huh?

By Hog Fan

August 21, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this

On Hog fans being ranked #5 most obnoxious because of FOI’ing Houston Nutt’s cell phone records on his University of Arkansas-issued cell phone.

Don’t worry. Trying that with Bobby Petrino won’t be necessary.

Bobby Petrino is not dumb enough to run off the top-ranked QB prospect in the nation along with a blue-chip receiver through petty behavior typically found only on kindergarten playgrounds.

By JP

August 21, 2008 10:59 PM | Link to this

I’ve been to every SEC stadium. I think LSU fans are the best. They’ll invite you to tailgate, and they have the best food. There’s really no experiece like it. There are some jerks, but every team has them. If you don’t believe me you should go to Omaha. Those people freaking love LSU fans. Florida fans are annoying as all hell when they do the chomp. Alabama fans talk s** with absolutely nothing to back it up with. Georgia fans are the most obnoxious.

By colonel

August 21, 2008 11:12 PM | Link to this

It’s close between Georgia and Florida, but for longevity, it’s Florida hands down. They showed no class in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s or ’90s. Can’t expect it in the 21st century.

By colonel

August 21, 2008 11:12 PM | Link to this

It’s close between Georgia and Florida, but for longevity, it’s Florida hands down. They showed no class in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s or ’90s. Can’t expect it in the 21st century.

By colonel

August 21, 2008 11:12 PM | Link to this

It’s close between Georgia and Florida, but for longevity, it’s Florida hands down. They showed no class in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s or ’90s. Can’t expect it in the 21st century.

By colonel

August 21, 2008 11:12 PM | Link to this

It’s close between Georgia and Florida, but for longevity, it’s Florida hands down. They showed no class in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s or ’90s. Can’t expect it in the 21st century.

By colonel

August 21, 2008 11:12 PM | Link to this

It’s close between Georgia and Florida, but for longevity, it’s Florida hands down. They showed no class in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s or ’90s. Can’t expect it in the 21st century.

By colonel

August 21, 2008 11:12 PM | Link to this

It’s close between Georgia and Florida, but for longevity, it’s Florida hands down. They showed no class in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s or ’90s. Can’t expect it in the 21st century.

By Rob H

August 21, 2008 11:22 PM | Link to this

That you ranked LSU in the bottom half of your list shows how uninvolved you have been in SEC football. I stopped reading when I saw LSU ranked #8. You have no clue what you’re talking about.

By ryan

August 21, 2008 11:43 PM | Link to this

The Gator Flop was in 1971.

The Bulldog have flopped 12 of the last 15 years, and it wasn’t so Stafford could go back out and try to get his completion percentage above 50%.

AJC has Gator’s #1 because fans tend to gloat when they win.

By eric

August 22, 2008 12:04 AM | Link to this

GO GATORS!!!

By terry

August 22, 2008 12:21 AM | Link to this

I have had the most fun at LSU. Every school has idiots but they will take you in as their own, feed you, drink you, take you into their different customs that they have down there which is different than any other SEC school I have been to. It was sort of like being in a different world but in a good way. Places like that are what make the SEC different and fun. Wouldn’t have it any other way.

By wreckmaniac

August 22, 2008 12:25 AM | Link to this

Ridiculous. GA has had this title since 1940. No contest. Auburn and Tenn fans are super. After being #1 in recruiting, UGA fans want to be the #1 asses not only in the SEC but in the country and they win it hands down. Winning a nat champ is irrelevant to them.

By wreckmaniac

August 22, 2008 12:43 AM | Link to this

Does this mean that the biggest bunch of jerks in one college game stadium at one time is the yearly UGA-FL jerkfest ? Maybe the president needs to send the national guard to this game.

By wreckmaniac

August 22, 2008 12:43 AM | Link to this

Does this mean that the biggest bunch of jerks in one college game stadium at one time is the yearly UGA-FL jerkfest ? Maybe the president needs to send the national guard to this game.

By wreckmaniac

August 22, 2008 12:52 AM | Link to this

Does this mean that the biggest bunch of jerks in any college game stadium at one time is the UGA-FL jerkfest in J’ville? Maybe the truth is that UGA fans just can’t drink. Now I know why they all take busses or thumb to the game.

By Steve

August 22, 2008 1:57 AM | Link to this

Mark, you are a complete “Thuga” homer and you have no clue as to SEC football and its fans. Georgia has the most obnoxious fans in the SEC and 9/10 of them never darkened the door of the university. Alabama is close behind and most of them still think Elvis and The Bear are returning soon. LSU fans burn vehicles and rock the buses of the opposing teams. The fans at South Carolina and Auburn are the best in the SEC. Maybe you ought to stick to writing about Kentucky basketball and tell Terrence Moore he can go back to Notre Dame anytime and he won’t be missed.

By Apology not accepted

August 22, 2008 3:31 AM | Link to this

So a writer for the Atlanta paper thinks Florida’s fans are the most obnoxious. Are Gators supposed to feel bad about this? Because I think it’s pretty freakin’ great!

By UGASlobberknocker

August 22, 2008 3:48 AM | Link to this

If responses are an indicator of the quality of the column..Bradley, this is the column of the year.

Seriously, I’m not crazy about your point of view most of the time, but this was a home run and pretty darn accurate if I so myself as a semi obnoxious Dawg fan (I bark but I do drink responsibly) Your comment below is priceless. out of 765 responses, I see about 733 obnoxious people, you see happy readers.

By Mark Bradley

August 21, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

I’d like to thank all who have taken the time to read and respond, and I want you to know that I don’t find any of you obnoxious

By Barnack Frombama

August 22, 2008 3:57 AM | Link to this

Most college fans, expecially here in alabama and georgia, never went to college. Most are indeed SIDEWALK ALUMNI. I know people in Mobile who are Tide fans that have never been to Tuscaloosa! I know people in Macon, Ga. who are Ga. fans who have never set foot in Athens. Other than the students who are expected to be obnoxious, the sidewal alumni are the worst. Its always We did this or that when the team wins. When the team loses its always They did this or that.

Sidewalk alumni simply need to be NFL fans since they have no affiliation with any school.

Be sure to vote for BARAC for President. He’ll make sure we have a Koran in every pot.

By JJ the Jet Plane

August 22, 2008 4:04 AM | Link to this

Where did Terrence Moore matriculate? I guess what I don’t like about TM is the fact that he hates anyone WHITE. Case in point is the continued marginal to bad press he gives to Matt Ryan.

Terrence needs to be a paper boy and not a sports columnist.

