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re: Alabama fan Harvey Updyke is mentally deranged
Posted on 3/8/19 at 7:47 am to jimdog
Posted on 3/8/19 at 7:47 am to jimdog
Let’s just say what most people think about the University of Alabama. Its football pursuits justify its identity with an uneducated backward white population and a symbolic link to the Lost Cause they hold so dear. Much in the same way as D.W. Griffith’s movie The Birth of a Nation encouraged the worst elements of southern society a hundred years ago; Bama football still encourages a similar backward behavior from a large segment of its fan base today. The Crimson Tide football team is an outlet for their lunatic fringe fans and gives them a venue to be recognized.
Bama fans overestimate the “esteem” of being the last college football factory and unwittingly rob themselves of the very reverence they crave by their boorish and obsessive behavior. They defend the indefensible and deny the undeniable. Their unhealthy emotional stake in Bama football substitutes for their own lack of personal acknowledgement and respect. Hence the ludicrous and totally unmerited claim of several Bama national football championships. They have become avatars of the worst behavior and bear witness to a complicated legacy of an earlier segregated society.
The question is: has Chronic Encephalopathy (CTE) not only affected ex-football players but also metaphorically speaking an entire university and its fan base? These other football victims are driven by extreme emotion and delusions to commit unconscionable often violent actions (Harvey Updyke, Michelle Pritchett, John Phillips, Brian Downing, Shorty Price and many others). Even Nick Saban contributes to the lunacy by comparing losing a football game to the Pearl Harbor and 911 tragedies when thousands of Americans lost their lives.
Similar to the victims of CTE, the University of Alabama’s misplaced priorities of gold-plated football fluff over economic substance harms the state’s citizens with the false bravado of football. History reveals that the holy crusade of Bama football acts as an impediment to social and economic progress. For instance the University of Alabama administration allows white-only sororities to continue their policy of banning African-American females from membership. Ironic that most of the precocious Bama “student athletes” are African-American but their daughters and sisters can be excluded from university sororities.
It is well known that when a university simply reflects the attitudes of its football fans it is no longer a university in the true meaning of the word. Football has stalled the University of Alabama’s transformation into a modern university with intellectual, aesthetic or humanistic concerns. The reality is that the NCAA would actually do the University of Alabama a favor by handing down the Death Penalty for its football team. Then perhaps finally its faculty, alumni and students might appreciate the scholarship and learning that mark a university with intellectual fiber and integrity.
Until then “roll tide” is the shameful apology for those either naive or without individual self-respect.
Selah
Bama fans overestimate the “esteem” of being the last college football factory and unwittingly rob themselves of the very reverence they crave by their boorish and obsessive behavior. They defend the indefensible and deny the undeniable. Their unhealthy emotional stake in Bama football substitutes for their own lack of personal acknowledgement and respect. Hence the ludicrous and totally unmerited claim of several Bama national football championships. They have become avatars of the worst behavior and bear witness to a complicated legacy of an earlier segregated society.
The question is: has Chronic Encephalopathy (CTE) not only affected ex-football players but also metaphorically speaking an entire university and its fan base? These other football victims are driven by extreme emotion and delusions to commit unconscionable often violent actions (Harvey Updyke, Michelle Pritchett, John Phillips, Brian Downing, Shorty Price and many others). Even Nick Saban contributes to the lunacy by comparing losing a football game to the Pearl Harbor and 911 tragedies when thousands of Americans lost their lives.
Similar to the victims of CTE, the University of Alabama’s misplaced priorities of gold-plated football fluff over economic substance harms the state’s citizens with the false bravado of football. History reveals that the holy crusade of Bama football acts as an impediment to social and economic progress. For instance the University of Alabama administration allows white-only sororities to continue their policy of banning African-American females from membership. Ironic that most of the precocious Bama “student athletes” are African-American but their daughters and sisters can be excluded from university sororities.
It is well known that when a university simply reflects the attitudes of its football fans it is no longer a university in the true meaning of the word. Football has stalled the University of Alabama’s transformation into a modern university with intellectual, aesthetic or humanistic concerns. The reality is that the NCAA would actually do the University of Alabama a favor by handing down the Death Penalty for its football team. Then perhaps finally its faculty, alumni and students might appreciate the scholarship and learning that mark a university with intellectual fiber and integrity.
Until then “roll tide” is the shameful apology for those either naive or without individual self-respect.
Selah
This post was edited on 3/8/19 at 7:51 am
Posted on 3/8/19 at 7:48 am to weagle99
If you weren’t such a pussy, you would do something about it and take him out.
