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Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:50 pm to AUbagman
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:50 pm to AUbagman
Holy shite. I've never seen a fanbase break down over a win like this.
I guess it's because Auburn fans didn't go out and murder their friends or vandalize others' property after I loss which they all must have wanted or expected.
I'm sorry, Alabama fans, that we didn't live up to your lofty expectations of destroying peoples' lives over a football game. Instead, although disappointed with the outcome, we get over it and look ahead to the bowl game and whatever else we're doing in our lives.
Listen, I'll take winning a national championship and losing to Alabama every year over the opposite, and many other Auburn fans I've talked to share the same opinion. The Iron Bowl is just another game, albeit normally an important one, and should be taken as such. The only reason it intensifies is because the majority of your sidewalk fans make living in this state (outside of Auburn) unbearable.
I guess it's because Auburn fans didn't go out and murder their friends or vandalize others' property after I loss which they all must have wanted or expected.
I'm sorry, Alabama fans, that we didn't live up to your lofty expectations of destroying peoples' lives over a football game. Instead, although disappointed with the outcome, we get over it and look ahead to the bowl game and whatever else we're doing in our lives.
Listen, I'll take winning a national championship and losing to Alabama every year over the opposite, and many other Auburn fans I've talked to share the same opinion. The Iron Bowl is just another game, albeit normally an important one, and should be taken as such. The only reason it intensifies is because the majority of your sidewalk fans make living in this state (outside of Auburn) unbearable.
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Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:51 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
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Pat Dye made a huge sweeping generalization 30 years ago IMO.
Hell, I probably love Miss State more than most Auburn grads love Auburn and I only went here for graduate school.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:51 pm to The Spleen
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Maybe so, but I've met him and found him to be a swell guy so I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Column doesn't change my opinion of him, but I guess I'll never get the mindset that Auburn fans seem to have that their college experience was exponentially superior to everyone else's college experience, thus giving them a more virtuous love of their alma mater.
Would you trade your experience at UA for one at UGA? Why?
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:52 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
Dp
This post was edited on 12/3/14 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:52 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
Bama strives to be the best in all aspects
Auburn strives to beat Bama in all aspects
Auburn strives to beat Bama in all aspects
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:52 pm to piggidyphish
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Yea, we all really like auburn. We could all be wrong and it's not that great of a place. But us thinking it shouldn't really rub people wrong the way it does.
You cut off the part of my sentence that drove my point home. Everyone should love their alma mater. Auburn fans aren't unique in this, but they seem to desperately try to make others believe their love is more virtuous. The love Auburn fans have for their school doesn't bother me in the least, the moral superiority they carry because of that love is ridiculous. But even that doesn't really bother me, it just makes me feel sorry for them.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:53 pm to Pettifogger
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Yes, Auburn people have a romanticized view of Auburn that comes from being the underdog in a lot of scenarios.
Got no problem with that
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We're a tight knit bunch. We're pretty ideologically similar. As fans we try to do things in a hospitable and reasonable way, and over the years that has been recognized by a lot of people outside our community. Not all of us fit that mold, but a lot of us do or strive to fit it.
That's fine and all. I show up in Auburn and see roughly the exact same types of activities, negatively and positively, that I saw in Tuscaloosa and Athens and Baton Rouge, but that's beside the point.
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we don't know what you guys do or how you think about stuff.
And there is the issue. While some would say what you just said, a whole large chunk of people don't know what we do yet like to assume that whatever it is it isn't as good as what happens in Auburn. Which is just strange, because I can't remember ever coming across another alumni base that acts that way.
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also pretty lame and narcissistic to assume we War Eagle our fellow AU people as some sort of slight toward people who beat us on the football field. It's not a coping mechanism either, at least for me.
I agree with this as well. I got no problems with "WE Anyway". Just kind of a "well we still all love Auburn" thing.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:53 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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I guess my conclusion on this matter is that I think it is great Auburn people love Auburn. Seriously, it is. It's this weird fascination with one-upping every other school and their alums by proclaiming the Auburn experience better and more meaningful that makes people scratch their heads (especially when someone who went to Auburn has no idea what another campus experience is like).
That's all.