By Allen

August 22, 2008 4:14 AM | Link to this

I remember a few years back a Gator fan was killed after they beat LSU in Baton Rouge one Saturday Night. Very polite.

By Jay

August 22, 2008 4:44 AM | Link to this

Obviously you did not watch the UF/UGA game last year. There was no Gator flop; it was, a young and pourous defense. If you are going to write, at least get your facts straight… . and I hate Rocky Top and wish I never heard it again … and why do a bunch of rednecks sing about drinking moonshine at a football game - because they’re rednecks.

By Eric

August 22, 2008 5:00 AM | Link to this

Gator flop? Keep an eye on this years game.

By Tim Scott

August 22, 2008 6:13 AM | Link to this

BEING A GATOR FAN I THANK YOU FOR PUTTING US NUM 1. PRIOR TO THE 90’S AND SOS I THINK IT WAS PAUL FINEBAUM THAT SAID FLORIDA FAN HAD THE ARROGANCE OF ALABAMA AND THE TRADDITION OF VANDY. AS FOR THE FLOP YES WE DID AND I AM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER. AND THERE ARE STILL UM FANS THAT HATE US FOR THAT SINGLE ACT. AS FOR LAST YRS ACT BY CLASSLESS M RICHT. WELL YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT PAY BACK.

By Tim Scott

August 22, 2008 6:15 AM | Link to this

BEING A GATOR FAN I THANK YOU FOR PUTTING US NUM 1. PRIOR TO THE 90’S AND SOS I THINK IT WAS PAUL FINEBAUM THAT SAID FLORIDA FAN HAD THE ARROGANCE OF ALABAMA AND THE TRADDITION OF VANDY. AS FOR THE FLOP YES WE DID AND I AM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER. AND THERE ARE STILL UM FANS THAT HATE US FOR THAT SINGLE ACT. AS FOR LAST YRS ACT BY CLASSLESS M RICHT. WELL YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT PAY BACK.

By Dolemite64

August 22, 2008 6:47 AM | Link to this

UGA sucks!!!! You’all always think you have a National Championship Team. Wake up Dawgs Herschel is gone, the 80’s are over…LOL!! I just want you’all to drop 1 game, I would love that, but I’m predicting 2 loses for UGA hopefully spoiling any Championship hopes.

By John

August 22, 2008 6:49 AM | Link to this

the funniest fans are Vol fans who wear overalls to the games in 90 degree weather and UGA chicks who look like they are going to a Vegas nightclub in dresses. This is a football game. REDNECKS!!!

By Danny

August 22, 2008 6:49 AM | Link to this

Having attended a game in Athens as an opposing fan, I concur with the bashing of UGA fans.

Before the game, most UGA fans were nice and a bit humble while the game was in doubt.

Once the game became Georgia’s and especially after the UGA win, Bulldog fans became swaggering boors with plenty of stupid, redneck comments. Not all UGA fans, just enough to ruin my pre-game image of Bulldog fans.

I still like Athens, but it only takes a few jerks to make an lasting impression.

By Danny

August 22, 2008 6:49 AM | Link to this

Having attended a game in Athens as an opposing fan, I concur with the bashing of UGA fans.

Before the game, most UGA fans were nice and a bit humble while the game was in doubt.

Once the game became Georgia’s and especially after the UGA win, Bulldog fans became swaggering boors with plenty of stupid, redneck comments. Not all UGA fans, just enough to ruin my pre-game image of Bulldog fans.

I still like Athens, but it only takes a few jerks to make an lasting impression.

By Dan

August 22, 2008 6:54 AM | Link to this

bradley everyone knows your dislike for the gators. Just like most who aren’t fans of the NY Yankees despise them due to their success the same with the Gators. If the Gators haven’t been so successful you wouldn’t be so angry. I think you should use your anger in other way rather than writing immature blogs like this.

By Mike

August 22, 2008 7:01 AM | Link to this

UGA fans like Bradley making fun of what people at UF wear? UGA fans are Rednecks and shop at cheap clothing stores. Cmon down to Fort Lauderdale Bradley where much of the UF alumni is based. We will take you to Bal Harbour etc and show you what fashion is about. For now you and Richt can wear those fashionable gas station sunglasses( don’t forget the strap to hold them on like the rednecks do)

By Curtis Lovelace

August 22, 2008 7:17 AM | Link to this

The only reason you do not mind hearing Rocky Top so many times during the game is that the Bulldog band can only play one song also. I used to get tired of hearing played in the 80’s because it was played after every score. In the 90’s you went to playing it after every first down because you scored so infrequently. Now you play it after everything over a 3 yd gain just so you won’t forget the notes. Please stay number 1 until you come to Jax

By chief

August 22, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

are you sure you’ve ever been to a game at Tiger stadium and watched the LSU fans p** in the sinks.

By dawgfan

August 22, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

I am sorry, but have you ever really been to UT? Because they will not even serve you unless you are wearing orange! It is terrible up there! And LSU, come on! They are the worst of all! They set an Auburn tiger’s tail on fire after they won!! Give me a break!

By Ryan

August 22, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

A word of caution to all you Dawg fans who say Gators fans wear jean shorts and mullets; At the Cocktail Party this year count how many fans are done up in these. Guaranteed it will be 5 to 1 Dawgs that are sportin’ this look. You are and always will be our b***!

By daniel

August 22, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

Has this guy ever been to Baton Rouge??? I have heard horror stories of their fans shaking team buses before games and not to mention the only team to have streakers, yes streakers, during the game. I am a Bama fan, but this guy really has no clue. LSU should be #1 for sure!

By brent a.

August 22, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

I’m a Kentuckian by birth, and a Georgian for several years, and yes, both make me hate Tennessee.

Mr. Bradley and I have a lot in common (both UK alums), but I just can’t find common ground with him on this one.

By Dawg fan from Hpevlle

August 22, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

i dint no Mark bratley, deep down his fat @*s, is the Gaytors fan. he no like Ga dogs so what? as Ga fan like me, if we loos 12 games in a row m still a Ga fan, de are still my #1 team i the nation..so wat yall? one thing i know for sure Dawgs will beat Gaytors this year… Go Dawgs!!!

By PopeVanIII

August 22, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

What’s wrong, Mark, were you denied admission to a real school (Vanderbilt) and left with no other option than enrolling in Hillbilly U?

