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Have a great Sunday! Get a little extra rest for a great new week of hard hitting CF WOD's starting Monday morning!There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community. -Proverbs 6:16-19
The harder you work the harder it is to surrender. -Vince Lombardi
Today's off the wall fact that probably means nothing to anyone is:
Williams Brice Stadium. Williams Brice was opened in 1934 as Municipal Stadium, with seating for 17,600. The Gamecocks won their first home game during the 1934 season, defeating Erskine by a score of 25-0.
The entrance song that the Gamecocks have used has been named by "Sporting News" as the "Best Entrance in College Football" 2001-Space Odyssey. The song comes from the 1968 movie of the same name. It was directed by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke.When the Clemson team gathers to Run Down The Hill, the players rub Howard's Rock. The rock is mounted on a pedestal at the top of The Hill and was given to Coach Frank Howard by a friend (S.C. Jones '19) who picked it up in Death Valley, CA. The Rock was first placed on the pedestal at the top of The Hill on Sept. 24, 1966, a game Clemson won 40-35 over Virginia. The team started rubbing the Rock for the first game of 1967, a 23-6 win over Wake Forest on Sept. 23, 1967.
The annual Carolina-Clemson football game (sometimes dubbed "The Battle of the Palmetto State" or the "Palmetto Bowl" from the state's nickname) is the longest uninterrupted series in the South and the third longest uninterrupted series overall, having been played every year since 1909. The universities maintain college football stadiums in excess of 80,000 seats each, placing both in the top 18 in the United States. Clemson holds a 65-38-4 lead in the series, which dates back to 1896. From 1896-1959, the Carolina-Clemson game was played in Columbia and referred to as "Big Thursday." Since 1960, the game has alternated between both teams' home stadiums as the regular season finale. Though Clemson leads the football series, approximately forty games have been decided by a touchdown or less. Clemson has more wins against South Carolina than any other program, and South Carolina is third behind Georgia Tech and Georgia in most wins against Clemson.
Every year, each school engages in a ritual involving the other team's mascot. South Carolina holds the "Tiger Burn", and Clemson holds a mock funeral for Cocky. After 7 students (6 from USC, 1 from Clemson) died in the Ocean Isle Beach house fire in 2007, the Cocky funeral was cancelled and the Tiger Burn was changed to the "Tiger Tear Down" for that year.
BE STRONG!
Jay and Janice
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