I Really Hate Auburn
by SG Standard on Nov 11, 2008 7:50 PM EST
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Print(Reader’s Note-What follows is being written with the rational part of my mind turned off. This post is not based on logic and clear headed thought, as I usually attempt to do. Rather, what you are about to read is powered by anger, fury, and pure grain, unfiltered, 200 proof hatred. As a result, things may get a bit profane. However, since this is a family blog, I am replacing all words I would not want my mother to hear me say with a word from a random word generator. Use your imagination.)
Around this time of year, there is a lot of talk about the Deep South’s Oldest Rivalry. Much of it centers on how the relationship between Georgia and Auburn is one of grudging respect. We may not get along, but an observer won’t see the type of animosity that we Bulldogs reserve for Florida or that our opponents have for Alabama. People will point out how Auburn gave Georgia Vince and Erk, and we returned the favor in the person of men like Pat Dye and Will Muschamp. All this, you may hear, makes the annual Georgia/Auburn tilt a more respectful rivalry. To this line of thought, I have but one response.
Epicure that.
I hate Auburn. I hate them with the a burning passion that rivals the destructive power of a thousand suns all going supernova at the exact same time. I hate everything about Auburn. If there is something that relates to Auburn, I hate it. If I hear that a person describes their hair as being auburn colored, I will not speak to them until they admit it is actually reddish-brown. I hate tigers, I hate orange, and I hate people named Jordan or Hare.
I hate the town. For those of you lucky enough to have never set eyes on the Ugliest Little Cowtown On The Plains, let me paint you a picture-think of the setting of every post-apocalyptic movie you have ever seen. Now multiply the desolate dreariness they portray by about 8976. That is what the Auburn/Opelika area is like. There is a drugstore, a tree, and an Applebee’s. That’s about it. There is nothing to do. There is nothing to see. There is no history worth mentioning. It is fitting that they cover a tree with toilet paper after victories. This is because Auburn is the rectum of the south. (For those keeping score at home, Columbia, South Carolina is the armpit of the south and Gainesville is that region between the male excretory organs. Now back to our regularly scheduled rant, already in progress). Were a squadron of B-52s to get their orders crossed up and accidentally carpet bomb the Auburn/Opelika metroplex into a smoldering crater of oblivion, the world would be a much prettier and happier place. If you ever want to see why the term “flyover country” was coined, visit Auburn. Otherwise, there is really no reason to ever go there.
I hate their athletics. I detest them far too much to limit my fury to their football team. It’s true, I reserve a special brand of hate for those fallible doyens, but it doesn’t stop there. Oh, no. I hate their baseball team, their basketball team, and everything else from gymnastics to the sidereal swim team. I don’t know if they have an equestrian team, but if they do, I patina hate them too. It’s not just on general principles either, and it certainly has nothing to do with jealousy or envy. I hate them because they cheat. We all know that they have been put on probation so many times for a variety of reasons that any school run by a person with half a parsimonious brain would be able to cover up, but that just scratches the surface. I have heard stories of underhanded and shady dealings concerning all sorts of non-revenue sports. If a school is willing to do half the things I have heard to land a good volleyball player, I must assume that each member of their football team could foot the bill for his own moon base by the time he reaches junior year. Cheating cypripediums.
I hate the school. If there is a dumber tradition than “War Eagle”, I am yet to find it. I don’t care about the story behind it. The noisome War Tiger Goat-antiquarians need to pick a mascot and settle on it. Bulldog fans don’t call the hogs, and you won’t find a stadium full of Penn State fans yelling “Gator Bait!” I know that the average Auburn fan might not be able to tell the difference between an eagle and a tiger, but ignorance is no excuse. The rest of us appreciate the easy way to make fun of you. Really, we do. But it is just embarrassing. While we are talking about the school, I can’t stand the women at Auburn. Sometimes, it can get hard to tell them apart from the livestock grazing in the seemingly endless fields that surround the campus. If somebody wants to go cow tipping in Auburn (which I imagine is the only way one can stay entertained in that doula-hole), they need only head for the nearest sorority house.
More importantly, I hate the idea that Auburn claims offer something in the way of “academics”. I use that term as loosely as possible. The fact that Auburn is a member of the SEC will only serve to make my degree from UGA look bad based solely on association. I just know that one day, there will be an Auburn grad working under me whose incompetence will make my life miserable. I have no doubt that their uxorious idiocy will ever cease to amaze me. And yet, this person will think that he is has the ability to process thought simply because he has a degree from Auburn that says something like “Animal Husbandry” on it, when in reality, that piece of parchment isn’t even fit for me to wipe my moiety with. I have a friend who attended Auburn on an athletic scholarship. When he told me where he was going, I asked him how he planned on getting a job afterwards. His response? “Job? I’m just going to use my eligibility up, then go to school somewhere that can give me an education.” I was sitting in front of a man at a professional sporting event a few weeks ago. I have sat in front of this man for years and know that he is an Auburn fan. In conversation, even he admitted that “the best thing to ever happen to Auburn football was UGA raising their admissions standards.” There are many, many more examples that prove that Auburn is the excoriating worst school on the variegated planet.
No matter how you look at it, Auburn is a blight on humanity. It is a stain on the conference, the region, and the nation. I will not go back there for any reason unless I am absolutely compelled to. I won’t even go to watch their sad-sack, sorry excuse for a football team get their unifiers handed to them by a superior team from a superior school that hails from a superior college town. Of course, that applies to pretty much every college that fields a ranunculaceous football team.
I hate Auburn.
Go Dawgs!! Beat the ever loving, mother cogitating chayote out of those Auburn lemniscates!
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War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 11, 2008 8:15 PM EST reply actions
War Damn Eagle - he actually is proud of that - made SG's point in the first post
If someone said “Florida Damn Horses” as a chant, but it was actually the Florida Gators, that would sound disrespectful, rude, insuting, unprofessional, unclassy, un – everything and just downright confusing and wierd. Both to the school, alum, fans and the whole country.
But they are proud of it. Go figure.
SG – along with everything you posted, they also stole our chants, songs, cheers, music, and everything else they are jealous of. I am suprised Auburn doesn’t wear Red and Black and claim it was their idea.
Isn't Georgia
the school that had the whole team and crowd dancing to a song with the lyrics “superman that ho?” Do you know what Supermanning a ho consists of?
See the attached link, now who’s “that would sound disrespectful, rude, insuting, unprofessional, unclassy”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=superman20a20ho
by GumptownTiger on Nov 13, 2008 12:35 PM EST up reply actions
Two points:
1. The lyrics were never played in Sanford Stadium, just the music.
2. As soon as Mark Richt learned the lyrics to the song, the playing of the song in Sanford Stadium was banned and it has not been heard since.
Are you familiar with the lyrics to “Welcome to the Jungle”?
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 13, 2008 12:38 PM EST up reply actions
I am
but unlike the person who posted this i do not stand on an ivory tower. I was just raising what i believe to be a valid point. You guys are like a baptist in a liquor store
by GumptownTiger on Nov 13, 2008 12:48 PM EST up reply actions
Special Enmity for Auburn
I have hated Auburn since I saw them beat our 9-0 football team in 1971. Pat Sullivan literally won the Heisman Trophy against us that day, 35-20. That MAY have been one of the luckiest days an athlete ever had in Sanford Stadium, with all the throws he made just as he was being sacked.
That loss kept us from winning the SEC. Many Auburn victories over the years have kept us from being SEC Champions, so I have a deep grudge against them. When I was a UGA student from 1975 – 1981, we seemed to always pull out a miracle in Jacksonville, only to play poorly the next week against you know who. Even when we were clearly the better team by record, we would struggle mightily against Auburn.
So, we need to be very careful this week. Auburn loves to kill our season, and losing to a team that scored three points on Mississippi State would be sickening. I NEVER take them for granted no matter what their record is. Remember 1999 when they came to Sanford and got ahead something like 38-0? They had a losing season that year!
I also hate Auburn because they: have ugly helmets, seem to NEVER have players arrested (unlike all the other teams in the SEC), imitate other schools (i.e tiger paws from Clempson, UGA’s fight song, calling their stadium “The Jungle” copying “The Swamp” etc.), have alumni that think Auburn is really, really great, have an ugly campus, do not respect UGA as they should, and finally because I knew an Alumna who kept me in a state of confusion for three years (and yes, she HATED dear old Georgia).
By the way, since we had a blackout last year, and since Auburn is very unoriginal, might they try something similar? Blue pants perhaps, or something else really dumb?
What a coincidence...
Bo Jackson literally won the Heisman that day in 1985, too, with around 180 yards and a 3 TD beatdown of the Dawgs in Sanford. Perhaps you’re upset because we never said thanks. Alas, 1985 was my first year picking hedges, and like any rookie is prone to do in such matters, I nearly tore off half a bush. However, I was able to perfect the craft when returning in ’87 and ’89.
by War Eagle Atlanta on Nov 12, 2008 3:40 PM EST up reply actions
War Eagle Atlanta, I try to be hospitable to guests in my house . . .
. . . but I strongly recommend that, if you’ve participated in that despicable practice on a visit to Sanford Stadium for which the statute of limitations has not yet expired, you keep it to yourself.
It’s called destruction of public property and it’s a crime. If visitors to our campus started ripping bricks out of the Tate Center, we wouldn’t tolerate it; we’d have the perpetrators arrested and prosecuted. Why we tolerate it in Sanford Stadium is beyond me, but the fact that we fail to press charges doesn’t make that act of vandalism any less criminal.
The next time you’re in Athens, keep your damn hands off of our hedges. That kind of cheap crap is why I hate Auburn.
Go 'Dawgs!
Bricks don't grow back...
Hopefully you needn’t attend an Ag school to know that. Besides, that was half a lifetime for me. I’ve matured since then, unlike some of the commenters on here…
by War Eagle Atlanta on Nov 12, 2008 5:42 PM EST up reply actions
No, but bricks can be repaired
I’ll quote you the code section if you’d like, but what you did (three times, I might add) was a crime.
If we started throwing you sons of bitches in the Clarke County Jail for that crap, I bet y’all would mature in a great big hurry, but that’s exactly the kind of lawless nonsense I would expect from an institution that chooses to honor cheaters like Shug Jordan and Pat Dye.
Go 'Dawgs!
Why don't...