I agree. It bugs the shite out of me when AU people claim a bond nobody else has. It's a campus with a small town feel, so I suppose that could play into it, but lifelong connections and relationships are formed at every other campus. We don't have a monopoly on institutional pride.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:54 pm to The Spleen
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You cut off the part of my sentence that drove my point home. Everyone should love their alma mater. Auburn fans aren't unique in this, but they seem to desperately try to make others believe their love is more virtuous. The love Auburn fans have for their school doesn't bother me in the least, the moral superiority they carry because of that love is ridiculous. But even that doesn't really bother me, it just makes me feel sorry for them.
I mean, you're using what we do for us to slight us, and then saying you feel sorry for us.
It's just as petty and stupid as anything Pate said.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:54 pm to StiffDewsAreTheWorst
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Holy shite. I've never seen a fanbase break down over a win like this. I guess it's because Auburn fans didn't go out and murder their friends or vandalize others' property after I loss which they all must have wanted or expected. I'm sorry, Alabama fans, that we didn't live up to your lofty expectations of destroying peoples' lives over a football game. Instead, although disappointed with the outcome, we get over it and look ahead to the bowl game and whatever else we're doing in our lives. Listen, I'll take winning a national championship and losing to Alabama every year over the opposite, and many other Auburn fans I've talked to share the same opinion. The Iron Bowl is just another game, albeit normally an important one, and should be taken as such. The only reason it intensifies is because the majority of your sidewalk fans make living in this state (outside of Auburn) unbearable.
AWESOME MAN GREAT POST
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:54 pm to Pettifogger
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it's not fabricated to feel superior to anybody
Whatever you say, hoss. 
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:55 pm to Pettifogger
I have to say the obsession Auburn has with Alabama and Alabama has with Auburn is 50/50. I think some of y'all enjoy seeing the other guy lose more than you're own team win.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:55 pm to JuiceTerry
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Whatever you say, hoss.
Yeah man, my freshman year they taught us to say War Eagle after wins and losses, because it was a way to stick it to Alabama.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:56 pm to SummerOfGeorge
So you agree then?
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:56 pm to AUbagman
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I agree. It bugs the shite out of me when AU people claim a bond nobody else has. It's a campus with a small town feel, so I suppose that could play into it, but lifelong connections and relationships are formed at every other campus. We don't have a monopoly on institutional pride.
Seriously, the relationships that Auburn folks have with Auburn and Alabama folks with Alabama are so similar it's creepy.
I think this whole mindset showed up because Alabama clearly has the monopoly on people who didn't go there, and generally those folks care much more about football than anything else. So if you are comparing random sidewalk to Auburn alum, Auburn alum almost undoubtedly cares more about the Biology Department and the traditions of the school than sidewalk guy.
However, graduates of Alabama care as much about all that stuff as graduates anywhere else. And that's what makes us throw our hands up.
This post was edited on 12/3/14 at 12:58 pm
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:56 pm to The Spleen
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but they seem to desperately try to make others believe their love is more virtuous.
If that's how you take it then that's how you take it. I'm sorry you feel that way.
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The love Auburn fans have for their school doesn't bother me in the least, the moral superiority they carry because of that love is ridiculous. But even that doesn't really bother me, it just makes me feel sorry for them.
Well that's good. I'd hate to hear you say that auburn people loving auburn bothers you...because that'd be odd. Thanks for the sentiment, but don't waste any more emotions feeling sorry for us.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:57 pm to I-59 Tiger
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I have to say the obsession Auburn has with Alabama and Alabama has with Auburn is 50/50. I think some of y'all enjoy seeing the other guy lose more than you're own team win.
No, but I think we would all admit after our team winning that is #2.
It's what a rivalry is about, and ours is the best there is.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:57 pm to I-59 Tiger
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I have to say the obsession Auburn has with Alabama and Alabama has with Auburn is 50/50. I think some of y'all enjoy seeing the other guy lose more than you're own team win.
Honestly, I had to learn to hate Alabama. Growing up in GA, my obsession was with UGA.
Ultimately, Alabama has plenty of normal, rational fans that represent the school well. My hatred really didn't develop until I encountered trashy, awful Alabama fans with no obvious connection to UA who truly thought that somehow their life was more fulfilling or that they were superior on account of something Bear Bryant did before they were born.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:58 pm to Pettifogger
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My hatred really didn't develop until I encountered trashy, awful Alabama fans with no obvious connection to UA who truly thought that somehow their life was more fulfilling or that they were superior on account of something Bear Bryant did before they were born.
If it makes you feel better I probably hate those people more than you do.
Posted on 12/3/14 at 12:58 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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It's what a rivalry is about, and ours is the best there is.
In college football, there's no doubt.
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