Posted on 10/13/2021 8:28:34 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Alabama has only lost three football games over the last three seasons. By any measure or accounting, and no matter what you’ve read or heard this week, that’s an incredible run.
But, y’all, we gotta talk.
We need to discuss some things because more losses this season could be on the way. No.5 Alabama, after all, is no longer the favorite to win this season’s national championship. Chances are good, in other words, that at least one more loss is coming.
It’s just math, but right now we need to talk about our fellow citizens of Alabama becoming statistics.
After two of Alabama’s three most recent losses, fans gathering together for the games have gotten into arguments that ended with someone being shot and killed. It happened in 2019 after the loss to LSU, and then it happened again on Saturday after Alabama’s loss to Texas A&M.
(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...
Meh, better than shoes.
People of Chicago stop shooting each other over nothing.
I remember back in the ‘70’s, one guy in town was tossed through a plate glass window over an argument whether Billy Sims or Johnny Rogers should win the Heisman. Alcohol may have played a part.....
Forget it, Jake. It’s Bama.”
Yet we still wag our finger at soccer fans in South America
Seriously, anyone who would shoot someone over a stinkin football game is one pathetic human being
rednecks, guns, booze and football entitlement.
Bama is unique. Their fans start tailgating a week before the Bama/Auburn game.
Two people shot and killed in the whole state constitutes “a bizarre and tragic pattern of violence following Alabama football losses”? It’s a safe bet that alcohol, or drugs, or both were a factor in those shootings.
Someone probably knows if he's still doing time in the Alabama state prison, or if he's out. It's been a few years ago...
But seriously yes, there is a lunatic fringe... everywhere. No sports entity is immune from it, unfortunately.
Ping to the AU list.
I want to point out that this is the OTHER instution’s fan base, not ours. It is also probably the 85% of their fan base which has no direct connection to that institution; most probably didn’t even graduate high school.
Also, some sad news for the ping list (and forgive me if I posted this before). Clint N Sukhs passed away suddenly last month. I didn’t have the heart to remove him from the ping list yet. If his widow or family are reading this, I hope you know the FR and AU families join in mourning his passing.
It was Harvey Updyke. He’s dead now. He was also part of the 85% fan base. Didn’t even finish high school.
Harvey Updyke, the Alabama fan who poisoned Auburn’s trees, dies at 71
I recall when Philadelphia Eagles fans celebrated winning the Super Bowl by rioting and committing acts of arson, vandalism, and assaults on police. The same thing happened in Los Angeles when the Lakers won the basketball championship.
Those names sound like rednecks to you? I used to love to go fishing with that good old boy Ahmad. But you go ahead and blame it on white rednecks.
Yep. I went to Ole Miss, and when the Tide would come rolling into Oxford for a game, it was really something to see. I remember seeing expensive motor homes with custom paint jobs in Bama colors (that can't be cheap) and all other sorts of hardcore fandom from the faithful.
Auburn would bring quite the crowd as well.
For their part, they always seemed kind of weirded out that we Rebels would wear coats and ties to the games.
What should they shoot each other over?
I used to sell equipment into the chemical plants in S. Alabama. There were two weeks I knew that no one would be around. The week before the Auburn game and the first week of deer season.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.