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All-In [42000]
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Do you have any good gameday traditions...
Nov 16, 2022, 8:56 AM
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When you AREN'T attending a Clemson game in person? If so, what?
I promise not to steal any. Maybe.
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Re: Do you have any good gameday traditions...
Nov 16, 2022, 8:57 AM
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All-In [42000]
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But in that order?***
Nov 16, 2022, 8:58 AM
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Butt of course....
Nov 16, 2022, 8:58 AM
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I like to drink a lot and wear orange.
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Oculus Spirit [97646]
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Shaving. One MUST shave on gameday. I will take full
Nov 16, 2022, 8:59 AM
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responsibility for our loss at ND, I had a lapse in judgement and didn't shave.
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Oculus Spirit [79110]
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We talking upstairs or downstairs here?***
Nov 16, 2022, 12:22 PM
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Re: We talking upstairs or downstairs here?***
Nov 16, 2022, 3:51 PM
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Oculus Spirit [85053]
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Yes, if I don't attend then game then I usually
Nov 16, 2022, 8:59 AM
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watch it on television.
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All-TigerNet [12102]
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Typically I don't wear my class ring
Nov 16, 2022, 9:04 AM
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with my job, frequent washing of hands, esp sanitizer supposedly may bleach the onyx
make sure I have it on the whole day of a game
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CU Medallion [60205]
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I try to shoot a squirrel every Sat AM of a game
Nov 16, 2022, 9:07 AM
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any game, whether going to it or not. As sort of a "sacrifice" for good luck. First thing I do on Saturday AMs. Obviously if I am on the road that is not possible - this applies only if I am at my own domicile.
If I don't see one, so be it, no harm. But if I see one and shoot at it, I MUST kill it (or another one). I will go to absurd lengths tracking one until I get it.
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Orange Blooded [3693]
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If you are headed to the game
Nov 16, 2022, 11:34 AM
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You could always run one over
HTH
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Oculus Spirit [93604]
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There's a squrriel ho house in the tree next door.
Nov 16, 2022, 1:40 PM
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If you have a 12 ga and time to drop by you can shoot up into that flop house and kill half a dozen. If you don't have a shotgun I will loan you a 22 cal target pistol which should net you a few.
Thanks for killing them. Rats aren't more of a pest, imo.
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CU Medallion [60205]
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.22 Benjamin Trail pellet rifle with a powerful scope
Nov 16, 2022, 2:37 PM
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Quiet. Pinpoint accurate at 50yds+. At 100feet in, so easy it's not even challenging, which body part do you want me to hit. Pellet more times than not goes completely through the carcass, devastating. That "thump" sound of a solid hit to the chest is just beautiful to hear.
The thing is that squirrels communicate with each other pretty well.......you kill 3 or 4 of them in short time and they ALL go away for months. That's why I try for one per week.
https://www.benjaminairguns.com/trail-xl-magnum Trail XL Magnum The Benjamin Trail XL Magnum features a handsome, checkered, hardwood stock. With its daunting velocities of up to 1500 fps (.177-caliber), 1100 fps (.22-caliber), and 900 fps (.25-caliber), small game - it's game over. Benjamin Nitro Piston powered break
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I make a 'gameday' just before kickoff. Mixing bourbon,
Nov 16, 2022, 9:10 AM
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ice and orange soda in a fluted stadium cup.
Also I put on my gameday socks, duh.
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VERY specific routine for me when possible.
Nov 16, 2022, 9:10 AM
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Gameday, when not in the valley:
Take a shid. Or 2 or 3, depending on nervousshid factor + friday pm shenanigans.
Try hard to get leg in the morning. Not always successful though depending on cawkblocking kids, headaches, and all the other excuses.
Wear orange. Probably a tshirt. Probably a hat. Maybe a jacket, depending on weather.
Drink. Beer. Quite a few.
Eat. Not a lot, but kinda snack on stuff. Either a box 'o pollo from Bojangles or kinda just keep the grill and/or smoker going all day with various stuff.
