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re: Is it fair for Auburn fans to view themselves as the opposite of "gumps"?
Posted on 4/2/14 at 11:02 am to The Spleen
Posted on 4/2/14 at 11:02 am to The Spleen
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As a Bama alum, I don't see much difference between the alums of the two schools.
One of my best friends is an Auburn grad, and she isn't that big of a sports fan(and currently at Oklahoma Law school and I hate the Sooners) and my impression is that is not really the case, but I am biased.
Things Bama grads that work withing my corporation have told me:
- "Winning at Alabama is our birth right"
- "I don't think Auburn will ever be capable of beating Alabama ever again. Saban knows it's too important to us"
- "It'll take A&M ten years to get a win over Alabama"
- "Auburn has the ugliest girls of any school in the south"(a female said this)
- "Ole Miss will never be serious about football"
The Ole Miss thing is true though. And there were more, there aren't any current grads out of my office, just at training and conferences and stuff have I heard these gems.
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Posted on 4/2/14 at 11:09 am to TeLeFaWx
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The Ole Miss thing is true though
Better chance at winning the west this year than AM.
Posted on 4/2/14 at 11:28 am to TeLeFaWx
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One of my best friends is an Auburn grad, and she isn't that big of a sports fan(and currently at Oklahoma Law school and I hate the Sooners) and my impression is that is not really the case, but I am biased.
Things Bama grads that work withing my corporation have told me:
- "Winning at Alabama is our birth right"
- "I don't think Auburn will ever be capable of beating Alabama ever again. Saban knows it's too important to us"
- "It'll take A&M ten years to get a win over Alabama"
- "Auburn has the ugliest girls of any school in the south"(a female said this)
- "Ole Miss will never be serious about football"
The Ole Miss thing is true though. And there were more, there aren't any current grads out of my office, just at training and conferences and stuff have I heard these gems.
Okay, and I live in Birmingham and in the professional world there's a pretty equal number of Bama and Auburn alums. They're generally the same types of fans of their respective schools, which is to say they are prone to make the same outlandish comments as your examples. Their fans, that's what fans do. At the end of the day though, they're not the trashy fans who equate their worth in life with the success of their chosen team. Which was my point. Alabama definitely has more of those types, so the perception of them being "worse' fans is fair.
I really don't care. I can only control myself, so that's what I do.
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