i get soooo sick of hearing this term. people outside of nc think there is actually a road like i-40 or something called tobacco. you don't even see tobacco from raleigh to winston salem anymore. its mainly down east.

3/11/2007 11:33:12 AM

Wait for it...

3/11/2007 11:34:18 AM

ibtl

3/11/2007 11:34:46 AM

ahaha thats so true ^^^

I was with a highly recruited bball player from Alabama who came up here to visit State/Dook/unc-ch and he was asking where Tobacco road was.. haha

[Edited on March 11, 2007 at 11:50 AM. Reason : ^]

3/11/2007 11:50:09 AM

bucket

3/11/2007 11:53:51 AM

hahaha, speaking as someone from another state, I always assumed it was the nickname for a road, but I did indeed think it was an actual road

3/11/2007 11:54:00 AM

I finally had to tell him that I-40 was Tobacco road, just to make sense to him.

3/11/2007 11:55:07 AM

im glad its tobacco and not some other NC crop like soy or corn

that would sound gay as hell

3/11/2007 11:55:53 AM

corn road sounds like prison

3/11/2007 12:54:25 PM

Quote :

"i get soooo sick of hearing this term. people outside of nc think there is actually a road like i-40 or something called tobacco. you don't even see tobacco from raleigh to winston salem anymore. its mainly down east. "

STFU

IBTL

3/11/2007 2:08:59 PM

idiots

it is called tradition

3/11/2007 2:10:49 PM

^well you don't call the bay area schools "gold road" or big12 school "corn raod" or "bread basket alley" its just silly especially considering tobacco is down east and somethign you WON'T EVEN SEE driving from school to school. ecu is not even considered tobacco road when really the tobacco road is usc ecu and all eastward.

3/12/2007 4:08:01 PM

i like the term

3/12/2007 4:13:04 PM

well I guess since there is no tobacco and the area is now full of people like you, maybe we should call this area Idiot Road now

3/12/2007 4:13:37 PM

the funny thing is that none of the people who brag about "tobacco road" never even worked in or around Tobacco...

3/12/2007 4:13:56 PM

I am not from NC and had never lived in NC when I came to State and I knew that the term "Tobacco Road" was just a symbolic saying.

The people who actually think there is a Tobacco Road are probably just stupid and you should not talk to them because you will become more stupid by associating with them.

3/12/2007 4:16:16 PM

im pretty sure both of my parents worked in tobacco when they were young since both sets of my grandparents farmed it

so why dont you shut the fuck up

3/12/2007 4:23:44 PM

wow

3/12/2007 4:24:38 PM

wow what?

i dont "think" this is a tobacco road

i just like the saying

3/12/2007 4:25:53 PM

Quote :

"well I guess since there is no tobacco and the area is now full of people like you, maybe we should call this area Idiot Road now"

3/12/2007 4:26:00 PM

Quote :

"well I guess since there is no tobacco and the area is now full of people like you, maybe we should call this area Idiot Road now"

3/12/2007 4:29:03 PM

the idiots are the people who take offense or even care that they call it tobacco road

3/12/2007 4:31:38 PM

THEY SHOULD CHANGE HAPPY VALLEY TOO...BCUZ IM SURE SOMEONE"S BEEN SAD THERE BEFORE!11JUAN!~

3/12/2007 4:35:27 PM

lol

3/12/2007 4:36:11 PM

there was a tobacco rd.

and i took the sign

3/12/2007 4:38:11 PM

sweet write-up in wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Road

and on the UNC/NCSU rivalry, I didn't know that the Technician staff played against The Daily Tar Heel staff in football...

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"As a tradition, one day prior to a UNC-NCSU basketball game, The Technician, NCSU's student newspaper, publishes a spoof cover page for the day's edition with the title The Daily Tar Hell. Contained within are fake news stories poking fun at The Daily Tar Heel and the Carolina Tar Heels, showing the extent of the rivalry.[3] From 1994 to 1995 teams from the Technician and The Daily Tar Heel played a football game on the Friday preceding the football game played by the rival universities' football varsities. This game was called The Grudge Bowl, and it was played according to all the rules of American college football, but with none of the protective equipment. Technician staff members won both meetings in blowouts, claiming a booby-prize called "The Golden Plunger" and, in 1994, unilaterally declaring themselves as the "National Football Champion of College Student Media." The Daily Tar Heel declined to renew the series after hosting the second game, plainly incensed by the Technician organizers' zeal and overreaction to the game's actual and symbolic significance. "

[Edited on March 12, 2007 at 5:37 PM. Reason : .]

3/12/2007 5:36:19 PM

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"the funny thing is that none of the people who brag about "tobacco road" never even worked in or around Tobacco..."

the funny thing is you dont know how to not use double negatives

3/12/2007 8:13:21 PM

no he was saying its funny that theres nobody here that has never worked in tobacco....everybody here has worked in or around tobacco at some point! thats not funny to you?

3/12/2007 8:15:41 PM

Somebody had to dumb it down for you....

bottomline is that UNC/Dook students couldn't tell a tobacco leaf from a Pine tree.

[Edited on March 12, 2007 at 8:18 PM. Reason : .]

3/12/2007 8:16:19 PM

there's tobacco in northern orange county. probably some in durham too. not sure about wake though, but it wouldn't suprise me. thank you.