…you personally enact a citizen’s arraist on me next year, Barney? Jesus, will you pull your panties back out of your crack on the hedges?
Just be thankful that you don’t have Florida at home every other year, or the shrubbery might look like a hurricane blew through it…
by War Eagle Atlanta on Nov 12, 2008 9:31 PM EST up reply actions
All right, that's it, War Eagle Atlanta
I’ve put up with you long enough.
You’re banned, asshole.
Now get back to your double-wide and impregnate your sister while watching rasslin’.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 12, 2008 9:42 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry
Folks, when the Mayor draws the line and you continuously cross it, don’t be surprised that he takes offense. When the host lets you in his house and he says “please don’t spit on my floor”, don’t spit on his floor. Good for you, Kyle.
http://hobnailboot.blogspot.com/
That was hardly worth banning him for
Come on a little touchy on the subject much?
I once asked the question why are there so many Alabama fans that never graduated from the university? I was told its because their parents were fans and it was passed down.........(my response after a pause).....similar to racism.....?
I gave him more than his fair share of warning shots
When a guy is given every opportunity to behave and won’t, it’s his own fault.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 13, 2008 12:36 PM EST up reply actions
I don't see any
warnings about beinhg banned. Sensitive much? You didn’t see AU fans pissing and moaning when some bama fan tried to set the Oak at Toomer’s Corner on fire. And that is a tree that is over a century old, not some bushes in the front of your mother’s house.
If you have sand in your vagina because of how this years’s season has gone that is one thing ( we are having a little trouble ourselves), but don’t take it out on a visitor who really did NOTHING to provoke it.
I can’t believe your the guy who runs this site. And your getting involved like this? That’s professional.
by GumptownTiger on Nov 13, 2008 12:46 PM EST up reply actions
Thanks, GumptownTiger . . .
. . . for confirming everything I’ve ever thought about your fan base.
Why don’t you join your buddy War Eagle Atlanta on the banned list?
And by the way . . . it’s “you’re,” not “your.” Learn the English language, why don’t you?
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 13, 2008 12:51 PM EST up reply actions
Didn't realize
we were in English class. My bad. I always get a kick out of people who critique spelling and grammar on blogs. It really shows that you have no valid argument. well done sir
by GumptownTiger on Nov 13, 2008 1:42 PM EST up reply actions
Bushes and grass
both plants so why is the bushes a big deal but storming our field, stomping our logo and ripping up grass is cool huh. You guys really are classy
by GumptownTiger on Nov 13, 2008 2:32 PM EST up reply actions
Sorry Kyle
That pretty much equals out anything done to the hedges. Actually, storming the field and ripping up the grass is much worse.
When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.
I agree
There’s no difference to me between storming the field and ripping up the hedges, but dammit at least you guys had the sprinklers. Also, I realize you were upset about being banned, and rightfully so, but coming back immediately after and making snarky remarks about a fanbase’s class aren’t going to win you any supporters. Just my two cents, I have been wrong before.
http://hobnailboot.blogspot.com/
I never saw that video
He does raise a pretty good point, counselor. If opposing fans ever rushed Florida Field, they would have to call in the National Guard. There are already so many cops out there at the end of the game – there hasn’t been a field rush at UF at least since 1989, when I started. They stand shoulder to shoulder all the way around the field. Plus, you know they won’t hesitate to tase you…bro.
I have never defended storming the field
The Georgia fans who stormed the field in 1986 should not have done so, period. The tiny subset of those fans who stormed the field who also ripped up part of the grass on the Auburn logo were breaking the law and should have been arrested.
A little context is required, however.
The 1986 field-storming incident was a one-time thing. Georgia fans had never stormed an opponent’s field before and they have never stormed an opponent’s field since. The 1986 field-storming incident at Auburn, like the 2007 end zone celebration in Jacksonville, is memorable precisely because it was aberrational to the point of being unique.
Furthermore, that incident occurred after Auburn had begun its tradition of attacking the hedges after a Tiger victory in Sanford Stadium, as I believe War Eagle Atlanta acknowledged above.
I am on record in opposition to fans storming the field, which I have never done, and which I roundly condemned in the Oregon State-Southern California open comment thread at SB Nation’s Beaver blog, Building the Dam. At the 2000 Georgia-Tennessee game (the only time I am aware of Georgia fans storming the field in Sanford Stadium), I was one of the guys who remained in the stands chanting, "Get off the field."
It was wrong when our fans did that, but our fans did it once. By contrast, every single time Auburn wins in Athens, Auburn fans and Auburn players go after the hedges. It’s not five or six guys ripping up the grass like the guys in that video; it’s whole groups of Auburn students, including members of the team. War Eagle Atlanta confessed to ripping pieces off of the hedges three times, which is twice more than any Georgia fans stormed the field or tore up the grass in Jordan-Hare Stadium.
There’s also the matter of the institutional response. The security officers in Sanford Stadium ring the field inside the hedges after the end of the game. Auburn fans generally are allowed to attack the hedges with impunity; at worst, they are escorted out of the stadium.
Auburn officials, by contrast, turned on the hoses like Bull Connor going after civil rights demonstrators. Please bear in mind that innocent bystanders—-Georgia fans who remained in the stands—-were drenched, as well. I hope you noticed the coats in that video . . . the game was played in mid-November. It was very cold. Drenching people in that kind of weather is dangerous; it is doubly dangerous in the (quite likely) event that those people had been drinking. It was an unbelievably irresponsible overreaction.
Are Georgia fans ripping up the grass on Auburn’s field and Auburn fans ripping up the hedges surrounding Georgia’s field comparable transgressions deserving of equal scorn? Of course they are. Is there a meaningful difference between an isolated incident that occurred only once and an act of vandalism repeated so regularly that it has come to be considered a tradition? Of course there is.
Is it all right for Georgia fans to pull that kind of nonsense, even once? It absolutely is not. If, however, we are going to condemn (rightly) the behavior of a handful of fans in one instance 22 years ago, what ought we to say about the behavior of a much larger segment of the Auburn fan base, including the Auburn players themselves, in every odd-numbered year, through and including 2005 (and not including 2007 only because Georgia beat Auburn last year)? What ought we to say of an institution that considers hosing down opposing fans to be a proportional response?
Go 'Dawgs!
Does
Tearing the hedges happen every year?
I once asked the question why are there so many Alabama fans that never graduated from the university? I was told its because their parents were fans and it was passed down.........(my response after a pause).....similar to racism.....?
Every time Auburn wins in Athens . . .
. . . it happens. Auburn fans and players alike do it every single time.
Go 'Dawgs!
ok counselor...I read your argument
….and I’m not buying it. First of all, you can’t really say that the UGA fans were a small sample. It was a road game for pete’s sake – how many UGA fans could have possibly been there at all? There were an awful lot of UGA fans on that field.
As for the hosing being cruel and unusual punishment? I’m not buying that either. I do agree that the fans who stayed in the stands were unnecessarily punished, but the ones who rushed the field IN A ROAD GAME are very lucky that all they received was a dousing.
Next, you have to draw a disntinction between the turf and the hedges. I am not arguing that the hedges should be touched at all – but they are fully accessible to anyone at a UGA game. That is one of the cool things about Sanford – being able to go all the way down and walk around the field. If UGA wants to better protect the hedges, they should distance the fence from them so that fans cannot reach them. I remember the 1995 game (incidentally against Auburn) when EVERYONE went down pregame and took some of the hedges (UGA fans mostly), It was the last home game before the Olympics and the hedges were due to be relocated I believe to accomodate the larger soccer field.
Finally, if you want to keep the opposing PLAYERS from taking a momento, then the answer is easy. DEFEND YOUR TURF – make it so they don’t want to remember that game! I know that is an easy answer, but it does make sense.
Try reading more carefully next time
There were lots of fans out on the field. Only a small handful were ripping up the turf. That’s completely different from large numbers of fans and players committing the same act repeatedly over several seasons.
The hosing was ludicrously out of line, particularly in light of how tolerant the powers that be in Athens are about the hedges.
As for the 1995 game, the hedges weren’t being relocated, they were being removed. New hedges were grown. Those hedges were going to be uprooted anyway. Completely different.
You’re usually a reasonable guy, skigator93, but, on this one, you’re just way off base. One-time things are not comparable to longstanding practices of vandalism. It isn’t even in the same ballpark.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 13, 2008 10:14 PM EST up reply actions
I'd rather
get sprayed with a little water then spend the night in jail. I’d say they got off easy.
Again, win the game and nobody touches your hedges.
Maybe....
Instead of vandalism against the hedges—since they don’t belong to Auburn—the fans could tear off pieces of the Auburn players jerseys? The hedges just die, but the jersey would live forever!! That way, there would be no one angry and charges couldn’t possibly be filed. Right?
by crimsongirl on Nov 14, 2008 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
Really? One night in jail . . .
. . . is preferable to pneumonia and hypothermia? You place too little value on your own health.
By the way, what’s this silly argument you make about the hedges being accessible, and therefore vulnerable? Do you think girls who dress provocatively are asking to be raped? That’s a nonsensical argument.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 15, 2008 10:04 AM EST up reply actions
No
Comparing a bush to a human being is non-sensical and does not deserve a response.
Also, if you are the type that gets pneumonia and hypothermia from getting squirted in the frigid tundra of Auburn, Alabama, maybe your health is the one that needs some attention.
Saying it doesn't . . .
. . . deserve a response is a nice semantic dodge for someone who doesn’t have an answer.
It gets plenty cold in the South in November. If it doesn’t seem like a big deal to you, fine; come over to my house, stand outside, and let me hose you down and see how you like it.
Go 'Dawgs!
ok then
If you really need an asnswer…No. I do not think that girls who dress provocatively are asking to be raped.
I do think that people who destroy other’s property are asking to be sprayed (or worse). If I came over to your house and and starting tearing up your lawn, I would not be surprised if you retaliated in some way to get me to stop, and I would have little room to complain about your actions.
Two points:
1. The vast majority of the people who were sprayed were not destroying anyone else’s property. Many of the people who were sprayed were fans who remained in the stands and did nothing wrong at all. Most of the fans who stormed the field merely stormed the field and did not destroy any property. That video showed that only a very small number of the fans who stormed the field ripped up the grass.
