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re: why was the Iron Bowl never played in Auburn until 1989?
Posted on 7/11/24 at 9:18 pm to MillerLiteTime
Posted on 7/11/24 at 9:18 pm to MillerLiteTime
2:08 for Auburn
O:52 for Tuscaloosa
Birmingham has never been close to 50/50 fanbase split.
O:52 for Tuscaloosa
Birmingham has never been close to 50/50 fanbase split.
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Posted on 7/11/24 at 9:21 pm to borotiger
If only Birmingham knew then how UA would stab rhem in the back
Posted on 7/11/24 at 9:30 pm to jangalang
Most of the people in Birmingham with a college education are Auburn fans. Most without one are Bama fans. And 100% of the people who poison trees and murder people over the outcome of a football game are Bama fans.
Posted on 7/11/24 at 9:31 pm to GetPiggywithIt
Auburn is the only school who pitched a fit about a neutral site. OU-Texas, UF-UGA, other big names do it every year yet Barners were the only ones who pitched a baby fit about it being in Birmingham
They act like it was 90/10 Bama in the stands and they were at a disadvantage. It was 50/50, each team had an equal number of fans and equal crowd noise. Yet they bitched about it
Victim complex is skrong on the plains
They act like it was 90/10 Bama in the stands and they were at a disadvantage. It was 50/50, each team had an equal number of fans and equal crowd noise. Yet they bitched about it
Victim complex is skrong on the plains
This post was edited on 7/11/24 at 9:38 pm
Posted on 7/11/24 at 9:32 pm to Smokey Okie
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auburn was a shite-pile in the middle of a cow pasture is the correct answer. It was a podunk hick town with no paved roads and all their women had extremely large and fat ankles which scared many civilized folks.
So what's changed exactly?
Posted on 7/11/24 at 9:37 pm to TailbackU
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Most of the people in Birmingham with a college education are Auburn fans. Most without one are Bama fans.
To the rest of the SEC, Barners actually believe shite like this. Every person with an AU shirt on has, at the very least, a masters degree from Auburn, while every Alabama fan quit school in the 8th grade. No one outside of the student section at a 'Bama game has ever attended school there, somehow.
Posted on 7/11/24 at 9:40 pm to TailbackU
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Most of the people in Birmingham with a college education are Auburn fans. Most without one are Bama fans. And 100% of the people who poison trees and murder people over the outcome of a football game are Bama fans.
And there it is Auburn folks are the only people in the entire world who love their school as a whole, everybody else just likes the football program.
This post was edited on 7/11/24 at 9:41 pm
Posted on 7/11/24 at 10:01 pm to KingOfTheWorld
I assume you live in Birmingham and have a lake house at Lake Martin. Given your comments it must be a nightmare getting to your lake house JUST north of Auburn on 280 - maybe 20 miles. Think of all that $$$ you’ve wasted on property in East-Central Alabama. You should sell and invest more dinero in T-Town.
Posted on 7/11/24 at 10:08 pm to Marktastic86
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To the rest of the SEC, Barners actually believe shite like this. Every person with an AU shirt on has, at the very least, a masters degree from Auburn, while every Alabama fan quit school in the 8th grade. No one outside of the student section at a 'Bama game has ever attended school there, somehow.
That is what makes them a cult. They truly believe they are hick royalty and the most moral and righteous of all football fans while their team simultaneously is the #2 most crooked college football team to ever exist behind only the infamous SMU.
They have no qualms about doing such things as playing, possibly abusing, absolutely mentally retarded players over the years such as the Irons brothers and many, many other questionable things.
This post was edited on 7/11/24 at 10:09 pm
Posted on 7/11/24 at 10:12 pm to Marktastic86
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So what's changed exactly?
Not much; I mean, they do have paved roads now.
This:
is one of their graduates, btw.
This post was edited on 7/11/24 at 10:13 pm
Posted on 7/11/24 at 10:27 pm to Smokey Okie
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The only fans that love their school as a whole
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…they are…royalty and the most morale and righteous of all football fans
Yes, Gumps really did post all of these words about Auburn. I am glad they are all so educated in a general sense. As well they continually try to learn more about Auburn and talk about Auburn, over and over,……it really is a cult-like obsession that Gumps have about Auburn. They make it even more cute when they try to project their own behavior on Auburn fans.
Posted on 7/11/24 at 10:29 pm to FlyDownTheField83
Don’t mind Smokey. He is an idiot. We have purposefully trained him wrong, as a joke.
Posted on 7/11/24 at 10:43 pm to Bigbens42
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Don’t mind Smokey. He is an idiot. We have purposefully trained him wrong, as a joke.
Posted on 7/12/24 at 4:42 am to RoscoeSanCarlos
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I assume you live in Birmingham and have a lake house at Lake Martin. Given your comments it must be a nightmare getting to your lake house JUST north of Auburn on 280 - maybe 20 miles. Think of all that $$$ you’ve wasted on property in East-Central Alabama. You should sell and invest more dinero in T-Town.
I have no idea what that dumbfrick rambling was all about but I’m sure it made sense in your small brain.
Posted on 7/12/24 at 5:58 am to Bigbens42
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Except it wasn’t
I'm sorry Opp doesn't have a major stadium
Posted on 7/12/24 at 6:03 am to GetPiggywithIt
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I was reading about it and most of the games were in Birmingham until 1989, was Bama being stubborn or did Auburn mutually agree to play right down the road from Bama's campus?
It wasn't just the Iron Bowl. BAMA and the barn played other big games at Legion Field. Big games off campus used to be a thing. Ole Miss used to play big games in Jackson and even Memphis. BAMA often played in Jackson. I believe Arkansas still plays occasionally in Little Rock.
Posted on 7/12/24 at 6:09 am to Frac the world
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It was 50/50, each team had an equal number of fans and equal crowd noise.
The general tickets were doled out 50/50.
However, when Legion Field was built, it was financed with municipal bonds, and for some odd reason, bondholders were given "season tickets" to every event held at Legion Field. These tickets were renewable even after the bonds had been retired.
Given that in the days when Legion Field was built there was a much larger number of Bama alums living in the Birmingham area than Auburn alums, most of the bonds (and the tickets that went with those bonds) were held by Bama fans. So through the end of the Iron Bowl contract, in reality the split was closer to 60/40 Bama than 50/50.
Posted on 7/12/24 at 6:12 am to TailbackU
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Most of the people in Birmingham with a college education are Auburn fans.
Probably because most people who are Auburn fans actually attended the school or had family who did so. There's a reason why about 80% of the state's population is made up of Alabama fans. That license plate says "Alabama" on it; not "Auburn."
Posted on 7/12/24 at 6:36 am to GetPiggywithIt
You know how Arkansas fans incessantly bitch about having to play a game or two a year in War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock? That's kinda how Auburn fans felt about Legion Field. Except one of those couple games a year was our biggest rival in a "Bama" city. As has been pointed out, it wasn't just the Iron Bowl played there.
But improvements were made to both on campus stadiums and it just made sense to make it a home/home series. Regardless of how many Bama fans tell you it was 50/50 even split and completely fair and honest, it wasn't.
But improvements were made to both on campus stadiums and it just made sense to make it a home/home series. Regardless of how many Bama fans tell you it was 50/50 even split and completely fair and honest, it wasn't.
This post was edited on 7/12/24 at 6:38 am
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