EDSBS: Tenn - Bama Field Guide

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11. Deepest insecurity

For Tennessee fans: that they are forever doomed to chase the unattainable, that their parallelogram doesn't have the talent needed to be a top 10 program, and even if it did they can't keep that talent from the other SEC powers, and even if they managed to they wouldn't find a coach who could use the players correctly. It is the anxiety that every pair of pants you buy has a hole in the crotch that you can't see when you're wearing them but is glaringly obvious to the rest of the world.

For Alabama fans: that they are an Alabama fan, but too much of an Alabama fan, and therefore a Gump; that Stone Cold Steve Austin will hang out with them in person once, and be disappointed; that college football and/or Alabama football will collapse in a hailstorm of lawsuits or NCAA penalties, and then they will have literally nothing else to love like this.

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