EX-GAMECOCK QUARTERBACK KNOWS HOW TO HANDLE TATER HATERS …
Former University of South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw was booed during an appearance at a Christian concert in Greenville, S.C. – a rude reception he responded to with a “high five” (a.k.a. “five-bomb“).
Shaw, a devout Christian, was introduced at Friday night’s Winter Jam 2014 event – which took place at Greenville’s Bon Secours Wellness Arena (formerly Bi-Lo Center). As the boos rained down from the audience – which was clearly comprised of mostly Clemson University fans – Shaw “threw up the five,” according to one witness.
For those of you who don’t follow football in the Palmetto State, that’s a reference to the five consecutive wins Shaw’s Gamecocks have notched over Clemson …
Shaw completed 14 of 26 passes for 152 yards and a touchdown against Clemson in last year’s game. He also ran for 94 yards and another score.
In 2011, Shaw connected on 14 of 20 throws for three touchdowns – and added another 117 yards and a touchdown on the ground.
Shaw was injured for South Carolina’s 2012 game against Clemson, but the Gamecocks won anyway on the strength of backup quarterback Dylan Thompson’s 310-yard, three-touchdown performance.
Shaw is one of five former Gamecocks invited to attend this month’s NFL combine in Indianapolis in anticipation of the upcoming NFL draft. He is currently rated among the top dozen or so available signal-callers.
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Stay classy Clemson!!!!!
You and/or Sic Willie personally IDed all those who booed and verified that they were Clemson fans, is that correct? Or are you, as Sic Willie has done, based your statements on the hearsay evidence of one “witness”?
Hey CNSYD, it was in Greenville, dumbass!
So all residents of Greenville are Clemson fans. Is that your logic? Strange that I have seen Greenville residents wearing USC, Furman, etc, gear. I guess they are really Clemson fans.
There’s too many USuCk fans in Greenville and Spartanburg. I encounter them almost every day. Most are missing teeth and wear sweats that don’t cover the rolls of fat peaking from their spare tires.
I saw one last week with a tat on her left ass-cheek. It read “Andre.”
Watch it! That’s my momma!
Ever since Nancy Mace disappeared from FITSNEWS, the ability to use an avatar went with her. Thus anyone can impersonate someone else as someone has done with my screen name. After the primary perhaps the technical errors with this site can be fixed. OBW I have previous communicated with whoever is the tech person for this site about the problem and received zero reply.
Happened to me too. They actually copied my avatar and screen name.
I personally think it’s an insider.
C’mon man, I feel ya on the whole CU – USC thing, but what are the odds that a Greenville crowd just spontaneously booed Shaw for some other reason? I bet Boyd would get booed in Cola, too. That just wasn’t this story. It’s true in physics, statistics, economics, problem solving, and criminal investigations: the simplest theory is usually the correct one (see Occam’s razor for additional info, but trust me on this one).
“Occams razor”
CNSYD was fumbling around in the drawer in the dark, to cheap to turn on the light, and he retrieved Occam’s butterknife, instead.
h/t Steve Sailer
TBG…Bro…”Occam’s butterknife?!” That’s quality work right there.
Alas, TBG can’t take credit for it.
That would go to Steve Sailer who also came up with “Invade the World, Invite the World, In Hock to the World”. and others.
The purposes of Sic Willie writing this “story” were two fold. First and foremost he sees “5 bomb” everywhere and in everything, no matter how sophomoric. He never sees 65-42-4. Secondly, he knew that it would invoke comments and increase “hits” therefore giving him “bragging rights” with advertisers. News value, a topic of which Sic Willie has little if any interest, was not considered. Also, as a paragon of journalistic excellence, Sic Willie bases his “story” on the hearsay “evidence” of one “witness”.
I don’t know who booed Shaw, assuming it all happened as Sic Willie described it, nor do I know why. In what context was Shaw introduced? Details Sic Willie either intentionally ignores or is too lazy to investigate. Context is important. An introduction of “devout Christian and QB of USC” would probably evoke some boos for the latter part. Contrast that with “devout Christian and QB of USC who has beaten Clemson the last 5 years in a row” would evoke an entirely different response.
Again, mi amigo, I feel ya. Yet, you make my point, again.
