Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
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Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 10:38 AM
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I'm hearing a lot of "I'm a long-time fan" type posts on here recently, as if it's some sort of bragging right that comes with benefits and perks. Let's examine the facts of MY Clemson journey.
I graduated from Clemson in the 90's. Weekends usually were spent vacationing at one of my family compounds or on our yacht, so I never made it to a football game. Based on what I have heard about our success then, I didn't miss anything!
My first real game was in 2010, when my good chum Brixton DeVries invited me to his stadium suite as thank you for a large contract we signed with his company, Peak7 Ventures. It all seemed a little quaint and blue-collar at the time, but the pageantry was undeniable and I recognized that Clemson football may be a unique, high-value way to conduct business on Saturday afternoons.
Fast forward to 2013. I get a call from Davis Babb with IPTAY, letting me know about some unique opportunities to be a part of rebuilding Clemson football, with some nice ground-floor perks to boot now that they were wiping the slate clean of the people who had been scraping by on the merits of IPTAY points earned by a long-dead grandparent. With a handshake, we purchased our first stadium suite and two adjacent spots on the Avenue of Champions....one for my Range Rover SVR Autobiography, and one for my catering spread.
The next several years were a thrill ride! I bought many orange items from MH Frank, I believe we won 3 or 4 national championships, and most importantly, I closed more business contracts sitting in that suite than I ever had in my life. It was magic, and when good things happen on the field, good things happened in my bank account.
And that brings us to 2021. All of a sudden, as if hit by a plague of locusts, Clemson football is abysmal. Our coaches have forgotten how to coach, and our quarterback couldn't throw an extra point if he had to! My gameday business dealings are in the dumpster---who wants to sign a multi-year multi-million dollar contract while watching a team struggle to eke out a win against Holy Sisters of the Poor? I'll tell you ....NO ONE. It's all "let me think on it" and "let me get back to you".
So for those of you proud to root for mediocrity, who brag about being fans since the 60's and swapping racially tinged jokes with Frank Howard, put your nostalgia in one hand and the check I write each year in the other, and tell me what weighs more. You need me as much as I need you, and more importantly, we both need this team to stop playing like a bunch of panty-waisted emo-jocks. Let's get on the same page and demand greatness. This may only be an alliance of convenience, but let's make it an alliance nonetheless. Go Clemson!
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So what you’re saying here is…
Oct 22, 2021, 10:45 AM
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Let's be clear, much of the fanbase is a buncha poors
Oct 22, 2021, 11:09 AM
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This is pretty much how I feel when I attend games
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 10:50 AM
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Would you mind itemizing that?
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 10:53 AM
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That was very well said. I wish we have more Clemson fans just like you. You are what we should all strive to be, ff it weren't so unrealistic to achieve such greatness. Thanks for all you do. On that note, who do you have winning the match Saturday night?
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Saturday night? That's an away game, right?
Oct 22, 2021, 10:55 AM
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Glad to offer my prediction. Who are we playing?
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Re: Saturday night? That's an away game, right?
Oct 22, 2021, 11:04 AM
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This weekend we are playing our rival Pittsburgh.
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Thank you. Just did some quick research.
Oct 22, 2021, 11:08 AM
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One of their main uniform colors is yellow, which is also one of Georgia Tech's main colors. We beat Georgia Tech, so I really like our chances in this matchup.
Go Clemson!
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Re: Thank you. Just did some quick research.
Oct 22, 2021, 11:19 AM
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The color of the uniform is always something to consider when handicapping these matches. I have found that the teams that go with primary colors such as red, yellow, or blue, have better offenses. Now teams with secondary colors such as orange, green, or purple have solid defenses do band better on the road than the teams with primary colors. Load up on the Tigers. Defense wins championships if the offense can score enough.
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that's a lot of words.. BUT thank you for not posting anythi
Oct 22, 2021, 10:54 AM
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about the Atlanta braves.
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 10:54 AM
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 12:48 PM
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I was thinking all along he was this superstar Kicker from yester-year with Ice running through his veins. The Kicker never cared for the best player/fan/coach we ever had in CJ Spiller.... are you sure you’re not a kicker?
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I know you wanted to be heard out, but TL:DR***
Oct 22, 2021, 10:55 AM
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Makes me absolutely sick...
Oct 22, 2021, 10:58 AM
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Posts like this are despicable, unnecessary, and cowardly. How are you, as a middle-aged man, going to sit here and post a picture of some teenage girls, and drool over them like a f r e a k I n g p e r v e r t. This is a F - I N G FOOTBALL forum, not upstatepredators.com. If those girls were my daughters, You'd be seeing me out front of your house with a loaded 44. Posts like this should be banned and those who post this crap should be banned. Clemson folk are supposed to have class and respect others, not discuss how much you'd want to bang a college girl you don't even know anything about... and is a F R E A K I N G K I D! Good gosh almighty man, posts like this and people say the crap p I s s me off.
