Battle for the 1st Southwick Jug

[Scoe]

We should've planted our flag at midfield.

 

[ZooCougar]

We should've planted our flag at midfield.

I hate that. Such a stupid and disrespectful act.

 

[ZooCougar]

I have an idea for table stakes in the annual UCONN/UMASS game....

You know that area at the very 'bottom' of MA where the MA property line 'jogs' into CT? Where 91 comes in/goes out to MA? Well, the nearest town in MA is Longmeadow and the nearest town in CT North Thompsonville.

First, we'd draw an 'imaginary' line across the top of the CT such that the border was continuous instead of jogging South. Then we would map the square footage of the CT bulge/jog area and 'extend' it for our purposes here on the other side of the line into MA, in the same shape.

The schools could play for annual 'control' of this land. Call it the Longmeadow Thompsonville Trophy. Also the side that wins that year gets to put up a sign on the other's property welcoming motorists to CT or MA with the tagline 'Home of the Longmeadow/Thompsonville Trophy' and listing that year's score.

Now that's a trophy that cannot be conveniently 'lost', or foregone due to some BS collective.

You realize that the Trophy is literally named after this little slot of land right?

Otherwise playing for land versus a trophy is sort crazy but also genius.

 

[Rich]

You realize that the Trophy is literally named after this little slot of land right?

Otherwise playing for land versus a trophy is sort crazy but also genius.

Where is Southwick? Never heard of it and I've lived in CT most of my life LOL

Football is nothing other than the sporting version of a land war. So it makes PERFECT sense.

 

[Rich]

Go ahead and laugh.

The program needs all the publicity it can get. If it works, do it.

We mock what we don't understand.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I have an idea for table stakes in the annual UCONN/UMASS game....

You know that area at the very 'bottom' of MA where the MA property line 'jogs' into CT? Where 91 comes in/goes out to MA? Well, the nearest town in MA is Longmeadow and the nearest town in CT North Thompsonville.

First, we'd draw an 'imaginary' line across the top of the CT such that the border was continuous instead of jogging South. Then we would map the square footage of the CT bulge/jog area and 'extend' it for our purposes here on the other side of the line into MA, in the same shape.

The schools could play for annual 'control' of this land. Call it the Longmeadow Thompsonville Trophy. Also the side that wins that year gets to put up a sign on the other's property welcoming motorists to CT or MA with the tagline 'Home of the Longmeadow/Thompsonville Trophy' and listing that year's score.

Now that's a trophy that cannot be conveniently 'lost', or foregone due to some BS collective.

You realize that the Trophy is literally named after this little slot of land right?

Otherwise playing for land versus a trophy is sort crazy but also genius.

From an earlier thread. Someone got there first.

UConn @ UMass Minutemen (Saturday 11/30/24 at McGuirk Alumni Stadium @Noon) Game on ESPN+. Audio on UConn Varsity Network & FOX Sports 97.9 F

So, does this mean that if we win we get the "Notch" back?

 

[CL82]

Go ahead and laugh.

The program needs all the publicity it can get. If it works, do it.

We mock what we don't understand.

 

[ZooCougar]

Where is Southwick? Never heard of it and I've lived in CT most of my life LOL

Football is nothing other than the sporting version of a land war. So it makes PERFECT sense.

The True Story of the Southwick Jog

Wikimedia Commons If you were very bored one day and built a 3D model of the state of Connecticut, then ran your hand along the top, you’d get to a place, just north of the town of Granby, where your hand would fall into a strange little pocket. This is the “Southwick Jog,” a two-square-mile...

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[Hamms30]

Not that I have anything against a beanpot.. but I feel like we never truly considered the possibility of a chowder shooting musket

 

[Waquoit]

Not that I have anything against a beanpot..

It's a jug, thank you.

 

[LBird33]

Where is Southwick? Never heard of it and I've lived in CT most of my life LOL

Football is nothing other than the sporting version of a land war. So it makes PERFECT sense.

Just north of Granby ct

 

[RioDog]

Ya know, no matter how this shakes out I really enjoy just reading the thread title- "...Southwick Jug" has a ring that whispers "entertaining reading ahead..."

Hope we get to keep reading about it.

 

[Hamms30]

It's a jug, thank you.

Bean pot is a type of jug is it not? Not all jugs are bean pots though. As a New Englander who has eaten beans cooked in a bean pot, I can attest, that is a bean pot good sir.

"The trophy refers to the Southwick Jog, the two-mile strip between Connecticut and Massachusetts where the border dips south. The trophy featured an antique bean crock for Massachusetts and two charter oaks for Connecticut."

 

[Viet Vet]

Much ado about nothing.

 

[Bongo Fury]

Just north of Granby ct

And east of Granby and west of Suffield.

 

[Kolumbo]

Bean pot is a type of jug is it not? Not all jugs are bean pots though. As a New Englander who has eaten beans cooked in a bean pot, I can attest, that is a bean pot good sir.

"The trophy refers to the Southwick Jog, the two-mile strip between Connecticut and Massachusetts where the border dips south. The trophy featured an antique bean crock for Massachusetts and two charter oaks for Connecticut."

pots and jugs are entirely different categories of vessels. I don't think bean pot should be used because it has a filthy boston connotation. Jugs is much more positive. Go with Jugs, to represent two teams competing. The Jugs Trophy, presented without interruption by Electric Blue.

 

[Hogoff]

Bean pot is a type of jug is it not? Not all jugs are bean pots though. As a New Englander who has eaten beans cooked in a bean pot, I can attest, that is a bean pot good sir.

"The trophy refers to the Southwick Jog, the two-mile strip between Connecticut and Massachusetts where the border dips south. The trophy featured an antique bean crock for Massachusetts and two charter oaks for Connecticut."

The winning state should get that territory. That would be fun.

 

[Patman]

Not that I have anything against a beanpot...

speak for yourself