 (Results from Rival.com)
I live right in the middle of the Bama-Barn dark world and I can safely say that the Rivals Readers are correct [Rivals]. The Iron Bowl is a whole other level of hate. Bama and AU don’t have to be playing for a national title to hate each other. There’s nothing close to the intensity of an Iron Bowl that features two 7-5 teams let alone an Iron Bowl that actually matters in the SEC race..Let’s ask some questions that establishes rivalry cred:
Does State Law Enforcement have to make public pleas for fathers not to shoot their sons during or after the game [Pinson]? Do emergency rooms have to ramp up with personnel and and supplies for the influx of women that “fall down the trailer steps” or who are missing big clumps of hair from their scalps during other Rivalry games? Nope, only in Alabama and during the Iron Bowl.
Repeat after me: The SEC is clearly superior. Don’t be bringing in the Service Academies and God forbid someone tries to make a case for Michigan-OSU. It is the Big Ten and nobody that really matters gives two shits about Big Ten football except for Kirk Herbstreit.
You’d have to live here to understand it. Does the Mich/OSU consume both the entire state of Ohio and Michigan 365 days a year? Fuck no it doesn’t. Every morning I open up the sports page, there are people bickering over the rivalry in the sound-off, sports columns, and there is always an article about it. There is an article about Alabama or Auburn’s football team in every paper in the state every day. If I see someone wearing Auburn fan gear, it always seems like there is some Alabama fan that just can’t help themselves from making a stupid comment, despite being beat 5 years in a row. When I turn on my radio in the morning or in the afternoon, the Iron Bowl is the primary subject of talk radio 365 days a year.
Why is it bigger? It’s not just because it’s an “intrastate rivalry” but because it’s the biggest event we have here in Alabama. There are no professional football, basketball, or ML baseball teams. People around here care about football first and foremost. Iron Bowl day is bigger than Christmas. Everybody- trust me, EVERYBODY- in the state stops to watch the Iron Bowl in November. You can’t say that everybody celebrates Christmas.
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While the Iron Bowl is good, I find the Ohio State and Miichigan pre-game build up much more fun andinteresting that than of Alabama and Auburn.
Everyone knows that Ohio State’s band blows away Alabama’s band. They cross their tees and dot their “i”.
Logan Young once told me that the million dollar band was hard to beat….just like a sore dick
Band Camper…Are you talking about the yankee propaganda that ESPN gobbles up every year? The Midwestern-Trashfest that makes me want to vomit all over my keyboard?
Case in point
Best friend become sworn enemies Iron Bowl week. The tribe has spoken, UM & OU can gather their belongings and leave the island immediately.
Rivals also said that brent shaffuh was a 5 star.
PurpleHeart: Rivals was talking about Shaffuh’s criminal rating on Grand Theft Auto
Fuck I thought this post would blow up
this crap about the pre game band formation makes me want to throw myself into a ditch. i thought i had made a detour into hell when i began to watch the bcs championship game earlier this year. a couple of buckeye heels wouldn’t pipe down about the intricacy of the band formation. i could’t keep from thinking that this point of pride must be the lamest thing ever to hang your hat on. oh, who’s dotting the “i” this game? who the fuck cares. next time, concentrate on losing to florida by less than 27 points.
but really, can OSU’s glee club really stand up to Bama’s?
I agree. I have friends at OSU, and hearing their little wimpy protests about Michigan is a complete joke. The “riots” are just typical groupthink, like the thugs in LA. Alabama/Auburn rivalry has real history behind it, and it’s the one time of year when close family members can be temporarily disowned and kicked out of the house for cheering the wrong team. All schools have Alabama/Auburn day and every kid wears colors. Nobody wears purple, it’s either red/white or blue/orange. Ask anybody in the state “Alabama or Auburn?”, and you not only get an immediate answer, but it tells you enough about them to know whether you’ll like them or not. I once dated a girl starting in April, and when August came around I found out she was an Auburn fan, and dropped her right then (my mistake was not asking during spring training). This junk is not uncommon, it happens all the time. And why is it better than Mich/OSU? Simple, there’s no rivalry like an in-state rivalry, and there’s no better college football rivalry than in a southern football state without a professional team to back.
What took you so long to ask if she was a Barner? geez dude, they make those stupid-ass “house-divided” vanity tags,
As a military brat, I went to 16 schools all over the country before spending a year in Alabama. The Auburn Alabama rivalry is the state religion and sports identity all rolled up into one. It is really an obsession.
The only way USC, Ohio State, or Michigan can claim a bigger rivalry is by sheer size.
Easy, she wasn’t a loser, so I naturally assumed she was a Bama fan!
i didn’t think that bands won games, losers.