re: Mountain Gumps and Gumps unite: make a dying man's wish reality

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Mountain Gumps? Auburn is Gump Jr. This mountain gumps thing is a new one.

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It's not a very common term for us but it's used enough to be known. I chose to use it because it highlights a commonality between Vol fans and Bama fans, albeit through shared humorous fan based nicknames, that aspect fit with what happened in the story. It's actually pretty fair to call us Mountain Gumps when speaking of Bama as there are few programs with such a long history and intermingled and interlinked with one another as UT and Bama.

For example, our current AD is a former Bama assistant AD while their new AD is a former Bear Bryant apprentice who coached at UT and beat Bear his first year coaching at UT. And that's not even close to scratching the surface.