Yell GAHDDAMMIT! Normally happens during the game, sometimes more than once.
The end.
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I've noticed when watching on TV you have to yell REAL LOUD
Nov 16, 2022, 9:13 AM
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or the refs can't hear you.
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I actually yell EXTRA REAL LOUD because
Nov 16, 2022, 9:14 AM
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I want the coaches to hear me, and they have that extra layer of headphones you gotta penetrate.
I think we're on the same page, fam.
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Re: Do you have any good gameday traditions...
Nov 16, 2022, 9:15 AM
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Lot o points [163008]
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Same orange shirt. If we start losing, I turn off the sound
Nov 16, 2022, 9:20 AM
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well, I did not do this for ND as that was a beatdown. But it worked a couple of other times this year.
Used to do shots, but on diet so no alcohol. I think about doing shots. LOL.
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CU Medallion [55641]
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Depends on my level of interest. In years when I thought we
Nov 16, 2022, 9:22 AM
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were in the running for the Natty or years when we were on the rise, I was sure to shave, take a nervous poop, and wear my lucky gameday clothes and change those clothes if the Tigers needed a mid-game mojo correction. It worked.
TBH, since 2020 I have cared a lot less. Seeing the product on the field decline and being the hunted rather than the hunter has taken some of the starch out of APM's gamedays. I seldom get nervous. The only two times I have been nervous this season were 1) when we were in OT vs. WFU and 2) when we nearly allowed FSU to come back. I predicted our struggles against ND and when it was clear we were going to lose, I didn't bother to change clothes or even care. Went to bed and slept soundly. I just embraced the suck.
It was more fun when we were on the journey.
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Man, you need to see a psychiatrist or something***
Nov 16, 2022, 9:27 AM
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CU Medallion [55641]
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True. To quote TLaw, "I'm kinda messed up."***
Nov 16, 2022, 12:16 PM
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Remember when we were on the journey and we lost to
Nov 16, 2022, 9:32 AM
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unranked Pitt at home? And then we blanked Ohio State 31-0 in the playoff and then Hunter Renfrow caught that pass with 6 seconds to beat Bama in the natty in Tampa?
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Re: Remember when we were on the journey and we lost to
Nov 16, 2022, 9:36 AM
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Watch the game hungover, splayed on my couch in my boxers
Nov 16, 2022, 11:14 AM
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scratching my balls.
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Orange Blooded [3693]
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shots every other TD
Nov 16, 2022, 11:33 AM
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We would have died of alcohol poisoning starting in about 2013 were we to do a shot for every touchdown
Go Tigers
Also we are now 96-8 in my old Clemson shirt with Sammy #2 jersey combo. They're both in pretty rough shape
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Get blackout drunk***
Nov 16, 2022, 11:34 AM
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All-In [42000]
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Dang... I thought I was original with that one.***
Nov 16, 2022, 11:41 AM
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drink whiskey an hour before kickoff
Nov 16, 2022, 11:36 AM
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wear orange.
usually wear the same shirt before my birthday for each game, then another shirt for each game after my birthday.
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Oculus Spirit [93604]
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Yep but I'm not strict on myself.
Nov 16, 2022, 11:48 AM
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I try to fix a meal and time it so that it any time maintaining it will be sacrificed during halftime. I usually line up snacks before gametime too.
I never drink alcohol during games but I might have a couple (2) beers after an early or mid afternoon game when Clemson loses. For the ND game I made the two tallboys.
I decide during the week previous to a game whether I'm confident enough of a win that I can record the game and FF through the breaks and timeouts so I won't be subject to the idiotic comments of those who think their short stupid predetermined speeches are entertaining. I like those games most because I can stretch halftime to do whatever needed to work out the meal to follow.
Early that day I send my kids emails to let them know if they need to talk to me they need to call early or come over and WATCH the game with me.
If we all had this kind of passion for going to church we'd be a lot happier group.
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