This is my point pretty much summed up. It is the type of thing that fuels the rivalry, which IMO, makes the rivalry that much better (there are cases where folks go too far... Fulmer for example, Harvey, etc.). I'll throw out an example nobody else here would even care about but me. The Dodgers. Being a Diamondbacks fan, it sucked to see them clinch the pennant on Arizona's field in 2013. The feeling was compounded when the Dodgers leaped the fence and celebrated in the pool behind right field after the game. There was already bad blood between the teams, so the Dodgers took the opportunity to really rub it in and get a very loud last laugh that season. In the end, it was really no harm, no foul... but it added even more juice to the rivalry (which has admittedly been mostly one sided).
I get fans hating Manning for leading the band, that's fandom. But many of the same fans would have wet themselves with excitement had Mac Jones done the same thing after beating LSU this season. Would he have been classless? Or would it have been deserved after what LSU/Orgeron did last year in Bryant-Denny?
Despite what Verne and Gary said at the time, I didn't find it to be out of bounds when Julio and Mark Ingram mocked the Gator Chomp, figuratively taping it's mouth shut as the seconds ticked away in the '09 SECCG. I thought it was awesome, and looking back, it was some pretty good foreshadowing on what was to come. If we take that sort of stuff away, the SEC is no longer the SEC. Even when we are on the receiving end of it at times, as irritating as it can be, it's all worth it IMO.