Keep this forum to football, and quit ###### women with your eyes. There's my piece.
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 10:59 AM
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It's amazing how football crosses age and class lines to bring us all closer together.
I'm an old guy but have also noticed certain things when Clemson football is subpar:
The bream don't bite as well.
The Skoal isn't as sweet.
My 1997 F-150 sports a few more rust spots.
Somehow I think we'll get through it.
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Sorry bro, that's terrible.
Oct 22, 2021, 11:03 AM
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You wanna borrow my Yeti?
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I wonder why Bandits didn't catch on more?
Oct 22, 2021, 11:04 AM
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Such a tidy way to enjoy your smokeless tobacco.
*Not that there is anything enjoyable about smokeless tobacco. Especially not Levi Garrett.
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Re: Sorry bro, that's terrible.
Oct 22, 2021, 11:14 AM
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Thank you for the generous offer but I have a knock-off Yeti that works well, and holds all the bream I can catch and PBR I can drink.
And Francis, Bandits just aren't for the purist.
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Re: Sorry bro, that's terrible.
Oct 22, 2021, 1:07 PM
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or poosies
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 11:08 AM
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As the great Martin Luther King said after he was beaten by those cops in Los Angeles after that traffic stop, "Can't we all just get along?".
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Heisman Winner [83531]
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That was Martin Short who said that.
Oct 22, 2021, 11:13 AM
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Im callin BS
Oct 22, 2021, 11:07 AM
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anyone who drives a yact and a fancy german car like that is no clemson grad that i know. you probably went some fancy private school like Emmory or Lander and hopped on the Dabo bandwagon. You probably wear Ohio State underrware below your orange overalls.
Grandpap was a true lifelong fan who lost his seats to you people. He couldnt keep the seats and the note on the pontoon so he had to watch from home. I know that sent him to the grave more than the emphazima
so take your good weather fan money and leave us real fans be!
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^ User name I've never seen...
Oct 22, 2021, 11:10 AM
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sip
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SCOK from the Lunge...
Oct 22, 2021, 11:11 AM
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7spots been banned lately?
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110%er [6227]
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Not to take away from your post but...
Oct 22, 2021, 11:14 AM
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Lander is a state school and HARDLY high brow...
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Re: Not to take away from your post but...
Oct 22, 2021, 11:20 AM
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sorry guess i was wrong. Thought it was private because its small and the smartest person I knew went there and got his degree in computers. thanks for letting me know
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no problem
Oct 22, 2021, 11:23 AM
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I spent two years in Greenwood. Had too good of a time actually and transferred!
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I can't help but laugh....
Oct 22, 2021, 11:30 AM
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Emory- In Atlanta surrounded by skyscrapers and all of that action Limestone- Gaffney. Surrounded by...Gaffney and dudes shooting the Peachoid.
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I resemble the second remark***
Oct 22, 2021, 2:19 PM
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Deer lowered
Oct 22, 2021, 1:35 PM
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Found the Ag major
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Opulence
Oct 22, 2021, 11:15 AM
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I has it.
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 11:24 AM
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I really hope this is satirical. If not it sounds like Daddy’s money and yachts and family compounds helps explain all the ridiculous posts you have put on here lately. If this is all real then it’s no wonder you are spoiled by recent Clemson football because you’ve been able to buy anything you want your whole life and explains why you think you can buy perfection in college football. You can’t. Go buy a professional baseball team. I don’t need you or anything from you or anything to do with you. Neither does Clemson. They might miss the money short term but there are plenty more like you lined up for a chance to be part of the game.
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 11:26 AM
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He sounds spoiled to me. I can only imagine the type of dogs he has.
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Well, that's sort of it. The success and the need for the
Oct 22, 2021, 11:34 AM
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money go hand in hand.
Balloon releases and free pizza parties don't pay for the football complex. They're just manna for the masses.
In the new NIL era, you're going to need people like me to pick up every additional walk-on player scholarship we can if we hope to ever get on the same field again as Alabama, much less have a snowballs chance in Hades of beating them. You can't afford to run anyone off.
I admire your spunk, but we just aren't going to continue to have the success of this program by simply having people show up to Dabo's office with home grown vegetables from their garden.
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Re: Well, that's sort of it. The success and the need for the
Oct 22, 2021, 11:41 AM
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Clemson grad my ###. you dont know hootie Ingram from a hole in the ground.
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Re: Well, that's sort of it. The success and the need for the
Oct 22, 2021, 1:05 PM
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You should probably google “Obed Clemson”. Then you should look up the definition of “sarcasm”. Then maybe pull them panties out of your crack…
HTH
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Hall of Famer [8142]
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I know what sarcasm is and I dont use google
Oct 22, 2021, 1:54 PM
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bing says Obed Clemson was a soccer player. You saying that is the same poster here? Not sure i get your point.
