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BarryBobPosthole
11-23-2018, 10:15 AM
You won the game and the fight!

BKb
Chicken Dinner
11-23-2018, 10:18 AM
Why is it the “egg” bowl any way?


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BarryBobPosthole
11-23-2018, 10:23 AM
They only play when their cheerleaders are all ovulating.

BKB
Chicken Dinner
11-23-2018, 11:37 AM
The way Ol’ Miss has been playing, it may be the players who are ovulating.


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Big Muddy
11-23-2018, 04:36 PM
Thanks, Tpost, dang good win for us against those preppie pricks.

Chick, it was called the "Golden Egg" bowl since 1927.....then, shortened to just the "Egg Bowl" in the 1970's by a sports writer.
BarryBobPosthole
11-23-2018, 05:13 PM
Well! That certainly explains it!

Not

BKB
Chicken Dinner
11-23-2018, 05:33 PM
Basically, nobody really knows?


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Big Muddy
11-23-2018, 05:35 PM
This is the most info. I can find about it:

"""So where did the “Egg Bowl” come from? This game used to be called the Battle for the Golden Egg, but in 1978, the Clarion-Ledger executive sports editor Tom Patterson changed it.

According to the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, Patterson didn’t think the state’s football programs were good enough for his newspaper. He was proud of his sports sections and wanted to show them off by covering special events. But the Bulldogs and Rebels weren’t going to any bowl games.

So he thought why not create one? It was then that the Battle for the Golden Egg, which is supposed to resemble a gold-plated football, became the Egg Bowl and that’s how the newspaper referred to it the whole week. Patterson’s special Egg Bowl section ended up winning a first place award.

Obviously, the game between the rivals is still called the Egg Bowl more than 30 years later."""
Chicken Dinner
11-23-2018, 11:54 PM
Not trying to give you a hard time. It just seems like there ought to be a story behind an “egg” of Ll things.


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Big Muddy
11-24-2018, 01:42 AM
Dayumifiknow, I told ya all I know about it.....Bama and Auburn are playing their Iron Bowl tomorrow.....why is that one called the Iron Bowl??? ;)
BarryBobPosthole
11-24-2018, 06:22 AM
Because it was played in Birmingham where there steel industry at one time.

BKB
Big Muddy
11-24-2018, 12:57 PM
I think they should re-name it, after the Bama state tree---the "Pussy Willow" bowl.