2. I think you’re forgetting what we’re arguing about here. You made the point that a longstanding tradition of numerous fans and players ripping up the hedges on multiple occasions was less bad than a single instance of a tiny handful of fans ripping up the grass once 22 years ago, because the grass was harder to get to than the hedges. I believe that is sheer nonsense that relies upon a meaningless distinction. The fact that you can get to the property being destroyed more easily doesn’t change the fact that it’s destruction of someone else’s property. If you object to my earlier analogy, fine. If each of us keeps his lawn mower in a shed behind his house, and I lock my shed and you don’t lock yours, is it worse for someone to destroy my lawn mower than it is for them to destroy your lawn mower because yours was easily accessible and mine wasn’t? If someone breaks into my shed and destroys my lawn mower once and that same person regularly goes into your unlocked shed and repeatedly vandalizes your lawn mower, does the access you provide make the offender’s recidivism less severe?
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 17, 2008 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
Not really my point, but
I do agree with you that neither team should ever destroy each other’s turf, hedges, etc. I also think no team’s fans should ever storm the field or court in an away game. I don’t get too worked up over students charging the field at home to celebrate a monumental program victory with their team.
Nonetheless, congratulations on a hard fought road victory this past weekend in a classic rivalry. Although it was probably way too stressful for both Auburn and UGA fans, it was surely an enjoyable game for the rest of us!
I think we have reached . . .
. . . as close as we are going to come to consensus. I quite agree with you that the Georgia fans in 1986 were out of line, both for storming the field and for ripping up the grass.
It was a typical Georgia-Auburn game: close, low-scoring, and down to the wire. It certainly was interesting and entertaining.
Go 'Dawgs!
Obviously the owner of the lawn mower doesn't care if it is destroyed...
Obviously, UGA officials aren’t THAT bothered by the hedges being picked or they’d do something about it.
If you think thats what our fan base is like
Wait till you get a load of me
I once asked the question why are there so many Alabama fans that never graduated from the university? I was told its because their parents were fans and it was passed down.........(my response after a pause).....similar to racism.....?
So Gainesville is the gooch of the South?
Awesome.
by get swoll yunel on Nov 12, 2008 1:10 AM EST reply actions
Or TAINT...
if you will…
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant
OMG...
SG Standard, this has to be one of the best posts I have EVAH read. A BAMA fan could not be more proud if it had come from one of us. I felt like you were channeling me, but much more eloquently than I ever could have done. That you didn’t use any profane words, but we all know where those words belonged made it better and HILARIOUS. Great way to start the morning! Go Dawgs!!! Beat Aubarn!!!
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
You my friend
made me cry, laugh, smile and cringe all in one post. Well done sir….well done!
When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.
That, my friend
made my morning. Don’t completely destroy them Saturday; leave just enough for Terrence Cody to dine on during the Iron Bowl. Hunker Down, you Georgia Bulldogs!
Alabama judges its team by national and SEC titles. Auburn judges its team by how many times it beats Alabama. You tell me who the dominant team in the state is.
on the contrary...
…i want you to beat them like they walked into a fontana biker bar and insisted that anyone who would ride a harley-davidson was retarded, gay and voted for obama. a beating of magnificent scope and magnitude that stops just at the point they would have to go to the hospital.
cause, to extend the example, when they crawl broken and bloodied back to their hovel of a home in hopes of licking their wounds and moaning softly to themselves in the darkness… i want us to be the guy standing there in front of the door with the eviction notice who is also reposessing their car as they wimper in vain pathetic protest.
That... Was...
AWESOME!!! Kudos, to you, sir. And the descriptions of the hatred: “I hate them with the burning passion that rivals the destructive power of a thousand suns all going supernova at the exact same time”. That’s Pulitzer material…
GO DAMN DAWGS! (I think that’s how they do it. Did I do that wrong? I was trying to stick with the theme)
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant
As a Bama fan
I generally don’t care who wins when UGA plays. Like last week, I know you beat UK, but I turned over to CBS just to watch Bama’s pregame.
But when you play Auburn, for that one week I am a Dawg Fan. (Well maybe when you play UT I am also a Dawg Fan. In many ways they really are alike.)
Please Georgia run the score up on them this week. Please put 50 up on them!!
"Bull Damn Dogs" would be the Barn translation
Why cuss your own mascot? It’s their innate sense of inferiority prodding them to express damnation upon themselves.
marycontrary
A BRILLANT bit of writing......
I am not sure since the days of Ronald Reagan have I ever agreed with anything more. You have truly found the words that many of us have thought but not been able to pen or type. Congratulations, you are the MAN. From the Bama Nation to the Dawg Pound , let us all collectively agree, that Auburn SUCKS!!!!!!
Well, are you gonna pull them pistols, or whistle dixie?
AMEN!!!!!
As a Bama fan who has hated Auburn my whole life I completely appreciate this absolutely awesome post. I think we’ll all be Dawg fans this weekend.
by Queen of the Universe on Nov 12, 2008 2:30 PM EST reply actions
It's also worth noting that
this may be the only college football blog around where you can use the term “lemniscate” and no one bats an eye.
What's Wrong with You Haters?
Shame on you small-minded individuals who don’t have more respect for this rivalry. Perhaps you share some bad personal memories from the series? If you got soaked that cold November night in 1986, remember it proudly. You were the last fans to ever rush our field. And keep in mind, it was a UGA grad who turned on the spigot.
Why else do you hate us so? We’re not really that different, you and us. Sure, you haven’t been ahead in the series since the Johnson administration, and yes, an Auburn man was your greatest coach, and another your greatest AD (Eaves). We must share manifest destiny. Yes, we have poached quality talent out of your backyard, and poached your women out of O’Malley’s, and we have more fans in west Georgia than you do, but don’t hold that against us, brothers. Athens is just like Auburn, save for some music, hippy chicks, and a Varsity—but we’re working on that. One Applebees and a Chillis at a time…
It may be likely that Stafford will have another career day against us and tie your longest winning streak against us since Herschel suited up, but that will only give Richt one piece of the puzzle. He’s still yet to beat both Auburn and Florida in the same season, and woe be it for him if he loses to both again…
PS: Dear Bama Fans. We’ll meet over at your blog NEXT week. Be patient!
by War Eagle Atlanta on Nov 12, 2008 3:49 PM EST reply actions
Yeah, he's never beaten Florida and Auburn in the same season . . .
. . . unless, you know, you count last season.
Go 'Dawgs!
I think what I've heard is Auburn, Florida, and Tennessee in the same season
Correct me if that’s wrong
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 12, 2008 5:44 PM EST up reply actions
Thanks, P.O.D.
I got too many stats running through my head…
Quick, let’s pick some hedges and get back to our site…
by War Eagle Atlanta on Nov 12, 2008 6:23 PM EST up reply actions
Make sure not to go through the cemetary overlooking the stadium
Gives me the heebee jeebees.
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 12, 2008 7:43 PM EST up reply actions
War Eagle Atlanta . . .
. . . if you’ve seen the way I’ve treated the Alabama and Florida fans who visited this site, both before and after Georgia lost to the Tide and the Gators, you know that I am more tolerant than most of rival fans who mind their manners.
I’m sure you’re a good guy and all, but I’m not joking around . . . I take that hedge-picking bullshit you people do pretty damned seriously.
Cut it out or shag your ass back to someplace where that infantile nonsense is welcome. I’m not putting up with it here.
Go 'Dawgs!
I was picking...
…metaphorical hedges on that one.
Okay, this panty raid is over. You guys aren’t any fun. LSU Jonno and Bammer, get back to our site where you belong. It’s beginning to look like the cast of The Usual Suspects over here…
by War Eagle Atlanta on Nov 12, 2008 9:38 PM EST up reply actions
The man loves bushes...
All hail T Kyle King, the Protector of Plants!!!
An addendum should be posted to Dawg Sports rules that warns visitors from disscussing past acts of aggrevated assault on shubbery because the result will be the forfeiture of posting privileges.
All hail T Kyle King, the Boisterous Botanist, the Defender of Herbology, the Hero of the Hedges!!!
by The_Observer on Nov 13, 2008 9:19 AM EST up reply actions
Let me ask you this, Observer:
If a rival fan came over to Toomer’s Corner with a chainsaw and cut down that dadgum toilet paper tree you people are so danged fond of, how would you feel about it?
Would it still bug you, even years later?
Then do us all a favor and shut your pie hole, all right?
Man, I can’t stand you people. . . .
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 13, 2008 10:07 AM EST up reply actions
Now it's getting personal...
Leave the toilet paper tree out of this! How dare you threaten our harmless tree!
by The_Observer on Nov 13, 2008 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
They should have...
…security at that tree because one day someone’s going to try that. Maybe they could get a hippie tree sitter like Cal, but the sitter would have a lack of TP this year.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
I don't think taking a chainsaw to the tree is comparable.
But rolling Toomer’s corner with red and black streamers after a UGA victory would be…
I think
they would leave the corner with more black, red and a little blue then they came with if that happened. Drunk rednecks= easily agitated and yes auburn has their fair share but alabama could take over a nation with theirs
I once asked the question why are there so many Alabama fans that never graduated from the university? I was told its because their parents were fans and it was passed down.........(my response after a pause).....similar to racism.....?
We are all from the same state
Dillhole! Man you’re retarded!
When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.
Dillhole hahah
what? couldnt bring out some of those 4 letter words you like using so much.
I once asked the question why are there so many Alabama fans that never graduated from the university? I was told its because their parents were fans and it was passed down.........(my response after a pause).....similar to racism.....?
Bring on the PISS
You think theres water in those hoses?
I once asked the question why are there so many Alabama fans that never graduated from the university? I was told its because their parents were fans and it was passed down.........(my response after a pause).....similar to racism.....?
As an LSU fan, I thought this was funny as well...
Actually, I laughed so hard that I had to stop reading for a minute to compose myself so that no one at work would hear me laugh.
However, I would like to point out one error.
I have sat in front of this man for years and know that he is an Auburn fan. In conversation, even he admitted that "the best thing to ever happen to Auburn football was UGA raising their admissions standards."This is not a true statement. There are minimum NCAA academic guidelines for student athletes which everyone has to meet. Universities (or even conferences I think, though not the SEC) can also impose more strict admission standards, however none in the SEC (with the possible exception of Vandy) actually do. So the athletes at UGA are every bit as dumb as the athletes at Auburn when they are admitted.
