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Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:31 pm to NBamaAlum
shite if this kid goes to South America and circumsizes young boys he'll end up being Tebow2.0
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:31 pm to NBamaAlum
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we won't have to spring for a Land Rover
He'll be able to buy the offensive linemen's dinners just like Greg did.
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:33 pm to chinese58
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He'll be able to buy the offensive linemen's dinners just like Greg did.
Well, in the interest of full disclosure, they were at Bob Baumhowers Wings. Their meal was probably half off anyway...
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:35 pm to jatebe
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In honor of Alabama stealing Wake Forrest's QB....
They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacon_Blues
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The song, while contrasting winning and losing in life, does so by taking as an image the contrast between the perennial powerhouse, Crimson Tide football team, and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. In the five years before the song was written, the Crimson Tide had lost only 8 games total, while Wake Forest had a losing record every season. Group member Donald Fagen said, "Walter and I had been working on that song at a house in Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, 'You mean it's like, they call these cracker assholes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide, and I'm this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon Blues?' And I said, 'Yeah!' He said, 'Cool! Let's finish it!'"
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:40 pm to jatebe
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Whatever, but they knew who the winners were.
Steely Dan will be in T-Town August 20, so you can throw eggs at them if you like.
When the Tide fans in the audience start screaming the lyrics to Deacon Blues while they are playing it, when Fagen and Becker kind of laugh and smile at each other at that point, just remember that they are thinking about you "cracker assholes".
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:44 pm to beatbammer
A lot of fans from other schools think that Alabama is an a-hole. So what else is new?
This post was edited on 8/5/11 at 7:46 pm
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:44 pm to beatbammer
When is the auburn concert?
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:45 pm to beatbammer
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When the Tide fans in the audience start screaming the lyrics to Deacon Blues while they are playing it, when Fagen and Becker kind of laugh and smile at each other at that point, just remember that they are thinking about you "cracker assholes".
Well, consider that if you guys had grabbed a Cam Newton back then, we might not have been the "cracker assholes" they were singing about.
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:47 pm to NBamaAlum
NYTimes article about their new $60,000,000 stadium
I went to see them play at Longview in 2008. Longview's stadium holds 6,000 people. The Allen band took up the whole visitors seating. Everybody else, including myself, had to sit on a grass hill in one end zone. It was worth it though. Longview, a 4A school at that time, won that game. Allen won the biggest division of football in Texas that year.
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A $60 Million Palace for Texas High School Football
To the residents, who voted 63 percent in favor of a $119 million bond in May 2009, this project, which includes the stadium, an auditorium for fine arts and a service center for the district, is designed to scale. Their scale just happens to be larger than most.
Allen is the third-biggest high school in both Texas and in its area, which includes two larger schools in nearby Plano. It has more than 5,000 students in grades 9 to 12, more than 600 members in the nation’s largest high school band and a campus that spreads across 650,000 square feet.
On football Friday nights, the lucky ones fill the bleachers at the current stadium. Cars park for miles down the street, where the aroma of barbecue is the local perfume. The scene is straight from “Friday Night Lights,” the overcrowded version. Tom Westerberg, who became Allen’s head coach in 2004, said he could remember only four home defeats in his tenure.
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These days, Allen is a relatively affluent suburb north of Dallas, with a professional hockey team (the Americans of the Central Hockey League), a church seemingly on every corner, several strip malls and rows and rows of brick houses, which line the subdivisions that dominate the landscape.
The high school, which more closely resembles a small college, remains the centerpiece. Its athletic center contains the football team’s offices, an indoor practice field, a weight room, a film room and separate locker rooms for football, soccer, basketball and track. A picture on the wall near the expansive trophy case features the students who accepted college athletic scholarships last year — 44 of them.
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Parking and season tickets rank as the current stadium’s biggest challenges. The builders could have never anticipated Allen’s growth, the 8,000 fans who travel to away games, the 3,000 students who participate in home games, in football, in band, as spectators. Some families have held season tickets for 25 or 30 years. Their children graduated, moved, had their own children, but the families kept the tickets for the town’s marquee Friday night events. New residents scramble for season tickets. Before this season, roughly 400 families entered a lottery for 70 available seats.
I went to see them play at Longview in 2008. Longview's stadium holds 6,000 people. The Allen band took up the whole visitors seating. Everybody else, including myself, had to sit on a grass hill in one end zone. It was worth it though. Longview, a 4A school at that time, won that game. Allen won the biggest division of football in Texas that year.
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:48 pm to chinese58
quote:We cant read NYTimes. They are biased toward Alabama
chinese58
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:49 pm to cyde
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Well, consider that if you guys had grabbed a Cam Newton back then, we might not have been the "cracker assholes" they were singing about.
Hey, don't get pissy at me because a large portion of Bama fans are ignorant enough to worship a song where they're being ridiculed for being cracker assholes.
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:54 pm to chilld28
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They are biased toward Alabama
They kind of make fun of this quarterback's hometown spending the amount of money they do on football too.
The kid should feel right at home playing in the SEC.
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:54 pm to beatbammer
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Hey, don't get pissy at me because a large portion of Bama fans are ignorant enough to worship a song where they're being ridiculed for being cracker assholes.
Ain't even mad, but consider the point I'm making. If it had been Auburn instead, do you really think it would be any different? They aren't ridiculing the school. They're ridiculing the state. It wouldn't matter which school from Alabama was the winner.
Hell, Tammy would probably have "Deacon Blues" tattooed right on her FUPA.
This post was edited on 8/5/11 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 8/5/11 at 7:55 pm to superman
Saban is just looking for good Wunderlick scores in a few years.
Posted on 8/5/11 at 8:04 pm to East Coast Band
Wall St. is biased against Bama.
It's auburn that the NYT is out to get.
It's auburn that the NYT is out to get.
Posted on 8/5/11 at 8:11 pm to RollTide4Ever
just curious, what does everyone think of Bama getting more 3 stars than normal. Congrats on the Black kid though.
Posted on 8/5/11 at 8:12 pm to AuburnCPA
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the Black kid
That's racis--! Ah, you capitalized the name. Damn, foiled again.
Posted on 8/5/11 at 8:13 pm to cyde
haha, gotcha
Posted on 8/5/11 at 8:14 pm to beatbammer
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cracker assholes.
He like most northerners were pissed that a Southern school (Alabama) that he thought had mostly white boys at the time were winning it all.
It really hasn't changed much today. The northern schools, like Ohio State, Michigan, etc. look upon the Southern schools as inferior to them. It really pisses them off that Alabama and the SEC are beating their butts.
In the 1970's when Fagen wrote the song, Alabama was 97-11; and won 8 SEC championships and 3 national championships. He may have hated Alabama but he knew a winner when he saw one.
*edited for the grammar police.
This post was edited on 8/5/11 at 8:41 pm
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