By Red Roosterette

August 22, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

I believe this funny and full of energy blog has led to one thought: ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? It looks like all of us ready for our traditional Saturday game day. Throw out the stats, preseason rankings and bring it on. The SEC in 2008 will be even more memorable than in 2007! 5 more days ‘til our first a…s kicking with NC State. Everyone else has to be ready for theirs! Our time of year has arrived - let the games begin!!!

By Bren

August 22, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

Mark,

I love your work. This article, however, from beginning to end, is weak. What happened?

By Villa Rica DAWG

August 22, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

Red Roosterette:

Girl, you ain’t lyin’. Let’s play some football!

I can’t believe I am going to be rooting for Spurier come Thursday night…

By BigEazy

August 22, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Barnhardt spent 5 minutes reading these comments, and knew he made the right decision.

By josh

August 22, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

this is possibly the worst article i have ever read…like seriously. it is hard to handle a coon a* or an auburn fan. get a new job mark bradley, you suck.

By You can't be serious

August 22, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

a coon?

Are you serious?

By LACock

August 22, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

As a USC Trojan fan living in Atlanta I have to say that the coolest fans I’ve come across are Tennessee. I always make sure to compliment their team because the Vols were scheduling big time outer conference games with Pac 10 teams and other big time programs while Georgia and Florida were beating up The Citadel. Believe it or not the Tennessee fan base did travel out to California and enjoyed alot of interesting tailgaiting from what I’ve read on blogs with the Cal fans. Just wish as a Southern California fan I could of said the same thing when we went to Auburn in 03. They were worst than UCLA fans, I really felt like I was in a third world country with some of the passing comments I heard while tailgaiting. We had 40 year old Moms swearing at us and saying we were ruining the country with or “west coast liberal attitudes” and that we were to blame for her daughter dressing like a slut! I was like, “This is a football game lady!” Which she responded that I sounded like Keeanu Reeves and that we needed to leave Alabama. I didn’t want to believe all the stereotyping thats excepted as truth about the south but Auburn fans made it real hard. After the game I saw a drunk Auburn frat boy pour his beer all over a little girl from California. Her Dad was all over the guy and when security showed up they were giving the Dad more grief than the Auburn fan. F******* i n g sad.

By truedawg

August 22, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

I think its funny first of all the way all you guys talk about Georgia and how they should be #1……to me obnoxious and passionate are two different things…..and as a graduate of the University of Georgia, what is the problem with fans that didnt go there being fans……..If im not mistaken i dont think there is a rule that says you have to graduate from the school to be a fan!!!! I guess since its so easy to graduate from all these other lower tier programs, you think that your not suppose to route for your favorite team…..I didnt play for the falcons or the Braves but i am still fans of both!!! Not really sure the reasoning behind that!!! GO DAWGS!!!!

By truedawg

August 22, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

I think its funny first of all the way all you guys talk about Georgia and how they should be #1……to me obnoxious and passionate are two different things…..and as a graduate of the University of Georgia, what is the problem with fans that didnt go there being fans……..If im not mistaken i dont think there is a rule that says you have to graduate from the school to be a fan!!!! I guess since its so easy to graduate from all these other lower tier programs, you think that your not suppose to route for your favorite team…..I didnt play for the falcons or the Braves but i am still fans of both!!! Not really sure the reasoning behind that!!! GO DAWGS!!!!

By Steve

August 22, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

The rankings from a man who wears his wife panties at night. LMAO at this stupid cross dressing redneck.

By g8tr45

August 22, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

Dear Bark Madly

You, sir, are a turd.

Love, a Sports Fan

By g8tr45

August 22, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

Dear Bark Madly

You, sir, are a turd.

Love, a Sports Fan

By Clay

August 22, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

You’re pretty on with most of your comments. I’m a Gator fan and we do deserve to be in the top 2. You did blow it on LSU though. My family is from Baton Rouge and I’ve been to over 40 LSU games and they are the worst of the worst, and its not just because they’ve won the past few years, they were just as bad back when they sucked. I’ve seen 2 grown men tease a boy who couldn’t have been over 13 till he cried because he was wearing the wrong jersey. I’ve seen a woman sitting with 2 young children (also in the wrong jerseys) hit in the head with an empty bourbon bottle. When LSU and OU played in New Orleans a few years back I saw cars with rocks and other things through the windows because they had OU written on them. Just how long have you covered the SEC because LSU fans have been notorious for decades. I think you were just to scared to list them higher because you know they’d put a rock through your car window or throw empty bourbon bottles at your head.

By ColumbusSECFan

August 22, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

Here is how I see the SEC:

1) Florida - the worst by far! Think the own UGA and the world. Don’t realize UGA owns the record. Overrated by far. The gator chomp thing looks retarded.

2) LSU - rude and cocky. Think because they won a couple NC’s they are SEC kings. Purple is just plain gay.

3) UGA - very classy and fratastic. Kids dress well, smart, like to party, and then party more.

4) Auburn - like UGA in my opinion. Very loyal but confused on their mascot.

5) Alabama - look to the past wayyyyy too much. Rude and always talking crap. Bunch of rednecks

6) Tennessee - hillbillies….nothing more to say

Everyone else in the SEC are these teams whipping posts!

By bama_12titles

August 22, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

he got it way wrong on LSU so now we know he had some obvious bias against other teams. I went with an Auburn fan to LSU and their fans were the absolute worst. They damaged and vandalized Auburn fans cars, spat on people, threw bottles at people, these are some truly nasty people. From what I’ve heard Florida fans are second and maybe even some Florida fans would agree with you on that. They tend to be very in your face. I don’t understand how he put auburn fans up there. I’m a Bama fan and have never had a problem with Auburn fans except for one time. And I’ll even admit that I can see why some fans would put Bama fans in the top 5 but as much as we hate Auburn I just have never had any bad experiences with Auburn fans except for once. I think Bradley got it wrong and his bias kinda shows. He put Fla. and Aurn 1 and 2 because those are UGAs biggest rivals. He felt like he had to put UGA up there to appear to not be biased. And of course he put Bama up there because he just loves to hate on the tide. That’s okay though. I understand because everyone loves to hate on Bama because of its tradition and historical dominance whether its deserved or not. But he really screwed up on LSU and I think most people who’ve even been there or who have friends that have gone there would agree.

By Abarn with a lake

August 22, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Wait…a Kentucky guy opining about football?

…..o…..k………

By CEG

August 22, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

Most of us at LSU take pride in being labeled the most rude and obnoxious fans in the SEC. We love our Tigers down here in Baton Rouge and believe there is nothing wrong with screwing around with a few opposing fans, but not nearly to the extreme yall are talking about. I am p** on you while you are passed out but I will help you get up when Iam finished.

