re: AU professor blames pickup-truck alumni

Was this not what was said to begin with in the article?
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Flynt, editor in chief of the online Encyclopedia of Alabama, characterized the more obsessed as primarily working-class “pickup-truck alumni” who matriculated to neither university and whose lives are a struggle.

That is why I said what I did about coaches, (didn't even mention your coach by name, and trust me he is not the only one that has contract with Ford) shouldn't be driving a truck...because their lives are certainly not a struggle.
You're right that I do respond to anything against Auburn or Cam Newton....never denied it...hate them both.

You remind me of a young Dwight K Schrute.

there have always been sidewalk, "pick up truck" fans who feel that they have ties to the football teams of both schools whether they attended that school or not. and the majority of them are good, hardworking people who save their money to buy the gear & pay for the gas to get to their stadiums and sometimes even buy tickets to the games.

they, as a whole, have helped pay for all of the stadium upgrades and expansions as much as influential individual boosters

but, there is always the fringe element...you find them, not only in sports--but in politics, in environmental groups, churches, mosques--any religious organization, human rights groups, right & left wing whatever clubs, etc.

the internet is a great thing--don't know how we functioned without it, but it has also given the fringe element a place to gather anonymously and to egg each other on.

oh crap..i have bored myself and lost my train of thought....basically, there are crazies in every fan base, always have been,always will be. but the internet has given them a place to have their craziness encouraged.