As I sit in Afghanistan

Nov 21, 2010, 2:25 AM

i get on a computer that has internet in our COC about once a week.....i have watched the season unfold from a distance, not being able to see the Tigers play but i realize that the season hasn't been what it should have been. I'm reminded of a few things from the past:
1. 1980 when a 5-5 Tiger team hit the Chickens in the mouth 27-6 and i watched Jeff Davis, Jeff Bryant, Terry Kinard and Andy Headen pound George Rogers into the ground all day with very little to play for other than pride.
2. After 33 years of being a Tiger fanatic i realize that i haven't mellowed with age....i despise the Chickens and always will. I'm from Columbia and 0-11 isn't good enough for me for those clowns. I take no pride in them being from SC and I hope that we come out and plant facemasks in their face and orange and purple scars all over their helmets, ruining their little Top 20 season and all that the SEC thinks they are.
I still haven't recovered from the garbage game last year where we bought into the ACC crap where the Chicken game didn't "mean" a lot....The day that Clemson plays those clowns like the game doesn't matter is the day that i feel like puking while watching. Yes, they are not a conference game, yes, it doesn't hurt us in the ACC championship run....i get it....but any Clemson fan or player that doesn't want to pound them into the turf is not a true Tiger as far as I'm concerned. As i sit here next Saturday in Sangin, Afghanistan, on patrol or gearing up for another patrol/firefight/ambush, etc. with my Marines I pray to God that DV sounds like an earthquake and the Tigers come out and play like the Chickens tried to steal something from us. I pray that all of you who go to the game make DV an absolute miserable place for the Chickens to try to play in and I pray that our defense hits them with a passion, making them realize that they will NEVER be a football school...they'll NEVER have our tradition and they'll NEVER have a swagger that comes with having a PAW on your helmet, a ROCK to rub, a DV to play in and Orange and Purple running through your veins.....all of you remember that we are Clemson Tigers til we die and the Shamecocks will forever be chasing our tailpipes. Make DV explode and watch the Tigers remind them of who the Big Dogs in SC really are.
GySgt D'Alesandro, T. A. USMC
3rd Battalion 5th Marines
Sangin, Afghanistan

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