Your theory: We don’t know the full identities of the “booers” so we can’t possibly know their motivations. Maybe Connor was tackily introduced (something akin to “Ladies and rednecks…Mr. Connor Shaw, who’s managed to kick Klempsun’s asses for five consecutive years!” Will should have investigated the story more fully (hell, he doesn’t much investigate real news stories, man). Somehow the overall USC-CU record gets thrown in to you theory, but I’m not sure how to work that since it basically appears to be some type of coping mechanism. Will may have hallucinated the “5-bomb,” which he sees everywhere. Therefore, no firm theory can be made without additional information and investigation.
My theory: Football fixated rednecks abound in both CU and USC fan bases. The “incident” occurred deep in CU territory, where Connor Shaw epitomizes the anomaly of USC’s recent winning streak. Therefore, most likely, tacky Clemson rednecks (ostensibly Christian ones, at that) booed him for that reason.
See? Fewer assumptions, simpler assumptions. Cleaner. Occam says (at a very high level of statistical confidence) that I’m right, and he was “wicked smot,” bro. We’re thinking about this way too much. Peace!
All I need to know,
Clemson fans, graduates and supporters:
David Wilkins
Nikki Haley
The Peelers
Jake Knotts
Danny Frazier
Dick Harpootlin
and a Dabo for a coach
Rogues, adulterers, thieves and low life scum!
Enough said!
All TBG needs to know,
BigT/GrandTango=Sakerlina supporter.
That name alone trumps any Clemson list.
Dabo is just a speeder, so, even though I don’t like him, I would say that’s an unfair list to put him on.
I’ll give you that Ol’ Dabo can’t really compete with Jake Knotts and Dick Harpootlian on the douche scale, but speeding isn’t his biggest problem. General loudmouth douchery is his problem. I will say again- plenty to go around on both sides.
makes sense in Harpo’s case when he was the circuit solicitor for Richland County, riding the Carolina students on simple possession, et al, that he rakes in millions on defending now, but I digress
A list of names akin to a Police line up!
Co conspirators of sick and pathetic activities.
you know much like Tango, for someone who doesn’t like, or trust any of Sic Willie’s stories, you spend an ass load of time on here.
” It’s true in physics, statistics, economics, problem solving, and criminal investigations: the simplest theory is usually the correct one “
Please keep your vile, hateful, racisss opinions to yourself, Beach Boy.
My bad! Won’t happen again. Ok, yes it will.
We’d give Boyd a standing ovation, we LUUVVVVV him!!!
Who else would boo a USC athlete in the upstate? We all know Clemson fans are classless inbred trailer trash. After all the centerpiece of their campus is a monument dedicated to the most heinous bloodthirsty racist in the history of this state-Ben Tillman.
” We all know Clemson fans are classless inbred trailer trash.”
TBG is not “inbred”.
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Yeah, we’ve got Tillman…
Y’all have BigT/GrandTango.
And all this time I thought the “centerpiece” was John C. Calhoun’s home. BTW what is the admin building at Winthrop named? Also, can you find a statue of Tillman on the state house grounds? You are just angry that Tillman called you an effete urban dude.
I guess they were IDed as Clemson fans the same way people who personally IDed the fans in question when they claimed it was Carolina fans that threw stuff at the Dabo at halftime.
This is why only taters take CNSYD seriously. This, and his passion for little boys …
Another “brave” poster afraid to reveal his identity, yet resorting to immature insults.
I can’t find CNSYD in the phone book.
And your real identity would be? Not what you post under but your full name brave man.
Stay classy, Christians!
He did…
I attended both schools, undergrad and graduate. I’m also a Christian.
To say I’m saddened by this is an understatement.
This is alarmingly upsetting to me and extremely disapointing.
First hand, Clemson hates USC worse than Christians hate the Devil himself. This sickening display proves it.
Shame on you all!
Let me guess…..USC Undergrad and Clemson Graduate School?
Yea, we understand.
You make my point with your sarcastic and ignorant comment!
Undergrad Clemson, Graduate at USC!
Going back for PHD…USC. Thank you for verifying my post!
So how does being a professional student work out financially?
How do you get a USC PHD off your front porch?
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Pay him for the Pizza!!!
(TBG will be here through the weekend….)
Much more lucrative than your GED, I’m sure!
Jealous, envious?
Ph.D you mean. And no one with a legit Ph.D believes anything on this website. You’re an embarrassment to both schools.
