SEC Football is filled with passionate fans. Sometimes that passion gives way to anger and two of our very own fan bases have made the Top 5 Angriest Fan Bases in College Football.
Certain colors represent particular emotions. Green is the color of envy. White is the color of purity. Maroon is the color…anger? According to Tom Fornelli, that is exactly what maroon represents.
Two SEC football teams have maroon as a primary color — Mississippi State and Texas A&M. Fans of both of these SEC football programs made the top 5 angriest fan bases in college football list by Tom Fornelli.
What makes them so angry? Well, playing in the SEC West is enough to drive any SEC football fan mad. Mississippi State and Texas A&M take it to another level, though, according to Fornelli. You can check out the entire article and find out the other three teams on the list here, courtesy of cbssports.com.
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So what makes Mississppi State and Texas A&M fans even angrier than the rest of the SEC football fans?
#5 Mississippi State:
Based on what Fornelli had to say, one of Mississippi State’s primary colors should be green. It’s not their (according to State fans) rival Alabama, which is less than an hour away and won’t stop winning National Championships. Most SEC football fans are at least a little envious of the recent success of Alabama. Instead, it’s their obsession with their in-state rival about two hours northwest of Starkville: The Ole Miss Rebels.
Fornelli had this to say:
It never fails. Anytime I say anything about Ole Miss, even if it’s only the faintest compliment, Mississippi State fans will yell at me for it. They’ll tell me how Ole Miss cheats and that the NCAA is going to sanction it back to the stone age one of these days — all the typical things rivals say about one another.
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Mississippi State fans actually seem to take compliments of Ole Miss as insults to Mississippi State
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I mean, at a time when Dan Mullen has introduced a consistent level of success, something they just aren’t used to in Starkville, Ole Miss is having even more success, going to a Peach Bowl and Sugar Bowl the last two seasons.
#1 Texas A&M:
After reading about Mississippi State, I assumed when I saw Texas A&M at #1 on this list that their anger would be related to The Unviersity of Texas. As it turns out, that is not the case. Or at least it wasn’t. Fornelli tried to pay the fan base a compliment, before revealing that the Aggies have a very similar “little brother” complex to the one possessed by Mississippi State fans.
Here’s a summary of what Fornelli had to say about Aggie fans:
They may not take it this way, but I mean this as a compliment: Texas A&M fans are just a comically strange, wonderfully weird group of people. They get angry over some of the silliest things, can tell you everything you ever wanted to know (and more that you didn’t) about trademark law (the byproduct of supporting a school that sues everybody), and they can do it in a way which makes you wonder if they’re truly mad at you.
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Oh, and they hate Texas. Every school in Texas hates the Longhorns, as does every Big 12 school, but Texas A&M hates Texas a lot more than you do. So, like Mississippi State fans when it comes to Ole Miss, if you say something nice about the Longhorns in the presence of an Aggie, you’re going to hear about it.
Then without fail, at some point in the conversation, they will tell you that the Longhorns are obsessed with the Aggies, while A&M doesn’t give a damn about Texas. The fact they’ve spent the last 20 minutes talking crap about Texas while telling you they don’t care about Texas will not register, even if you bring it up. They’ll just say you brought it up, not them; they don’t care about Texas after all.
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I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. Passion is what drives college football. One of the strong side effects of passion, though, can be jealousy. Man sports is fun.