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Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:35 pm to Pettifogger
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:35 pm to Pettifogger
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By all means, tell me what is objectionable about that comment.
That loving things about your school other than football makes you different? Um, that maybe?
You honestly think the majority of alumns of other schools in the SEC don't feel that way? I mean, are you serious?
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Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:35 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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It just cracks me up when I hear some kid from Alpharetta or Woodstock that didn't care the first thing about Auburn until he was 17 and didn't get in to UGA try and tell me how his love of Auburn is just different and about more than football compared to my love of Alabama, a campus I (and others) visited and dreamed about being at since we were 4 years old.
I'm guessing this has probably never actually happened to you.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:35 pm to genro
That's part of it really. They love that "Auburn" sounds like a private school even though it's not.
Like an unspoken fantasy that even they probably don't talk about. It's just in the air.
I think that's it. Fantasy.
Like an unspoken fantasy that even they probably don't talk about. It's just in the air.
I think that's it. Fantasy.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:35 pm to Pettifogger
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I'm guessing this has probably never actually happened to you.
Happened about 4 hours ago, actually.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:35 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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But love of Alabama is easy love, cheap love, lazy love. The enormity of their sidewalk alumni proves this point.
So does this cheapen the love of Bama shown by actual Bama grads or what?
This post was edited on 12/3/14 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:36 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Don't remind them of the trailers or the fact that Auburn was bigger than Alabama until a few years ago
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:36 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Auburn is just different and about more than football compared to my love of Alabama
I didn't go to Alabama, so unlike some, I won't pretend to know how you think.
I know how I perceive you to think but I could be wrong.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:36 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Yep. Agree with all of it. Well said.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:36 pm to AUbagman
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I give zero fricks about UA, and my post history will reflect that. I have zero envy for your team or institution.
Then you, sir, are in an extreme minority.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:36 pm to Pettifogger
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Again, I find it weird that you think it's weird that we try to remember that football is a game and that we like Auburn for reasons other than football. So maybe we are different.
The implied argument here is that other fanbases aren't like this, that they only care about football. Classic Aubs.
Rational adults that attended these schools value them for more than just the athletics, however the athletics allow us a very direct way to cheer for our alma maters.
But yeah, Auburn fans/alumni are probably the only group that value their university.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:36 pm to AUbagman
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Auburn - content to always live in a shadow, as long as they measure up every once in a while. Everything revolves around Bama.
quote:Well, when one of you former players (Rob Pate) does a write up like the one in the OP it kinda reinforces the AU way of thinking and he sure mentions Bama a lot.......
What? You guys want that to be true so badly. Why is that?
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:36 pm to piggidyphish
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I do like a lot of things about auburn that aren't related to football. I can only guess I'm lying to myself?
You realize that doesn't make you or your school different, right?
Maybe you guys should get out more.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:36 pm to Bham Bammer
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In all seriousness, it's such an elitist mindset that Auburn people have.
Lulz.. That's great coming from the school that fabricates NC and then slaps them on anything that will hold writing to show the world how much better they are.
Stick that chest out, walk proud.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:37 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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That loving things about your school other than football makes you different? Um, that maybe?
You honestly think the majority of alumns of other schools in the SEC don't feel that way? I mean, are you serious?
I didn't say it made me different to you. Let me break it down for you sequentially:
1) The poster scoffed at the idea we would be optimistic or engage in camaraderie after a loss.
2) I said to him, that we do it because it's just a game, and that maybe he is different if he doesn't feel like that.
The end. Nothing to do with your affection for Alabama, but you're so quick to make fricking absurdly overbroad and pejorative statements about Auburn people that you don't take the time necessary to comprehend what the actual comment was about.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:37 pm to RT1941
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damnit
What year did you graduate?
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:37 pm to Pettifogger
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How is that ridiculous?
The action itself isn't ridiculous. Acting like it is unique to Auburn when it isn't and acting like every Auburn fan lives up to these tenets is absolutely ridiculous.
Not talking about you in particular. Talking about the quote in the OP
This post was edited on 12/3/14 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:37 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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You realize that doesn't make you or your school different, right?
Absolutely.
Have I said it was unique?
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:38 pm to Pettifogger
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Again, I find it weird that you think it's weird that we try to remember that football is a game and that we like Auburn for reasons other than football. So maybe we are different.
You think other schools don't like their institutions for anything other than football?
Football makes up a small percent of my experience at UA. A very small percent.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:38 pm to AUbagman
See. That's exactly what we're talking about. Alabama has a lot of National Championships to be proud of. Auburn doesn't. So you pretend ours are phony. And the only reason Bama is better is because of lies and conspiracies
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:38 pm to genro
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Don't remind them of the trailers or the fact that Auburn was bigger than Alabama until a few years ago
the trailers per the armed robbery by players?
those trailers? Or trailers closer to campus or on campus?
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