Egg bowl memories

[Shadow34]

My favorite egg bowl of recent memory has to be the 2010 game where we went into Oxford and massacred them. I went with a group of college friends, and it was the most fun we have ever had at a msu game. By some miracle we were able to sneak a few airplane bottles into VHS. Watching Relf, Perk and Chris Smith torch them on offense while McPhee, KJ, and Chris White abused them on defense made that cheap whiskey taste soooo good. Damn that 2010 team was special. Also watching bear fans act so classless and butt hurt after the game was quite a joy as well.

Side note: remember Herm Edwards calling almost all of our games that year? I think we were undefeated with him calling.

1 more: the 99 egg bowl will always be special to me because that was the game my grandpaw bought me my cowbell and it was so awesome watching that game with him.

 

[tatedog]

My favorite Egg Bowl memory involves an important Ole Miss booster screaming racial slurs at our players in the 1996 *** whoopin in Oxford and Tuberville crying about Jackie going for 2 on the touchdown at the end. If there's any Egg Bowl that summarized what the Ole Miss spirit is all about, that was it.

eta: my least favorite Egg Bowl memory is sitting in MVMS in 88 in a driving rainstorm and tornado warning watching our 1-10 team get throttled by a mediocre at best Ole Miss team. The most entertaining part of the game was watching this 50 year old female ashtray dance around two rows down from me like Ole Miss was headed to the Sugar Bowl waving a Rebel flag in her non cigarette hand.

 

[121Josey]

and Tuberville crying about Jackie going for 2 on the touchdown at the end.

I never knew that about the 2-pt conversion. That helps explain Tuberville going for 2 in 1997.

 

[tatedog]

Possibly, but Tuberville always fancied himself a "riverboat gambler." To this day I think if Jackie punts instead of attempting that FG we win that one.

 

[WutheringDawg]

In a roundabout way I'm really thankful for the 45-0 beat-down that would force the administrations hand even as they said going into the game that Croom's job was safe.


But my favorite in game moment would have to be the ensuing pandemonium after we stopped BJGE at midfield in 07.

 

[Dash Riprock.sixpack]

Leaving VH after a thorough *** whooping in the 90's, my wife and I, along with a friend and his wife, were walking to our car. We were wearing our normal game preppy attire back then; a button down and khakis and our sorority girls wives were dressed accordingly. Standing in the road is this fat loser wearing blue jeans, white v neck T shirt and rebel flag suspenders, and as we walk by he yells, "GO HOME REDNECKS."

That will always be my favorite Egg Bowl memory

 

[mcdawg22]

1998. It was a pure celebration on their field and campus. We went around on the Rebel Trolly all day ringing cowbells, waving at fans, thanking Ole Miss fans for their hospitality. I think we ended up tipping the driver a hundred bucks between the 5 of us. I ended up throwing up on my future wife before the game, (yeah I'm classy) and afterwards my friends told me I had to throw up on her before every EB. Sat next to Ashley Cooper's parents and after the game he came up to see them and handed me a SEC West Champ cigar.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Ashley Cooper is my favorite.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Leaving VH after a thorough *** whooping in the late 90's, my wife and I, along with a friend and his wife, were walking to our car. We were wearing our normal game attire back then; a button down and khakis. Standing in the road is this fat loser wearing blue jeans, white T shirt and rebel flag suspenders, and as we walk by he yells, "GO HOME REDNECKS."

That will always be my favorite Egg Bowl memory

I had nearly the same fan experience in 92 watching Cameron 'smoke' burns and the boys victory tour at the sad pad. It was impossible to not laugh at the heavy country boy yelling at me (cityfied) to get my red neck *** out.

 

[Spidey.sixpack]

I enjoyed 2001. We sucked, but it was my first egg bowl I remember almost all of the details. Was there in '97 but don't remember what was going on, too young.

 

[BigMotherTucker]

DS, wasn't harm wished appon you at the '10 EB?

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Best: so many little memories from each game I've been to but I'll go with 2013 in the cold with Dak coming into the game in second half and then Nico making Wallace fumble. I jumped ten feet in the air when Love ran out of the back of the endzone.

Worst: 2003 in the pouring rain getting our *** whooped with rebel fans sitting all around us. One guy was way over the top to the point my dad was losing his cool and in all my years I had never seen that from him. We left before he really did lose it.

 

[jakldawg]

Yes. The Brad Lott-Eric Dotson incident.

From SI:

The Sound, the Fury The racist outburst on Nov. 30 by former Mississippi state senator Brad Lott would have sent shock waves regardless of where it had occurred or who had screamed the words. That the tirade came from a prominent Mississippian during an Ole Miss football game at the Oxford campus made the incident all the more disturbing.

With 45 seconds left in Mississippi State's 17-0 win over Mississippi, Lott, 33, who served in the legislature from 1992 until last January, descended from the stands to a fence 20 yards from the field.

