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The Chicken Curse, the mullet, and the quarterback who made it fun to be a Gamecock

A tribute to Steve Taneyhill, the quarterback who changed South Carolina football, and gave Gamecock Nation something real to believe in.

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Where Myth, Memory, and South Carolina Football Collide

Sports are built on stories that live somewhere between truth and legend, half-myth, half-memory. There are moments that are shaped by superstition, emotion, symbolism, and just enough magic to feel unreal. South Carolina football has lived inside that space for decades, and few figures embodied it more completely than Steve Taneyhill.