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I will be the first to acknowledge that both the blogosphere and the internet in general are full of vitriol directed toward various teams.  Any team that has ever enjoyed any success whatsoever has something written about it which drips of the sort of steaming hatred that accompanies sports rivalries great and small.  Most of the time these flaming rants come from fans of teams that are either rivals (or wish they were rivals) of the object of the spewing hatred.

This post is a flaming rant.  It is not, however, aimed at a traditional rival of the Tennessee Volunteers.  Furthermore, while it amounts to little more than a creative rationalization on my part, I feel that I have earned my bitching license on this one since — in addition to being a graduate of the University of Tennessee — I am also a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I despise the Tarheels Tarheads…

From 1998 until 2001, I attended “trade school” at UNC.  For the record, I got a wonderful education at the UNC School of Law, and have nothing but good things to say about the educational aspects of that institution.  There are a few reasons for this.  First, UNC School of Law is an excellent institution with a fine faculty.  Second, as is the case at most professional and graduate schools, most of the students at UNC School of Law did their undergraduate work elsewhere.

See, I said something nice about UNC…

As for the actual teams that UNC fields and the fans that follow those teams, well, I am much less complimentary.  Having spent 3 years among the Tarheads, I am all to familiar with their “regal society” mentality.  I had it explained to me one more than one occasion by more than one person that my not being a fan of the Tarheads just indicated that I “did not understand” just what an amazing team and tradtion UNC has.

The fans at Dook — only 9 miles up the road from Chapel Hill — are arrogant, there’s no way around that.  This difference is that Dook’s fans acknowledge this fact and wear like a badge of honor.  They make no bones about it — they are some of the most obnoxious and arrogant fans in the country.  UNC Fans, on the other hand, do not generally think themselves arrogant, but rather “right.”  In my book, that feigned humility, paired with their overbearing arrogance (all while criticizing Dook fans for being arrogant), puts UNC fans right near the bottom — just a few notches above Florida fans, and directly below degenerate bottomfeeders (a/k/a “lawyers like me”).

Furthermore, if it can’t be the SEC that brings home the NCAA title tonight in Detroit, it might as well be the BigTen.  Besides, I’m kinda partial to Sparty, and I like green…

Thus, it is with great conviction that I declare:

GO MICHIGAN STATE!!!

Vanquish the Mother Smurfin’ Tarheaded Smurfs of UNC!!!

Nah, I don’t hold grudges, honest I don’t…

– So it goes…

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