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TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 3:45 PM
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All-In [40100]
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Name change has as many wins as the football team has
Sep 1, 2022, 3:48 PM
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SEC championships and National Championships?
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Coots can even screw up
Sep 1, 2022, 3:48 PM
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naming a chicken. Rival gold.
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Re: Coots can even screw up
Sep 1, 2022, 4:07 PM
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Agree, can't make this stuff up. Ought to be hilarious when we play them. Can't imagine the smacktalk.
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So cootish***
Sep 1, 2022, 3:48 PM
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 3:53 PM
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How embarrassing. Somebody screwed up and then most likely a check was written.
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'The Corporal' sounds about right
Sep 1, 2022, 3:56 PM
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So many years as a Private, the Gamecocks have earned their promotion to Corporal based on longevity if little else.
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 4:03 PM
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Like watching a wreck and not being able to do anything about it.
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Sounds like they paid the new owners or
Sep 1, 2022, 4:04 PM
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someone a hefty sum so they could keep the old name. "The General" really sounded pretty stupid, especially since "The Colonel" is the king of fried chicken. Can't really win when you're trying to figure out a cool name for a chicken.
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Re: Sounds like they paid the new owners or
Sep 1, 2022, 8:59 PM
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Sir Big Spur is a pretty hideous mascot (whatever) name, for a even “quasi” college football team.
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They chose a more expensive copyright name...
Sep 2, 2022, 10:00 AM
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Haven't looked it up, but "The General" is used for those insurance commercials and would think they have some kind of lock on that name.
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 4:08 PM
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I feel like #### Commander could still be on the table with all of the uncertainties ???
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Should have been Private C o c k anyway. lol***
Sep 1, 2022, 4:10 PM
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 4:11 PM
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Oh well...
SPURS UP!!
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 4:13 PM
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Typical clown show in cootville, wouldn't expect anything less.
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But what gender does the chicken identify as?
Sep 1, 2022, 4:14 PM
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Is it/he/she comfortable with sir?
#chickenfeelzmatter
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We really did hit the rival jackpot***
Sep 1, 2022, 4:16 PM
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 4:16 PM
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Surely no one thought this whole thing was going to end in a fairy tale. The question is did the story start out once upon a time or this ain’t no sh-t about a chicken.
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It's a friggin' chicken...
Sep 1, 2022, 4:24 PM
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and it will never be anything more than a friggin' chicken. Ring its neck, put some honey mustard or bar-b-que sauce on it, and be done with it already.
This is just as unbelievably stupid as the time they changed to UofSC.
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I kind of like Roto-Rooster***
Sep 1, 2022, 4:25 PM
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or Rotocooter***
Sep 1, 2022, 9:16 PM
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 4:32 PM
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This whole situation is a bunch of cockamamie nonsense.
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Could it be because of "The General" Thomas Sumter's
Sep 1, 2022, 4:32 PM
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past?
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Re: 2 Things To Ponder ---
Sep 1, 2022, 4:36 PM
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1- Why is a picture of that ugly thing polluting the TNET website in the first place. I rather look at a bloodied vulture.
2- Their new rival might as well be Auburn.... because they don't know what mascot to choose as it is.....and Chickenlina is borderline about to call their own mascot Chicken Doe or something.
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A Blatant Disregard for the Rulz . . .
Sep 1, 2022, 6:22 PM
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disturbing conduct . . .
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 4:42 PM
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It’s a tradition down in columbia: maybe next year
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We truly hit the rivalry jackpot.***
Sep 1, 2022, 4:43 PM
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 4:52 PM
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Don't expect any wins as a result of whatever the chick's name is. Gamecocks may do well in fights against other chickens but regardless of the name, they don't do well against Lions and Tigers and Bears oh my.
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That bird is gonna be schizzo!***
Sep 1, 2022, 4:56 PM
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Those People in Columbia Could Screw Up a Wet Dream
Sep 1, 2022, 4:57 PM
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How do taxpayer dollars pay for these buffoons
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General Lee, Cocck commander and now Sir little spur
Sep 1, 2022, 5:06 PM
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The coots are crazy!
We are so blessed with the best rival ever!
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As bizarre as our paying money for
Sep 1, 2022, 5:21 PM
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A less attractive east endzone. It happens.
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But now you can go to the game and watch it on TV. Just
Sep 1, 2022, 5:47 PM
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what you wanted and needed, right?
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 5:28 PM
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Apparently “The University of Second Choice” applies to more than just the reality of their students’ enrollment options - now it applies to the name of their stupid mascot as well.
