2018 Buckeye Football Thread
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for reals. if you get your panties in a wad over this stuff, you really ought to spend more time in the woods. I mean, who really cares what Joe says anyway? 
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for reals. if you get your panties in a wad over this stuff, you really ought to spend more time in the woods. I mean, who really cares what Joe says anyway?
I know right. If i was a Vanderbilt fan people would just laugh and say oh that poor fella, let him live in his fantasy world.
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When was the last one? Was Lou Holtz coaching them?
Oh sure throw out little facts like thatBoth have 0 NCAA recognized Championships as they all occurred prior to the poll era and in like the 1800s. Count those and Bama has like 27.
Both have 0 NCAA recognized Championships as they all occurred prior to the poll era and in like the 1800s. Count those and Bama has like 27.
Really? I mean this could be the whisky talking on New Year's but dude. . . .seriously. . . I think Alabama players all had the same last name in the 1800s. Buncha inbred slave owners sure didn't have any brothers playing for them then.
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OSU played their first organised football game in 1890 and Bamas was in 1892. Yale claims to have won 26 titles between 1876 and 1909.
As for "inbread slave owners" the complete federal budget in 1860 was 80 million dollars and tax revenue from Southern States was 75 million. It wasn't until after the war due to theft of wealth and "reconstruction" that the north surpassed the south in wealth.
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Yep. The south was extremely wealthy before the war. The north had the majority of industry but the south had the major export of the time, cotton, which mostly went to Europe and France. In the early 1850s Natchez Ms on the river had the most millionaires per capita in the US. A slave in 1850 was around $400 at a time when a mans average yearly wage was about $100, if adjusted for inflation a slave back then would cost about $40,000 today. The total slave valuation at that time was around 2 billion dollars in 1850 currency, imagine that today. The first hint of an issue began when the North was outraged at the cost of cotton and wanted it cheaper than what it was being sold to Europe for. But that was the market rate. In an effort to drive prices down for US consumption they placed heavy export tariffs on it. When southerners refused to pay it they ran blockades and confiscated it. It all went downhill from there as the south realized they paid the lions share of tax revenue to the US and began threatening to withhold revenue in retaliation to tariffs. Tensions escalated and the north retaliated by threatening the very means to which the south had acquired such wealth, slavery. The act of actually making an effort to free the slaves didn't enter until much later during the war when Lincoln needed a damn good PR reason for a very unpopular war as northern popular opinion and support was wavering. The first shot at Ft Sumter was in April of 1861, Lincoln didn't emancipate slavery until mid 1863. Knowing this its easy to see why after South Carolina succeeded in December of 1860 they didn't want a northern occupied fort in the middle of their main harbor in Charleston. SC offered every opportunity for the men of the fort to leave and offered safe passage out of the state. The North refused to leave and it wasn't until 5 months later when the North tried to run past the shore battery with a resupply ship that the first shot of the war was fired from the guns at Charleston. From there it was a domino effect as the rest of the south had seen the lengths the North was actually willing to go to keep ahold of the cash cow south by not respecting south Carolina sovereignty. Historians consider the final shots of the war to have been fired at the battle of Palmito Ranch in Texas in 1865. However many southerners consider the last shot of the war to be the one that went through Lincoln's head a month later.
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I'm gonna win me some mother F'in Jeopardy now!
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Always living in the past...bringing up dumb shit.
The past you say. Another fun fact. The rate of heart disease in southern States today is considerably higher than it is in northern states. Of the 10 states with the highest rate of heart disease 8 are in the south. As we know the main risk for heart disease is genetic and inherited from your family. The abnormally high rate in the south today is thought to be a lingering effect of the civil war where post war poverty spanned almost 100 years after the war. The south didn't really start to climb out of poverty after "reconstruction" until the 1950s. Generations of poverty and its effects passed down through the family for almost 100 years is thought to have caused a high rate of heart disease today.