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Bevo&Pevo

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2 minutes ago, ousux said:

"Egg bowl" is about the lamest name possible for what is supposed to be a big rivalry game.

The Golden Egg trophy[edit]

The Aggies (Bulldogs) dominated the early days of the series including a 13-game A&M winning streak from 1911 to 1925 during which time the Aggies outscored the Red and Blue by a combined 327–33.[10] Through 1925 Ole Miss had won only five times out of 23 total contests. In 1926 when the Red and Blue ended their 13-game losing streak by defeating A&M 7–6 in Starkville, the Ole Miss fans rushed the field with some trying to tear the goalposts down. A&M fans did not take well to the Ole Miss fans destroying their property and fights broke out. Some A&M fans defended the goal posts with wooden chairs, and several injuries were reported. According to one account:

"Irate Aggie supporters took after the ambitious Ole Miss group with cane bottom chairs, and fights broke out. The mayhem continued until most of the chairs were splintered."[11]

To prevent such events in the future, students of the two schools created The Golden Egg, a large trophy which has been awarded to the winning team each year since 1927. In the event of a tie, the school that won the game the previous year kept the trophy for the first half of the new year and then the trophy was sent to the other school for the second half of the new year.[12]

The trophy is a large football-shaped brass piece mounted to a wooden base and traditionally symbolizes supremacy in college football in the state of Mississippi for the year. The footballs used in American football in the 1920s were considerably more ovoid and blunter than those in use today and similar to the balls still used in rugby; the trophy thus, to modern eyes, more resembles an egg than a football.[citation needed]

The game was given the nickname "Egg Bowl" by The Clarion-Ledger sportswriter Tom Patterson in 1979.[13]

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Celery Man

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1 minute ago, ousux said:

"Egg bowl" is about the lamest name possible for what is supposed to be a big rivalry game.

I don’t know what the story is but I assume there is one and that kind of shit is what makes college football great. Way better than the United Healthcare Longhorn Raider Panhandle Cook Off brought to you by Lodge.

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1 minute ago, Celery Man said:

I don’t know what the story is but I assume there is one and that kind of shit is what makes college football great. Way better than the United Healthcare Longhorn Raider Panhandle Cook Off brought to you by Lodge.

Agree with all of this except the Lodge part. 

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37 minutes ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

In 1926 when the Red and Blue ended their 13-game losing streak by defeating A&M 7–6 in Starkville, the Ole Miss fans rushed the field with some trying to tear the goalposts down

Rushing the field as the visitors is a solid move

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