I will make no comparative judgment with respect to the relative knowledge gained by the athletes at those two schools, so as to not piss off the hosts of this blog (who as we’ve stated before, don’t hate LSU…yet), or as to not piss off many Auburn fans reading this who may or may not know me personally or through the Auburn blog that I regularly post on. And frankly since this is a football conversation I don’t care.
This is true now, LSU Jonno . . .
. . . but it wasn’t in 1987, in the wake of the Jan Kemp scandal, when Georgia practiced what Vince Dooley rightly called “unilateral disarmament.”
Jan Kemp had as much to do with Auburn’s resurgence in the 1980s as Pat Dye did. Had it not been for the fallout from the court case, many athletes who previously could have gotten into (and would have attended) Georgia went to Auburn instead because Georgia’s standards had been raised to a higher level.
That’s not me bragging on my alma mater, it’s an historical fact.
Go 'Dawgs!
There's plenty of other schools around they could have gone to other than Auburn
I’m sure some of the athletes who wanted to attend UGA but didn’t get in did end up at Auburn, but don’t tell me some rogue english professor is the reason we were successful in the 1980s. Pat Dye cheated too hard not to get recognized!
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 12, 2008 7:42 PM EST up reply actions
The locus of power shifted from Athens to Auburn
Jan Kemp is why they couldn’t go to Georgia. Pat Dye is why they went to Auburn. The two went hand in hand.
When one of the league’s powerhouse schools can recruit essentially anyone and the league’s other powerhouse school voluntarily chooses to limit its ability to recruit, the clearest beneficiary is going to be the championship contender with lower standards.
It isn’t because it’s Georgia and Auburn specifically; those are just the two schools that happened to illustrate the principle during the decade of the 1980s.
Go 'Dawgs!
WOW
as a bama fan that hates the auburn to the utter most, i must say that was great! i also think that it is amazing how auburn fans are such jerks and yet their football program is not that successful! i mean when you think about it, 1 national title in a gazillion years (sarcasm) is not very good! anywho i hate auburns guts, roll tide, and at least for this week, go dawgs!!!
It's all right
What’s an occasional misspelling between friends?
The point is that we all hate Auburn, and that’s a bond between us that nothing will ever break.
All this sharing between the Georgia and Alabama faithful gives me a warm feeling . . . a warm feeling of burning hatred for Auburn.
I hate Auburn.
Go 'Dawgs!
That burning hatred...
…is a volcano ready to erupt in me right now. A Barner from your recently banned person’s site(won’t even type his name, but we know who it is) hacked into my email a few weeks ago sending profane emails to me and others, including one that was supposedly from me to a Georgia fan who probably posts here. I emailed him apologizing and telling him it was not from me. Personal harassment from someone who got his GED from Aubarn reinforces everything hideous I’ve ever thought about the subhuman species that attends THAT school.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
I wish I could say I'm surprised . . .
. . . but I’m not.
There are some good Auburn fans out there, of course—-Jay Coulter, Jerry Hinnen, and PowerOfDixieland all seem like fine folks, with whom I have no personal gripe—-but, while every other fan base I have ever encountered has been mostly good folks with a few bad apples, the Auburn fan base seems to be mostly bad apples with a few good folks.
While we’re on the subject of proper behavior, bamavicki, my mother raised me better than to use the kind of language I used above in the presence of a lady, which obviously you are. I apologize to you publicly for my having used such words in the heat of the moment. You shouldn’t have been subjected to that, and I’m sorry.
I hate Auburn.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 12, 2008 10:03 PM EST up reply actions
No problem, Kyle...
…but thanks for the apology. The Barners have a way of pushing certain buttons.
I’ve been meaning to post over here for a couple of weeks, but it’s been hard to even keep up with all the BAMA info. Just wanted to say the piece on Gameday about Coach Richt was awesome and I was glad ya’ll beat LSU that day. I also was sorry about your Gator loss. I love your “Don’t Bet On It” every week – cracks me up.
P.S. Since I posted this link this morning on RBR, I think your site hits were up today thanks to BAMA folks.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
I just have to ask
Every time you mention my alma mater on this site, you follow it with an “I hate Auburn.” You stated that “while every other fan base [you] have ever encountered has been mostly good folks with a few bad apples, the Auburn fan base seems to be mostly bad apples with a few good folks.” How did all this animosity get started? Did you have a trip to Auburn and run into some hooligans? Was it the hose incident? The hedges incident?
I understand that you dislike Florida and Georgia Tech, but I always thought that Auburn fell into third on any Bulldog’s [excrement] list. Why is it a runaway number one with you?
If you had a bad experience on the Loveliest Village, and will be in town on Saturday, I’d love to take you by a tailgate complete with the kindest, gentlest people you’ll ever meet. And they know their football.
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 12, 2008 10:46 PM EST up reply actions
Fair question
There’s no single unfortunate incident. It’s just that, in my more than 20 years of going to S.E.C. football games (and my 40 years of living among S.E.C. football fans), the Auburn fans I have encountered have, on the whole, been far and away the most obnoxious, in the quality of their obnoxiousness, the quantity of their obnoxiousness, and the consistency of their obnoxiousness.
There are, of course, exceptions, as there are to any rule, but, whereas I would estimate that 75 or 80 per cent of even the worst opposing fan bases are decent folks, easily 85 or 90 per cent of all the Auburn people I have ever met have been complete jerks from the get-go.
If your experience has differed, then the Venn diagrams of the Auburn fans you’ve met and the Auburn fans I’ve met simply do not overlap, or, if they do, they do not by much.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 12, 2008 11:17 PM EST up reply actions
Obnoxious huh?
And after everything that you’ve written this week and all the defensive stands that you’ve taken, What exactly do you call yourself? That is besides a lil cry-baby.
By the way I hope your weeds catch fire and takes that crap hole of a humane society stadium with it. Because i can assure you that i hate Georgia alot more than you hate Auburn. And hell i even live in the state.
Thanks, Paratiger
Classless clowns like you are just one more reason why I can’t stand your program, your coaches, your players, and your fans.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 15, 2008 10:06 AM EST up reply actions
mystery solved
So that was you, bamavicki! Man that was bizarre, thanks for clearing it up and for the apologetic email. I wish I could get some work done, but all this anti-Auburn commentary is just too entertaining. Keep up the good work Kyle!
Gatorade?! I don't care if it's delicious and quenches thirst like no other. Why don't you just make a check out directly to the University of Florida?
I have wanted to know...
…who the poster was I emailed, but didn’t know how to find out. Bizarre? You should be in my shoes. This sicko has harassed me right on this thread today. Thanks for your understanding. BTW, I love your sig.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
Wait a minute...
You didn’t use a single capitalization and you went back to cast a mea culpa on a typo?
Please come visit us next week. Pretty please?
by War Eagle Atlanta on Nov 12, 2008 9:42 PM EST up reply actions
here's a suggestion...
…why don’t we refer to that school as the former East Alabama Male College from here on out?
I'm okay with that
What year did you graduate from UAT?
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 12, 2008 9:15 PM EST up reply actions
I was always partial to . . .
. . . “Alabama Polytechnic Institute” myself.
However, PowerOfDixieland has a fair retort.
Go 'Dawgs!
Here's an oldie, but a goodie
Quite possibly my favorite interview from an opposing team’s player ever. That’s of course, the Chris Rainey “white girl” comments, notwithstanding.
http://hobnailboot.blogspot.com/
Wonderlic Test
Was it he or is brother who got like a 4 or 6 on the Wonderlic or something?
by The ArchDawg on Nov 13, 2008 12:49 AM EST up reply actions
That was absolutely incredible.
Can’t fault a man for his love of go carts and candy!
by dawgdayafternoon on Nov 13, 2008 2:59 PM EST up reply actions
Sometimes the truth hurts . . .
. . . but you did the right thing by publishing this, SG Standard. Good work, my friend.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 12, 2008 10:43 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, no regrets at all
I like that it got out of hand. But I’m glad I’ve got your approval.
by SG Standard on Nov 12, 2008 10:55 PM EST up reply actions
SG...
Not to copycat, but will ya’ll come over to RBR when we put up our best hatin’ material?
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
Sure!
It’s always a good time to hate Auburn!
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 15, 2008 10:06 AM EST up reply actions
Cornbawl Dawg Rhetoric
What inane, vitriolic garbage. If you really hate Auburn that much, I recommend therapy. That kind of obsession is unhealthy.
I know that UGA ranks higher than Auburn at the undergraduate level (only) because of HOPE (and only since HOPE), but not by much. SAT averages are a little higher, GRE averages are essentially the same. And Auburn is MUCH higher in both than Georgia Southern, West Georgia, Valdosta State and the like. What must you think of those institutions? And you do realize that Auburn has three colleges ranked in the top nine nationally (architecture, veterinary medicine and engineering), while UGA doesn’t have the first one. And that the median family income in Auburn is $55,619 while in Athens it is $41,407. And that the average home price in Auburn is $271, 522, while in Athens it is $195,388. I know Athens has the tree which owns itself and the double barreled cannon, which the locals see wonders on par with the Eiffel Tower and the Great Wall of China. And that dump of a mall with the JC Penney and what not. (I guess Bo and Daisy Duke must be as proud as the rest of the clientele driving in from ‘Deliverance’ territory.) Anyway, your post was nonsense, and my therapy recommendation was sincere.
P.S. My dad went to Auburn and then to medical school at Emory. My cousin went to UGA and was turned down by every medical school to which he applied – even MCG and Mercer, and works as a pharmaceutical salesman, so spare me “Dawg” intellectual claims. Everyone knows that most of the truck driving inbreds from the Chattahoochee to the coast and from the hills to Valdosta are rabid “dawg” fans.
I seem to have struck a nerve
That means I did something right. Your anger and derision only makes me stronger.
by SG Standard on Nov 13, 2008 10:10 AM EST up reply actions
Please stop with the "Wal Mart fan" references
I’ve posted on this topic before. Certainly an Auburn grad/fan would never make the comment that a bunch of inbreds are Dawg fans without assessing his/her own fanbase. That argument weakens your points above, which are good, because it is just a cheap shot at a fanbase. Do you honestly believe that the entire state of Alabama went to Alabama or Auburn? They seem to root for one of those teams each weekend. Who’s your favorite pro sports team? I love the Atlanta Braves but I did not attend the University of the Atlanta Braves. Does that preclude me from rooting for the Braves or wearing a Braves jersey? I think you make reasonable points in your argument that are obviously backed up by research and fact, but once you throw out the “truck driving inbreds” comment you lose all credibility.
http://hobnailboot.blogspot.com/
This was pretty funny
…other than all the factual statistics and such. you do realize that if you take out the salaries of the University professors and high ranking administarators from both cities – then the average falls to the poverty line in both?