That’s USuC for you: Second-rate people, third-rate university, fourth-rate city…
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 5:32 PM
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Either way, we'll mop the field with their "general" or "big spur", or whatever. lol
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 5:35 PM
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They are the most nutless and gutless group of people ever. Pick something and own it. It's not like whatever you do removes the stigma of being the joke of the SEC and college football generally
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 5:44 PM
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Reminds me of asking my indecisive wife which restaurant she would like to go to. I throw out the first suggestion, then after playing restaurant roulette we end up at the initial restaurant.
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That doesn't apply to just restaurants...***
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 5:53 PM
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The wokies are making them rebrand to the Game-gender-neutral-proboscises.
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 5:55 PM
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They are not telling the whole story. They’re so stupid that they didn’t do any research on who they named the chicken after, which was Thomas Sumter (famous for Sumter’s Law), aka “The General”. After announcing “The General” as the new Chicken name, they let the idiots know:
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 6:00 PM
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“Called "Gamecock," Sumter was known as a pugnacious individual. He became famous for "Sumter's Law," which raised ten-month regulars and paid them with slaves and other booty.”
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/2021/Thomas Sumter's Law: Slavery in the Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution This dissertation examines the entrenchment of slavery in the South Carolina backcountry during the era of the American Revolution by focusing on events surrounding Thomas Sumter's Law, a recruiting plan that offered slaves and other Loyalist property, taken by the troops during the campaign, as an enlistment bounty granted to men willing to serve for a period of ten months in the state forces beginning in April, 1781. The idea of offering a slave bounty succeeded as a lure for Revolutionary Era backcountry yeomen. The vast majority of privates recruited by Sumter showed no prior long term service, and individuals traveled from North Carolina and even Virginia to enlist for ten months in the South Carolina State Troops. Thomas Sumter successfully raised a sizable brigade of State Troops by appealing to self interest, but drew these men into a war created and sustained in large part by political and military elite whose stated beliefs in the importance of disinterested public virtue placed Sumter in a precarious position between the ideologically motivated leadership of the rebellion and back country men who manifested a disinterest in such ideology. Although Revolutionary leaders initially approved the slave bounty plan, once they observed that the actions of the State Troops amounted to a serious threat to private property and a catalyst in the increasingly violent civil war their tacit approval devolved into open contempt, and various efforts to contain the perceived radicalism of the plan. Sumter then worked assiduously in the post war period to reshape the memory of the war in his favor, in large part to further his political aspirations.
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 6:00 PM
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“Called "Gamecock," Sumter was known as a pugnacious individual. He became famous for "Sumter's Law," which raised ten-month regulars and paid them with slaves and other booty.”
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/2021/Thomas Sumter's Law: Slavery in the Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution This dissertation examines the entrenchment of slavery in the South Carolina backcountry during the era of the American Revolution by focusing on events surrounding Thomas Sumter's Law, a recruiting plan that offered slaves and other Loyalist property, taken by the troops during the campaign, as an enlistment bounty granted to men willing to serve for a period of ten months in the state forces beginning in April, 1781. The idea of offering a slave bounty succeeded as a lure for Revolutionary Era backcountry yeomen. The vast majority of privates recruited by Sumter showed no prior long term service, and individuals traveled from North Carolina and even Virginia to enlist for ten months in the South Carolina State Troops. Thomas Sumter successfully raised a sizable brigade of State Troops by appealing to self interest, but drew these men into a war created and sustained in large part by political and military elite whose stated beliefs in the importance of disinterested public virtue placed Sumter in a precarious position between the ideologically motivated leadership of the rebellion and back country men who manifested a disinterest in such ideology. Although Revolutionary leaders initially approved the slave bounty plan, once they observed that the actions of the State Troops amounted to a serious threat to private property and a catalyst in the increasingly violent civil war their tacit approval devolved into open contempt, and various efforts to contain the perceived radicalism of the plan. Sumter then worked assiduously in the post war period to reshape the memory of the war in his favor, in large part to further his political aspirations.
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
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“Called "Gamecock," Sumter was known as a pugnacious individual. He became famous for "Sumter's Law," which raised ten-month regulars and paid them with slaves and other booty.”