How about the #1 Honors College in the nation?? I graduated from there and am now in Medical School. Didn’t need Clemsuck for any of that. Especially not the BEAUTIFUL town of Clemson. So much to do……
The lamecocks had to win the last five so they could get to 14 out if the last 40. Of course the Tigers dominate it’s weaker sister 65-42-4 overall.
Yeah!. What Lester said. We used to kick y’all’s asses before y’all been kickin’ our asses. Goddammit!
win again then say something!!!!! see you when Dab0 is gone I guess.
Maybe they’ll keep Dabo and we’ll go 16-4 against CU over the next 20 years (I mean, they have to win again at some point, you know?). Then the two teams will be 30-30 over a 60 year period. Then, suddenly, all the rednecks in the state will stop their irrational hate of other rednecks who like a different color shirt on their football team. Oh, wait a minute, no…they’ll just keep reaching further and further back, and if that ever runs out on them, I’m not sure that the CU collective psyche could survive. Lighten up taters! It’s football. I mean, we’re not talking about tractors or cows here…
Clemson’s new motto is: “Remember when…”
I heard its offered as a class at Clemson. Of course since the last win they actually had was before the printing press was invented, they just sit around and tell stories of those good old days
Dirtpecker’s new motto is “Alabama mouth, Vanderbilt trophy case”.
So has Shaw just decided to not go to school the rest of the year and finish his degree?
I don’t know. Apparently he has been wasting his time attending christian concerts with behaviorally impaired Clemson students.
He’s a regular Connor Bieber the way he’s been going around acting like a celebrity, good thing he doesn’t leave the state where people wouldn’t know him from Stephen Garcia.
Shaw graduated in December.
Sociology degree?
Your blind hatred of anything USC has made you a fucking idiot. He graduated in December. Look up shit before you shoot it out of your ass. By the way he also plans to go into the Armed Services to defend the right you have to talk like a dumbass freely (he is still planning to if the NFL doesn’t work out, or when its done, to go into the Air Force) . You want to make fun of that too, or should you just say thank you to the man and shut the fuck up? I mean other than be a dumb fuck to laugh at, what the fuck have you ever done for this country?
I love the Dirtpecker U. paychecks they give me. I just don’t idolize young men the way that you do. Does he have a blog or do you just stalk him? You are touchy tonight, must be time for your Midol.
The Air Force, did the Boy Scouts turn him away?
“…he also plans to go into the Armed Services to defend the right you have to talk like a dumbass freely …”
Amazing that those Pashtuns haven’t learned to stop trying to infringe on Squishy’s 1st amendment rights by now.
Meh.
One of these days they will figure it out.
I know plenty of guys who “planned on” joining the military (or the Armed Services for those Democrat posters), maybe half actually did.
Are there unarmed services that he could join?
You should know, you are the president of the local GLAAD chapter.
Your dad is Vice President and chairman of the “welcoming committee”.
It still doesn’t change the fact you are a pussy
Ohh, that stings.
How Christian of Clemson fans…
Clemson? Carolina? Who gives a fuck?
What he/she said…………………..
Must be you since you are here!! :)
In actuality, it wasn’t a crowd comprised of mostly Clemson fans but a crowd comprised of mostly fans of Christ, and how about they simply recognized a fake Christian in their midst being catered to like the man that gets moved to the front of the assembly because he wears a gold ring and goodly apparel and is introduced because someone is showing respect of person rather than respect of the Spirit…
and how about they simply recognized a fake Christian in their midst
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As it is written:
“Thou shalt boo, and boo with exceeding vigor, those who compete in sporting activities within your land who seem to you to be unworthy of the Lord God’s blessing, and in so booing, ye shall occasionally hiss and utter other angry noises. But thou shalt not curse or spit upon them, and thou shalt not throw stones or otherwise inflict injury, for you are the sons and daughters of God, and are a light unto the world. For by your actions, you shall represent Me, and my Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
– from Apocryphal works suppressed by the elders of the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.
“from Apocryphal works suppressed by the elders of the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches.”
….and the friggin’ Nestorians.
….and the friggin’ Nestorians.
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Just one more reason to invade Iran!
Always good to get a good dose of Christian love and charity!
Hahahahaha!
That is the TRUE nature of the Clemson fan. Other than Ga. I don’t think there is a university football fan base that goes lower than Clemson’s…
Too many South Carolina media never had the insight to see Clemson fans for what they really are, because they did not see Clemson as desperate. But losing to SC has Clemson fans becoming unhinged, and the media is finally getting it..
