Carolina Pride
Some predictable reaction to the Point-Counterpoint on the Carolina vs. Carolina duel that we published on the front page Saturday.
I asked the writers what response they got from their columns. Our USC grad, Jeri Rowe, reports:
1. My next-door neighbor bangs on my window during the first part of the game and gave me major grief.
2. Same goes for my other neighbor. I ran out to the car to grab something during a commercial break during the last five minutes of the game, and I heard "Go Tar Heels'' from his front porch.
3. The funniest, though, was at Bestway. I got to get hotdogs to grill out during halftime, and Mark -- a guy who works there -- turns to me and said, "I don't really like what you wrote this morning.'' Then, we had a discussion about James Dickey and the lack of football tradition at UNC.
As for UNC grad Eddie Wooten, he got this e-mail: "Dude, lay off the crystal meth.... It can do bad things to you. Oh and by the way 21-15."
Eddie also reports: One person at church said, "First, I have to say I liked your column. Second, it didn't belong on the front page of the newspaper."
Got one e-mail, from an ECU fan who was very nice and reminded me of a '70s bumper sticker: There's only one Carolina, and that's East Carolina. He was nice.
The best thing is that everything that was true on Saturday morning, before we lost, is still true this morning. Nothing changed.
Spoken like a true Heel.
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I went to watch the game at the home of a fellow USC graduate. Boy was that a nerve wracking finish! I thought that the game revealed that South Carolina is a little over rated and that North Carolina is a little underrated. Were I a true blue UNC fan I think I would feel encouraged overall. I have no doubt that UNC will be a team to watch in the next 2-3 years as they ascend as a football power. They remind me of where Clemson was in 1975 when I started college there. They weren't that great in the fall of '75, but you could see that they would be. I would not be surprised to find UNC atop the ACC in that time frame, and maybe even contending nationally within 5 years.
Posted on October 15, 2007 6:06 PM