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re: What % of Bama fans ever stepped foot in a U of A classroom?
Posted on 11/29/18 at 10:14 am to Godawgs4
Posted on 11/29/18 at 10:14 am to Godawgs4
quote:Depends. my daughter went to UGA, but I am a much bigger fan than she is. She didn't even go to a game until her Junior or senior year. I mean, you just can't put people in boxes by saying people who went to a school are bigger fans and people who did not go there are not "real" fans.
Most schools have casual fans in their home state that pull for the school due to a number of reasons, family, friends attended, possibly work for the university or just become a fan because of geography.
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Posted on 11/29/18 at 10:30 am to Herman Frisco
What is your point? That Bama has a giant fan base? Feel better? Setting aside the longer diatribe you deserve for acting like a condescending, elitist prick, is the fact that without “sidewalk fans” (dumbass term used by people trying to boost their self-esteem on the backs of someone else rather than actually accomplishing something) each fan base would be relatively tiny, and the football you’d be watching would rise only slightly above Thanksgiving backyard horsepoop. But congrats on enrolling.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 11:10 am to OleManDixon
I guess so many are just too young or have never had the history of Southern football taught to them. Alabama football was "The Pride of the South" back in the early days.
Southern football was thought of to be a joke and inferior to the "elite" schools. Alabama went out to the Rose Bowl in 1925 as a heavy underdog and beat Washington putting Southern football on the national map.
There is an excellent documentary called "Roses of Crimson" chronicling all of this. Southern folks were often disparaged and openly mocked as the stain of the Civil War was still relatively fresh as compared to today. So many in the South adopted Alabama as their team and took pride in them kicking some Yankee arse.
The Alabama Crimson Tide has been and continues to be Dixie's pride. Thus the huge generational fanbase. Alabama fandom has literally been handed down and bequeathed generation after generation. Wear something Bama and you will hear Roll Tide from complete strangers not only throughout the country but overseas as well.
We are everywhere!
Southern football was thought of to be a joke and inferior to the "elite" schools. Alabama went out to the Rose Bowl in 1925 as a heavy underdog and beat Washington putting Southern football on the national map.
There is an excellent documentary called "Roses of Crimson" chronicling all of this. Southern folks were often disparaged and openly mocked as the stain of the Civil War was still relatively fresh as compared to today. So many in the South adopted Alabama as their team and took pride in them kicking some Yankee arse.
The Alabama Crimson Tide has been and continues to be Dixie's pride. Thus the huge generational fanbase. Alabama fandom has literally been handed down and bequeathed generation after generation. Wear something Bama and you will hear Roll Tide from complete strangers not only throughout the country but overseas as well.
We are everywhere!
Posted on 11/29/18 at 1:32 pm to CharlesLSU
Haven’t you ever heard of state pride?
It’s terrible that some fans try to make you feel bad as a fan because of things like A.) Your team wins so you are a bandwagon fan. B.) You didn’t go to school there so you are a bandwagon fan.
Another leftist trying to make others feel bad because they are miserable themselves.
It’s terrible that some fans try to make you feel bad as a fan because of things like A.) Your team wins so you are a bandwagon fan. B.) You didn’t go to school there so you are a bandwagon fan.
Another leftist trying to make others feel bad because they are miserable themselves.
Posted on 11/29/18 at 9:02 pm to CharlesLSU
Did I earn my fandom then? So far, I've paid the U of Alabama $120,000 as part of my daughters education. I'm a graduate of Boston College, a Massachusetts Yankee, and realized that Bama funnels all that football cash into a university which has some of the best science facilities in the country. My daughter will likely attend U of Alabama Birmingham Medical School and will have done more for the state and university than most residents. She volunteers at the DCH Tuscaloosa hospital every Friday. I'm wealthy, and I live and work in San Francisco CA.
You can disparage the Bama fans all you want, but these same fans support the state and school in brining in top notch talent to the state. After twenty years of this, imagine all the talent which has fallen in love with the South and decides to stay and raise families. Alabama as a state has a phenomenal vision and the University is a major part of that.
Disparaging them is simple jealousy.
You can disparage the Bama fans all you want, but these same fans support the state and school in brining in top notch talent to the state. After twenty years of this, imagine all the talent which has fallen in love with the South and decides to stay and raise families. Alabama as a state has a phenomenal vision and the University is a major part of that.
Disparaging them is simple jealousy.
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