• wjrii@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Are the cigars a Smoky/Great Smoky Mountains thing? If so, I get it, but there is nothing quite so eye-rollingly bougie as 20-year-olds lighting up a stogie in a golf-shirt. 🤣

    GG, Vols. Y’all are uglying your way to a good year.

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      2 months ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Saturday_in_October#Victory_cigars

      In the 1950s, Jim Goostree, the head athletic trainer for Alabama, began another tradition as he began handing out cigars following a victory over the Volunteers.[10] Both teams continued the tradition for some time, though kept it secret due to NCAA rules concerning extra benefits and tobacco products. Alabama publicly restarted the tradition in 2005, though as a result, self-reported an NCAA violation.[11] Every year since 2007, the winner of the Alabama–Tennessee game knowingly violates the NCAA rule and reports the violation in honor of tradition.[12]

      Edit: lmao they’ve already updated the 2024 results

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        2 months ago

        Ahh, there we go. I should have known that an eye-rollingly bougie CFB tradition would have started at Bama. 🤣