It’s like Obamacare having to manifest as the abject failure and Obama lie, before some of the duller voters and media really see what a danger Obama is…
In both cases, I told you so….
Dude, do you throw Obama in your cornflakes too?
The similarity between Clemson fans and Obama are just too strong to ignore. Both are very short on merit, yet the media is oblivious to their severe character deficiencies.
Sorry if it slaps your ignorant #%% upside the head in an uncomfortable way..but that’s EXACTLY why I’m here…
Yessir!!
All you Sakerlina fans….Big Time is absolutely 100% one of y’all.
Big Time ain’t got nuffin’ to do wid Clemson.*
TBG KNOWSsome smug Sakerlina fan is going to comment on his grammar ….. ‘so.k….y’all still got Big Time. And we don’t.
This guy is like Colbert… only he’s not funny and serious… and FAT.
Classless Clemson Christians see a Classy Carolina Christian and that’s how they act!
Get ready for # SIX! IIII
Recounting and rehashing that embarrassing episode would, of course, make you, the audience, and Shaw, jackasses.
Gotta love those Christians!! Wonder which passage from the Bible they’ll pull out to justify this behavior??
They will quote Dabo 0:45. “And I said to them, if we cant beat them, boo them’
I gotta admit that is a pretty good one! LOL
Can’t argue with that!!!
Without a doubt, The Good Lord favors one team over the other just like the Diety does for most wars!!!!!
TBG recalls Ken Hatfield thanking God for taking time of from overseeing something (Either The Gulf War…or a storm that had hit the Northeast, ITBGRC.) , to ensure Clemson’s victory over Virginia.
Not TBG’s proudest day as a Tiger.
Hatfield was a square peg hired to fit a round hole. Even winning wasn’t enought to overcome the mismatch of personalities; his and the Clemson family.
Shouldn’t have been a job opening for Hatfield to begin with…
TBG, Danny essentially fired himself. You do not get on a stage in front of your bosses (AD and President) and with members of the BOT in the audience and call them out before a gathering of IPTAY members. It matters not whether you are right or not, insubordination will get you fired every time. I was at that meeting so I know what occurred.
Sadly, it didn’t happen just once either. Otherwise, it may have been recoverable.
That episode of impertinence and insubordination was one of the dumbest career decisions I’ve ever witnessed. Even most of his closest advisers counseled him against that silliness.
@ CNSYD & 4th Generation
“It matters not whether you are right or not, insubordination will get you fired every time.”
Agreed, insubordination will get you fired every time.
What was Danny Ford “calling them out” for?
TBG vaguely remembers something about Danny advocating for/against a special (learning?) facility being proposed for the football players…or was it about the NCAA investigation/sanctions…or something else.
TBG’s (rather hazy and lacking in details) recollection was that some of the PTBs at Clemson were concerned about Clemson’s “image”.
TBG’s (admittedly rather simplistic) philosophy was/is that a football coach is paid to coach football and win games,which Danny Ford did rather well. It always seemed to TBG that many of the infractions from the first probation occurred on Charley Pell’s watch and the second go round produced mostly “tickey tack” violations.
From your comments, TBG assumes that DF’s beef was with the AD and President and he (wrongly) assumed that IPTAY would, or could have his back….
Would love some more details from y’all who were there.
The spark that ignited the fire was Ford’s insistence on going forward with building a new dorm for football with supporting facilities. Iptay was willing to fund; money was not an object.
However, timing was bad. The University and Max Lennon had a priority list of wants and needs as well. The State was under a bit of budget distress and the negative PR of a new athletic dorm was just a bridge too far regardless of funding sourcing. Ford just didn’t get his way with his project and wouldn’t hear of it.
In order to fully grasp the circumstance, one must recall President Bill Atchley’s firing in 1985 and that of AD Bill McClellan under the pressure of NCAA investigative matters which Ford skirted whether rightly or wrongly (and I don’t know). The Board simply could not allow any room for error in the squabble as a result of the carryover caution.
Although Lennon himself was under some duress from multiple sources including some of the BOT for inept handling of the issue as some thought it to be, the reputation of the Universtiy was on the line: Was the Head Coach going to run the University or was the President? Danny did not fully appreciate or understand the politics of the situation and his weak position under circumstances then present.
