re: Just checking in to see if the LSU melt is still in full swing

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It’s too bad Sherman didn’t catch a lead ball to the head

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Well that is an opinion which I am sure you feel honestly. We agree that we disagree. I think he was one of the great American Generals. My family was not here during the Civil War, did not start arriving here to around 1890 to 1900 in New Orleans. They adopted the Unionist position (Vs the lost cause narrative that was being pushed in the late 19th/early 20th century) and were aligned with all of the Catholic ethnic groups more so found in the Northern and Midwestern cities than with the dominate protestant (WASP) dominated politics of the former confederacy (other than New Orleans and South LA).

But I totally understand folks from TENN, MS, AL, GA whose families were part of the secessionist movement and fought with the Confederacy even though I 100% disagree with what they did and the subsequent political ideology that followed the Civil war and permeates much of the political culture. In my Catholic schools coming up, the nuns I had did not teach the Lost Cause Southern Narrative at all.

So like I said, everyone does not have to agree with everyone, everyone does not have to like everyone and that includes people here not caring for us Church of Rome adherents found throughout South LA, like me and what I believe. That does not bother me 1 iota.

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They are some miserable mfers.

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Misery loves company so we're glad you're here.

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Bigot, stop that nonsense, where the hell did you get ethnic groups because I said I have a disdain for most of what is in Alabama and MS.

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I didn't say racist. I said bigot. Look it up. I guess you may think dumb and stupid are the same too?

Oh, ok... For the viewing pleasure of all, and to keep people from having to leave the rant, I will post the definition:

Bigot: (noun)
A person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

You sir, are a bigot. By your own admittance. You may indeed need some therapy, baw.

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Jesus H. You hate an entire state because of a game between some college boys one day a year? Seek some therapy and a jar of pills.

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I didn't like the culture of Alabama or most (not all) of people from there well before I ever saw and LSU/Bama game for the record. I am 60 years old and if I live to be 100 will feel the same way. Just the way it is.

You are putting me in with a segment of LSU fans that thinks this Alabama team should not be in the final 4 teams. I have said given these 5 comparable teams, 3 P5 13-0 Conference champs and 2 12-1 conference champs, Bama should be in. FSU, unlike Ohio State in 2014, is not the same team with a backup QB.

I think Sabans team beats Michigan for the record. So don't think this has anything to do with football, which as you noted is played by college age young men. From a football perspective, Bama has a top roster, Saban is the best coach and they should be in the final 4 CFP.

Its all the threads by Bama fans, posting fake stuff saying all LSU fans are melting, copying fake posts from LSU sites, etc related to Bama getting in (and those posts all have a heavy dose of bashing everything in Louisiana, which I have no problem with you people expressing your dislike for everything about my state, as I sure as hell feel the same way about your state and most, not all of the people in it).

The way you keep you people's team from getting in is on the field. In 2019 and 2022, LSU was the program most responsible for keeping Saban out as those 2 teams were both 10-2. So of the 4 losses, LSU gave Saban 2, Auburn 1 and Tenn 1. If LSU had won back in November, LSU would have been 10-2 (7-1 with 1 loss to Ole Miss) and Bama would have been out again. Did not happen an that is that.

Now with 12 teams, losing 1 to team here or there is not enough to keep you out. I think 9-3 will keep an SEC team out (note LSU is at 13 this year, 1 spot out of the 12th spot).

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LSU fans have entered the paranoid schizophrenia stage of melt

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I think I have been on record since Bama beat UGA that Alabama as SEC Champion should be in. I think several posts of mine in this thread have said that. So where you get melt from I don't know. 2 things can be true, the Bama football team is 1 of the best 4 teams and as SEC Champ deserves to be in and my disdain for basically everything related to the state of Alabama (not talking about the young men who play the game) can also be true.

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Well I have found many Bama fans here are in fact neo confederates, as are many other fans of many SEC teams. Hell, if you listen to Paul Finebaum's show it is quite obvious to me.

While I am Conservative in the Reagan sense or more so like the Catholic conservative movement by the likes of William F. Buckley (who founded the National Review), my family immigrated here around around the years 1890-1900 to New Orleans and were Unionist in the sense that they did not adopt the Lost cause narrative that emerged throughout much of the South in the post civil war period and well into the 1920's with a resurgent know-nothing movement and KKK that was not only directed at Blacks and Jews, but also Catholics (which I am). That was imprinted in my great-grand parents (anti-secessionist/confederate ideology) and was passed on to me and that is just how I feel.

Others may feel differently and that is ok. I am an absolutist on the 1st amendment (save threats towards someone else). I agree that I disagree with many folks here on SEC Rant who still have sympathies for the likes of Lee, Jackson, Bedford-Forest, Jeb Stuart, Bragg, etc, etc, etc.

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Folks, he may seem crazy here, but, he does have a point. Now, his thoughts are very much out of place here on the SEC Rant, yes.

But he is correct in outlining for us this little-acknowledged Cultural Divide that did and does exist in the US South between the majority "Southern" culture and a minority "Catholic" culture.

My argument is that the divide is now part of our past because what I call "minority Catholic culture" no longer exists. I can't say for sure when it died but, my estimate would be that it happened around 1960.

But, Sir, this is the SEC Rant, not the History Board.

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Folks, he may seem crazy here, but, he does have a point. Now, his thoughts are very much out of place here on the SEC Rant, yes.

But he is correct in outlining for us this little-acknowledged Cultural Divide that did and does exist in the US South between the majority "Southern" culture and a minority "Catholic" culture.

My argument is that the divide is now part of our past because what I call "minority Catholic culture" no longer exists. I can't say for sure when it died but, my estimate would be that it happened around 1960.

But, Sir, this is the SEC Rant, not the History Board.

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It might not have a place on the SEC Rant, you are in fact correct. However, every damn post by these gump necks about "melting" had to bring in the history, culture, peoples of LA, its French founding, which was rooted more in a Catholic culture than/ vs. I guess WASP dominate culture (Calvinist or Baptist, now throw in Pentecostal) that permeates AL, MS, GA, TN, etc. I can see right threw their crap.

If it was just about football, I actually agree with them that the SEC Champ should be in. Period. I said that before the damn SEC title game, after and leading up to the CFP announcement. The simple way to deal with LSU fans screaming about Alabama getting in as say hey you guys can hire coaches (and I like BK), put in the resources to have a team that beats Bama on the field. That is the answer because it is the truth. If all the Bama fans, even the ones that I don't care for would just keep it at a football angle, there is nothing other you can say but ur right. Period. end of discussion.

If they would just make it about football no harm no foul., but I can see threw most of these Bama posters who are like these King James Only type little old lady that are common across the bible belt south that you see in the stores and say "Bless your heart to everyone" who at the same time go to their daughters of the confederacy meetings.

And no for my part the divide is not part of our past, at least not with me. Like I said all that bashing of Louisiana, its people, culture, history etc there is something deeper behind it in my view

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What the hell is going on in this thread?

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Not sure. I think there was some reference to a bigot melting.


We'll call that "belting" !