3/12/2007 8:20:20 PM

yes theres some in eastern wake. but non in chapel hill durham raleigh or any point between. its an outdated cliche that needs to go away. nobody calls the sec cotton road or the big12 north corn road (which would be the most fitting)

nobody calls the bay area gold road.

3/12/2007 8:26:11 PM

tobacco road was coined in 1947 when gunther cooliege loaded a 46' Ford Traverser full of tobacco leaves and traveled from chippocaw county to winston salem, along the way alot of the leaves fell onto the road, hwy 38, now its grown to I-40,
when gunther got to salem he found that all the leaves had fallen off but he was like 'nah forget it yo homes to bel air.

thats how it all starte.

3/12/2007 8:30:08 PM

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"Quote : "i get soooo sick of hearing this term. people outside of nc think there is actually a road like i-40 or something called tobacco. you don't even see tobacco from raleigh to winston salem anymore. its mainly down east. " STFU IBTL "

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"idiots it is called tradition "

3/12/2007 8:47:41 PM

^ agreed, it's tradition. and tons of regions in the nation have nicknames, not just us in the piedmont. they may not call the sec "cotton road", but they do call it the "bible belt". and the bay area might not be "gold road", but it does get called "silicon valley". or "the yay area", for all my hyphy fans out there.

3/12/2007 9:16:55 PM

3/12/2007 9:20:09 PM

Quote :

" As a tradition, one day prior to a UNC-NCSU basketball game, The Technician, NCSU's student newspaper, publishes a spoof cover page for the day's edition with the title The Daily Tar Hell. Contained within are fake news stories poking fun at The Daily Tar Heel and the Carolina Tar Heels, showing the extent of the rivalry.[3] From 1994 to 1995 teams from the Technician and The Daily Tar Heel played a football game on the Friday preceding the football game played by the rival universities' football varsities. This game was called The Grudge Bowl, and it was played according to all the rules of American college football, but with none of the protective equipment. Technician staff members won both meetings in blowouts, claiming a booby-prize called "The Golden Plunger" and, in 1994, unilaterally declaring themselves as the "National Football Champion of College Student Media." The Daily Tar Heel declined to renew the series after hosting the second game, plainly incensed by the Technician organizers' zeal and overreaction to the game's actual and symbolic significance."

We have finally answered the question, "What happens when a bunch of State students and a bunch of Journalism majors from unc meet in physical 'combat' ?"

3/12/2007 9:22:05 PM

get out of sports talk

3/12/2007 9:37:32 PM

i understand nicknames but this nickname is only and widely used in sports

3/12/2007 9:43:14 PM

you realize that people from all over the country have heard of tobacco road and know the schools on it. You are an idiot. Why don't you go to a Duke message board?

3/12/2007 9:45:35 PM

w... t... f...

3/12/2007 10:04:55 PM

i wonder if half of dukes fans even know how there school came to be.

3/12/2007 11:13:39 PM

^ I'm not a Duke fan, but I do.

Srsly, "Tobacco Road" is a term associated with the very best of basketball tradition and legacy. I don't believe and conference in the country can touch the ACC or more specifically the "Big Four."

3/12/2007 11:18:27 PM

Let's never say it again since tobacco is dangerous and kids might hear the term 'Tobacco Road' and decide to start smoking a carton a day. We can also change the mascot name from 'Wolfpack' to something less offensive like the NC State 'Sports Team'

3/12/2007 11:22:37 PM

I understand what you guys are saying but it paints the imgae across the country that tobacco:the triangle as corn:nebraska and theres a road that connects all the schools with this nickname. you know how you see "tom bradshaw freeway" they imagine "tobacco road" the same way.

3/12/2007 11:44:09 PM

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"NC State 'Sports Team'"

hahaha

3/12/2007 11:54:41 PM

That reminds me, think about all of the names of rivalries that people have tried to change.

Kansas-Missouri was changed from "The Border War" to "The Border Showdown" due to the Sept. 11 attacks. The name of the rivalry came from when the two states were actually at war with each other at the beginning of the Civial War.

Texas-Oklahoma was changed from "The Red River Shootout" to "The Red River Rivalry" to also deemphasize war and for political correctness. The name comes from the Red River that lines the border of the two states, and when you think of Oklahoma and Texas in historical terms images of cowboys and outlaws in shootouts come to mind.

Florida-Georgia is known as the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. Well in May 2006, the Southeastern Conference asked the three networks which broadcast SEC football games not to refer to the game by the moniker "World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party," as it conveys a message regarding consumption of alcohol that the schools do not desire. Well what do you know, people drink (often heavily) before a football game. The fans of the two schools are going to drink no matter what. Besides cocktail parties are often seen as events that sophisticated people participate in. God forbid the fans of the two schools seem sophisticated.

3/13/2007 12:03:42 AM

I can't believe we would mention any type of tradition or history that invokes negative images like violence or alcohol in such a classy multibillion dollar industry as college athletics

3/13/2007 12:08:27 AM

Tennessee and Kentucky used to play for the Beer Barrel, but then Tim Couch's best friend died in a alcohol related car wreck so they stopped that little tradition.

3/13/2007 12:28:21 AM

animal rights activists are always trying to get South Carolina to change its mascot from something that doesnt glorify cockfighting

3/13/2007 12:41:29 AM

considering about half the tobacco grown in NC went to or through Durham... i think its fair to call triangle area teams tobacco road.



[Edited on March 13, 2007 at 2:28 AM. Reason : ]

3/13/2007 2:26:08 AM