By Gene

August 22, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

Fans can be rabid about their team, but relatively decent to their opponents. I think LSU fans are out of their minds over their own team but not hostile or ill mannered to their rivals. I think Auburn fans are similar. I recall TN fans hanging out where the UGA team was staying and keeping them awake all night. That’s tacky. The tackiest of all are Georgia fans. How many coaches have sent their team to frolic in the end zone or allowed them to dance on the sidelines during a game. The worst display I have seen in college sports was in the 1990’s in Athens when Georgia fans pelted their own team with ice and bottles after a loss. That is real class!

By Mark Bradley

August 22, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

Let me say it yet again: I’m willing to concede that my impressions might not dovetail with everyone — or even anyone — else’s. But these are indeed my impressions, and I have indeed attended at least one conference game at every single conference school, and I have indeed lived in the Southeast all my life. And I’m 52.

By tim

August 22, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

I think you’re nuts. I have been several times to Starkville and those crazy red-necks WITH the ref’s knowledge bring in those rediculous cowbells and if you’ve ever bneewn therem, then you know the ringing never stops at the game- but about 2-3 days later. No “artificial noise makers” only applies to the rest of the SEC, not to State. I’m not sure how you see it, but blatant breaking of the rules by fanes, not players or coaches is what makes them so obnioxious to me. It’s their attitude of snubbing the rules and it’s only exacerbated by the fact that the officials nor school admin does anything about it. And unlike Georgia who piled on in the end zone lest year and received a penalty, they have never, to mu knowldge, rewceived one yet for flagrantly breaking the rules. Now I know that at different SEC schools there is bad sportsmanship, throwing bottles after the game is over- Bama, Aubrun, UGA, TN, etc, but even then it is investigated and people are charged. Why is ti that State seems to beabove the law and ther rules of the SEC- It’s their fans- eithert they cannot read, they cannot comprehend, or theyare just stubbornly being obnoxious. Well, which one is it ?

By Gatorfan and proud of it!

August 22, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

You’re such an idiot Mark Bradley. Gator fans aren’t that obnoxoius. I will admit that some Gator faithfull can get a little out of hand. Now Georgia fans on the other end are some of the most obnoxious people there are. Like i said SOME, not all of any fanbase are obnoxious.

By Gene

August 22, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

These are all subjective, Mark, and based on fans’ experience. My brother, who is perhaps the most obnoxious Auburn fan on earth, sat with Michigan fans at the bowl game a few years ago, and he thought they were the best fans he had encountered. I doubt if they thought the same of him. It is a shame that all football fans can’t applaud good performance and sportsmanship and treat each other with respect. I think ML baseball fans are more inclined to do this—particularly SL, Cubs, and Cinci fans, in my experience, and Braves fans are not bad. Auburn fans booed their QB last year, which was bad. Throwing ice at their own team remains the worst thing I have personally seen in college football, and I am a UGA graduate.

By George

August 22, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. Mr. Bradley you have showed your true colors once again. This is a joke right? Uga # 3 and LSU # 8??? How bout UGA number one in the ENTIRE COUNTRY and LSU in the top 5 in the ENTIRE COUNTRY. Please I beg you please find me an overall worse fan base and more obnoxious, annoying bunch of whining a***** than the dawg nation. Get a clue. Every year the entire country has to listen to the dawg nation tell everyone how they are a year or two away and every year the dawg nation comes up with the most comical excuses on the planet. No other team in the country charges the endzone after touchdowns or stomps on the logo of one of the worst teams in your own conference. It goes all the way from the players to the fans to all the way up. The only person with class in the entire organization is coach Richt. Regarding Auburn you are so ignorant it is amazing. Maybe they wont shut up because the Iron bowl is the biggest rivarly in all of college football and one of the biggest in all of sports. Maybe if you as a Georgia fan could experience something like that you would understand sir. And dont try to tell me that GA-FL comes close bc it does not even compare. And by the way you talk about when Bama used to dominate Auburn the way Auburn is Bama now. When was the last time Bama won 6 iron bowls in a row???????????????????????????????????

By tom

August 22, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

this has got to be one of the most bias articles i have ever seen

By JT

August 22, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

Pull a name out of hat. LSU fans get drunk and urinate on themselves and each other. Auburn fans retrieve dirty toilet paper from their septic tanks and toss it into a tree on goober’s corner. Florida fans are arrogant in a girlie way.

Who is to say one group is more obnoxious than another?

By Mark Bradley

August 22, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this

Since you asked, Alabama won nine consecutive Iron Bowls from 1973 through 1981.

By Ken

August 22, 2008 7:23 PM | Link to this

As a Gator I can’t disagree but these rankings should run side by side with another catagory, mean & nasty.

SC fans are some of the nicest in the SEC and you have to remember that many Gator grads are local because they choose to live and work in Florida. The other schools are in crappy places, get your sheepskin and get out of town!!!

By Ken

August 22, 2008 7:25 PM | Link to this

As a Gator I can’t disagree but these rankings should run side by side with another catagory, mean & nasty.

SC fans are some of the nicest in the SEC and you have to remember that many Gator grads are local because they choose to live and work in Florida. The other schools are in crappy places, get your sheepskin and get out of town!!!

By Ken

August 22, 2008 7:25 PM | Link to this

As a Gator I can’t disagree but these rankings should run side by side with another catagory, mean & nasty.

SC fans are some of the nicest in the SEC and you have to remember that many Gator grads are local because they choose to live and work in Florida. The other schools are in crappy places, get your sheepskin and get out of town!!!

By wayne

August 22, 2008 7:30 PM | Link to this

What an incompetent writer. What a ridiculous topic. Every school has out of line fans. The worst fans are the ones whose team may have beaten our team that particular day and then it stays in our minds for a while. Get this Mr. Bradley, the SEC has the best fans in the country. Thank you for succeding in giving a forum for the worst of the worst comments…It all started with your article. You shouldn’t approach a topic like this unless you can truly be objective.Go SEC. Go Gators.

By GATOR

August 22, 2008 7:40 PM | Link to this

Yaaaaaaawwwwnnnnnn …

By Ed

August 22, 2008 8:01 PM | Link to this

UF, you must be very young, because Florida fans were widely considered to be obnoxious long before they won squat. In fact, they haven’t changed a bit.

Here’s a trivia question: what charter member of the SEC took the longest to win a conference championship? Here’s a hint: IT TOOK 59 YEARS. Five-Nine, count ‘em.

