What the Commodores Say About Oxford...

Oxford is always gonna be good and we’re always gonna be good – just a healthy competitive spirit for the community.
Anthony Hart
Lafayette Head Football Coach

 

Oxford kids are preppie.
Myla Jernigan
Lafayette Student

 

Oxford is the city school while Lafayette is considered the farm school – Lafayette, the hicks; and Oxford, the city slickers.
Jim Smith
Former Lafayette Football Player

 

Any time a team from Oxford steps on the field, they are gonna be good.
Kent Littlejohn
Former Lafayette Football Player

 

When we rode up in our bus, the Oxford fans started hollering, ‘Hicksville, hicks, country hicks.’
Jimmy Arrington
Former Lafayette Head Football Coach

 

Oxford High School has the impression that we are just a bunch of rednecks that wear overalls and straw hats and have hay sticking out of our mouths.
Vincent Anderson
Lafayette Student

 

It’s kind of ironic. In the last three to four years, Oxford has adopted the cowbell as a way of making noise at their games.
David Kellum
Former Lafayette Football Player

 

They are both good schools with good athletic programs. There isn’t any need to crow too loudly unless you are willing to eat it the next year.
Jimmy Mills
Former Lafayette Football Player

 

It’s a good, healthy rivalry. It’s a lot of fun and most everybody keeps it in perspective. When it’s over, it’s over, and everyone is friends again.
Traci Hart
Wife of Lafayette Head Football Coach

 

All of them seem to think they are better than us. They really wish they were at Lafayette.
Blair Hunt
Lafayette Student

 

It is the biggest rivalry that I have been involved in during my 18 years of school administration.
Adam Pugh
Lafayette Principal

 

In the early years, Oxford viewed Lafayette as their stepchild – just a bunch of country bumpkins that didn’t know how to play football.  
Jimmy Murphy
Former Lafayette Football Coach

 

Both Oxford and Lafayette are strong in their divisions. This rivalry is just gonna get better and better and bigger and bigger.
Doug Vanlandingham
Former Lafayette Head Football Coach

 

We respect them, but on Friday nights we want to kill them and they want to kill us. On Sunday morning we shake hands at church and get along fine . . . but we are gonna both pray for each other’s downfall.
Jimmy Mills & Keith Littlejohn, Former Lafayette Football Players

 

  

What the Chargers Say About Lafayette...

They’re talking real big. We want to stick it to them.
Adrian Agnew
Oxford Football Player

 

They’re country and we’re preppie.
Poinesha Barnes
Former Oxford Student

 

Oxford people see Lafayette as the country school – the rednecks. Lafayette people see Oxford as the preppie city guys with plenty of money. They are good friends off the field, but when it’s game time a whole year’s worth of bragging rights are on the line.
Don Brooks
Oxford TV Broadcaster

 

The excitement of this rivalry matches any that I’ve been around in high school. There is nothing like Lafayette versus Oxford.  
Tim Carter
Former Oxford Head Football Coach

 

We don’t necessarily feel like they have a lot of respect for us.
Taylor McGraw
Former Oxford Football Player

 

They are serious about lifting weights.
Adrian Agnew
Oxford Football Player

 

You can throw the records out the window when it comes to Oxford and Lafayette. The records do not seem to matter.
Johnny Hill
Oxford Head Football Coach

 

When Oxford and Lafayette are playing each other, you see the best of both teams. They are great games.
Linda Hill
Wife of Oxford Head Football Coach

 

The Lafayette-Oxford rivalry resembles the State-Ole Miss rivalry.
Bill Hovious
Oxford Principal

 

Even if you don’t make the playoffs, if you beat Lafayette it’s a good year. You can go 1 and 10 and beat Lafayette and it’s still a good season.
Taylor McGraw
Former Oxford Football Player

 

It’s kind of like a feud way back in the hillbilly days. You just know you’re supposed to hate Lafayette. When somebody asks you why, well, you don’t know – it’s just because they’re Lafayette.
Ulysses Howell
Former Oxford Football Coach

 

I guess we just dress nicer.
Iris Howorth
Former Oxford Student

 

I spent a large part of my career in Georgia and witnessed a lot of intense rivalries, but I don’t think any of them compare to the Oxford and Lafayette rivalry.
Bill Hovious
Oxford Principal

 

The intensity of the rivalry has grown because both sides have had good football programs and the winner of the Oxford and Lafayette game has played a big part in who’s gonna be the district champion.
Robert Youngblood
Former Oxford Football Coach

 

 

 

  

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