The methodology is a little flawed. As an Auburn Alumnus, I won’t even like the official Auburn athletics page on FB because I don’t want to appear to be one of the unwashed bama-type sidewalk alums that are all over FB. It’s beneath me.

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Posted by iHatecowbells

Southaven MS

Member since Sep 2018

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Posted on 11/29/18 at 10:38 pm to StopRobot

Fun fact: the guy in the office next to me started at LSU, transferred to ole miss and got his masters from Bama.

Never went to a football game at any of the 3.

How I feel like this gives him a lot of wiggle room as far as fandom goes

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Posted by Sparetime

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Posted on 11/29/18 at 11:51 pm to StopRobot

Most State fans I know either have been to a classroom there or have children now attending there. Hard to be a sidewalk state fan if you were born pre 1990. Look at the progression in facilities and programs at State in the last ten years. This is not old money, but new successful alumnus.

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Posted by BammerDelendaEst

Member since Jan 2014

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Posted on 11/30/18 at 9:27 am to StopRobot

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18% of Alabamians say they are Auburn fans.

1. This assumes that this poll is accurate/representative.

2. The poll also said that 27% said they were UA fans, and 20% said they were "fans of both schools". Almost all of that 20% are really Bama fans who "cheer for Auburn when they aren't playing Bama"

3. Bottom line is that Bama has 2.5-3 times as many fans as AU in Alabama; nationwide, the proportion is almost certainly even greater, because, as we have been told 10,000 times on tRant, "Bama is a national brand."

4. So, if Bama has 3X as many fans, and the alumni bases are roughly equal, then Bama obviously has a much larger proportion of "sidewalk fans" than AU does.

FWIW, there's nothing wrong with sidewalk fans in general, it's just that so many of Bama's are such moronic goobers.

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