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Post by panammaniac on Dec 8, 2021 17:53:55 GMT -8
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UNM is all up in arms about NMSU players stomping on their logo after beating them in OT in The Pit. A week earlier, UNM players were flipping off the NMSU fans after beating them in the Pan Am Center. I don’t necessarily condone any of this behavior, but I’ve never seen two schools hate each other as much as these two do. Even the bands hate each other. Having grown up as a SDSU season ticket holder, this rivalry was quite an eye opener when I ended up at NMSU.
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Post by azson on Dec 9, 2021 11:54:39 GMT -8
/video/1 UNM is all up in arms about NMSU players stomping on their logo after beating them in OT in The Pit. A week earlier, UNM players were flipping off the NMSU fans after beating them in the Pan Am Center. I don’t necessarily condone any of this behavior, but I’ve never seen two schools hate each other as much as these two do. Even the bands hate each other. Having grown up as a SDSU season ticket holder, this rivalry was quite an eye opener when I ended up at NMSU. Couldn't have happened to a nicer team/fan-base. |
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Post by panammaniac on Dec 9, 2021 12:12:29 GMT -8
/video/1 UNM is all up in arms about NMSU players stomping on their logo after beating them in OT in The Pit. A week earlier, UNM players were flipping off the NMSU fans after beating them in the Pan Am Center. I don’t necessarily condone any of this behavior, but I’ve never seen two schools hate each other as much as these two do. Even the bands hate each other. Having grown up as a SDSU season ticket holder, this rivalry was quite an eye opener when I ended up at NMSU. Couldn't have happened to a nicer team/fan-base. There was more that happened after the end of the video - the two teams stayed out on the court taunting each other, didn't shake hands after the game, had to be coerced into their respective locker rooms by security. It was a pretty nasty "incident" if you want to call it that and there's still a lot of finger pointing going back and forth between the two schools. That's the way things go with that rivalry. One of my first ever football games as a college student - I think it was my second game as I recall, was UNM at NMSU in 1985. Two of the worst football teams on the planet that year, yet there was all this hype over the game, trash talking and a bunch of other stuff going back and forth all week between NMSU and UNM fans, sold out stadium, etc. As a California kid I was like "what the hell? This is going to be a matchup between two of the worst football teams to ever set foot on a D-I field." All of my new found friends told me to just wait, you'll see. Oh. My. God. The nastiness between those two fan bases is like nothing I've ever experienced before. I've been to UCLA/USC games, and other than the obvious, a lot more people in the stadium, that is nothing compared to the animosity between NMSU and UNM. I was in the band at NMSU for 5 seasons. Anyone who knows anything about band knows how civil band kids are to each other, even when they're fierce rivals. Not so between those two bands. It's literally the only time I've ever seen two bands not get along. When we played UTEP we would actually have a little mixer with them after the game and enjoy ourselves. When we play UTEP of course the "UTEP Sucks" chants come out, and now that we're going to be conference mates I expect those to get more intense, but NMSU/UNM games get downright vicious. SDSU has never really had a rivalry like that. BYU was the hated enemy for a while but it was more one sided - BYU never hated SDSU as much as the other way around. Fresno State is sort of a rival, but to FSU fans their big rivalry is with SJSU. That's one thing in my mind that SDSU has always lacked - a real natural rival. |
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