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/2021/Thomas Sumter's Law: Slavery in the Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution This dissertation examines the entrenchment of slavery in the South Carolina backcountry during the era of the American Revolution by focusing on events surrounding Thomas Sumter's Law, a recruiting plan that offered slaves and other Loyalist property, taken by the troops during the campaign, as an enlistment bounty granted to men willing to serve for a period of ten months in the state forces beginning in April, 1781. The idea of offering a slave bounty succeeded as a lure for Revolutionary Era backcountry yeomen. The vast majority of privates recruited by Sumter showed no prior long term service, and individuals traveled from North Carolina and even Virginia to enlist for ten months in the South Carolina State Troops. Thomas Sumter successfully raised a sizable brigade of State Troops by appealing to self interest, but drew these men into a war created and sustained in large part by political and military elite whose stated beliefs in the importance of disinterested public virtue placed Sumter in a precarious position between the ideologically motivated leadership of the rebellion and back country men who manifested a disinterest in such ideology. Although Revolutionary leaders initially approved the slave bounty plan, once they observed that the actions of the State Troops amounted to a serious threat to private property and a catalyst in the increasingly violent civil war their tacit approval devolved into open contempt, and various efforts to contain the perceived radicalism of the plan. Sumter then worked assiduously in the post war period to reshape the memory of the war in his favor, in large part to further his political aspirations.
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
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“Called "Gamecock," Sumter was known as a pugnacious individual. He became famous for "Sumter's Law," which raised ten-month regulars and paid them with slaves and other booty.”
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/2021/Thomas Sumter's Law: Slavery in the Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution This dissertation examines the entrenchment of slavery in the South Carolina backcountry during the era of the American Revolution by focusing on events surrounding Thomas Sumter's Law, a recruiting plan that offered slaves and other Loyalist property, taken by the troops during the campaign, as an enlistment bounty granted to men willing to serve for a period of ten months in the state forces beginning in April, 1781. The idea of offering a slave bounty succeeded as a lure for Revolutionary Era backcountry yeomen. The vast majority of privates recruited by Sumter showed no prior long term service, and individuals traveled from North Carolina and even Virginia to enlist for ten months in the South Carolina State Troops. Thomas Sumter successfully raised a sizable brigade of State Troops by appealing to self interest, but drew these men into a war created and sustained in large part by political and military elite whose stated beliefs in the importance of disinterested public virtue placed Sumter in a precarious position between the ideologically motivated leadership of the rebellion and back country men who manifested a disinterest in such ideology. Although Revolutionary leaders initially approved the slave bounty plan, once they observed that the actions of the State Troops amounted to a serious threat to private property and a catalyst in the increasingly violent civil war their tacit approval devolved into open contempt, and various efforts to contain the perceived radicalism of the plan. Sumter then worked assiduously in the post war period to reshape the memory of the war in his favor, in large part to further his political aspirations.
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Coots gonna coot
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Just call him "1/2 Cocked" and be done with it.
Sep 1, 2022, 6:54 PM
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Someone else suggested "Nugget" which I also like and would go with the Chick-fil-A theme.
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Re: Just call him "1/2 Cocked" and be done with it.
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Steve Spur. The Gizzard Man. Lil’######. Bird Shot. Doodle Don’t. Clucked Up. Bernie Chicken. Beaky McPlucked. Henny D. Zaster. Dumpster Fryer. Shamus McLoser.
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It’s the start of college football season and this
Sep 1, 2022, 7:41 PM
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is what’s making headlines for their program. That says a lot.
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Too Late - that bird will be known as "The Genital" forever
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- another +1 to the poster of that gem.
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Who gives a Sheet..
Sep 1, 2022, 9:00 PM
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it's a freaking Bird w/o a head scalp!
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 1, 2022, 8:58 PM
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Every single pop-up on my screen right now is from Omaha Steaks, who would like me to know that they also sell chicken-fried chicken, chicken Philly steak, chicken fettuccine, and stuffed chicken. Why would anyone select an entree as their mascot in the first place?
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 2, 2022, 12:51 AM
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Hear me out here, a Gamecock fan is serving fried chicken at their tailgate. Is it just me but doesn’t that seem odd? Kind of admitting that the best thing about your mascot is that it taste good fried up.
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 2, 2022, 6:51 AM
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Never was a General. More of a buck private, not even a PFC.
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 2, 2022, 7:10 AM
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Such juicy chicken drama
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The woke crowd figured out the General owned slaves.
Sep 2, 2022, 8:18 AM
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 2, 2022, 10:30 AM
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How about Loser the Rooster? Seems fitting
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I guess this was the Coots version of . . .
Sep 2, 2022, 11:33 AM
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. . . the "New Coke"!! ?
Go, Tigers!
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Re: I guess this was the Coots version of . . .
Sep 5, 2022, 10:32 AM
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Coots...
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Re: TNET: South Carolina's live rooster mascot is no longer 'The General'
Sep 5, 2022, 12:34 PM
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ll fighting rooster have their comb trimmed. A #### in a pit without it's comb trimmed won't make it a minute. Of course a fighting #### with a comb would more accurately portray USC football, but I have no idea why some idiot would not want it trimmed.
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I think they missed a golden opportunity
Sep 6, 2022, 9:43 AM
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By not naming him "The Colonel". Though I do suppose The Colonel and chickens are natural enemies.
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