For nearly a minute he screamed furiously at State noseguard Eric Dotson, cursing him and threatening to "get" him. He repeatedly called Dotson "******."

Lott's racist rage was apparently ignited by a 1994 NCAA investigation during which Dotson, a recruit from Pascagoula High, said that Lott, a zealous Ole Miss booster, had given him free meals and car rides. The allegations are one reason that Mississippi is in the midst of a four-year probation and lost 24 scholarships in '95 and '96.
In the face of public outcry, Lott last Saturday resigned his seat on the board of the Jackson County Port Authority.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

That is my favorite Egg memory as well. Our group of 12 and seemed like every State fan partied our asses off that day and night. The hell we raised walking through the grove and inside the stadium is no doubt remembered by many a bear fan. Maybe over the top obnoxious but it sure was fun.
That win was never in doubt. And everyone knew it.

 

[MSUDC11]

The 2007 went from being one of the most miserable Egg Bowls ever to completely awesome in what seemed like 30 seconds.

I'll always remember the 2011 Egg Bowl because I met Jack Cristil for the very first time that day. What a guy.

Also, the sequence that happened on the last play of the game was hilarious to me. We're up 31-3 and Nutt is calling timeouts and trying to score like it really mattered at that point. Moncrief scores and the whole stadium boos like crazy. They review it and overturn the call, and DWS sounds like we just won the West. Then you have Louis Watson blowing up Brunetti at the goal line on the last play of the game to keep them out of the end zone. It was fantastic.

The 2013 Egg Bowl was actually a horrible game, but I'll never forget the stadium's reaction when Dak came into the game. Then, of course, the 4th and 2 run in overtime and Nickoe stripping Bro.

We played one of the best defensive games I've ever seen us play that night. Jones and Calhoun were monsters. OM tried to run Nkemdiche on us and we shut that crap down, plus Bro turned it over four times.

 

[121Josey]

Possibly, but Tuberville always fancied himself a "riverboat gambler." To this day I think if Jackie punts instead of attempting that FG we win that one.

Fair enough. But the fake field goal being up 40 points in '02 shows that it wasn't just about being a "riverboat gambler".

 

[Bigdawghouse83]

A game in Oxford.....we won and got to the car and found my cousin was getting assaulted by a Reb. Cuz was caught doing his wife(all good friends/ alcohol induced) in the Rebs car! We got to get into the beatdown and jack up a couple of bear fans on the way out of town......memories!

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

1999, I was a Freshman at State got a student guest ticket for my 12 yr old cousin and watched the whole game. My cousin wanted to leave and he thought we were going to lose, then came the comeback. C.J Sirmones, the Kick-Pick, and then the FG by Westerfield---we stormed the field with the rest of the students.

I was amazed by how polite our field storming students were, folks holding the gate open, "no, you go first", hands reaching back to help others get over the fence. I was so shocked, I expected a crowd trampling and pushing and shoving but it didn't happen.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Fair enough. But the fake field goal being up 40 points in '02 shows that it wasn't just about being a "riverboat gambler".

This.^^ 17 Ears Pinebox.

 

[tatedog]

Fair enough. But the fake field goal being up 40 points in '02 shows that it wasn't just about being a "riverboat gambler".

They weren't up 40 points but the game was pretty much decided at that point and yes Tuberville was just being a jackass to be a jackass. I think it was like a 20 pt game maybe at the time he faked the FG? I always heard there was some friction between Tuberville and Sherrill going back to their days at TAMU and Sherrill had made Tub's life pretty miserable in his last season at Ole Miss and his first couple seasons at Auburn. I've also heard they are like best pals now, which frankly disturbs me somewhat.

eta: if you want a really good laugh read this ... Tuberville basically trolling Sherrill back in 2007 before his Auburn team lost at home to Miss. State. http://www.collegeandmagnolia.com/2007/9/14/64047/5041 I have a feeling the Auburn players weren't "having as much fun" in the next week's practices.

 

[tatedog]

This.^^ 17 Ears Pinebox.

You forgot my favorite Tuberville nickname: Wingnut.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Thanks for the link. Yeah, 17 "Wingnut" with a rusty spoon, "because it'll hurt more."

 

[paindonthurt_]

1992 in Oxford. 10 years old. We lost. But....part of who I am today was forged into me that day. And that is completely opposite of them.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

1992, like 12 opportunities inside the Ole Miss 10 yard line to score a TD and we don't get it done. It changed Jackie Sherrill's Offensive philosophy against Ole Miss for the rest of his tenure---he decided to pound them with the running game. And boy did it work beautifully!

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

I didnt watch that gm. But whats interesting, i was talking to some people and told them we wouldnt get rid of croom unless we lost by 45 or more. When i saw the score on espn later that nite i smiled as if we had just won.