re: Rolling The Tide | America's most embarrassing fan base and their stories

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You don't get it. It's sorta like this: AU fans have ALWAYS said or thought we are better than bama fans as a fanbase and it isn't even close. Bama fans would respond with there isn't much difference between the two fanbases. That should tell you something right there. A bama fan just wants to be compared to an AU fan while an AU fan does not want to be associated with the bama fanbase in general.

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I believe I get it. The fact that anyone cares whether strangers are "better" based on football fandom indicates a certain insecurity and lack of reasoning. It would be the equivalent of someone finding a small group of people in a fanbase who are doing philanthropic work and use it to assert that that fanbase is better. That would be as absurd as your assertion about AU/Bama fans and how becoming a fan of one school or the other magically transforms one into better/worse depending on which school is chosen. People who believe it are people who want to believe it because it bolsters their football self-esteem. I guess if it imparts some positive feeling about themselves or their football team it isn't necessarily a bad thing.