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Official Car of East Carolina UniversityEast Carolina University and NC State University have a love hate relationship. We love to hate each other.
Starting back in the 1970’s, NCSU was the only North Carolina and ACC team that would even consider playing ECU.
State has always been Tractor Tech, Moo U, Cow College – but compared to ECU - we’re high class.
Put it this way – State was a double wide with aluminum skirts on your own lot. ECU was the 15-year old rusted out rental single wide with the wheels still on (but no tires) and the car up on cinderblocks in the front yard.
State never would play at ECU. All sorts of reasons such as their stadium was too small; why go to ECU when we could travel to Florida, or Penn State - you know – real schools; and so on.
So the couple of times ECU won at NC State – their fans actually tore down the NC State goal posts! These were alcohol fueled affairs that resulted in near riots. And for a while – the games between the schools were suspended.
And I have been at every ECU @ NCSU game – including the riot games.
State and ECU have resumed their games. NC State has actually travelled a couple times to Greenville.
Last year, State broke its losing streak with an upset victory at ECU. Which didn’t exactly send ECU on a skid – but it did hurt them.
Tomorrow ECU comes to Raleigh flying high with 2 big upset back to back wins over ranked teams including Number 8 West Virginia. ECU is ranked 15 / 16 but since they are playing at NCSU they are favored by only a touchdown.
I got on Craigslist last night just to look. There were over 350 entries of people wanting to buy tickets. Clearly ECU fans are buying tickets at just about any price to be at their expected victory tomorrow.
The game will be very emotional as always.
Fortunately kickoff is at noon – so at least the purple rednecks won’t have all day to drink beer. Hopefully they can try and act like they’ve been to a big time game before.
NC State’s rivalry is with UNC. But ECU is the team you just can’t stand to lose to. At UNC – NCSU games, we tailgate together; watch the games together at friends’ houses or local pubs; and pull for each other when playing in the post season.
But EZU?
Fark ‘em.
Starting back in the 1970’s, NCSU was the only North Carolina and ACC team that would even consider playing ECU.
State has always been Tractor Tech, Moo U, Cow College – but compared to ECU - we’re high class.
Put it this way – State was a double wide with aluminum skirts on your own lot. ECU was the 15-year old rusted out rental single wide with the wheels still on (but no tires) and the car up on cinderblocks in the front yard.
State never would play at ECU. All sorts of reasons such as their stadium was too small; why go to ECU when we could travel to Florida, or Penn State - you know – real schools; and so on.
So the couple of times ECU won at NC State – their fans actually tore down the NC State goal posts! These were alcohol fueled affairs that resulted in near riots. And for a while – the games between the schools were suspended.
And I have been at every ECU @ NCSU game – including the riot games.
State and ECU have resumed their games. NC State has actually travelled a couple times to Greenville.
Last year, State broke its losing streak with an upset victory at ECU. Which didn’t exactly send ECU on a skid – but it did hurt them.
Tomorrow ECU comes to Raleigh flying high with 2 big upset back to back wins over ranked teams including Number 8 West Virginia. ECU is ranked 15 / 16 but since they are playing at NCSU they are favored by only a touchdown.
I got on Craigslist last night just to look. There were over 350 entries of people wanting to buy tickets. Clearly ECU fans are buying tickets at just about any price to be at their expected victory tomorrow.
The game will be very emotional as always.
Fortunately kickoff is at noon – so at least the purple rednecks won’t have all day to drink beer. Hopefully they can try and act like they’ve been to a big time game before.
NC State’s rivalry is with UNC. But ECU is the team you just can’t stand to lose to. At UNC – NCSU games, we tailgate together; watch the games together at friends’ houses or local pubs; and pull for each other when playing in the post season.
But EZU?
Fark ‘em.
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