re: Growing Up In Alabama And Becoming A Bama/Barn Fan

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GGrand father, Grandfather, Grandmother, Father, Mother, step-father, two uncles, two brothers, sister, 19 first cousins, 59 2nd-5th cousins that I know of, and of course moi, all went to Alabama (I must be old fashioned... I cannot call the school "Bama"... it is disrespectfull).

However, I grew up in Gainesville Florida a Gator Fan until I went to Alabama after Vietnam. But even in Gainesville, no one ever liked Auburn and everyone always referred to them as a cow college. NO ONE likes Auburn, anywhere.

After graduating Alabama, I lived for a time in Fairhope Alabama... where I came face to face with the reality in the State of the iron bowl. Even healthy teenage girls take sides early on.

It is ugly out there in the hustings of Alabama, I mean drankin' smash mouth done fall down after beating the hell out of them that has it commin' ugly. About the first time some back woods overall wearing grease ball farmer gets in your face or follows you around yelling insults, your patriotism meter for your school magically pegs out.

In Alabama it is partly a class thing. U of Alabama is the school of Drs and Lawyers. Auburn is the school of mechanics, farmers, animal husbandry... and their damn mascot, the "war eagle," is a symbol borrowed from a damnyankee regiment that happened to be burning their way through Alabama about 1865... which tells you a lot about Auburn, aka Alabama Ploytech, aka Alabama A&M, aka Auburn U of Georgia.

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