re: Auburn fans - Georgia or Bama?

Georgia, but I've never lived anywhere in Alabama other than Auburn, so my perception is skewed.

Also, Alabama has been so dominant that they've almost got this corporate feel to the program and it just doesn't prompt the raw emotional reaction it once did. That's a nice way of saying I'm dulled to their success.

Alabama's fan base is heavily white trash, which is kind of novel and fun. Georgia's fan base is heavily middle class fancy suburban, which can be more annoying than the trailer trash. Lynette the enormous gas station clerk with a 3 pack a day smoker's cough shite talking Auburn vs. Greg the UGA fan with oakleys and a goatee barking at you in a Chili's parking lot

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Citizens of Lanett can't find enough scratch to live in West Point?

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Funny Valley has been brought into the mix. My family is from Valley and the surrounding environs....my grandfather was arrested twice in a one year period for moonshining in the 1940s and the second time was facing either 10 years in the chain gang or moving out of the state. He chose the latter, moved 60 miles to the north and east of the Valley, and that branch of the family has grown and thrived while the bunch left in the Valley all went from being lint heads (I can call them that being a progeny of lint heads) to severe unemployment and poverty to being saved by the Koreans from KIA with $12 an hour jobs.

Meanwhile my bootlegging grandfather got a union job with US steel in Atlanta, owned 2 nightclubs, a used car lot and an auto auction. More to the point he raised 2 kids who were the first in the family to receive a high school diploma. One of those kids, my Aunt, raised two sons, one who became and electrical engineer and is a Southern Company executive, the other is a tenured professor at Oglethorpe University, and my father who made a good living as a union electrician, retired at 62 with an income that is about 75% of what he made working his entire life, who raised 3 kids, one a CPA who owns her own firm, Another who owns a small business with about 30 employees and a third who is an electrical engineer who works for himself and has done so all over the world. Meanwhile our family in the Valley are lucky to have KIA and are happy to sell their lives to their employer as they have since we were sharecropping in the valley. Our grandfathers getting arrested for bootlegging saved several generations from living in a mill town and all that that implies...meanwhile folks in Lanette and Shawmut and Hughely are still praying for a job at KIA....or worse.

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No, like underachievers the world over they will stay where they are and come up with all kinds of excuses why their problems are the result of someone else's actions...

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Just as long as we've come to the understanding that outside of Metro Atlanta basically everything in both states is the same.

And I say that as a veteran of both Alabama, Atlanta and every corner of the state of Georgia.

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The thing is, most fans are really good and nice people in real life.

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It's wild, isn't it?

Also, crazy talk here, but the school that a person went to or chose to root for at age 4 generally doesn't define their personality or general communication pattern.

How many kids go to college at age 4 though

Mine will be lucky to get into one by the time they’re 10

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Mine will be lucky to get into one by the time they’re 10

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I've already got mine down in the mines. Looking forward to seeing them at Christmas, though.

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God. What a lame rivalry the two of you have become


1980...

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This is a perfect example of the collapse of the iron bowl.

You readily accept the decline in fanbase passion and retort with an emotionless rehash about some team who isnt supposed to be your rival.

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I've grown up in Georgia since I was about 7. I hate Bama, but I can say I definitely hate Georgia more. Especially, over the last few years it's just getting nastier between our fambases. It's not even fun anymore, it's pure hate with them.

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Just spitballing here. You are a passionate Auburn fan who talks about Auburn all the time, and probably in 2010 and 2013 you did more talking than normal. (As anyone would do) Then, when Georgia beats Auburn they remember and give you all kinds of crap.

Typically thta is the way it goes.


For example, I was in a car pool a few years ago with GT fans. I was very careful to be respectful of GT.
Then one day one of them said that Georgia should play nothing but teams like Notre Dame, Clemson with no lower tier schools. I asked him if he thought GT should do the same and he said no.

When GT beats Georgia 9as rare as it has been lately) they rub it in everybody elses faces. (In fairness, I'm sure some Georgia fans do the same to them) But sometimes it isn't the number of times one team beats another, it is all the talk after a win or loss by the rival team.


Georgia doesn't like Auburn because they won in 2010 and hang that over our head, and Auburn doesn't like Georgia because we talk about how often we beat Auburn. It's the yapping back and forth.