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George
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Dissapointed in LM community
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11/30/2013 10:32:19 PM
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At the conclusion of the "big game", I went outside and gave a tribute to my alma mater with a big WAR EAGLE. I received a reply from two sloughs over to do something unnatural to myself. Very disappointed.
PS I have bumper stickers for sale that say " Field goal Bama field Goal"
PPS Has anybody seen Harvey Updyke? We need to be watching him.
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Broke Point
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Bumper Stickers
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11/30/2013 11:22:24 PM
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If you want to go into the bumper sticker business, lets do two others:
1. 4th and 18
2. 0:01 sec.
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MAJ USA RET
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Dissapointed in LM community
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11/30/2013 11:25:19 PM
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Friend… It’s just football. We lived in Tennessee when the Vols… after nine years of drought… finally took down The Tide.
When you are the champions… the experience is like the best wave a surfer ever rode. But, after the ride… you look for the next wave. Because, the last one is one of the best dreams you ever had. You don’t give up surfing because it’s over.
Alabama had it coming… of course they did. It was Auburn’s time. BUT friend, if you didn’t cheer for Bama in the last BCS bowl… then you don’t understand who is celebrating and who is just looking for the next wave. Perhaps… only a year or two ago… you were the one giving the verbal finger.
The cruelty of losing in NCAA football should be the domain of those who hire and fire coaches. The rest of us need to be true to our school.
I’ll be cheering “WAR EAGLE!” in the SEC championship. And I’ll be cheering for the SEC team in the BCS bowl. But, come next fall… it will be “Roll Tide” again.
I expect you to understand.
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lakeguy
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12/1/2013 10:50:08 AM
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wow--sounds like yuo are the type that would get that type of reaction
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muddauber
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12/1/2013 11:42:21 AM
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I do. You are a sportsman. I will always support our SEC teams. Yes I root for Auburn, but this game I hoped for an Alabama victory as I really really doubt Auburn will get a chance at the championship unless FSU or Ohio State falter.
That said, I could not contain myself during that run back. Hey, the mind can only override the heart for so long.
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au67
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Dissapointed in LM community
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12/1/2013 1:04:04 PM
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Come on folks. You can't be sitting on the fence with the Auburn/Alabama issue. You're one or the other, not both.
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muddauber
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12/1/2013 2:16:48 PM
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If you will, we'll agree to disagree
Coming from completely different perspectives, we will never see eye to eye on that subject.
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randyman
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12/2/2013 1:16:35 AM
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Longtime Bama fan.....obviously disappointed in loss.
Three out of four ain't bad. Just because I love Bama does not mean I have to dislike Auburn. Anyone who suggest otherwise is dead wrong. Bama history speaks for itself.....RTR! Good luck Auburn.....
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MAJ USA RET
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Civility comes at a price
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12/2/2013 2:52:08 PM
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As my wife stood ringing the Salvation Army Bell outside a Dadeville grocery store, a man in Auburn colors came by. My wife cheerfully said, “Y’all had a great game on Saturday.”
He replied, “Y’all? Are you an Alabama fan?”
She said, “Yes?”
He responded, “That’s your problem.” …and walked away.
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bama dave
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Civility comes at a price
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12/2/2013 2:57:21 PM
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Sounds like Kisma!
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MrHodja
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Civility comes at a price
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12/2/2013 3:24:03 PM
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There's a jerk in every group, and that jerk does not represent the Auburn family.
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Ulysses E. McGill
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Civility comes at a price
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12/2/2013 4:34:15 PM (updated 12/2/2013 4:36:50 PM)
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so true....and I've seen many Bama fans that show that same sort of "spirit". Alabama and Auburn both have great programs that make for a fun rivalry, but there is no excuse for poor sportsmanship. I rooted for Bama in last years BCS Championship and I hope to be rooting for Auburn this year; there's still one big game to go and Missouri won't be a pushover. Even then, we'll need a break. The new playoff system can't come soon enough and I hope they eventually expand it to 8 teams.
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MAJ USA RET
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From whence cometh the ogre?
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12/2/2013 6:05:46 PM
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For contrast… never in my many years in Virginia, did I ever see a junk vehicle with either a UVA or a VPI (VT) sticker. I have never heard a disparaging remark about the “other” school from graduates of either of them. Now that I live in Alabama, I am curious to know from whence comes this animosity and attendant incivility. (I went to Virginia Tech… Alabama took care of that challenge on the first play date this year.)
