Brother agin brother! Father agin son! Families torn asunder in South Carolina! No, I’m not talking about the Civil War, but something almost as important to folks around here, USC plays Clemson in football tomorrow for statewide bragging rights for the next year.
The first winter after we moved to South Carolina I bought a new sweatshirt. I picked it up because it was a nice shade of maroon and had the words SOUTH CAROLINA in white block letters embroidered in an arc across the front. I didn’t realize until a couple years later that it symbolized the University of South Carolina because of its colors, etc.
Friday’s since September have been wear your school colors day at work. My college is Delgado Community College in New Orleans and they don’t sell school stuff online, so I was left out of the festivities. The only time I remotely played along is when I wore my red, white and blue rugby shirt and proudly proclaimed the USA was the school I supported. But today I broke out the maroon sweatshirt to wear to work just to see what would happen. Some good natured ribbing, but not much as I think most people already knew I really didn’t care one way or another. Secretly, deep down inside I am rooting for USC. For one how can anyone root for a school who’s prominent color is orange? And secondly, you gotta love a school that actually encourages people (even the girls) to shout, “Go Cocks!”