Rickety
| Favorite team: | Alabama  |
| Location: | Vestavia Hills, AL |
| Biography: | Happily retired at 55 in 2012. Born an Alabama fan, grew up going to LSU games, married a Newcomb girl. Don't hate LSU, I reserve that for Tennessee and Auburn, in that order. |
| Interests: | SEC Athletics |
| Occupation: | Retired at 55 |
| Number of Posts: | 38 |
| Registered on: | 12/16/2012 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Bottom P5 Conference(s)
Posted by Rickety on 9/11/15 at 10:28 pm
I would love to do so and have done so, but the reason SEC teams don't travel north in November isn't an SEC issue. The SEC schedules OOC games in every week of the season, because the scheduling has to be left open to accommodate traditional games like Florida-Florida State and Georgia-Georgia Tec...
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re: Your team's biggest blowout of Alabama
Posted by Rickety on 7/28/15 at 4:18 pm
It seems that historical success, as in the Big 6, held more sway than historical rivalries. It was a coincidence that Auburn and Georgia had been playing the longest. The Alabama-Tennessee game and the LSU-Florida game were going to be played because they wanted competitive balance within the confe...
re: Your team's biggest blowout of Alabama
Posted by Rickety on 7/28/15 at 1:33 pm
Actually, it was a "let's put the Big 6 teams as the permanent opponents" type thing.
I read at least one newspaper every day, and I remember reading in one of the Birmingham newspapers back in 1990-92, that the so-called "Big 6" had something to do with the divisional split as well as the perma...
re: Your team's biggest blowout of Alabama
Posted by Rickety on 7/28/15 at 10:27 am
Nah. I know why you said that, but I'm going to respond with an actual answer.
Vanderbilt and Alabama had been playing every year since 1926. When the SEC decided to go to the 5-2-1 format, lots of schools had to make some choices. The Big 6 were going to play each other as cross-division games,...
re: Roads around Tuscaloosa
Posted by Rickety on 7/11/15 at 7:50 pm
I seem to remember a certain Texan saying that, "Texas is Mississippi with better roads."
I may or not be an idiot, but I know enough to know that's an insult to both states. ...
re: Roads around Tuscaloosa
Posted by Rickety on 7/11/15 at 7:45 pm
Wow. How exactly do 3 Democrats sit on a 5-member commission with 3 Republicans? White, Collins and Buckelew made up the controlling majority of the County Commission and all 3 are Republicans.
By the way, Mr. Simian, I never once said that Democrats were not involved in the swaps or the subse...
re: Roads around Tuscaloosa
Posted by Rickety on 7/11/15 at 4:25 pm
Jefferson County, bankrupt Jefferson County, is indeed run by Republicans. Do the names Mary Buckelew, Gary White and Bettye Fine Collins ring a bell?
They were the majority on the Jefferson County Commission who sent the county into bankruptcy by building a sewer out to nowhere. The reason for...
re: LSU ends Bama's season
Posted by Rickety on 5/31/15 at 1:53 pm
Look, I get the baseball and the basketball. I sat out at the Hoover Met for 36 or 37 miserable innings watching LSU eventually win all 3 games. But how does going 1-1 against Alabama in gymnastics constitute being Alabama's "Daddy?" Especially since LSU's loss to Alabama was for the SEC Championshi...
re: If any of the iconic SEC Stadiums ever get torn down, which will be first?
Posted by Rickety on 3/18/15 at 10:35 am
Tulane Stadium was torn down in 1980. It was about as iconic as it gets. Capacity over 80,000 in the 1940's made it the largest stadium in the south. Larger than Tiger Stadium, Bryant-Denny or Legion Field on the day it was torn down. Home of the Sugar Bowl and hosted New Orleans' first two Super Bo...
re: SEC Network question - who owns the old football and basketball rights?
