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Orange Blooded [3194]
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We really do have the best fans in cfb
Jan 19, 2017, 12:34 PM
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Can you ever remember a national championship team returning home to have around 10,000 fans waiting for them?
Can you remember a national championship team parade that had 30,000 people on the streets and another 70,000 in the stadium? I sure as heck don't.
And that doesn't include the 1,000s of fans that showed up last year after the loss to Bama to congratulate our team on a successful season despite losing the national championship game.
And boy do we get loud...i remember the cameras shaking when alabama got the ball after we scored to go up 28- 24. Even Chris Fowler said "It sounds like Death valley in here, very loud".
I love our fans and our program, so proud to be a tiger.
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Re: We really do have the best fans in cfb
Jan 19, 2017, 12:48 PM
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Standout [308]
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Consider if they would have had it a little later in the day
Jan 19, 2017, 12:50 PM
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I know there was a Basketball game, but 9am made it difficult for a lot of coastal fans to make the trip.
Not complaining, I was in Boston anyway, but do wonder if they did that so there wouldn't be too many fans to handle!
Go Tigers!!!
#TheBestIsYetToCome
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Letterman [256]
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Re: Consider if they would have had it a little later in the day
Jan 19, 2017, 12:54 PM
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Yea I would have been there to greet the team on their return, but I had to drive back from tampa, didn't get to fly. I was at least there to greet them after the Fiesta bowl.
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CU Medallion [60202]
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Cubs had a million+
Jan 19, 2017, 12:51 PM
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most college football teams are in small cities/towns.
The big city pro teams pull millions to their parades.
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Oculus Spirit [81934]
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per capita city population?
Jan 19, 2017, 12:58 PM
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and more civilized
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Orange Blooded [3194]
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That's why I said cfb fans, not professional sports fans
Jan 19, 2017, 2:23 PM
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Just about every pro team is located in a big city so you would expect more fans to be at a parade. Clemson is a really small town and to gather 100000 fans for a parade is something I've never seen in cfb.
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CU Medallion [60202]
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Auburn had 70,000 at theirs
Jan 19, 2017, 2:47 PM
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Aside from the lack of an opponent and hundreds of students roaming around Pat Dye Field, an onlooker might have thought it was a game day at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Though no football was played, the Auburn Family cheered and chanted for the victorious team with the same enthusiasm.
Auburn University recognized the BCS National Championship team Saturday afternoon with a celebration open to the public. Fans received complementary National Championship posters as they entered the gates.
Attendance exceeded expectations as the crowd of more than 70,000 spilled into the upper decks. Students were permitted to stand on the field bearing the new National Champions logo. The scoreboard read 22-19, the final score of Auburn’s first national title in 53 years.
http://family.auburn.edu/profiles/blogs/auburn-tigers-bcs-championship
FSU only had 30,000
After Jameis Winston’s pregame speech at Clemson in October, the unofficial motto of the 2013 Florida State football season became “Do it big.”
And that’s exactly what the Seminoles did on Saturday afternoon at Doak Campbell Stadium, when an estimated 30,000 fans came out for the highly anticipated National Championship Celebration.
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2014/02/01/fsu-football-championship-celebration/5136561/
I didn't go back any further. Bama has about 20K at theirs in 2016, but winning 4 in the last 7 years probably dampers the crowd some.
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Oculus Spirit [81934]
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Auburn ain't Clemson, and never will be***
Jan 19, 2017, 2:49 PM
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nm
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Orange Blooded [3194]
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Yeah I should of did a little homework on the subject but still
Jan 19, 2017, 4:48 PM
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100,000 fans for a parade in a really small town is d@mn impressive.
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Orange Blooded [3820]
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thank you for setting this up... all is rosy now, but
Jan 19, 2017, 12:54 PM
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here's the greatest line ever written about Clemson fans (courtesy of SB Nation) for just a little fandom self-check in the middle of patting each other on the back....
"In the five seasons since the 2012 Orange Bowl, Clemson...
- beat LSU in the Chick-fil-A Bowl,
- then beat Ohio State and Oklahoma twice in the postseason (only one of the games was close),
- won the ACC twice,
- reached the national title game in 2015, and
- won it in 2016.
Progress isn’t supposed to be linear, but it has been for Clemson. Hell, progress wasn’t supposed to happen at all when the school panic-hired its best recruiter in Swinney to replace Tommy Bowden. Swinney had no coordinator experience, and only five years earlier, he was out of the coaching game altogether. "
Absolute WORST succession plan ever.
Congrats TigerNation - you were #### lucky...
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