Where is the double barreled cannon? I must have missed that landmark. You forgot to dig on the arches too.
I will have to say that Auburn is the only place I have been to where toilet paper is sold at the concession stands. I think LKyle must have repressed a really bad Auburn memory at some point to explain the hatred. I haven’t noticed Auburn fans to be any better or worse than other SEC schools – and there are a ton of them in Atlanta….
The double-barreled cannon is downtown
We don’t have arches in Athens, unless you’re counting the local McDonald’s. We do, however, have the Arch, singular.
I’ve been to several Georgia-Florida games in Jacksonville and several Georgia-Auburn games in Athens, and there’s no comparison. Florida’s fans are the second-most obnoxious in the league and Georgia’s fans (including me) are the third-most obnoxious in the league, but neither of us is close to being as obnoxious as those Auburn people. They’re the worst, and it ain’t close.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 13, 2008 12:41 PM EST up reply actions
Kyle, you're stating that as though it were fact
It’s your opinion. As an Auburn fan who the most obnoxious people are in the SEC, and you’ll usually get LSU, Georgia, and Alabama as answers. Ask an Alabama fan, you’ll get Auburn and Tennessee. Ask a UGA fan, you’ll get the Gators and Auburn. There is no method of factually proving that one fan base is more or less obnoxious than another.
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 13, 2008 12:59 PM EST up reply actions
Fair enough
Others’ experiences can and do vary.
Maybe I’ve just encountered the worst element of the Auburn fan base, but I’m not operating from a small sample size here. I haven’t missed a Georgia-Auburn game in Athens for somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 years, and I continually have been amazed at how much more in-your-face, condescending, confrontational, and rude Auburn fans are in relation to other S.E.C. fans.
Obviously, there are exceptions, of which you clearly are one. As I have tried to stress, Jay Coulter and Jerry Hinnen are two others. I appreciate your earlier invitation to a tailgate where I will meet some quality Auburn people; I have no doubt that you are right.
I just haven’t met very many of those people, and I’ve been to a lot of S.E.C. football games. Maybe I’m letting a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch, but those few bad apples have been very much in evidence in Athens every time I’ve been there to see our respective teams play.
I do sincerely appreciate the offer and the reasonableness of your tone, PowerOfDixieland. Once my kids are a little older and I start going to away games again, I will take you up on it. It will be good to get some perspective on a segment of the Auburn faithful with which I am far less familiar than I would like to be.
In that spirit, I will un-ban War Eagle Atlanta and GumptownTiger in an effort at meeting you halfway.
Go 'Dawgs!
WHOA WHOA WHOA
As an obnoxious LSU fan, I take umbrage to you implying that we are at best 4th most obnoxious in the SEC!
Dude....
Are you serious??? Come on. LSU fans have their moments. Just like everyone else
When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.
Sorry, my comment wasn't clear...
I meant we should be ranked HIGHER…
I mean who do you have to burn around here to get some respect?
That is not a bit funny Jonno...
…and if you think that burning Coach Saban in effigy was cool, you can rank right up there with the Barner sickos I hate. Happy now? Yeah, I thought so.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
What do you think Bama fans would do to a Saban effigy if he bolted for Tennessee after this season?
You guys were really high on Coach Fran when he was there, but when he left for A&M you guys hated his guts. I stand beside Jonno on this one.
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 13, 2008 1:40 PM EST up reply actions
That's what's crazy about this...
Saban left for the pros. He was gone for two years before he came back. I truely feel he’d have gone to ANY BCS school that would have paid him that much money. It just so happened that Bama was it. It wasn’t out of spite. Even after all the classy LSU fans were chanting F U Saban at the end of the game, he still stood by the fact that LSU would always have a special place in his heart. And you want to compare this to Fran?
Fran left in the middle of the night, after he’d convinced a few of our good Juniors not to leave for the pros during the sanctions. If Dante rewrote Inferno, he’d have a special place among the worst of the worst for Fran and Fulmer.
All that to say, there is no comparision…
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant
Meant to add in...
that Fran’s “hold the rope” (or whatever it was) slogan convinced some guys to stay even with the fact that they would not be going to a bowl game or have a shot at the SECC. These guys had nothing to play for except for the coach that they had faith in and admired. How did he repay them?: By not even telling them he was leaving. Yes, we hate Fran because he left our program because he was tired of being on probation, and as a result, our program was in great distress.
Saban left LSU in the best condition possible. They are still playing very competitive ball and have won a MNC and a couple of conference titles in his absence. They have no reason to hate him other than the fact that he’s their rival’s coach now. The fact that he used to coach them is simply an excuse to hate a program that has risen back into the upper echelon of NCAA programs.
(stepping off soapbox)
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant
TopDaddy
I’m with you 100%. I will never understand why LSU fans hate Nick Saban. It doesn’t make sense to me. The team won a freaking national championship under him and he left it with the players to go win another one. He didn’t leave on poor terms nor did he go to Alabama just to piss off LSU. He went to the NFL because he’s an NFL guy and that’s what he always wanted to do. You can’t fault a guy for chasing his dream. When he realized he was unhappy at the NFL level and wanted to be a college coach again he looked for an opening that offered him a competitive salary. It’s not like he pulled a Bobby Petrino or Lou Holtz and quit mid-season. He treated his players with respect and left on good terms. That opening just happened to be Alabama. I would argue that most of us would leave our current jobs to take one that we’re more comfortable with for twice the money. Okay, off my soabox too.
http://hobnailboot.blogspot.com/
This helps explain it
I read this on And The Valley Shook before the Bama game. Apparently, it goes deeper than just leaving and coming back.
http://www.andthevalleyshook.com/2008/11/5/654217/the-saban-effect
in the sake of full disclosure....
…the saban burning wasn’t fan inspired, it was a pr stunt by a local developer …
The eight to 10 signs were an advertisement/public relations stunt for the "Burn Bama" bonfire at Tiger Manor condominiums near campus, which had been held before but failed to draw much attention. This week, the office phones hardly stopping ringing.
it’s my understanding that only a couple hundred people showed up even though the company provided free food and beer.
I know that kleph...
I was responding to the fact that Jonno obviously thought it was a great thing and if he wasn’t there, he probably wanted to be.
PowerOfDixieland, we still hate Coach Fran, but as far as any burning, the Barn is better known for those Klan like activities -
http://www.tolerance.org/news/feature/auburn/index.html
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
Whoa whoa whoa...
Obviously bamavicki didn’t actually graduate from the fine institution in Tuscaloosa. If she had, maybe she’d be able to recognize sarcasm when she read it.
Bama fans act like LSU fans telling Saban jokes is akin to white guys telling black jokes.
Can’t we all just freaking focus here and pile on Auburn?
I've read enough...
…of your posts to doubt the sarcasm excuse very much. Hate to disappoint you, but I’m from a 3 generation legacy family. My mother has her doctorate and I’m proud to say knew Coach Bryant.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
All right . . .
. . . let’s keep it nice between fans of the civilized schools.
Remember, we all came here to hate Auburn, not each other.
Carry on.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 15, 2008 10:07 AM EST up reply actions
You're right vicki
Those students were handled accordingly. Speaking of Klan-like activities…
Still unsure why Bama people are on a Georgia blog bashing Auburn…go out of your way much?
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 13, 2008 5:16 PM EST up reply actions
Besides our mutual hatred...
…for you people, for me personally, Georgia is my 2nd favorite team and the writing on this blog is very good. I hate Tennessee, but I like Joel’s writing on RTT as well. The few things I’ve read on your blog would not make go back to read more except to enjoy your pain after a loss.
If you think comparing George Wallace to frat boys from Aubarn who are from a completely different time in our history is apples to apples, you are deluded.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
You're right, it's not apples to apples
A few rogue frat guys at Auburn who were dealt with accordingly is a completely different situation than an institution-wide policy that the governor himself had to try and impose.
And to go back to the original line of discussion, I just find it strange that you guys rush to defend your coach so quickly. If LSU had burned an effigy of Coach Fran in 2002, you would have been just as mad then. Don’t try to deny it. And given Saban’s propensity for taking the money, he could leave just as soon as Fran did. I’m not saying he will, but it’s got to be in the back of y’all’s minds.
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 14, 2008 8:37 AM EST up reply actions
What's your problem w/ the burning...?
I thought it was a rather creative PR stunt. And am I missing something we should be sensitive to? Did a school’s fans burn someone recently?
I can promise you that Saban doesn’t care one bit about the burning effigy. So why is this not open game for “joking?”
Zandor...
A lot of bama fans like to say that LSU fans are jealous because Saban is their coach now. That is probably a fair assessment in a few cases however, for every jealous LSU fan, there is a bama fan living in fear that they themselves will be burning a Saban effigy in the next few years.
I think bamavicki is firmly in that camp, since she takes a simple joke on a blog and completely runs off course with it. I’m starting to think “bamavicki” is Ms. Connell’s nom de plume.
Zandor...
A lot of bama fans like to say that LSU fans are jealous because Saban is their coach now. That is probably a fair assessment in a few cases however, for every jealous LSU fan, there is a bama fan living in fear that they themselves will be burning a Saban effigy in the next few years.
I think bamavicki is firmly in that camp, since she takes a simple joke on a blog and completely runs off course with it. I’m starting to think “bamavicki” is Ms. Connell’s nom de plume.
Now THAT...
…is sarcasm that I actually find funny. I would not find the burning in effigy of any coach funny, including Fran, no matter the circumstances.
No, I do not want Coach Saban to leave us, but I am not surprised when coaches leave for more money. In the past coaches may have had loyalty, but this is now a business that really has very little of that. If Coach Saban does the job he was hired to do to bring Alabama back to national prominence on a consistent basis, I will be grateful and thank him when he leaves. He’s doing a hell of a job so far and sooner than expected.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
Bama fans have an advantage over LSU fans in this respect.
