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Posted on 12/4/12 at 1:29 am to lsutothetop
I am indeed butthurt. So butthurt in fact that it's causing a crimson tide on my couch.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 1:29 am to TigerMattSTL
I just found this gif and this seemed like a good thread to drop it in.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 1:34 am to lsutothetop
I am mad. In the other thread, you said Notre Dame wasn't on our level, but in doing so you implied that Auburn and UT were. That was a clever jab disguised as a complement, you incorrigible rogue.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 1:34 am to BrerTiger
Posted on 12/4/12 at 1:37 am to genro
someone has to hold all the charm, looks and wit of the LSU fanbase 
Posted on 12/4/12 at 4:55 am to Turkey_Creek_Tiger
A heard of elephants are called a 'pride'...
Look it up !!
!
thus Crimson Tide
True
Look it up !!
!
thus Crimson Tide
True
Posted on 12/4/12 at 5:20 am to TigerMattSTL
Heres an educated, well thought out thread. 
You must be the pride of your fanbase.
You must be the pride of your fanbase.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 5:25 am to TigerMattSTL
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We just won the SEC Championship We're playing Notre Dame for the National Championship - our 3rd trip in 4 years.
You're Mizzou.
Is this thread supposed to bother us?
Yes didn't you see that endzone dive genro ran on Saturday!!!!!
Posted on 12/4/12 at 5:35 am to Swoopin
Really? Making a joke because someone said "we" in reference to their team? That is the lamest shite ever, and obviously like every other sports fan in America, you do it too.
Derp.
Derp.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 6:25 am to genro
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Making a joke because someone said "we" in reference to their team?
It isn't that that I am making fun of. Hope you had fun looking up a post to refute a point that wasn't being made tho
Posted on 12/4/12 at 7:01 am to TigerMattSTL
Way back in the day, they didn't use yellow flags for penalties, but rather Crimson flags for good plays (non-holds, legal leather to leather contact, etc), which in turn could be exchanged with the conference office for easier scheduling the next year.
Whenever Bama played, they were so sqeaky-clean that the referees were always throwing their Crimson flags, and it was as if a Crimson Tide had come in with each play.
The name stuck.
Whenever Bama played, they were so sqeaky-clean that the referees were always throwing their Crimson flags, and it was as if a Crimson Tide had come in with each play.
The name stuck.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 7:19 am to TigerMattSTL
How many days did you think about that one?
Posted on 12/4/12 at 7:35 am to TigerMattSTL
No No their real mascot is big, giant count and "crimson tide" is what it does once a month.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 7:39 am to Schwaaz
Some of you need to lighten up. It was a joke.
Posted on 12/4/12 at 7:47 am to TigerMattSTL
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Is it from algae scum or menstrual bleeding?
How about you try and research it yourself instead of coming across like a jackass.
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How the Crimson Tide Got its Name
Football
1900 Offensive formationIn early newspaper accounts of Alabama football, the team was simply listed as the "varsity" or the "Crimson White" after the school colors.
The first nickname to become popular and used by headline writers was the "Thin Red Line." The nickname was used until 1906.
The name "Crimson Tide" is supposed to have first been used by Hugh Roberts, former sports editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald. He used "Crimson Tide" in describing an Alabama-Auburn game played in Birmingham in 1907, the last football contest between the two schools until 1948 when the series was resumed. The game was played in a sea of mud and Auburn was a heavy favorite to win.
But, evidently, the "Thin Red Line" played a great game in the red mud and held Auburn to a 6-6 tie, thus gaining the name "Crimson Tide." Zipp Newman, former sports editor of the Birmingham News, probably popularized the name more than any other writer.
and while we're at it....
How the Elephant mascot came about
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The Elephant Story
Elephant
The story of how Alabama became associated with the "elephant" goes back to the 1930 season when Coach Wallace Wade had assembled a great football team.
On October 8, 1930, sports writer Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal wrote a story of the Alabama-Mississippi game he had witnessed in Tuscaloosa four days earlier. Strupper wrote, "That Alabama team of 1930 is a typical Wade machine, powerful, big, tough, fast, aggressive, well-schooled in fundamentals, and the best blocking team for this early in the season that I have ever seen. When those big brutes hit you I mean you go down and stay down, often for an additional two minutes.
"Coach Wade started his second team that was plenty big and they went right to their knitting scoring a touchdown in the first quarter against one of the best fighting small lines that I have seen. For Ole Miss was truly battling the big boys for every inch of ground.
"At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, 'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,' and out stamped this Alabama varsity.
"It was the first time that I had seen it and the size of the entire eleven nearly knocked me cold, men that I had seen play last year looking like they had nearly doubled in size."
Strupper and other writers continued to refer to the Alabama linemen as "Red Elephants," the color referring to the crimson jerseys.
The 1930 team posted an overall 10-0 record. It shut out eight opponents and allowed only 13 points all season while scoring 217. The "Red Elephants" rolled over Washington State 24-0 in the Rose Bowl and were declared National Champions.
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Posted on 12/4/12 at 7:49 am to BrerTiger
That T-shirt isn't complete without some reference to cooking meth in the trailor while flossing his tooth.
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