Just out of curiousity...

[UNIChippewa]

I'm a relative newcomer to this board, so please excuse my ignorance on this question; but why all the hate for Montana?

I know they beat us up pretty well a few years ago in the playoffs, but is there something more to it than that?

[Mountain Panther]

I'm a relative newcomer to this board, so please excuse my ignorance on this question; but why all the hate for Montana?

I know they beat us up pretty well a few years ago in the playoffs, but is there something more to it than that?

This Griz hoard are a proud bunch, and rightly so. Some of them do take it too far. But they are truly the biggest act in Montana. Imagine if there were no Iowa or Iowa State - just two FCS teams in Iowa (I'm comparing this to UM and MSU in Montana). UNI's fan base would be HUGE and we'd have the bad apples that come with any bushel.

[Newsbreaker]

They suck super hard core, that's why. The smell like poo, too. Woo!

[JayJ79]

Montana fans seem to get a little overconfident and irritating much of the time. Not EVERY Griz fan is like that, but those are the ones that stand out. Kind of like how the arrogant Hawk fans around here get (except Montana generally has winning records...)

Also, since they don't have too many other teams in the area to compete for fans, they usually have really good game attendance, and thus have more money to bribe, er, I mean "influence" the NCAA committee to give them home playoff games. Thus I tend to hate the Griz in the same way I hate the Yankees in baseball, due to their monetary advantage.

[Panther Fan]

What others haven't mentioned is that UNI has also played two (if memory serves me right) playoff games in Montana and by all accounts the natives were less than hospitable. Didn't help in the second game that there was an incident with a UNI player punching a Mont player in the privates when we were getting rolled (the debate rages on about it being a retaliatory shot). Others can probably fill in the details. If I recall the players have also had to deal with being hit with objects flying from the stands.

[UNIAlum95]

They have a history of being 'passionate' fans to say the least. Grandma's saying things that make college age football players uncomfortable.

[Matt Trump]

Fans throwing VCR tapes at us on the sidelines, 45 y/o drunk females swearing at us with their kids sitting at their side, granny swearing at us, racial epithets... you know, all the things that make fans great.

Oh, and be sure to NEVER say anything negative about the Griz to one of their fans. You'll never hear the end of it.

[Pantherpower]

Not a big Montana fan at all. Particularly after '01. It's quite the angry mob out there at Wash-Griz Stadium.

[Schack]

I recall listening to the '01 game on the internet and going back and forth between Rima and the Montana announcers. I remember the Montana color guy complaining about how Farley had broken with "tradition", and had the visiting team arrive game day instead of the night before. This was one indication, in his opinion, that Farley, AND I QUOTE: "didn't know what the hell he was doing". That angered me, and I have disliked Montana ever since.

[Cat80]

The real nasty Griz haters are over on AGS. That's anygivensaturday.com. It doesn't take too long for most threads to turn to Griz-hating. Especially by North Dakota State Bison fans.

[BCPanther]

I am starting to feel the same way about NDSU fans on AGS... They really are complaining about not being eligible for the playoffs. Every thread about who is #1 and the playoffs kind of turns into a poor poor pitiful Bison sob story...

They knew the rules going in, I have ZERO sympathy...

[JayJ79]

My list of least favorite fan groups (right now):
Montana
NDSU
San Diego

[BCPanther]

Agreed Jay...

Throw Delaware on that list and we agree completely!

[UNIPNTHR]

My list of least favorite fan groups (right now):
Montana
NDSU
San Diego

Where's the Hawks?!?!?!?! hahaha, ok I'm done.

[Newsbreaker]

I am starting to feel the same way about NDSU fans on AGS... They really are complaining about not being eligible for the playoffs. Every thread about who is #1 and the playoffs kind of turns into a poor poor pitiful Bison sob story...

They knew the rules going in, I have ZERO sympathy...

Just wait until they finish the year undefeated, and then find out what life in the Gateway is like next year.