When Saban came to LSU, ya’ll believed he would be with you until he DIED. From your own mouths(writings on blogs)you believed the ONLY reason he left was to chase the NFL dream. You never believed he could love any school or any COLLEGE players after LSU.
We have the advantage of AU and LSU players reminding us regularly! Not to mention we have had a coach or two leave before. We realize this is a business. We have learned a little from our past and appreciate what we’ve got, while we’ve got it!
Loyalty? What a joke! How many of you would REALLY turn down a job at a rival company for $4Mil because of loyalty to that company??? If you say you would, you just do not have the ability to empathize!
by crimsongirl on Nov 14, 2008 10:17 AM EST up reply actions
I love...
…how this thread has now evolved into a LSU-Alabama ruckus.
Would ya’ll please get back on topic and redirect the hate towards Auburn? Thank you!
Bammer + Vicki: I fully expect this type of participation over at our site next week. We’ve got the cookies, you bring the Kool-Aid.
by War Eagle Atlanta on Nov 14, 2008 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
I don't like you...
…but my hate must have mellowed for 5 seconds because I laughed when I read this. I don’t go to rival sites and talk sh** about their team in their house. Have not done it here, at And The Valley Shook, or even RTT who I hate 2nd to ya’ll. Beyond the obvious classlessness of doing so, there’s another reason. I respect Kyle, Richard, and Joel. I do not respect the mods at TET. Your reaction to your sicko poster who’s harassing me says it all about your ethics. I would have considered coming over to play at TET if things were different.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
???
I’m sorry, I’m unaware of someone from our site harassing you. It’s not me, and I haven’t had a reaction to it that I know of. You can send me an email if you like and I’ll see what I can do.
You’ll never see me post anything along the lines of ‘I hate’. Never. My M.A. in Smartassery dictates a more subtle, covert tone that utilizes scalpals over broad swords…
Nobody says you have to come over and talk smack. Bammer comes over all the time and behaves himself perfectly. He and LSU Jonno are our favorite strays…
And I may be done with my Bama Top 10 lists this year…
by War Eagle Atlanta on Nov 14, 2008 2:58 PM EST up reply actions
I do...
…have a sense of humor because those top 10 lists were dang funny. This one caught my eye – 7) Tide back in Atlanta, albeit not for the SEC CG nor recruiting trips…
Not quite right about that one, were you? HA!
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and email you.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
You don't go to rivals' sites and talk sh** about them in their house
You just go to rivals’ rivals’ sites to do it?
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 14, 2008 3:26 PM EST up reply actions
Originally..
…I came over here to tell SG Standard what an awesome post he wrote because I certainly agree with the title “I Really Hate Auburn”. Then the Barners(including your resident sicko) came over to the rival site and it was impossible not to keep reading and participate. You’re here too, so what’s the problem?
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
Well, it's my team's rival, and the title of the post had to do with my alma mater
It makes sense that I would come over and defend her.
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 14, 2008 4:08 PM EST up reply actions
What is the problem with the burning???
Take away the fact that they were “pretending” to burn another human being….Do you know what kind of base they used to hang the scarecrow? A cross….thats right…Once the hey burned away, what was left was the image of a burning cross…..sound familiar…
Not only was this PR stunt pathetic, it was highly stupid. We live in the south for petes sake.
When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.
Just to get this straight....
Are you saying that black people have reason to be upset over the Saban effigy because there were racial undertones?
Im saying
That these people were so stupid that they would use a cross as the bass for the figure. Did the whole cross burning thing not cross their stupid little minds. Where exactly is LSU located?
The South is slowly coming out of the racial divides that once almost tore it apart and to have these a-holes literally or figuratively burn a man on a cross….just speaks to their intelligence.
When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.
No I disagree....
I think it speaks more to your hyper-sensitivity. I understand your position, but I believe you to be seriously reaching.
How often do you see opponent’s stuffed animal mascots at games in nooses? Do you also think this practice to be deplorable?
I don't have a 'Dawg in this fight . . .
. . . but that’s a good point, Zandor.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 15, 2008 11:44 AM EST up reply actions
burning the likeness of public figures in effigy is pretty common where i live...
… but, interestingly, nobody in peru seems to think there is a racial aspect to the practice.
I never said
IT was racially motivated. Just really stupid!
When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.
No one
really gives a God D****
I once asked the question why are there so many Alabama fans that never graduated from the university? I was told its because their parents were fans and it was passed down.........(my response after a pause).....similar to racism.....?
Dude, words just cannot describe
how mentally unstable you really are. You follow Vicki around like it’s your job. How many restraining orders do you have against you now, because it’s obvious you’re psycho in person too.
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant
Excuse me
This is a blog bashing Auburn My Team. Where the hell are you coming from?
I once asked the question why are there so many Alabama fans that never graduated from the university? I was told its because their parents were fans and it was passed down.........(my response after a pause).....similar to racism.....?
Carlege
You can’t say anything about this post. You stir more shit than a rat in the gutter. In fact from here on out i will view you as a rat.
This is an Auburn bashing thread. Go create a whinny thread about hating UGA or Bama. I seriously doubt it will get more than 5 posts but go ahead and have a ball!
When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.
Bla bla
Im surprised you ventured out of the Auburn blog, actually there are already threads about Hating both i wouldn’t want to be redundant
I see you as a poser since you see fit to claim stake to Alabama even though you attended FSU for here on out your a poser good day
I once asked the question why are there so many Alabama fans that never graduated from the university? I was told its because their parents were fans and it was passed down.........(my response after a pause).....similar to racism.....?
lol
Right, im a poser becuase i went to another college…So everyone who attends AU is an Auburn fan right? God you’re dumb.
When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.
Interesting
Why would you pull for ‘Bama and not FSU? It’s not like FSU is Emory and doesn’t have its own team, forcing you ro choose another….just curious.
Did you pull for FSU back when they were good?
I only went to FSU
Because i lived in Tallahassee and they were the only ones offering a scholly. Trust me, if Bama had looked my way, or my parents could have afforded the tuition. I would have been Bama bound.
I do not like FSU and i do not root for them in any way. All i have to remember me of that time is a t-shit that simply says FSU…
When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.
still confused
I’m not sure whether to denounce you for going to FSU, or to applaud you for disliking it so much!!
Too bad you didn’t just head east to the promised land!
Correction...
No matter what happens December 6, WE are the Promised Lands – http://www.churchofsaban.com/
If you’re not familiar with this web site, it’s hysterical.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
While I laud your efforts at a well-formulated argument...
sadly, they fall short.
Indeed, UGA does rank higher than Auburn at the undergraduate level. How much higher? To quote the US News & World Report, UGA ranks 58th overall among american universities, with Auburn coming in strong at 96. With very comparable tuition fees and assuming that UGA and Auburn have more or less a homogenous applicant pool, UGA sported a 54.3% acceptance rate in the fall of 2007, with Auburn coming in at a whopping 69%. Somehow, I find it hard to believe the number of underqualified applicants is THAT much higher at UGA. UGA was also listed as one of the south’s three “Public Ivies”…a list that Auburn, tragically, didn’t make. Indeed, Auburn is ranked much higher than GSU, West Georgia, and VSU. I’m sure the average Auburn student will spend less time in prison than Charles Manson and the town has a lower percentage of HIV than Nairobi, Kenya, but they’re hardly priding themselves on the fact. Your argument comparing the average family income and home price is well-researched, but utterly pointless. No one is arguing Athens doesn’t have its knocks, it’s just that its pros outweigh its cons. Simply put, there’s a semblance of a college town atmosphere. Your correct use of hyperbole when comparing the tree that owns itself and the double-barreled cannon to the eiffel tower and the great wall is good, forgive the Athenians for priding themselves on things unique to their town. A tree with toilet paper in it? That’s what we should really be boasting about. The mall? ZING. Got us. I guess we didn’t think about how extremely irrelevant that point is, but then again, we have other things to do with our Saturday afternoons than hang out in the mall (read: watch a football team that doesn’t make us cry). I’m getting long winded, so I’ll end this quickly. Your dad went to Auburn and then medical school at Emory, and your cousin went to UGA and got turned down everywhere he applied? Your father’s and cousin’s respective GPAs, extra-curriculars, etc. could have NOTHING to do with this difference, it must simply be the fact that your father went to Auburn and your cousin to UGA. Ronnie Brown went to Auburn and is successful in the NFL, but Tony Taylor went to UGA and was cut by the Falcons, so Auburn must be the reason for the difference! Quick, someone tell Stafford and Moreno so they won’t leave for the draft this year thinking they’ll get millions! Give me a break.
by hailtogeorgia on Nov 13, 2008 12:58 PM EST up reply actions
Wow...
I have to tell you, it really is great to be an Auburn Tiger. Do you think that you invented that cheer too? Or maybe Georgia invented football altogether? Give me a break.
Anyways back to my point. It is great to hear that so many UGA fans have a hatred for Auburn. If you owned us on the field, like most UGA fans I knew think that you did, you would not hate us at all. You would be passive about this game. Like Vandy or Kentucky in the old days. You would know that Auburn is a sure win for you beloved Dawgs. What makes me so proud is that you “hate” us because you really do not know if you will win this game either. We are bad, there is no doubt about that… but yet you are still a little worried. You said it yourself. Please feel free to remind me how lovely it is to be Auburn anytime.
And like War Eagle Atlanta said… if you come to Auburn, you are welcome at my tailgate as well. Hopefully some rediculous fans did not taint our school for you. That would be very unfortunate…
If you are a War Damn Eagle, you can War Damn anything.
You are right (rational thought back on)
I am worried about this game. If we can make Kentucky’s offense look good, we can make anybody look good. I really don’t have enough faith in our defensive staff to make the necessary adjustments to fix what we saw last week. The Wildcats exposed a glaring weakness, one which both Auburn and Georgia Tech can take advantage of. These last two games are shaping up to be the opposite of the Auburn/Tech games of ‘06. That year we were struggling, but the offense that both Auburn and Tech ran played right into our strengths as a defense. As a result, the Dawgs were able to take advantage and pull out a pair of wins. Hopefully, I’m just way down on Willie Martinez (again) and he will come out and surprise me. If he doesn’t, it could spell trouble.
