Report: Cowbell Used In Assault Incident
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When I saw this headline, I thought they were talking about the ass-whipping that happened down on the fieldDecember 3, 2009, 1:28 pm | Category: Random Firings |
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My last trip to Starkville for an Egg Bowl was the year when Dou Innocent ran for a gillion yards and the underdog Rebs beat MSU. I took my young son to that game, who at the time was on crutches due to an ankle sports injury, and we were harassed pretty badly by angry, drunk MSU fans while leaving. That was enough for me never to go back.
However, my son returned to Starkville for an Egg Bowl while he was a student at Ole Miss. The game was on Thanksgiving Day, and he later showed up the next day at my mother’s home in the Delta looking worse than a bum — clothes looked like he slept in them (he did), hair messed up, eyes bloodshot, skin pale, smelled bad, etc. I was embarassed that he showed up around family like that and made him clean up quickly before many saw him like that. He later slept most of the day, claiming that he was dizzy. Soon, I realized that something was wrong, other than him just having the cocktail flu. After some fatherly cross-examination, he finally spilled it —- he had been in an altercation and was hit on the head with a cowbell. A friend of his got into an altercation with two older MSU fans, who were allegedly shouting obscenities. My son claimed that he went over to try to break it up and get his friend, when one of the men struck him in the head from behind with a cowbell. After learning this, I took him over to the ER in Greenwood for a medical examination —indeed, he had suffered a fairly serious head injury and concussion. This not only cut into family time, but ruined our hunting plans for the weekend. I wasn’t too happy with him, or with MSU.
Since then, he hasn’t been back either. Ha.
Are the cowbells illegal? If so, does anyone have an idea why the Birmingham boys look the other way?
Coach Mullin turned mean in the weeks before the Ole Miss-State game. He lost alot of area support for Mississippi State when they are playing other teams rather than Ole Miss.
In fact he may be Jackie Sherril resurrected, hope not as it will hurt Ms.State.
You can always tell a state college fan … you just can’t tell him much.
To follow up on Chico’s question, assuming that cowbells (and any other artificial noise makers) are STILL illegal for entry to SEC football games, does the university have any liability here for failing to enforce the rules?
there are bad fans from every school. This is a very unfortunate incident but, i don’t think there are necessarily more rude or hateful fans from one school to the next, with the exception of maybe Georgia, who seems to, by and large, have the most polite fans of any SEC school.
I have had, as a State fan, some particularly bad experiences with Ole Miss and LSU fans, but I don’t think that represents the entire fan base.
Jax: Riddle me this–the fans of how many other SEC schools come to public football games armed with heavy bells welded to steel handles, ideal weapons good for only one thing: whacking opposing fans.
Grow up state people. Get a life. Quit whining about others picking on you and your iidiotic bells. Join the world.
For a telling example of Coach Mullin’s acumen go to this piece he did before the Alabama-Florida game for the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/sports/ncaafootball/05pick.html?_r=1, and consider this prediction: “In the end, the game will come down to Florida’s edge at quarterback. Tebow has big-game experience and can make plays in the fourth quarter. It’s not that his Alabama counterpart, Greg McElroy, can’t; McElroy, after all, did it last week with a late touchdown drive to beat Auburn. But Tebow has done it in big games over and over, experience that McElroy cannot match.”
Mullins would make a good weather guesser.
Well, my bookie knows what a bad guesser I am — that’s why he keeps wanting me back, so I cant say much except that Coach Mullin must have been thrilled to do the New York Times analysis right up until the game started.
Ben, yes, all state fans who come with cowbells plan to use them for that one reason, to whack opposing fans. jeez. i’d say you should get a life or, just get over the egg bowl loss.