re: "If we counted championships like bammer does" - here's how many your team has

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You are at a loss for words

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Oh, ooooh...

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What you fail to mention, WildTchoupitoulas, while copying and pasting rails against the strength of Southern teams is that no one really knew how strong or weak Southern teams were.

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Didn't know it was a "rail", it just looked like discussion to me.

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You can't copy and paste quotes about total shite quality of Southern teams, in those long gone days, and just expect us to gobble it up as gospel.

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I have no expectations, link?

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News-writers and sports journalists, in those times, were all from the North.

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"One of the earliest such polls was the AP College Football Poll, first run in 1934[3] (compiled and organized by Charles Woodroof, former SEC Assistant Director of Media Relations)" - wiki

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Ever wonder why a player on a Southern team didn't win a Heisman trophy for about a thousand years?

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A southerner, Davey O'Brien, won the Heisman in its third year - 1938, then another southerner, Frank Sinkwich, won it 4 years later with 99.9% of the vote. Don't confuse Alabama and Tennessee not winning Heismans in forever with all southern teams not winning Heismans.

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Ever wonder why when Alabama, a team that broke barriers for all Southern teams, finally got a Rose Bowl invite, it was just a gift to those stupid Southerners because other Northern teams wouldn't accept it that season for various reasons?

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No. You?

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You parrot that, because you are ignorant of the facts, only West, Midwest, and Northern teams were considered powerhouses.

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I didn't parrot shite, I just posted some material to the board for discussion, then you got all bent out of shape accusing me of various and sundry things.

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Why? Because post Civil-War, the general perception of the rest of the nation was that Southerners were mentally retarded, less athletic, and were far too ignorant to play the game of football, to even grasp the concept of the game.

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No, it's because we had hookworms due to a lack of indoor plumbing - or even outdoor plumbing.

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How in the frick do you know what the talent level of Southern teams were? How do you know what the strength of schedule for teams like Alabama and Tennessee and LSU were compared to teams like Harvard, Washington, Dartmouth, or Colgate?

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Now you're getting excited. Read the article and he discusses that at some length.

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Simple answer is that you don't, no one then did and certainly no one now does. You don't know football history, you only copy and paste and then attempt to bash others based on what you just read, with no context to what you have read.

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And all you do is get mad and throw a fit. Nice.

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Who did know the strength of Southern teams? Southerners did. And when Alabama was finally granted a great privilege by the football Gods of the North, Midwest, and West to be given a chance, they burst onto the scene like a caged animal being set free.

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Yeah, beating Washington by a point and tying Stanford is really getting all un-caged.

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After the final beating of USC by Alabama, in yet another Rose Bowl slaughter of yet another supposedly superior team with smarter players, better players, and more athletic players, the powers that be had finally had enough and made the Rose Bowl a private affair between the current Big10 and Pac12.

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That must have been after y'all were shut out by Cal.

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Your SOS arguments that you copied and pasted hold no merit. Southern teams were just as good and just as tough as anyone.

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Dude, I didn't make any arguments - not one.

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Our Southern team's schedules weren't like Div.1 AA compared to Northern teams Div.1-A schedules.

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Some of Alabama's foes just from 1920-1929:

Marion (non-IA)
Bryson (non-IA)
Southern Military Academy (non-IA)
Oglethorpe (1-9)
Spring Hill (non-IA)
Case (non-IA)
Union (Tennessee) (non-IA)
Birmingham-Southern (non-IA)
Millsaps (non-IA)
Rhodes (non-IA)
Mississippi College (non-IA)
Tennessee-Chattanooga (non-IA)

Not exactly murderer's row, there.

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I thought all those silly arguments died when Alabama came out swinging and decimating the "powerhouses". Guess not.

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First of all, Alabama didn't always decimate their opponent in the Rose Bowl, and second the Rose didn't always select the two best teams.