Najee Harris says he's been known to troll Alabama fans by responding to 'Roll Tide' with 'War Eagle'
Najee Harris has never been one to shy away from a joke but there are some things you just don’t joke about in the state of Alabama.
When it comes to arguably the greatest rivalry in all of sports, you pick one side or the other and stick to it for the rest of your life.
Knowing that fans from the Yellowhammer State are all-in on either Alabama or Auburn, the reigning Doak Walker Award winner came up with a clever way to troll Crimson Tide fans that often hit him up with a “Roll Tide” cheer.
He fired back with “War Eagle” to confuse the hell out of them.
Harris shared this information during a recent appearance on The Pat McAfee Show.
Check it out below:
Coming from Cali @ohthatsNajee22 had some surprises coming to the #SEC & @AlabamaFTBL
"I knew that football was taken seriously there but I did not know the fans would be that damn crazy" #PatMcAfeeShowLIVE pic.twitter.com/GmDqybW1b5
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) February 24, 2021
I love Najee and I couldn’t agree more that the SEC is the best conference. But — “Wxx Exxxx”?!?! Nah. LOL.
He obviously has no love for Auburn. Just sounded like he was getting really annoyed at the obsessive and excessive row tides . I would say at least half the Alabama fans here in Springfield are females and the majority of them don’t know the difference between a LB and a RB . They just know ” their team” and ” their boys ” usually win the games. So they deck out in red and yell Row Tide! at anything that has ears. That’s probably the portion of Bama’s fanbase that annoys the hell out of him.
Lol, perfect description. I have good friends who are Bama fans, but what you described are what give the fanbase a bad wrap sometimes.
While I appreciate your point, I’d just like to say I’m a female who definitely knows the difference between a linebacker and a running back. I get my love of Alabama football from my dad, and share it with my husband, but, ironically, I’m the “football nerd” in the family — and even bore my Daddy sometimes talking through plays. I’m used to most other football fans not taking me seriously, but just wanted to throw my perspective out there. Maybe those females aren’t as disconnected from basic football knowledge as you might think! ;)
And, before you ask me, yes, we typically attend every home game and at least two or three road games every year. (Even Iron Bowls at Jordan-Hare where I have heard my fair share of “War Eagles!”) So, I am definitely a real fan.
Najee is a jokester with a unique sense of humor. My comment was just a joke, too. But I guess I felt the need to, I hope nicely, defend my fellow female Tide fans in Springfield. Anyway, I think we can all agree that we’re blessed to be fans of the best football teams in the country here in the SEC, where it truly does mean more!
Well said from another female football nerd :)
And I have to say Najee is a very talented RB and an amazing hurdler.
Sounds like you have nothing to defend and my comment doesn’t apply to you.
So your saying that most women don’t know football or that most Tide fans are women. Either way it just shows your lack of intelligence.
I didn’t get that at all from his comment, don’t let yourself get triggered too easily now.
^This^
Cocky understood what I meant. If you’re a football fan , regardless of your gender and what school you cheer for, the comment wasn’t meant for you. It’s the ones that attend the parties and tailgates and deck in in the gear screaming row tide at every person they see, yet could not care less about the games and what the athletes put into it. They just pick whoever is winning currently and suddenly they’ve been Bama fans their whole life, or Patriots/Chiefs/Bucs/whoever the current superbowl favorites are.
I agree with most of what you said. I’ve had one of my guys from Brooklyn, become a “Bama fan” while we were deployed because we were playing NCAA on Playstation. Kid couldn’t point to Alabama on a map, but all you hear coming from his face over the last 12 years is ‘Raw Hide’.
Just like the Patriots, Yankees, Lakers or Warriors they have collected some rabbit “Fans” that don’t know anything about the team other than a couple of star’s names and that they win.
Hilarious, Alabama’s own RB recognizing their fans are a bunch of rednecks.
Have you actually been to Auburn? Do you really think there is any difference between the fanbases?
Usually Auburn is a classier environment but other than that no. But obviously there’s gonna be more dumb Bama fans. More people in the state route for them. Therefore more dumb fans are gonna belong to Alabama.
So Auburn is classier? Based on what exactly, rolling trees?
You do know your opinion isn’t actually a fact right?
I know that my opinion is valid. Ask anyone with a brain. There’s plenty of Alabama fans with class. There’s plenty of Alabama fans who are extremely rude. Same with Auburn. But Auburn is typically the more friendly environment. Ask other SEC fans.
LMAO.. So an Auburn fans generalized statement about a rival is “valid”?
You’re next level stupid..
Heated? Calm down buddy. It’s valid if you have a brain. You don’t. Roll tears roll.
Your opinion is only valid to you… It means nothing to anyone else.
Have you looked at the color of the Auburn fans’ necks?
They have necks?
Yes but is usually covered by straw hat
isnt Auburn an AG college?
I didn’t get that take.
Why are replies to comments shoved to bottom of thread where it means nothing? Lame
We do take college football too seriously here. I’d much rather us focus on more important things, but I suppose it’s better to be good at something than to be good at nothing.
Says left wing fascist lunatic
I, and the FBI, are pretty certain it’s the right wing fascists that caused an insurrection. It’s also the right wing where you find the Nazis and white supremacists. In other words, fascists. The finger pointing is hilarious though. “Look at the other side! We’re doing what we accuse them off doing but our people are just too stupid and ignorant to realize it. Now, what rights can we take away from them today while blaming the left for it?”
You’re an idiot, UsmcDAWG.
This is why no one likes you here!!
Most of that is because there are no pro sports teams in Alabama.
More to the point… if you guys hate college football and the south so much, why not take your arrogance and vitriol to a politics site and stop ruining this one? You will be missed by absolutely no one.