On Dec 7, 3:52 pm, UCLAN
thanks.org> wrote:> Ken McElhaney wrote:
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>> ....oh well, I
>> can always wonder how a neutral site in another state is somehow just
>> like a "home" game. Just like if USC played at the Rose Bowl wearing
>> home colors and having more fans than the visitors, it would be
>> EXACTLY like playing in the LA Coliseum...exactly...ha ha ha...:)
>
> Getting the home team's ticket allotment for your fans is ONE reason.
> The fact that Lawrence is a fraction of the distance from Kansas City
> when compared to U of Missouri, which is over 100 miles away.
So, it's EXACTLY like playing in Lawrence, Kansas then? Is that what
you are saying?
> Huh? Funny you should mention the Rose Bowl. It is actually closer to
> USC's campus than it is to UCLA's campus. Yet, UCLA is the home team
> there when they play USC, the stadium is predominantly Bruin Blue.
> WHY? Because UCLA gets the home team ticket allotment, that's why.
> So much for your "rivalry theory."
Oh you silly person you.
You have shown very, very clearly that you do not understand the
Kansas/Missouri rivalry. So a little history lesson for you.
The beginning;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayhawker
Gee, that has nothing to do with footba...oh wait;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Showdown
And then you might say.."oh, none of the students care about that,
after all these mid-west college bumpkins don't know who the President
is much less their own history." but...
http://tinyurl.com/2eb2ws
...the pic of the t-shirt pretty much sums it up...
another example;
http://tinyurl.com/ytqpv5
and my favorite;
http://tinyurl.com/2gjlcf
...red socks...burn your home down indeed.
USC/UCLA is certainly a rivalry of far more national significance and
I'm sure is pretty intense. But if you think for one second the
"intensity" is in the same ballpark as the Kansas/Missouri rivalry,
you are sadly mistaken. It is unique among all rivalries, so whoever
the "home" team is on a neutral site....big whoop, makes no difference
(and as the game showed, it didn't).
> UCLA has the home field edge in games
> played at the Rose Bowl, and USC has a decided home field edge in games
> against UCLA at the Coliseum.
Sooooo, are you saying that if USC is the designated "home" team,
selling the "home" allotment of tickets, and they are playing their
rival UCLA at the ROSE BOWL, USC would have the SAME advantages as if
the game were played at the LA Coliseum?
This explaination I'd like to see.
Ken
