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He's yesterday's news,

Does anyone give a sh*t if Nick Saban is furious? Like he's still relevant or something.

Saba is a crybaby, as we learned at halftime. Alybamy erected a statue of a crybaby. You can't make this stuff up.

Oh, God yes he has and you don't even know it. Are you concussed or just stupid.

Bama Time - Yes, I am a troll, and let me express my sincere gratitude to you toothless out-housers for giving me a chance to do what I do.

Yeah we're talking trash you d*ckless loser. We're also playing football next weekend. Enjoy the Outback Bowl

Well Bama Time, I guess you guys can stop scheming how to get in the CFP and go back to cooking meth now. That, plus I can't believe you tools erected a statue of a crybaby.

Gimmick? All they had to do was stop that limp noodle Alabama offense at the end of the game.Like taking candy from a baby.

Quick. Somebody call a vet. There’s a really sick 800 lb. gorilla in my backyard and I don’t think he’s gonna make it.

Quick. Somebody call a vet. There's a really sick 800 lb. gorilla in my backyard and I don't think he's gonna make it.

It was David Wasson who took this into matters beyond the football field, not me. When that happens, I'm plenty happy to go there, especially when the intellectual equivalent of Harvey Updike is on the other side.

There is no greater source of mirth (or fremdschämen for those so inclined; not me, I prefer mirth) in the college football firmament than the pretensions to class and intellectual grandeur of the Alabama faithful. Auburn students have higher GPAs and ACT scores. Like the more remote sections of the Pacific, the Alabama fanbase is an ocean of toothless trailer park dwellers who either married a sibling or fell out with the whole lot of them over who would inherit the Velvet Elvis, dotted with a stray oligarch here and there that your mother in law had in mind when she knitted the needlepoint throw pillow that says, "Your worst nightmare. A redneck with money." It is this self - delusion on a massive scale that causes Mr. Hay in the Barn to crack a farm joke about the cross state rival in one sentence, and in the very next one put into print an independent clause, set apart by hyphens no less, which reads, "Jordan-Hare Stadium isn’t an easy place to win at". One can thus imagine, as Mr. Hay in the Barn was planning his trip from the lofty and enlightened climes of Tuscaloosa to the benighted plains of Auburn, that his capacious intellect was consumed with such questions as, "Where am I gonna stay at?", and "Where am I gonna eat at?", and "Where are all the titty bars at?". Me. I got one question. In what syphilitic fog did Mr. Hay in the Barn get the idea that Alabama will be the best defense Auburn has played all year AT? Maybe two questions. In what parallel universe did Mr. Hay in the Barn get the idea that a team failing to make it to the SECCG for two of the last three years is the 800 pound gorilla of the SEC AT? This article is self parody on a grand scale. It is hilarious. It is why Alabama is the biggest jewel in the lunatic crown of college football. Thank you Alabama. You were put here to give us all, even the poor souls in Starkeville, a reason to feel good about themselves. And you should be proud. Few people ever fulfill their purpose in lI've as completely as you. And if you think I'm being too hard on these people ask yourself this question. Where did Judge Roy Moore get his law degree at?

I am a 59 year old man who has been attending SEC football games annually as a child. Over the long and hard reach of decades, and after having indulged every prejudice about how bad the fans of this and that school are compared to my own, I have arrived at a certain point of wisdom on these matters. Across the South, there is a high degree of passion about our football, and there are times when, viewed up close, that passion manifests itself in ugly ways. Football Saturdays in the South, and God knows I love them, is a magnet for fools who do not refrain, and that is true from one end of the conference to the other. I also know from my career as a lawyer that passion and bias can also color perception. As I grew older, and more objective, it became plainly evident that any distinction we might make among the fan bases of the SEC to elevate our own school at the expense of another is a distinction without a difference; a slander borne out of the narcissism of petty differences. I could point out some rough treatment I've seen meted out on the Plains. But I instead prefer to recall an experience from 2002. It was by southern standards a brutally cold, windy and grey day that ended in an improbable Georgia win at the death after Auburn had thoroughly dominated the game. I was with my daughter, who was confined to a wheelchair. We were a red and black dot in a sea of orange and blue. She was bundled up but still shivering. Immediately after the opening kickoff, an Auburn partisan turned around and said he was just going to the concession stand, and he asked if we'd like some hot chocolate (they serve really good hot chocolate at Jordan- Hare). Mary and I gratefully said yes. Now, if you'd been there you would have known that going to the concession stand was the last thing that Auburn fan wanted to do as the game was just beginning. And he missed the first five minutes of the game to make the trip. Of course they lustily cheered for their team, as they should, but throughout, and especially when my daughter teared up when it seemed all was lost, they made a point of engaging her. One family even offered a blanket they had brought to the stadium, and whenever anyone went to the concession stand they always insisted on bringing us something back. When at the end Georgia finally and improbably won, we cheered. But we also thanked every one of our new friends for their kindness as everyone was getting up to leave. That will always be Auburn to me. I'm sorry you had the experience you did in Athens. But keep a charitable and forgiving heart. Greet opposing fans with a cheerful smile. Remember you have much more in common that the colors that divide us. Keep thinks in perspective.

From reading the back and forth here, it looks like we have alot of unfinished business in the South's Oldest Rivalry when the Auburn folk make their biennial trek from the Plainest Village to up to beautiful Athens, Ga this November. We'll see where our squads are come then, but one thing's for certain. The Lucky Charms crowd is closing out the year on the road against two really good, and really pi**ed off football teams. If they make it through, they will have earned it.