re: *ClusterF*** of the Day* Moment of silence please. 33 years ago.

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Suppose you tell all of us exactly what your "mission" was and how you accomplished it.

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I shouldn't have to explain this, but the mission of the Rant is to sling mud and shite at each other.

No one but Les's wife is exempt from this. Not the president, not the commissioner of the SEC, not even the "great" Bear Bryant. We come here to make people in other fanbases upset. That is the point of the Rant. To that point I succeeded in this thread.

With that said, I admitted I was wrong about calling him a racist. I apologized when I was proven wrong, and I edited the post where I made the claim. All of that is FAR beyond any expected standard of behavior on this forum.

What I am standing by, and that no one one in this thread has disproved, is that the Bear was a giant bully who succeeded by using tactics that simply would not be acceptable today. I personally think Nick Saban is a much better coach because he succeeds within a modern game where you just can't bully the players to near death. I think if the Bear coached in the modern era given our rules and sensibilities he would at best be a marginal coach and at worst would have been excommunicated from the profession for player abuse.

Your mistake, well one of your mistakes, is even thinking for a second that you could engage in a conversation about a controversial figure like the Bear on this forum and expect the "bubble of respect" he is given by default in your IRL group of older fans. There is no such thing here, there is nothing that is sacred. Things are what they are, and the point of the Rant is for us to call it as we see it.

You are upset because I was talking bad about the Bear, but I promise you I could tear down almost every historical figure you admire in the same context. Someone else on here could talk down the people I love, and for example say that Drew Brees is a shithead. I would take that in stride because I understand the rules of the Rant. I suggest you do the same.