re: Why does the Rant hate the Chick-Fil-A Bowl so much?

...what Chicken said ... about "The Chicken Bowl " ... what he said ... he's The Chicken fer chrisssake ! .. :jump1:

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The chick fila bowl picks 6th in the SEC bowl order. Are you telling me that finishing 6th in the SEC is exciting to you?

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Those low standard MA's love them some S.E.C. 6th!

Pumpers have no problem with it. "We'll be Fine."

Buttock smooching excuse making cheerleaders. They're all Stuart Smalley's. "And that's OK."

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dunno if it'll necessarily be Duke, but the point isn't about the matchup this year; most people seem to be opposed to going on principle which is what I don't get

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It wasn't long ago that people were griping about going to the Cotton Bowl, remember? Now they are practically begging for the Cotton Bowl. And the program isn't headed in the wrong direction?

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Losing to Clemson last year is one thing, but if we lost to Duke....ouch.

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So you want to play Baylor instead? Or are u thinking it will be Texas playing to save Mack Brown's job.
Actually that may be interesting, since I think Saban will go to Texas after the next season.

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Give me a top-flight environment in primetime on New Year's Eve against a typically top 10-15 opponent from the ACC over a dull noon game against a Big 10 team of shaky quality competing with other bowls for TV time on New Year's Day every time.

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I do not disagree with this.

1) Been there...done that.
2) Don't really like the Georgia Dome.
3) Downtown Atlanta sucks.
4) I can get Chick-fil-A without driving 7 hours.
5) Have to drive through Gumpville and don't like the smell.

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It's purely financial/economical for me. Atlanta gets the SEC Championship in football and also an SEC team in the Chicken bowl. Personally the SEC Championship should be alternated by an SEC East state and an SEC West state. Hell, why not make it New Orleans and Atlanta alternating so the towns can both rake in the money. Why does only

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Atlanta get the spoils? Atlanta gets too much money already from all the other SEC states/cities...share the wealth. So that's the reason I don't like LSU going to the Chicken bowl..too much Louisiana money spent in Atlanta.

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This, but remember the SECG started out in Birmingham.

As a ticket holder, I've ordered bowl game tickets every year since really online ordering started. Sometimes I go, sometimes I cannot and I just sell the tix for face value. Last year's Chik-Fil-A I sold for well under 30% of face. So this year, I went down the order form and selected all available that LSU may end up in EXCEPT the Chik-Fil-A. I will never buy another ticket to that bowl again. It's over with.

If Alleva and company accept another invite to that shite bowl in the next 5 years, I guarantee that not only we can't sell anywhere near our allotment, but the Ga Dome will be 80% OTHER TEAM'S FANS.

The Chik-Fil-A bowl market for LSU fans is oversaturated, for probably at least a decade or more. If you're reading this, Joe A - a polite heads up: The fanbase is sick of Atlanta. Go anywhere but there, taking lesser bowls if you must. Atlanta is done.

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Chick-fil-A bowl means we're mediocre and supposed to be happy with it.

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My dissatisfaction is not even that it's a symbol of mediocrity. It's the fact that the athletic dept obviously has very little respect for this fanbase if it blindly accepts this invite every year. I'd rather be in the Outback or Music City bowl than the Chik, even if it's a shittier bowl. No aspect of LSU, from coaches to players to fans, wants anything to do with this bowl for a pretty good while. Maybe if we'd have taken another invite last year, then you could put us in the Chik-Fil-A again this year. But by taking that horrible game last year, they broke it. Financial suicide awaits all parties by putting LSU in this bowl again in the foreseeable future.

To me it's:
1. NC
2. Sugar
3. Cotton
4. Citrus (Cap One)
5. Peach (chik-fil-a)