The BOT, rightfully, understood the situation as untenable. Overtures were made back and forth among powers that be on both sides of the issue to cool the situation. As I indicated earlier, even most of Ford’s advisers thought it to be foolish on his part and so advised him. One must remember that Danny was still a relatively young person to whom success had come fairly quickly. He wasn’t bullet-proof, however.
The problem was clearly insubordination with little if anything to do with other issues that were already in the past but residually present under the surface. It was not a popular call and the BOT caught massive grief from Clemson fanatics and students. It’s a chapter best forgotten but a lesson well learned by all, not the least of which would be Danny.
Danny was a great coach and a good man, but chose the time of battle unwisely. He could have had anything he wanted the next year or year after and in the future.
The fact that his formal reunion with Clemson was so long in coming speaks volumes to me in how seriously that Board and successive Boards regarded the matter.
I’m glad we all finally made up.
@ 4th Generation
Thanks for your reply.
TBG was one of those “fanatics and students” way back when. (Still a Clemson fanatic!)
Yeah, Frank Howard told me all about you. Hahahaha!
I generally concur with what 4th generation has stated. I differ a little on the situation involving Atchley and McCellan. It was the result of an escalating peeing contest between the two men which started over a minor item. The BOT grew tired of it and solved it by firing both of them.
Interestingly athletic dorms were banned by the NCAA a few years later which, if Danny had “won”, would have created a white elephant building.
Mr. Shaw….I am a Clemson fan, a Georgia fan, and a Carolina fan….not in any order; please accept my sincere apologies for the boos….very rude; Dabo said ‘stay classy Clemson’!!!! I say “Be ye kind one to another and forget about football today….we have come to worship the Lord Jesus Christ; let’s act like Christians!!
AMEN!!!
Christian or not, how many posting this nonsense about both sides even graduated from either university besides me……..crickets right? Clemson was the best four years of my life and money, we both have ignorant fans, stay classy.
I did, USC class of 92.
Furman =”A rose between two thorns”
“Nuff said”
Clemson ’76.
Your comeback is both boring and obnoxious. You aren’t the first person to graduate from college. Not even the first to graduate from Clemson. Already there are five in our family who make up the 5th Generation and a 6th Generation starts in August.
Lighten up sport.
Clemson ’90.
Heh..Clemson ’91here
and yet you said a while back you were for neither school.
That’s news to me but……………….
Who gives a big blue Rats Ass?????
i attended USC and went to Clemson to see the games. Both schools are great in their unique ways. The Clemson students actually treated us well and we partied with them that weekend. Greenville is awesome. I find myself routing for Clemson when USC isn’t playing.
Seriously, this was a Christian concert! Clem5sux fans, REALLY! Connor Shaw is a devout Christian, he wasn’t there with a football in his hand. He is a special young man, who has never done anything personally to any of you. Why would you boo another Christian. Oh, wait, I forgot, you also boo players who are hurt. So, now it makes sense, but not really. This was disgusting and ignorant. Of course, this is the same fan base that laughed at suicide, made a sign with Lattimore’s legs spinning, and wish constantly, out loud and in writing that Clowney would break both his legs. Why should anyone expect anything different? Ya’ll should be ashamed of yourselves, this was clemsoning at it’s worse. I hate to see what y’all do at church.
In other words fuck a bunch of Tigers
Sakerlina beating Clemson in football is a HERESY.
Deal with it.
Ya’ll have BigT/GrandTango. We don’t.
I presume that “sux” is some sort of Christian expression. Taken from scripture I am sure.
“Summa ubique Christos.” ??
*TBG just made that up.
5 years means Conner Shaw never experienced a loss against Clemson while on the team, thus the extreme levels of butthurt.
I would think at a Christian Concert most people would be thinking about love,piece and enjoyment. A Little more class please!
do you mean love, PEACE and enjoyment?
SHAME ON CONNOR SHAW FOR NOT TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK!!!
INSTEAD, HE WENT ALL OLD TESTAMENT (EYE FOR AN EYE) AND FLASHED THE 5 BOMB.
NEW COVENANT, CONNOR, NEW COVENANT…
*Some of y’all are taking this waaaayy too seriously…
Connor Shaw should remember what happened to Tim Tebow before he starts wearing his religion on his sleeve. The NFL doesn’t want another Tebow problem.
Let’s calm down and just be thankful that one of Spurrier’s players can actually count. So it took a few years…that’s progress!!!
I know, because every player that went to Clemson is so smart
I hope the police warned him not to pee on Main Street.