So my father in law calls me this morning asking why Alabama fans call us Corndogs. So of course I go to google and find that because "we smell like corndogs" is the reason..? What is the history on this?
A few years back, some Auburn fan wrote his manifesto about how LSU fans (and Baton Rouge in general) smell like corndogs. That's... pretty much the entire story. This tells the story in more detail, should that be required: http://www.fanhouse.com/2006/09/11/yes-its-true-lsu-fans-smell-like-corn-dogs/
when an AU fans tells me i smell like a corndog then i tell them auburn fans smell like skoal, incest, and shame. clay travis had a good column on this a while back. it is a heckuva insult. they also stole it from the big 12.
they stole it from the red river rivalry. being that it's held at a state fair, im sure the whole place smells of corndogs
I actually looked into this the other day and I found the reason. I did find the thread where I think it was 1st started but it took way to much time to go try and look for it again. Basically, OU fans used to and maybe still do call the Nebraska Cornhuskers corndogs. An Auburn fan posted on an AU board that they should call LSU fans corndogs and everyone agreed. After that no one really knew why we were called corndogs and started making up a number of different reasons that didn't really make much sense. Such as the campus smelled like them, we wear yellow like Mustard but we wear gold, and the state fair stuff.
i knew it was stolen from a little dozen thing, i just couldnt remember what. personally, i embrace it, instead of letting it be some sort of childish insult. my game day mojo includes eating a corndog to embrace my lsu-ness. :grin:
Correct, the general idea is that fair workers generally are of lesser intelligence, have small hands, eyes too close together, smell of corndogs, etc.
JMO, but the whole thing is rather silly and was originally intended as good-natured ribbing. I'll speculate that the widespread exposure to the original post was due to the timing, which happened to coincide with the hockey-stick growth of SEC Football message forums in late '02. There weren't a whole lot of these types of posts back then, as I recall, so mebbe that had something to do with the exposure. I really don't see it much anymore, but it inevitably comes up every season as an annual topic. Here's a direct link to the original post as written by DeeepBlue on the ITAT forum: http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=6&f=2778&t=39933