Not winning a conference championship from Hoover to Bush 41 should forever bar you from trash talking. Throw in two major probations that almost resulted in the death penalty in ‘89 and a trail of fired coaches, and the UF football legacy isn’t much to brag about. It will take more than recent success to change that.

And as far as your academic prowess, why is it that only Florida people talk about what a great academic institution UF is? I don’t hear anyone else saying that. People from all over the country recognize the Ivy League schools, Vandy, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, etc. Among public schools, everyone recognizes Texas, Michigan, Cal, UNC, UCLA, etc. I never hear anyone mention Florida in that class. Not even close.

Your academic superiority is a figment of your imagination, and just one more reason why so many find Gator fans to be the most obnoxious.

By William Hall

August 22, 2008 8:09 PM | Link to this

What a jerk!

By William Hall

August 22, 2008 8:09 PM | Link to this

What a jerk!

By William Hall

August 22, 2008 8:10 PM | Link to this

What a jerk!

By Ed

August 22, 2008 8:12 PM | Link to this

I couldn’t let this pass without comment…

“DAN” compared UF to the NY Yankees. Once I stopped laughing, I had to note that the Yankees started winning big in the 1920s and continued on or off until this decade. About the only schools that compare to the Yankees would be Notre Dame and Alabama.

It took Florida almost 60 years to win a conference title. Alabama had something like 19 and Georgia and Tennessee each had about 10 or 11 before Florida won their first. I don’t think the Yankees ever went 60 years between AL Pennants or AL East titles.

A better comparison would be the Braves or Indians, two programs with long losing traditions that caught fire in the 90s. Or maybe the Red Sox, who won two titles in recent years after about 7 decades of futility and now think they invented the game (sound familiar?). That’s Florida football. Nothing more.

By Scott

August 22, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this

Mark,

You get paid for writing crap like the fans of each school. If there were a lazy sorry a* law you would get 20 to life in prison. You Suck at your profession. I am glad I do not pay to read this slop. Pathetic would cover your ability. That article sucks.

By War Eagle

August 22, 2008 8:49 PM | Link to this

Mark, have you ever been to Baton Rouge on a Sat PM LSU game or any game at LSU. They are above Bama who is second with Florida third. UGA and Auburn are the mild ones compared to these “so called fan base troupers”. I have been to every SEC stadium except Vandy and my observation after 40 years is CORRECT..Sanford and Jordan Hare are two best stadiums in the SEC for fan conduct..

By Nick

August 22, 2008 9:16 PM | Link to this

LSU at #8? Seriously??? Have you ever been to an LSU home game?

By Sherry in S. FL

August 22, 2008 9:45 PM | Link to this

Florida fans became MORE obnoxious when they began to win since, prior to Spurrier’s guidance, very few people in my area gave a happy gas expulsion in a whirlwind about college football or the state’s teams. Now…”oh, why, they’ve all always been BIG FANS.” Didn’t look like it to me when I first moved here 28 years ago. The Palm Beach Post barely covered college football.

By evergator

August 22, 2008 11:50 PM | Link to this

Just when I thought you couldn’t write a more absurd article, you go and outdo your predictable self…congrats! Oh, and you clearly were not at the last game in Jax after Jawja won….or you would have known better than to post something so absurd-UGly was as obnoxious as they come after that game…. Could you dredge up any more ancient history than UF vs UM back in the 60’s?Oh, Puhleeez!

To quote the Holy Bible(try it some time, Mark)”Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye and ignore the log in your own?” Et Tu, Mark?

By Ryand

August 23, 2008 12:56 AM | Link to this

As a true UGA ALUMNI, i will admit we do have a bunch of fans that did not attend the school. but i dont think that means they would have any different level of passion for the team. I think some UGA fans are bad and rude, but probably b/c we finally are a dynasty again right now, maybe us at 4 or 5 sounds reasonable. but SC, UF, LSU are by far worse and probably have just as many “sidewalk” alumni

By Jim Douglas

August 23, 2008 1:01 AM | Link to this

UGA fans are the worst, by far. I have been to games at every stadium in the SEC except Ole Miss, and UGA fans are the worst by far. UGA graduates may or may not be, but the scum that goes to their games should be embarassed….but they probably won’t.

I have been to 6 games at UGA, and have routinely seen opposing fans taunted, spit at, etc. That is bad enough, but what is worse is when the UGA fans who witness this cheer it on and laugh.

If I were a UGA alum, I would pay big money to add more cops, so that the trailor park scum who start fights at the games would be more often escorted out for good.

I trust that the scum are not UGA alums, but are instead just GED type fans, but still, it is plain horrible there.

I am a UT fan, and sat in the visitors’ section during the Auburn game a few years back. I could not count the cups of urine that rained down from the upper deck.

In Nebraska, Penn State, or Notre Dame, the jerk fans who did that would have been lynched by the classy home fans around them. At UGA, the home fans just laugh.

By Ed

August 23, 2008 1:48 AM | Link to this

Maybe some of us historians are being too hard on UF football. So it took Florida football 87 years to hit its stride. And they were only in the SEC for 59 years before figuring out how to win. What’s the big deal? Gator fans were ready for their teams success beginning in the 90s. They’d been practicing obnoxious for decades.

And they’re always optimistic about their glorious alma mater. Florida’s the Stanford of the south. Honest - just ask any UF alum. He or she will tell you. Just don’t ask them to back that up.

By Dawgone

August 23, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

You have number 1 right for sure. Living in extreme south Georgia, I can tell you that 9 out of 10 Flordia fans in this area are loud mouth smart asses that can’t tell you anything about the gators other than who their coach and quarter back is and whether or not they beat Georgia last year.

By Mike

August 23, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

What does the Florida Flop have to do with the fans? The team did it, not the fans.

As for obnoxious fans, unfortunately every school has them. I myself have had mostly good experiences with fans of each school. Last season at Kentucky, many people were congratulating the Gators on a great game and a hard fought win. There were a few others that were acting like four year olds who were just denied candy in a grocery store. They were trying to p** me off with their comments including calling my sexual orientation into question, but they just made me laugh at their “brilliant” use of their intellect.

By mike

August 23, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

Cheering when other players get injured? For the guy who claims to be from Gainesville, I am a UF alum and when an opposing team’s player got injured the whole stadium got quiet and when he gets up the whole stadium applauds because it looks like he will be alright. In my four years there and not missing a game, I never saw cheering or bragging when a player got injured. Maybe that’s just your friends at the sports bar. Get new friends.

