re: Alabama Football is important in my life

The majority of the posters on this board still hates your football team. Nothing will change and it will only make you more upset for every hour you spend on this site. I suggest actually going out in Phoenix and experiencing the fanfare if you're so invested in the team instead of bragging about it on a message board.

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Why didn't you stay in Vegas? You o/t poor bro?

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Vegas is almost a 5 hour drive

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Vegas is almost a 5 hour drive

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what a gorgeous drive that is

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Genro did you go to NOLA or Miami for 2011, 2012?

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Yes, both. Also NOLA for 08 Utah. I was not in NOLA last year.

I'm of the opinion that New Orleans should host every major sporting event. The centralized location, with the hotels, restaurants, the Quarter and Bourbon all being right there within close walking distance of the stadium just makes it perfect.

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wear apparel

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sure just not jerseys please

When you're accused of loving your team too much, you know your favorite team must be dominating. What a ridiculous criticism.

Let’s just say what most people think about the University of Alabama. Its football pursuits justify its identity with an uneducated backward white population and a symbolic link to the Lost Cause they hold so dear. Much in the same way as D.W. Griffith’s movie The Birth of a Nation encouraged the worst elements of southern society a hundred years ago; Bama football still encourages a similar backward behavior from a large segment of its fan base today. The Crimson Tide football team is an outlet for their lunatic fringe fans and gives them a venue to be recognized.

Bama fans overestimate the “esteem” of being the last college football factory and unwittingly rob themselves of the very reverence they crave by their boorish and obsessive behavior. They defend the indefensible and deny the undeniable. Their unhealthy emotional stake in Bama football substitutes for their own lack of personal acknowledgement and respect. Thus driven by extreme emotion they have delusions and commit unconscionable often violent actions (Harvey Updyke and others). Even Nick Saban contributes to the lunacy by comparing losing a football game to the Pearl Harbor and 911 tragedies when thousands of Americans lost their lives.

Also the University of Alabama’s misplaced priorities of gold-plated football fluff over economic substance harms the state’s citizens with a false bravado of football. History reveals that the holy crusade of Bama football acts as an impediment to social and economic progress. For instance the University of Alabama administration allows white-only sororities to continue their policy of banning African-American females from membership. Ironic that most of the precocious Bama “student athletes” are African-American but their daughters and sisters can be excluded from university sororities.

It is well known that when a university simply reflects the attitudes of its football fans it is no longer a university in the true meaning of the word. Football has stalled the University of Alabama’s transformation into a modern university with intellectual, aesthetic or humanistic concerns. The reality is that the NCAA would actually do the University of Alabama a favor by handing down the Death Penalty for its football team. Then perhaps finally its faculty, alumni and students might appreciate the scholarship and learning that mark a university with intellectual fiber and integrity.
And so it is that “roll tide” is the mortifying apology for those who are either naive or without individual self-respect or dignity.