Posted by Rickety on 8/16/14 at 6:21 pm
It's a great question. I'm sure ESPN has to have access to all ABC televised games from the past. There were lots of Alabama games televised in the 1970's when only one or two games were shown in a week. ESPN showed the 1973 Sugar Bowl immediately preceding the Alabama-Notre Dame BCS Championship Ga...
re: How soon till first complaints that SEC Network favors Bama appear?
Posted by Rickety on 8/14/14 at 9:30 am
McCready was the Auburn beat writer for the Birmingham Post-Herald back in the late 90's. He took every chance available to insult Alabama. It's funny that he is now a writer for an Ole Miss site. He was always dickriding Tuberville and now he is at the place Tuberville said he would leave in a pine...
re: If Auburn would adopt a new logo - kind of looks like Toonces
Posted by Rickety on 8/12/14 at 5:44 pm
The logo was originally made for Occidental College by a cartoonist in Los Angeles named Arthur Evans. He worked for a decal company called Angelus Pacific. It wasn't originally LSU's, although I think the LSU design looks the best of the ones shown. And no, it wasn't designed by a University of A...
re: Arkansas vs LSU should return to Thanksgiving Week-end
Posted by Rickety on 7/24/14 at 2:37 pm
I didn't say that they should renew the series now. The OP suggested that the LSU-Arky game "should" be on Thanksgiving weekend. I simply stated that if anyone should be playing LSU on Thanksgiving weekend, it should be Tulane.
I didn't suggest they play at Yulman, in the Superdome or all the g...
re: Arkansas vs LSU should return to Thanksgiving Week-end
Posted by Rickety on 7/24/14 at 2:16 pm
They did when the rivalry was taken away in favor of a manufactured rivalry with Arky. ...
re: Arkansas vs LSU should return to Thanksgiving Week-end
Posted by Rickety on 7/24/14 at 11:41 am
When Arky came to the SEC, Roy Kramer tried to manufacture a rivalry where there was none. 22 years later, they are arranging a new Thanksgiving weekend matchup with no regard for LSU's traditions.
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were all allowed to continue playing OOC traditional rivals t...
re: 1982 season - One of the magical seasons in LSU history.
Posted by Rickety on 7/6/14 at 2:56 pm
He announced his retirement on December 15, 1982. His close friends said he made the decision to "hang it up" on the Sunday morning after the loss to Southern Mississippi on November 13. It was one of only two losses in Bryant-Denny Stadium from 1958-1982. He died of a heart attack on January 29, 19...
re: Colin Cowheard
Posted by Rickety on 2/24/14 at 11:17 am
For years, Cowherd's show was produced by total A-hole and Auburn alum Chadd Scott. Scott is never shy about his hatred for the University of Alabama. I'm sure it rubbed off on Cowherd over the years.
Cowherd never gives Alabama it's due, unless Alabama had done something embarrassing, then he's...
re: High School Championship games in the SEC
Posted by Rickety on 12/22/13 at 10:12 pm
New Orleans, not the Superdome, has hosted 10 Superbowls. The first 3 were played on Willow Street in Tulane Stadium. The largest crowds ever for the Superbowl in New Orleans and the Sugar Bowl were in Tulane Stadium. It could be quite dark, but I don't remember the lights going out there. ...
re: Bama fans and the Saints. Should they be allowed to cheer for Louisiana's team?
Posted by Rickety on 12/14/13 at 9:23 pm
I've been going to Saints games since 1969. I've sat in the rain at Tulane Stadium, through ugly losses and rare wins. I was there when Saints fans were putting paper bags on their heads, but I didn't. I couldn't care less if you don't want me to cheer on the Saints. ...
re: Want to prove yourself an old geezer, start a sentence with "I Remember" ...
Posted by Rickety on 6/12/13 at 9:21 pm
I remember Tulane Stadium filled to capacity (86,000+) for the last LSU-Tulane game played on the Tulane campus. What a night. Not because LSU lost but because Tulane won. The stadium and the neighborhood were alive that night. I went as an LSU fan, and was disappointed when they lost. But I couldn...
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