By Amy

August 23, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

Have you EVER met an LSU fan?? I refuse to even go to their games anymore because of some of the ridiculousness I’ve seen. Trashiness at it’s best.

By ATL Native

August 23, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

UGA and UF should be 1(a) and 1(b). I read all of the comments about Gator fans wearing jean shorts, but what about all of the UGA fans who wear bib overalls. It looks like a filming of Hee Haw on game days in Athens.

By Will

August 23, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Mike,

I think the part where Gator Flop has to do with the fans is this line right here:

“Don Bailey remembers the oranges flying from the stands. Howard Schnellenberger said it was worse than that. Ice and manure reigned down on the Miami bench, too.”

What kind of disgusting imbred hillbilly trash would stoop to throwing manure on an opposing teams bench? Gator fans, thats who. I’ve personally seen UF fans throw p** on opposing fans. Just filthy obnoxious people.

Just look at all of you people posting here and your obnoxious posts about other teams fans. It shows how just about every SEC team has an incredibly obnoxious fan base. All of you are evidence of it.

By bama-girl

August 23, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

O.K. Mike you must have conveniently forgotten about PROTHRO! Some of Floridas fans were in the stands doing the gator chop and giving our team the bird when the football career of a talented young man had just ended,you cant sink much lower.With that said I agree that there are rude and polite fans from every team.I attend every game at Bryant Denny and I have for many years,I support my team with CLASS no matter what but I have found that there is always an a**hole or two in the crowd no matter where they are from.I must say I disagree with you about LSU their fans were extremely nice last year,Georgia fans on the other hand acted like they had just won the super bowl even encouraging their young children to act obnoxious!Every team deserves to celebrate a good win (even Auburn) but it says alot about a team and their fans when they can win ,or loose with CLASS!Try it sometime GEORGIA!

By hawgfan1967

August 23, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

There are fans from all schools that are obnoxious. I have only been to Athens once for a game. It was DMAC’s freshman year. He rushed for 190 yds in a losing effort. Yes there were a few punks after the game that tried to strart fights with me cause I had my Hog hat on, but Im 6’5” 300 lbs. He gave up the fight quick. At the bars later that night, I met some of the best people. Very gracious and friendly. And I must say that UGA has some of the best looking coed’s in the SEC.

I was also at the SEC Championship game two years ago. Before the game even started, some skinny punk who sounded like he was from New York, wearing Gator colors tried to start a fight with me. Again, he changed his mind quickly. And I was there with about 4 or 5 other Gator fans.

I used to think that Arkansas had some of the best fans. Glad to have people in Fayetteville to watch a great football game. But after the last couple of years, with the Houston Nutt ordeal, I really began to doubt myself. I hated the fans there. Who flies banner at your own home game trying to run off your own coach. Ridiculous. Hopefully now that all fo that is over and we now have Petrino, things will get back to normal. Good luck to all in a great year of SEC Football.

By The Jug

August 23, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Gator fans are immature, obnoxious, and cowardly.

Bammers are cheating, lying, lowlife scumbags. The Bammers live in their delusional has been world. I can’t wait until the NCAA hammers them with the Death Penalty.

By Roger K Lewis

August 23, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Gator fans/students were always the worst - up until the administration/SEC stopped the age-old tradition of allowing ticket holders to leave the stadium anytime and return. Students and alumnae took this opportunity to get drunk outside the stadium from nearby watering holes or their cars at halftime. Things are 200% better now. p.s. - what does the gator flop have to do with the fans? UF’65

By SNick

August 23, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Obviously, a subjective issue. But how can a team with all those cowbells be the least obnoxious? Also, I have been told by many that a trip to Baton Rouge for a night game is one of life’s most scary experiences and thereby making LSU also underrated. Your comments regarding Florida remind be of what Dan Jenkins wrote BS (before Spurrier), “Florida has the arrogance of Alabama and the tradition of Wake Forest”.

By SNick

August 23, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

Obviously, a subjective issue. But how can a team with all those cowbells be the least obnoxious? Also, I have been told by many that a trip to Baton Rouge for a night game is one of life’s most scary experiences and thereby making LSU also underrated. Your comments regarding Florida remind be of what Dan Jenkins wrote BS (before Spurrier), “Florida has the arrogance of Alabama and the tradition of Wake Forest”.

By Bibble

August 23, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Gator fans have always been the worst - their success since the 90s hasnt changed them. I had a Gator fan tell me once that Herschel was the only reason Georgia won from ‘80-82. I asked him what position did Herschel play in ‘78, ‘79 and ‘83, when Georgia also won. What position did Herschel play on defense when we goosed-egged them in ‘82? They always had excuses then, as they do now. Last year it was Tebow’s injury which even he said was a nonfactor. They ignore the fact that Tebow played great and it was their defense that got scorched. Can’t wait to see what excuse they make this year when we make it two in a row and 3 out of 5.

By mike

August 23, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this

“”they” forgot the defense got torched? Of course the defense got torched. It was a horrible defensive showing.

And for the throwing of stuff at the opposing fans and players, again I went to UF and never, ever saw anything like that and never saw a fight in an SEC stadium. I must also say I have never witnessed throwing of anything besides beach balls at any SEC game. I also never met anyone who was happy that Prothro was injured. I like all the other Gator fans I know hated to see a bad injury like that and especially hated to see a career cut short. I was following the news for several years hoping he would come back.

Living up in Big 10 land, I miss the friendly banter with most SEC fans and even most FSU fans at the games. There is a certain southern civility that is not evident here. I have seen fans cheer an injury on the opposing team, which besides the occasional jerk down south I don’t see done in the SEC.

By Tampa Ray

August 23, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

I grew up in Sarasota, Florida, I went to Undergrad at Auburn and Law School at LSU.

Florida fans are Horrible right before the game, during, and after. Most of the day leading up to the game is peaceful They don’t have tradition and They don’t really tailgate because they are all hung over. Saturdays are not cherished like everywhere in the true south. When they do prepare it is at the bars on University…I concede there is some older Bull Gators that do tailgate but the School is not made up of those folks anymore. It is full of immigrants and far left progressives, they even have a Gay week in Gainesville.. Most normal Kids can’t get in without going to CC first…

They have come far from the days of being able to leave the stadium and come back to throw orange juice and sand on the visiting fans.. The crooked police department constantly patrols the visiting fans and tells them to sit down..Oh and they sure can cover things up in the Athletic Department, they are the best in the business, and guess what they are so good you don’t know that..

