re: Non LSU Fans - What Is the Deal With Bama Fans and Tenn?

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You can respect your rivals while hating their ever-living guts...

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Sure sure, I get that. You can give them credit for a good win or team and give them respect when they are a good program.

But what Bama does with Tenn is beyond anything that fits into the category of general fan "respect."

Most of the time when your historical rival sucks the go-to is to talk down to them and NOT build them up like Bama fans do. Like USC fans do with Clemson now, or like Texas did to us during our crap decade when they would be happy to tell anyone when we came up "we don't even care to discuss them, they aren't really rivals." Condescension is the traditional way to handle a streak against a rival throughout the college football universe- except at Bama.

I mean, Bama has like three teams that want to be rivals with it. They could just focus on Auburn or LSU and basically forget Tenn exists or at least treat them like us Aggies now treat SMU. But instead Bama fans keep running interference for Tenn, well beyond what I would call respect.

And it can't just be the schedule thing because its not just this one game that keeps the shitty perm rival thing going.