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re: Rolling The Tide | America's most embarrassing fan base and their stories
Posted on 7/22/14 at 9:48 am to Pettifogger
Posted on 7/22/14 at 9:48 am to Pettifogger
Case in point, though, is the simple fact that Alabama has one of the largest fan bases in the country. I'm sure the number exceeds two million.
You have provided 9 examples, oh which:
That’s the claim, but honestly I doubt it had anything to do with the football game.
You don’t know that this guy is a Bama fan. He could simply be a person trying to start a fight, and figured yelling out the cheer of the team that played Smear the Zach last season would be a fight starter.
Not to mention you got it wrong anyway – the guy he was with punched Zach, not the guy who yelled “Roll Tide”.
Okay, and? He was wearing Alabama pants too.
You might want to remove this one, considering the LSU fan threatened him with a pistol first. I wasn’t aware that defending yourself was “embarrassing.”
The dad was upset about the loss, but probably more upset that the kid had wrecked “several” vehicles already. That doesn't make it okay by any stretch of reasoning, but you are most likely connecting the wrong dots.
So, what – 7 out of 2 million? The most successful team of the past 6 years has attracted some nut jobs in an age of super saturation of media and news? If you want to focus on the .00035 % of fans as an indicator of “the majority”, then clearly math is not a subject of focus where you’re from.
I will concede that perhaps we have a “higher” percentage of nutjob fans, but these could easily be bandwagon fans who jumped on the bus when we started winning. I didn’t exactly take a survey of fans during the Shula years to verify who the real fans are, and I sincerely doubt you’re sitting on that data as well. My point is, I am not going to be embarrassed by the actions of an ultra-tiny minority because you tell me I should. If it makes you feel better about the crappiness of the occasional fan that pops up from your teams, then that is a lot more telling of you as an individual than this thread is an indicator of the Alabama fan base as a whole.
You have provided 9 examples, oh which:
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Alabama fan that killed another Alabama fan because they weren't upset after the Auburn loss
That’s the claim, but honestly I doubt it had anything to do with the football game.
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Alabama fan sucker punches Zach Mettenburger at a bar after yelling "roll tide".
You don’t know that this guy is a Bama fan. He could simply be a person trying to start a fight, and figured yelling out the cheer of the team that played Smear the Zach last season would be a fight starter.
Not to mention you got it wrong anyway – the guy he was with punched Zach, not the guy who yelled “Roll Tide”.
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Alabama fan claims he's innocent while being arrested. Proceeds to say "Roll tide".
Okay, and? He was wearing Alabama pants too.
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Alabama fan kills two LSU fans after disagreement of football game
You might want to remove this one, considering the LSU fan threatened him with a pistol first. I wasn’t aware that defending yourself was “embarrassing.”
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Alabama father shoots son in law after Bama lost to Arky in 2OT
The dad was upset about the loss, but probably more upset that the kid had wrecked “several” vehicles already. That doesn't make it okay by any stretch of reasoning, but you are most likely connecting the wrong dots.
So, what – 7 out of 2 million? The most successful team of the past 6 years has attracted some nut jobs in an age of super saturation of media and news? If you want to focus on the .00035 % of fans as an indicator of “the majority”, then clearly math is not a subject of focus where you’re from.
I will concede that perhaps we have a “higher” percentage of nutjob fans, but these could easily be bandwagon fans who jumped on the bus when we started winning. I didn’t exactly take a survey of fans during the Shula years to verify who the real fans are, and I sincerely doubt you’re sitting on that data as well. My point is, I am not going to be embarrassed by the actions of an ultra-tiny minority because you tell me I should. If it makes you feel better about the crappiness of the occasional fan that pops up from your teams, then that is a lot more telling of you as an individual than this thread is an indicator of the Alabama fan base as a whole.
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Posted on 7/22/14 at 9:49 am to skrayper
You probably spent more time defending those idiots than I did linking them.
This post was edited on 7/22/14 at 9:50 am
Posted on 7/22/14 at 10:01 am to skrayper
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That’s the claim, but honestly I doubt it had anything to do with the football game.
She specifically stated so and the guest at the party as well. One of my customers was actually next door during the event
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