Georgia I have been 6 times and it has always been fine. The first time I was there when we lost was the black out and I didn’t have any problems. There season is generally over by late november, J-ville is usually the end of it all. Just record one barking and play it back to him.

LSU IS THE WORST, BUT I LIKE IT, I don’t condone it but you have to know when you come to baton rouge at night you are not safe. It is the only place where a drunk 5 Year old will question your man hood. The lack of social inhibitions makes the place unique and fun just be careful. The convenient stores have liquor where in most states they have candy not too mention the slushies are full of tequila. There is never much class in Baton Rouge but everybody is nice, it is really pretty surreal especially after going to Auburn (which may be the classiest, conceded by all my other Sec friends). The food they scrounged out of the Atchafalaya Swamp by the local coonass is the best in the country

ALABAMA- I think they only send the Wal-Mart and sidewalk fans.. I can take the obnoxiousness but they are always trying to destroy our campus, tree, and Local businesses.. It is ruthless and flat out criminal…

TENNESSEE- I love watching the mountain trash move their rocks and stumble down the foothills. Oh and the River trash from upstream that drifts in with a ticket, I have never had much of a problem here either though, because in 1999 we were terrible and other than that they have lost (AU 2004, UF 2002). I thought for sure hunting was allowed in the stadium, the patrons all had on camo and hunting vests, You should be fearful that that rust bucket for a stadium, it is the s** place I have every been other than maybe the citrus bowl. This is the Year to go to Tennessee because after they start 2-4, rocky top will not hardly be played because FIRE FAT PHIL will be the song of 2008.. For all those folks they sure don’t ever make much noise..

Vandy- If you ever want to sit with a big group of your friends for an away game, Vandy is the place. You can all go sit in their student section. They don’t come until half time and you politely explain that you have commandeered the section and send them back to the library. I don’ t know if you can beat partying at the honkey tonks.

Ole Miss can be ruthless if you are are in that little temporary bleacher in the end zone on side closest to the student section, they all try to throw stuff at you but most throw like Ken Dorsey, so it is just distracting but not harmful.

Miss State- Is only fun during baseball season. Don’t bother during football season. The cowbells are classless..

Kentucky you just go to the track it is pretty laid back

USC- I think I saw all their mascot’s walking around in key west.

By Bibble

August 23, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

I’m a Georgia fan, but have nothing bad to say about LSU. The crawfish etoufee’ makes up for the excessive boozing and rowdiness.

By Auburn Alum

August 23, 2008 4:17 PM | Link to this

You, Mr. Bradely, are an idiot. This is not to be confused with stupid. Idiots just don’t know enough about a subject to talk about it. Stupid is when one can’t learn about the subject they are talking about. You claim to have been to all the stadiums. Auburn fans don’t even come out of the stadium yelling for their team after a win!! They are silent. I been to every stadium in the SEC except Bryant-Denny. I have however been to games in Birmingham. Here’s I how see it . 1. LSU-got rocked in the port-o-let 2. Florida- Not allowed to go to the bathroom 3. UGA- got my shaker snatched from my hand and called a “B*tch 4. UA- got called every ugly name in the book and was almost run over in the parking lot All the other experiences were good. I met the nicest fans in Arkansas, Oxford, and Knoxville!

By Mark Bradley

August 23, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Auburn fans are silent even after a win? Do they take a vow of silence as they’re rolling Toomer’s Corner?

By AU Alum

August 23, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

To the poster that said Auburn fans booed their quarterback last year, Don’t lump all Auburn fans in that wet sugar dish!!!Not all of us did that and most of us were irate about what those people were doing. You have to understand that some of those people are NOT season ticket holders and they only come to the games when someone lets them have their tickets. Most of the people that sit around us at the games only give our tickets to true BLUE FANS!!! if we cannot be at the game.

By AU Alum

August 23, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

Mark, did you read my words? I said, when they are leaving the stadium!

By Kristen

August 23, 2008 5:54 PM | Link to this

Listen Bradley, I don’t know who your fav team is,but UF shouldn’t be ranked #1 Yeah we do like to rattle our competition, but have you ever lived in Knoxville and dealt with BIG ORANGE!! It’s a hard place to live with people trying to train their p** orange. I had my car keyed, egged, have been harrassed…think god I don’t live their anymore….GO GATORS!!!!!!!!!! My boyfriend thinks your right by the way…He’s an awful dawg

By Dennis

August 24, 2008 5:56 AM | Link to this

Home cookin’. Georgia is by far the worst. The last two times AU played Georgia in Athens we were consistantly treated poorly by Bulldog fans of all ages. In both games we never said anything bad about Georgia and just cheered our team. Just my wife and son went to the last one and they were THREATENED by several near them when they sang the fight song after a TD. THey said they would never go to Athens again. Pretty sad.

By borodawg

August 24, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this

I guess first ya gotta define ‘obnoxious’. Is just yelling ‘how bout them dawgs’, ‘war damn eagle’, ‘go cox’, playing rockie top incessantly, etc obnoxious? Listen up Bulldog fans; yelling in opposing fans faces IS obnoxious. Even if you don’t agree with the list, take heed and please govern yourselves accordingly. A true Dawgs fan will have a modicum of humility, not be a braggart, and will be gracious in defeat or a win; will just be a good sport. Look to CMR as a guide on how to act. Thank you.

By borodawg

August 24, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

UGA has more combined recipients of the NCAA and Ntl Football Foundation Post-Graduate Scholarship, NCAA Top Eight Award, and Academic All-America honors than any university in the South. S.I. ranked Athens as the second best sports town in the country and Sporting News ranked Athens as the second best sports city in the SEC. UGA has had 21 Rhodes Scholars, 6 since 1996. That being said, please don’t boo the team when they are behind a the half nor when they lose; much less throw things at them. Be gracious in victory and defeat. This column is about perception. Therefore, we can do better as fans and not encourage the perception that we’re obnoxious. Support the team through thick and thin. It is great to be a Georgia Bulldog!

By Au tGr

August 24, 2008 9:59 PM | Link to this

UGA fans are by far the worse ever

By JCVD

August 25, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

Hey Mark, its the Florida Flop, not the Gator Flop…I think you are still bitter at Florida because Spurrier put up 50+ on the Dogs in Athens on a Flea Flicker in the 4th quarter.

By KingofSC

August 25, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

I agree that UK fans are underated as are Miss State’s. They are knowledge, loyal and friendly. Of the top programs LSU fans have the most class. I’ve always liked the Razorback folks. They are loyal and travel well. The UT and Bama fans are just plain unfriendly even if it’s not a sporting event.