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Mike Hunt
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DNR
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12/2/2013 6:38:31 PM
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the real problem fans are almost never alums. the real problem guys are lucky to make it through high school. Most of them feel terrible about themselves and their position in life. They "cling to their guns and religion" and in these cases Football is their religion.
If you have nothing make you feel good about yourself, you pick a team and vest your self worth in that team's success. Then even though you have never donated a dime to that University or darkened the doors of any University, you hold yourself better than anyone who is not a fan of your chosen team.
When Alabama played Washington in their first Rose Bowl, the governor of Alabama sent a telegram to the team telling them that it was their responsibility to the South, to defeat the Yankees from Washington to defend the honor of the south. Wonder what the governor of Washington thought?
If you will check you will find that most of the great football teams are located in the states that made up the old Confederacy. There is a reason for this.
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MrHodja
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From whence cometh the ogre?
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12/2/2013 6:50:34 PM
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There aren't nearly as many distractions from King Football in the South as there are in other areas. But I think for an awful lot of fans it is about ego...my team is better than your team so I am better than you. Others use it as a distraction from what is otherwise a pretty hard life. Some (and I think I am in this group) like to see their team strive for perfection, strive to conquer, then concquer and relsh the great feeling that comes from working hard to achieve a goal and then achieving it. And that does not include belittling another team or that team's fans.
Now I will have to admit that, as an Auburn fan, there are a few certain Alabama fans who are exceptionally obnoxious about the sport and who I especially enjoy seeing eat crow. Can't help it. The husband of a secretary in our buiding at one time was the true redneck Alabama fan, emblazoning his pickup one time with the Iron Bowl score and in huge block letters the acronym "ESAD". Real class. If you dont recognize the acronym go to acronymfinder.com and read the third meaning (polite form).
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lakngulf
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From whence cometh the ogre?
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12/2/2013 7:12:54 PM
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Well, that's not nice
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MrHodja
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From whence cometh the ogre?
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12/2/2013 8:40:04 PM
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Unfortunately there are more of that persuasion than I'd like to think.
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Mike Hunt
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But in Virginia
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12/2/2013 10:57:09 PM
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Half the fans are hokie and the other half are rather cavalier
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GoneFishin
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12/2/2013 11:02:01 PM (updated 12/2/2013 11:02:52 PM)
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au67
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From whence cometh the ogre?
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12/3/2013 10:42:27 AM
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Excerpts from a 11/26/13 column in The Opelika-Auburn News by Jerry Ray:
You grow up in Beauregard cheering for either the Tigers or the Tide; there is little middle ground. Passion for one team and hatred for the other are common and accepted. Dual support is not honorable. No self-respecting diehard says, “I hope Auburn wins except when they play Alabama,” or vice versa. Among the rabid, rooting for one school means the other is your lifelong enemy, to be held in utmost contempt until your dying day. You love one with your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, while simultaneously loathing the other with every cell, gut, nail, and fiber in your being. You want your football team to go 14-0 and win the national championship (as, remarkably, each have done in recent seasons). You want that other school across the state to lose every game, and be humiliated in the process. Such quirky fanaticism comes naturally in our neck of the woods and is akin to apocalyptic religious fervor. We’re talking blood sport here, a Hatfield and McCoy rivalry like none other. The Red Sox and Yankees are sweethearts by comparison.
Substitute any town in the state of Alabama for Beauregard and you have your answer.
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Look at these articles...
http://bustedcoverage.com/2013/12/03/bama-fan-beats-up-husband-wife-after-iron-bowl-party/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bustedcoverage%2FXSZo+%28Busted+Coverage%3A+Booze%2C+Ladies+And+Football%29
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1873582-deadly-shooting-occurs-allegedly-over-alabamas-loss-in-iron-bowl
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Ulysses E. McGill
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Your first two sentences sum it all up (nt)
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12/3/2013 3:42:15 PM
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lakegal
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Dissapointed in LM community
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12/3/2013 4:04:40 PM
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Yes, as an Alabama grad I was disappointed in our loss also. I always pull for Auburn. Have a son who graduated from Auburn. In 2009 when we played in the NC I asked my Auburn graduated vet if he was going to yell for us and his reply was, "I would rather watch grass grow". I do not know any Auburn people in my town who are ever for Alabama. One who is the sponsor for your Auburn Tiger that is on the golf pro tour.
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