Honestly I think you Auburn guys are happy he killed the trees
Honestly I think you Auburn guys are happy he killed the trees
Posted on 3/8/19 at 7:55 am to Nitro Express
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Or throw piss balloons, or hang billboards
Everytime I see this, I know the billboards worked.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 7:57 am to weagle99
In other news, Hillary Clinton is ugly.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 8:13 am to weagle99
Quite simply the face of Bama, word is he's been made a honorary member of the REC.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 9:12 am to jimdog
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best known Florida pan handle native in creation. And has super name recognition in the four states where he has resided.
Right up there with Ted Bundy and Joe Scarborough, both known murderers and scumbags. That gives Bama two for the pan handle.
This post was edited on 3/8/19 at 9:49 am
Posted on 3/8/19 at 9:34 am to Irons Puppet
I worked in the landscaping department when I was in school at AU in early 2000s. The trees were already dying back then but they expected another 30 years or so out of the one closest to toomers corner. There were two incidents that all but killed the main Oak...
1. Bama fan drove his truck into the tree after '97 Iron Bowl which damaged the tree, it also caught on fire. If I remember it killed approx 60% of the tree and would have ultimately killed the tree.
2.Bama fan set both trees on fire after 2001 Iron Bowl
3.Updyke just finished the job
*after the first two incidents the trees were 40% and 75% damaged. We were always told by the horticulturalists that the toilet paper only had minimal effect on the trees.
1. Bama fan drove his truck into the tree after '97 Iron Bowl which damaged the tree, it also caught on fire. If I remember it killed approx 60% of the tree and would have ultimately killed the tree.
2.Bama fan set both trees on fire after 2001 Iron Bowl
3.Updyke just finished the job
*after the first two incidents the trees were 40% and 75% damaged. We were always told by the horticulturalists that the toilet paper only had minimal effect on the trees.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 9:35 am to Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson
Maybe the most unique poster on this board. Definitely the most incredible post history.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 9:36 am to Irons Puppet
Mt. Rushmore of Bama: Bear, Saban, Logan Young and Harvey Updyke.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 9:40 am to jimdog
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Which specific part are you unaware of?
He seems to be unaware of the
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ignorance
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: the trees have been burned by AU fans...see the previous pictures. Several times and were set ablaze by students at least once recently seemingly after an evening of drinking.
This is made up. However Bama and UGA fans used to try and light it up at least once a year.
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BTW your fans have damaged property recently on the U of A campus
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BTW your fans have damaged property recently on the U of A campus but they are used to it by visiting fans and act like they have been there before. Couple of MSU fans were recently arrested for taking championship materials from UA but you could understand being MSU why they would be desperate for something. And taken in context Harvey compares to some of your native born extremists. The Greene guy from Enterprise and the brother of a friend whose name I won't mention but you being an AU fan you know who I am talking about. They dedicated their lives toward hating over a college football game. And died bitter. I asked my recent AU grad daughter about the feelings and she said "dad, you have no idea" but she says the anger is mainly toward UGA fans because of their behavior. War Eagle to you from my alum.
Got to love J-dog stories
Posted on 3/8/19 at 10:09 am to LC412000
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Honestly I think you Auburn guys are happy he killed the trees
Are you a moron in real life or do you just play one on this message board?
Posted on 3/8/19 at 10:21 am to jimdog
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the trees have been burned by AU fans...see the previous pictures
They were not ‘burned by AU fans’. One fire was started by UGA fans years ago and the other was by a foreign national who wasn’t a fan.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 10:23 am to weagle99
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“Every night I’d stay up all night long, and they used to have cameras on the trees, and I figured out when the slowest time, what day of the week and what out of the night was the slowest around those oak trees, so I could go in there at that time and not get caught,” Updyke says.
Damn that's commitment.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 10:49 am to AHM21
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“Every night I’d stay up all night long, and they used to have cameras on the trees, and I figured out when the slowest time, what day of the week and what out of the night was the slowest around those oak trees, so I could go in there at that time and not get caught,” Updyke says.
Damn that's commitment.
Harvey should sue the producers:
This post was edited on 3/8/19 at 10:50 am
Posted on 3/8/19 at 10:52 am to AHM21
Gentlemen. We need to table this conversation. LSU is cheating. Time to laugh at them.
Posted on 3/8/19 at 10:53 am to weagle99
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Alabama fan Harvey Updyke is mentally deranged
In other news, water is wet.
Why do people still keep giving this guy the time of day?
Posted on 3/8/19 at 10:55 am to SummerOfGeorge
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Maybe the most unique poster on this board. Definitely the most incredible post history.
This guy surfaces every blue moon to post stuff like that....pretty remarkable alter. I know its one of the Auburn posters because of the "UAT"
Posted on 3/8/19 at 10:59 am to TigerinKorea
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Sorry for pelting you in the face with a nice warm one. But no trees died.
I love the Lord, and ever since coming to know him I am truly a changed man. I haven't hurt another man since, and have no desire at all to do so, but if you or anyone else ever hit me with a balloon full of piss, it would mean their arse. Period.
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