If a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet ... wouldn't a freshly painted bedroom with new furniture be similarly adored by the eyes?
In the college football universe, apparently there isn't time for existential questions — especially when the color war between rival schools comes into play.
Recently, a group of friends documented the bedroom transformation of their roommate — a die-hard Clemson fan — upon leaving for a short vacation.
Within their plan, the pranksters would convert a Clemson-friendly room (plenty of Tigers memorabilia, but with stale white walls) into a 15 x 10 palace that was a shrine to all things University of South Carolina and Gamecock Nation.
The prank victim was not happy.
A few things stand out from this video (courtesy of The Big Lead):
WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS PROFANITY. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
**One of the roommates notes, on camera, that his fellow tenants were forbidden to paint any bedroom walls — an aesthetically pleasing sin that would surely result in a full or partial loss of the security deposit (we've all been there).
**Anyone can buy South Carolina mini-helmets and folding chairs and bed spreads ... but these guys also went out of their way to purchase wall photos of signature moments in Gamecocks history — against Clemson.
**This video evokes fond personal memories from the late 1980s, when my parents surprisingly changed the decor of my entire bedroom, while I was spending a week at basketball camp. The transformation: A room of charcoal-gray walls and cherry-red blinds and carpeting — the proud colors of Grosse Ile High School (suburban Detroit).
**If the prank victim can get past the pro-Gamecocks motif, he'd likely concede the conversion was a substantial upgrade from the bland, boring environment of a few days prior. His girlfriend seems to be OK with the new arrangement. (Double thumbs up!)
**Forgive the prank victim's salty language (replete with a Southern drawl). And forgive his his roommates for "forgetting" to upgrade the bedroom door.
**The roommates, likely South Carolina fans, make two separate references to the converted place now being "a room of a champion."
Good stuff.