(rational thought back off)
by SG Standard on Nov 13, 2008 10:15 AM EST up reply actions
Exactly
That’s the great argument for the rivalry. There’s no hatred for Kentucky or Vanderbilt, but that’s because UGA has an .806 winning percentage versus Kentucky and a .766 winning percentage versus Vanderbilt. Versus Auburn, UGA is 49-50-6 depending on who’s records you look at. Based on those numbers we have a chance to even up the overall series. This game is always up in the air. I still have haunting memories from 1999 and 2005. Granted, 2005 was maybe the best game I’ve ever attended. Also, I work with a few Auburn grads in Atlanta and I’ve never experienced any of the “rediculous fans” you allude to. This is the one rivalry to me that each year we want to beat the snot out of each other, but the fans tend to be gracious in win and defeat. There’s something to be said for this rivalry that lacks from games like the Cocktail Party where both sides can be just plain snarky to each other.
http://hobnailboot.blogspot.com/
2005 doesn't compare to 1999 and this year
In 2005 we were ranked #15 IIRC going into the UGA game, whereas in 1999 and this year, bowls were/are unlikely. By the time we finished off UGA and Bama in 2005, I remember all the pundits saying “nobody in the country wants to play Auburn right now.” We promptly laid an egg against Wisconsin in the Capitol One Bowl. We would have finished top 5 had we beaten the Badgers….ugh…
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 13, 2008 12:36 PM EST up reply actions
Good point
2005 was much closer to being a battle between equals.
However, 1999 and (to a lesser extent) 1997 were brutal nights to be in Athens. I’m sure you feel the same way about 1996 in Jordan-Hare Stadium.
The intensity of the rivalry, which is reflected in this post and in this comment thread, is reflected in the results, where home field advantage and prior records mean very little.
It is not, however, just a matter of losing to y’all often. There is a behavioral component to my general disdain, as evidenced by the practice of attacking the hedges (in which not just Auburn fans, but also Auburn players, engage). If we beat y’all nine times out of ten, but, the tenth time, y’all committed acts of vandalism and called it tradition, I’d feel just as strongly.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 13, 2008 12:49 PM EST up reply actions
On the subject of the 2005 game
Why didn’t UGA just throw it to Leonard Pope (isn’t that the name of the huge TE you guys had then?) every time? I remember thinking, “If Shockley just throws it up to him on every play, we don’t stand a chance.” We had nobody who could come close to covering/jumping as high as him. Is that the UGA fan sentiment from that game?
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 13, 2008 12:57 PM EST up reply actions
Pretty much
That, and, “Why did we have a guy with a concussion so bad he didn’t know where he was out on the field to defend fourth and forever?”
Go 'Dawgs!
My sentiment
I wish Tra Battle hadnt been concussed. Luckily, he redeemed himself a year later.
And as I type that, Kyle beats me to the punch.
This is a reply to both Kyle and SG
But, if UGA had tried the PowerOfDixieland Offensive Strategy™ you wouldn’t have needed to stop a 4th and long at the end. Eh, who knows. It was a great game regardless of the outcome. Much better than every game since 2003.
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 13, 2008 1:42 PM EST up reply actions
Ahem
Every other game since 2003
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 13, 2008 1:44 PM EST up reply actions
Honestly
I don’t remember enough of that game to give you my thoughts on that aspect. I do love throwing to the tight end, and Leonard Pope was a badass. I have that same complaint after most games, especially this year.
I dunno
Maybe throwing to Pope more would have changed the outcome, but 2005 was still the year that Auburn had playmakers at the receiver position to make up for Brandon Cox’s deficiencies. All he had to go was get them the ball in space. I still think that game was one of those where the team that had the ball last was going to win. I should qualify my earlier comment of “greatest game I’ve ever attended” to most exciting game I’ve ever attended. At Auburn in 2002 was the greatest game I’ve ever attended. Pretty nice to clinch the SEC East there.
http://hobnailboot.blogspot.com/
No mention of the pig farm
According to a “stinkologist,” (I forget his true title but he studies olfactory assaults and ranks them) pig poop is the smelliest of all, followed by chicken poop. That is the lovely aroma you notice when driving into Auburn.
marycontrary
Have you ever even been to Auburn?
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 13, 2008 2:47 PM EST up reply actions
I have a hard time understanding how dancing to “Solja Boy” is anymore classless than:
A) Watching your head coach hold up fingers, signifying consecutive victories over a team that, not only had just had their hearts broken, but have also gone through a decade of misfortunes, which your coach (who has a 35-31 overall record, and a 14-24 record in SEC play outside of his most “successful years” which oddly occurred during our “worst” from 00-07) HEAVILY benefited from.
B) Watching him ALLOW his players to do the same.
C) Watching him ALLOW his players to STOMP the midfield logo of his arch rival and LAUGH about it.
D) Taking the field first on his opposition’s turf, and even having the CBS commentators blast him for that.
E) Watching his players intentionally run into members of UA’s Yell Crew, knocking them on their butts.
Please elaborate on how dancing on the sideline is classless and what you guys do isn’t.
PS:
I live in Aubarn, and it seems only the dysfunctional Aubarn faithful seem to moronically question why the whole “down home” stereotype doesn’t exist. How many schools host rodeos for their students? How many schools have their own “John Deere” tractor companies? How many schools have more trailer parks for student housing than they do apartments? How many schools contain a myriad amount of cow pastures, chicken houses, and catfish ponds? How many schools contain only roughly four bars in its entire “city”, which feature NOTHING above the stature of a D-list country musician? How many schools endorses a jacked-up truck shop known as “Auburn Off-Road”? How many schools only have ONE two-lane interstate intersecting through the entire “city”? Not to mention it’s surrounded by the most ghettofied city on the planet in Opelika. And last but not least, you can’t even get celluar service on most parts of the campus.
There is a reason certain stereotypes exists, my friend!
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Down home stereotype was much stronger before but still exists, Auburn University Dosent Host the rodeo that way you can drink there. I dont even know where the john deer tractor company came from. We do have our fair share of trailer parks but because it considered affordable housing compared to apartments and college students are broke. I would rather have green fields then concrete parking lots. Roughly 4 bars, Skybar, Strutting Duck, Bodegas, Quiotiex (sp), 17-16, (Formerly know as Highlands) , Supper club and a few others, more of them play rap then anything else are you sure you live in Auburn? If you have Verizon your celluar service is great now matter where you are in auburn See your local coverage for service areas retard, And the interstate its on the outskirt not a valid argument
I once asked the question why are there so many Alabama fans that never graduated from the university? I was told its because their parents were fans and it was passed down.........(my response after a pause).....similar to racism.....?
A few corrections
17-16 is not what Highlands used to be, it’s on Magnolia near Gay St. There’s Skybar, Bodega, Bourbon St., Quixote’s, the bar that Highlands turned into (can’t remember its name), 17-16, Olde Auburn Ale House, others that I’m forgetting, and the incomparable Supper Club. The bar quantity at Auburn isn’t as great as it is at other SEC schools, but I have yet to find a bar anywhere that approaches the excellence of the War Eagle Supper Club. All of the other bars in Auburn are at least comparable to other SEC schools’ bars.
If you’re going to be in town for the game this weekend, and have yet to experience the Supper Club, please come by. I’ll be there Saturday night for the Velcro Pygmies, a great 80s hair metal cover band.
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 13, 2008 5:22 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah i know
i meant The bar formerly known as Highlands hence the comma
I once asked the question why are there so many Alabama fans that never graduated from the university? I was told its because their parents were fans and it was passed down.........(my response after a pause).....similar to racism.....?
I am UGA alum, married into an Auburn family.
I have been to the Supper Club, but I will take the Georgia Theatre over it any day of the week.
by dawgdayafternoon on Nov 13, 2008 11:08 PM EST up reply actions
God, I miss Uptown
That was the place to go my freshman year, but then they changed it the next year. I think it’s called 80’s Bar or something now. Nothing like the fall of ’02 at Uptown.
http://hobnailboot.blogspot.com/
Uptown
Nothing like the Fall of ‘95 at Uptown – I met my wife there. It was the cheesiest of bars, but we know of 2 other married couples that also met there. You must have missed O’Malleys. Athens has always had an A+ bar scene.
I liked Murphy's . . .
. . . back when it was a dive. They ruined it when they tried to class it up.
The City Bar was a fine establishment, too. They had a bartender there who was an artist. He worked in alcohol the way a lesser man worked in oil or clay. It was his medium.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 15, 2008 10:13 AM EST up reply actions
I nominate this thread
Greatest Thread Ever!
When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.
I second that...
Anyone know what the record is for comments on a non “open gameday thread” is? I bet Kyle could find that out.
RockyTopTalk...
…has us beat with this one for now. That could change by the end of today, though.
http://hobnailboot.blogspot.com/
What's with the "Supper Clubs?"
That sounds more like some place you would take your parents than the kind of down and dirty, coeds spontaneously dancing on tables, washed out with a hose at 4:00 a.m. bars that I remember from my days in Tuscaloosa. If I am ever down that way again I will have to find an Auburn alum who can tolerate me long enough to show me why these “supper clubs” I have heard so damn much about are really so wonderful.
In truth I have visited Auburn campus only once and that was about 20 years ago. I don’t even remember the reason for the visit . I do remember thinking that the campus seen from a distance reminded me of Soweto. Okay, that’s not altogether fair; I have never been to Soweto. The bars seemed scattered all over town as opposed to consolidated into a strip within easy staggering distance from campus, except for my beloved Harry’s which was always worth the risk. Is Auburn still grossly inferior to Bama in that respect? I really want to know.
"BINGO! That was a goodie." Coach Bryant
As I mentioned earlier, Auburn does not have the quantity of bars that other SEC schools have
However, the Supper Club is the best college bar I’ve been to. While all the other bars in Auburn close at 2, Supper Club is “private” (meaning you give them your ID and $5, and you get a membership card so long as you’re over 21) and thus it closes at 4. It gets the best bands in Auburn by far, it has a broken down bus in the back that they turned into a bar solely for taking shots, and they have a bus that will come pick you up or take you home if you’re too drunk to drive. It’s really something you just have to experience to get the full effect. Next time you’re in Auburn, I suggest you swing by there for a late night.