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Re: I know what sarcasm is and I dont use google
Oct 22, 2021, 2:40 PM
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I realize that you have to be trolling. You can’t possibly not know who Obed is if you are a Clemson fan. At least not one over the age of 40.
Keep trolling I guess.
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 11:34 AM
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its these new money fans that are ruinin the whole sport. want to come in and change everything because they are rich and think they are better than everyone. its the same reason they band smoking in the stadium. rich people dont like it and wont put up with it. well I wont put up with them.
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 11:40 AM
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We don't need you big wheeler-dealers around here. On a side, would you say you make more or less money than Dabo per year?
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 3:31 PM
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He makes way more than Dabo when we are winning and playing well. That's when he closes all of his big deals in the luxury suite.
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Football is a blue-coller sport and people like you are
Oct 22, 2021, 11:48 AM
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ruining it for those of us that spent there hard earned money on tiger football. I may not be able to afford a yacht or a Range Rider Autograph Edition but my flat bottom fishin boat and Ram 1500 are plenty for me. I am 10 times the fan of the tigers that you will never be. You type are the worse for Clemson and for college football in general. Take your fandom to that team in Charlotte that is led by that liberal Tepper and give them your money. We don't need you.
-Fan since '85 -Attended 2 semesters at Clemson -Season ticket holder -Lifelong Tiger
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Re: Football is a blue-coller sport and people like you are
Oct 22, 2021, 11:53 AM
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Re: Football is a blue-coller sport and people like you are
Oct 22, 2021, 1:13 PM
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Only been a fan since 85? I guess that’s why you don’t know who Obed is? He spent more than 2 semesters at Clemson…just sayin’.
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One day I will be like you
Oct 22, 2021, 11:54 AM
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Been a Clemson football fan since '02. I made it to a couple games and the NC parade in 2017. I'm working on my online graduate degree so I can lump myself in with the true fans soon.
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Re: One day I will be like you
Oct 22, 2021, 11:58 AM
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I’m sure I’ll never be like him. I’m an old man and learned a lot over the years about how to treat people. None of which involves looking down at anyone or “demanding” any sort of performance based on my wishes.
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Stir on....***
Oct 22, 2021, 1:17 PM
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 1:44 PM
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I don't like you and I can't agree with you. I am going to be an ### and just straight up say I have had tickets and premier parking passes that I have paid out the mothra for and I haven't seen you once at those games. Dude you talk so much #### on here and throw weight but I don't buy it. Just one mans opinion. And don't play that Alum vs. NonAlum. That crap don't fly. I have been IPTAY since 1999. Took all my boat cleaning and waxing and bar tending dollars and put it all into IPTAY. I had season tickets while you were dancing with the ugliest chick in high school. I call you a ####### fraud and always will. You ############# fraud.
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The Invasion of the Lunge Lizards....yeppers! lol***
Oct 22, 2021, 2:06 PM
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 2:31 PM
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I’ll support my team thru good and bad time but if you are so desperate for me to “demand” some then I say I demand you go back to your dingy.
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 2:35 PM
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This thread is gold!!! Lol!
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 3:36 PM
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^^^True^^^ Very entertaining.
Some of yall need to relax. Stop clutching your pearls like GT just loaded the box and you don't know what to do...
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 3:37 PM
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In your opinion, which I value dearly due to how successful you are, do you think there should be segregated seating for the Clemson graduates to separate them from the common folk who didn't attend Clemson?
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I was actually talking to someone about this the other day
Oct 22, 2021, 8:22 PM
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Believe it or not, that was the original purpose of the upper decks…..to give non-alumni fans a place to watch the game from and not feel awkward when they didn’t know the words to the alma mater.
Somewhere along the way the lines got blurred, but it’s my understanding that they’re thinking about reinstituting the original plan from a practical standpoint (alums can pay more for premium seats) and as a nod to tradition as well.
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Re: I was actually talking to someone about this the other day
Oct 23, 2021, 11:01 PM
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Jeez i am an alumni, but just cannot afford a ticket...would be grateful for even an upper deck seat! Guess at 50 years old I have about another decade before I can be a 'real' fan.
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 8:31 PM
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You sound like a spoiled brat.
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Look for this on
Oct 22, 2021, 8:57 PM
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Message Board Geniuses!
Classic, Obed, just an absolute classic.
Go Tigers AND Stay Well Clemson Nation!
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 9:06 PM
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Apparently some folks don’t appreciate the sarcasm much, but I sure do! Bestest poast of the day.
Message was edited by: HowardsBoy®
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Re: Spoiled "long-term" fans, flame away, but hear me out.
Oct 22, 2021, 9:53 PM
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I wasted 10 mins of my life reading this thread hoping to see the point….
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Do they serve those little triangular shaped sandwiches without the crust in your luxury box?
Oct 23, 2021, 1:28 PM
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I love the ones with the fancy pimento spread on them.
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