The UGA bulldog fans are the absolute worst. They openly threaten opposing fans and damage their vehicles. There is no security. They aren’t loud or loyal. If Richt has a bad season they’ll be calling for his head. As visitors they don’t behave. The Dawgs are just a bunch of drunken, profane redneck idiots.

By GB

August 25, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

yo Mark, have you really ever been to an SEC game. WORST LIST EVER. LSU and Tennessee are one and two without a doubt. Knoxville is the only place I have been assaulted while simply wearing an opposing tshirt walking through their stadium. LSU fans smell like corndogs and wear elvis and batman costumes and never shut up. Alabama is three only cause they have had less to be obnoxious about recently.

By Little Lebowski

August 27, 2008 1:43 PM | Link to this

This is good stuff. I’m actually a Washington Huskies fan. I was born, raised, and educated in the Seattle area. However, I absolutely love SEC football. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Pac-10 too, but I get jacked every year for Saturday afternoons with Lundquist and the tradition-soaked atmosphere, not to mention the speed, that defines your guys’ brand of ball. I was already planning on heading down to Baton Rouge in 4 years when the Huskies play down there, but some of these comments have given me a little cause for concern. What I was hoping for was a little Cajun hospitality (re: big party) but I’m worried about getting a Cajun beatdown. I don’t want to get pounded just because I’m a “Yank” who happens to root for a different team.

By JP

August 29, 2008 8:07 PM | Link to this

Proud LSU and Saints fan living in Atlanta. Lots of animosity here, much of it i suspect because our teams finished ahead of the Dawwwwgs and the Fal-clowns last year.

The Saints will outdo the Falclowns again, but as for the Dawwwwwgs, may the best SEC team win!

By Andy Morrow

September 2, 2008 1:28 AM | Link to this

This article is 100% true. The SEC gets so defensive when they loose to a conference like the Pac 10. Take the Ucla Tenn game. At halftime, I was getting heckled by a florida fan and a bama fan, and they were telling me how bad ucla is and how good tenn is and the sec. The second half rolled around and things changed. My SEC friends suddenly blamed the AP saying Tenn was way overrated and deserved to loose. These fans are truly annoying and completely ignorant. They cant imagine football without the SEC on top and now that the Pac 10 is, they cant fit that simple fact into their tiny brains.

Thank you for your time

By ghater

September 5, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Lived in Florida all my life and you are dead on about gator fans — they’re insufferable. And it’s not just the Wal-Mart mullet-heads and Tim Tebow bandwagoneers, but the backwoods dentists and lawyers driving their Porsches, Mercedes, or Escalades with those stupid metallic gator plates too. In fact, I’d say about 80% of the sports fans in Polk County are gators and most of them are rude and obnoxious on a daily basis. You should see them tailgate (and I don’t mean before a football game) while talking on their cell phones. They think they own the road. If I hear someone say “Go Gators!” one more time or do that stupid chomp in front of me, I think I’m going to puke. I hope they get their asses handed to them this season.

By UGA08

September 10, 2008 6:55 PM | Link to this

Florida fans are the trashiest jean short wearing bunch of people i have ever seen. Step into the new century Florida fans atleast UGA fans look good doing it.

By Auburn Band Geek

September 13, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this

I have personally been to every single one of these SEC stadiums, more than once, the team that needs to be at the top of this list is UGA, no question. It’s not even their student sections, but their die-hard alumni who are the rudest people I’ve ever met. LSU is always way under-ranked as well, when it comes to their obnoxiousness. It is scary to visit their stadium, even as a part of the visiting team’s band. Auburn may not be the classiest sports fans ever, but at least people feel safe in Jordan-Hare, no matter the colors they’re wearing.

By Auburn Band Geek

September 13, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this

Also I would like to point out that last year an LSU fan ran over and KILLED an Auburn fan. If that doesn’t deserve a top ranking then what does? A few years ago LSU almost got kicked out of the SEC when their fans bashed in the windows on the Tennessee football team’s busses. How is holding up six fingers even comparable? Obviously you have never truly experienced SEC football at its worst. When you have a spare moment take a trip to Baton Rouge or Athens wearing another SEC shirt. See what happens.

By AU and UA

September 17, 2008 11:34 PM | Link to this

War Damn Eagle and Roll Tide ur Asses!!!!

Oh things are looking good this year baby!

By TigerinTenn

September 23, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

Have been to football games at all sec schools since 1958,Every school has good and bad fans, all have their share of jerks and loosers, But all also so have some of the best fans in college football. In all this time the only school at which I have seen violence toward other fans personaly is TENN. They also whine more than any fans in the SEC.

By Jj

September 25, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

On Sept 1 2005 a group of 750 to 1000 Alumni and students gathered at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium The game started a litter latter that week so we wanted to get an good spot in the parking lot. That day some of the fans meet with locales at Publix and right before the game started and we headed for Mississippi. We did not pass a caravan from Kentucky, Auburn, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina or Arkansas with our convoy of food, diapers, water or other basic needs. But we did join up with Mississippi State Alum and students because they would know where everything was needed. We did not go to the N.O. we went where there were no TV cameras, no reporters, no coverage and damn little attention being paid to there despair and came back having missed the game. Yeah we yell and scream a little too loud and we do show off too much, but it is better to show off than not to show up. You see at UF we know what destruction Hurricanes can do both on and off the field. GO Gators.

By Lori

October 20, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

from a bartender in athens’ perspective, Auburn fans are the worst. they don’t know how to act in a bar, so all the do is what they’ve seen in movies; bark orders and order complicated drinks. they never have their money ready, barely tip, and are just generally gross. georgia fans aren’t much better, but at least they wear the right color. as for alabama, you guys are welcome to come back to athens any time. i made more money that night than i have in four football seasons. they were polite and fun and while they could have rubbed their win in our faces, they seemed to enjoy athens for the great town that it is, and just have fun. go dawgs.

By NoMo

October 24, 2008 10:10 PM | Link to this

Hey Fla-LSU used to throw frozen oranges at yall…back in the day. Aren’t ya glad that stopped!

By NoMo

October 24, 2008 10:12 PM | Link to this

Hey Fla-LSU used to throw frozen oranges at yall…back in the day. Aren’t ya glad that stopped!

By NoMo

October 24, 2008 10:15 PM | Link to this

Hey Fla-LSU used to throw frozen oranges at yall…back in the day. Aren’t ya glad that stopped!