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 14, 2008 8:46 AM EST up reply actions
South College Street by the Interstate
Right next door to the Econo Lodge and Waffle House
War Damn Eagle!
by PowerOfDixieland on Nov 14, 2008 9:32 AM EST up reply actions
You're free to think whatever you want
I’m an Auburn fan/student, and it doesn’t really bother me that much how you think of Auburn. I personally don’t have much hatred for Georgia, I just enjoy it as a somewhat respectable rivalry. Anything you say about Auburn may be true in your mind, but to joke that Auburn women are like cows shows you’ve clearly never been there. Auburn girls are insanely good-looking, and trust me — I’ve been to both Athens and Ole Miss. I’m amazed somebody would even pretend. Even Alabama fans know Auburn girls look 10x better than the skanks that walk their campus.
SEC = Hot Women Everywhere
Though I bet the ratio is MUCH lower in Fayetteville & Lexington. My wife is an Auburn fan, very hot, but then again she is a georgia peach.
by dawgdayafternoon on Nov 13, 2008 11:11 PM EST up reply actions
Cute^^^ =)
When I was in Ttown, we traveled to other campuses to visit our old highschool friends when Bama didn’t play at home in the fall and they had a game on campus. One visit to Auburn we found that they boiled mushrooms from cow pastures to get high. Now, this may have just been the group we met bet we found it hysterical given the whole cow-college reputation! Other than this, we had a very pleasant time! (well, even this as we laughed our a**es off for years!!) I have never had a single incident with a member of the student body at AU.
Now, the outsiders-looking-in, have given me hell! The lectures on how much better they are and yada, yada, yada and blah, blah, blah make me want to become violent! If you are so GOOD, why do you have to walk up to me and TELL me about it? Shouldn’t I just be able to SEE the goodness?? I have never understood it and probably never will—as I have never had to walk up to someone and tell them about my team. Most people have heard of them.
Must
have been the group you met. I was there for 5 years and never even heard of people boiling mushrooms to get high. Auburn has their fair share of Ugly girls as i imagine Alabama does too
I once asked the question why are there so many Alabama fans that never graduated from the university? I was told its because their parents were fans and it was passed down.........(my response after a pause).....similar to racism.....?
For real?
Most of my AU grad friends have at least heard of it! It really could have been the group—they never did graduate from college! They were guys/girls we knew from HS and they barely made it out of there. The whole thing was just funny, though, and I was actually trying to lighten the mood. Wasn’t a jab; it’s college kids! It probably didn’t work anyway.
I'm right there with you, tankertoad
I tried to be reasonable. I really did. I tried to make it clear to War Eagle Atlanta what would and would not be tolerated, and he kept on pushing. I lost my temper, which I should not have, and I banned him, then I banned GumptownTiger.
In response, GumptownTiger called me a Nazi and War Eagle Atlanta ripped on me every which way. Because PowerOfDixieland made such a concerted effort to be civil and reasonable, I relented, un-banned both of them, and posted a public attempt at conciliation.
I expected to be met halfway. I was disappointed. Guys like Jay Coulter, Jerry Hinnen, PowerOfDixieland, and weglweglwde are doing their best to redeem their fan base, but GumptownTiger came right back over here and started talking crap, then boors like carlege, okietigerr, and Auburn93 joined the fray.
Sometimes you give folks a second chance and they pleasantly surprise you. This is not one of those times.
Now you know why I hate Auburn.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 13, 2008 10:27 PM EST up reply actions
they are even jealous of our boards - just like everything else
a Dawg fan doesn’t even know where to find an auburn board to act like an idiot, and, oh, wouldnt even bother to go there and act like an idiot.
Next year, they will have “Tiger Sports, er, War Eagle Sports” and it will look remarkably similar to this blog………..
I am just surprised some of these guys can use computers.
by dawgdayafternoon on Nov 13, 2008 11:15 PM EST up reply actions
kleph . . .
. . . that may have been the best comment of this entire thread!
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 15, 2008 10:15 AM EST up reply actions
Sounds like you need to get laid...go F UGA between the shitty hedges
Who gives a crap about the hedges anyway? Its bushes…move on. And you talk crap about Auburn? All you have is a couple bars and nasty strip clubs. Give me a break.
Coeds at Auburn, Alabama, UGA, etc.
I have been to most of the SEC schools for games and I’ll have to say that every damn one of them has a plethora of beautiful girls……well, maybe not so much Vandy, but they are intelligent, well-connected and , so you can’t really go wrong!
I still say Ole Miss tops the list – but none of the SEC schools represented on this board have any shortage of hotties.
If only I had known
If I knew I was going to bring in a influx of Auburn who simply reinforce every stereotype a person could have about them, I would have kept my little rant to myself. I’m sorry I gave you a reason to come over here. Some of you are ok, but the rest of you, get a life. The whole Internet Tough Guy thing is played out. This is Kyle’s house, so abide by his rules. If you don’t, then don’t go back to your blog and complain about how (sniff sniff) somebody on the Georgia blog was mean to you. Boo hoo.
I try, but I just can't hate Auburn
I was born in Opelika, my taught ROTC classes there, and I was an Auburn fan for a large part of my early childhood. I made the decision to become a UGA fan after the 1996 game. Because of my close ties to the area, I’ve always had a soft spot for Auburn.
They gave us Vince Dooley, Erk Russell, Stacy Searels and Rodney Garner for goodness sake! I just can’t work up a good frothing hatred for them. I reserve that for Florida, Bama and Georgia Tech. I view this rivalry in the same way as Coach Dooley. Georgia and Auburn are just feuding cousins.
Sic 'em Dawgs
by ClassicCityDawg on Nov 14, 2008 12:06 AM EST reply actions
I was wasn't even 10 years old in 1996
I go to UGA.
Sic 'em Dawgs
by ClassicCityDawg on Nov 14, 2008 9:48 AM EST up reply actions
Amen
Auburn fans are fickle and think way too much of themselves (I know, pointless name calling), but i’ve felt this way a long long time and here in the western part of the state I see too much of them. In 1980 i was in 4th grade and made a bet with an kid. I knew enough about AU folks that I told him that if he didn’t pay up on Monday that a nickle would be added every day. I actually ran into him the other day in a restaurant and the first thing into my mind was that he still owes me. $511 goes a long way any day of the week.
by chrisvilledawg on Nov 14, 2008 11:28 AM EST reply actions
ohhh....
So we are the ones that only think about ourselves huh? well then explain to me how the University of Georgia would, in all their glory and fairness, place the universities office for disabilities on the 2nd floor of a non-elevated building? It must have been one of the many brillant graduates of the University that decided this was a good idea. The problem was that the American Disability Assoc. (ADA) didnt take to kindly to it. So they called the university and asked Georgia to either move the office or place an elevator in the building to comply with the federal standards board concerning ADA requirments. And in all their infinite wisdom, Georgia officials told the ADA that there was no place to move the office and that the building would not be getting an elevator because it was an Historical building protected by the Historical Society. YOu can imagine this did not sit to well with the ADA and they sent an official letter to the University stating that they either fix the problem or the federal government would come down and shut them down until the problem was fixed. Needless to say the office was moved and Georgia released a statement saying that they had moved the office because they realized it was a problem for the students with disabilities. Not that they were being forced to do so, But rather because the University saw it as a problem.
Thats just the tip of the iceberg concerning my hatred for the University of Georgia. Not because of some silly lil rivalry, but because the University of Georgia is a bunch of Nazi’s who consider anything out of the normal to be beneath them. Hence i hope it burns to the ground and takes those ridiculous weeds and that stadium with it.
War Eagle!
Burn Georgia Burn!
Lots of hostility
Say what you will about Georgia but let’s not kid ourselves. These are two schools that are pretty similar. I mean, you can get a degree in Athens or Auburn by rolling through with your window open. But dammit, in Athens you have to at least stop.
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You must have really graduated from Auburn
It was a self-deprecating shot at my school with a little twist on the old “get a degree by driving through with your window open” joke. I guess that’s as complicated as a four function calculator for you folks or something,
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Ohhhh...
Ok nice shot at me Auditdawg. Prey on my ingorance of the old “window down” joke…..
You got me.
I'm just teasing dude
Don’t get too upset over it. I’m just trying to bring some humor into a pretty tense discussion.
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Ok
But the point is that atleast i have a perfectly valid reason as to why i HATE the University of Georgia. Not some trumped up, “you stole a piece of my hedges”, “Auburn fans are so rude to me”, rivalry crap. And my statement is mostly aimed at the idiots (Kyle, SC) that cry like little babies that got their milk money taken by the school bully.
Hell I don’t even hate alabama. I just hate their fans.
Paratiger . . .
. . . I regret that you (or, more likely, others who share your disability, rather than you personally) were inconvenienced by the placement of a particular office by bureaucrats who likely had no connection to the University of Georgia other than a paycheck. The office was located on the upper floor of the Academic Building when I was a student there, and I regularly had business in that building, so I was aware of it and agree that it was dumb.
It also has been fixed. Get over it. Meanwhile, your fans and players continue to vandalize the hedges to this day and call it a tradition. As with the fans on the field in 1986 (even aside from Auburn University’s ridiculous and dangerous overreaction to the incident), the single mistakes of the past are the single mistakes of the past; we’re talking about ongoing problems here.
Beyond that, consider this your official warning:
Call us Nazis again and you’re banned.
Call me or one of my regular commenters an idiot again and you’re banned.
Say you want the University of Georgia or any part of it to burn to the ground again and you’re banned.
By the way, if the inconvenience caused by the ill-conceived (and temporary) placement of one office causes you to want the entire place to burn down, even now after the problem that outraged you has been fixed, you may want to consider professional counseling to deal with your anger issues. Seriously.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Nov 15, 2008 10:28 AM EST up reply actions
Say what you will
But the last time i checked i could actually roll around the whole campus in Auburn and get into all the building too. Neat huh! Oh and Guess what, Its not just a novel approach by the University either. Apparently everyone else is doing those kinds of things for people in wheelchairs too.
I really hate Auburn more....
…when their offense tries to be semi-competent against our defense.
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This kinda has taken the thunder out of the Iron Bowl talks
I mean, what else is there to say from an Alabama fans perspective? Im sure the piss ant Auburn fans will try to take their revenge out by spewing hate for us over the next 2 weeks but im not sure i could come up with any more reasons why i hate Auburn…..
When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.
I have no problem...
…coming up with more hatred. Let the games begin.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
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