re: Why being a Bama fan makes you a better fan

There is room for all on the Bandwagon. ...Mason Dixon line south = Bama nation

Just noticed the Abita Beer poster in that meme. Obviously those are LSU fans posing as Bama fans.

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Oh, so there's a dozen other places that have dominated the history of its conference and the game in general through it's history?

By all means, please name those dozen.

Or at least even one.

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Sup

You slept on that all night and woke up mad about it.

If being a Bama fan will let me downvote this thread more than once then I'm in.

This thread is proof positive that the worth of a Gump life is measured only by the success of a football team. So sad, they can't even see it.

Well 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.

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Yeah, if L5U was worth a damn you wouldn't be all up in here doing all of this crazy shite, would you?

However, it's interesting that your life revolves around CFB to the extent that you took time out of your otherwise busy day to comment on our lack of lives outside of CFB.

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Thanks for reinforcing my point


Whether or not LSU is, "worth a damn" or not, really doesn't have much bearing on my life at all -- it's a game that I enjoy to watch. But for your fanbase [at least what seems like the majority], quality of life is so heavily dependent on one football team it really is comical to everyone else. Enjoy your "life achievement" today, Gump.