I hate the ajc!

[Bamabelle in ga]

Not necessarily a "new thread" but it must be said again. I hate the ajc! Tonight's headline on their online edition vent/blog:

"I have to laugh every time I hear "Alabama football" and "college textbooks."

uga fans are the worst.

 

[37bamagreats55]

Funny,
I laugh when I hear "Georgia" and "Blackout".
Let them get their kicks off the field, while we kick their tails on the field!

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Print media are going down the tubes, and they're further down the tubes than most. You may not have to hate them much longer and the world will be better for it...

 

[IH8Orange]

Print media are going down the tubes, and they're further down the tubes than most. You may not have to hate them much longer and the world will be better for it...

I saw a headline recently that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer would be "online-only" from henceforth. Our species has been shifting our source of information from the papyric to the electromagnetic for a while now.

Of course, its quite ironic that the most desired content delivery channel is called "bookbuilding" in which electronic textual information is paginated, indexed, produced with tables of contents, images and figures in leiu of more modern contextual navigation devices and the fonts are still dithered to make them look more like "printed" fonts.

We're instinctively resisting that jump from printed media to electronic media.

 

[CrimsonDollar]

Apparently whoever printed the headline thought that all SEC football players were given free grades. Not just UGA's and Auburn's. Oh well.

 

[Tidetwin]

Print media are going down the tubes, and they're further down the tubes than most. You may not have to hate them much longer and the world will be better for it...

And then there are the lawyers . . .

 

[bamanut_aj]

Not necessarily a "new thread" but it must be said again. I hate the ajc! Tonight's headline on their online edition vent/blog:

"I have to laugh every time I hear "Alabama football" and "college textbooks."

uga fans are the worst.

I wouldn't sweat it. Any lugnut with a computer can do a blog or 'vent' column.

 

[Bama4Ever831]

Not necessarily a "new thread" but it must be said again. I hate the ajc! Tonight's headline on their online edition vent/blog:

"I have to laugh every time I hear "Alabama football" and "college textbooks."

uga fans are the worst.

I agree. I grew up in Georgia and everyone in the ajc seems to be unfair to every team besides UGA. I remember when Bama lost 25-23 or something like that in the "Man Enough" game and many of the actual articles claimed UGA stomped Bama. I was so angry. I hate the ajc.

 

[sweetbamabelle]

I guess they were shocked when they realized that Alabama actually made their football players get textbooks to begin with :eek2: LIVE AND LEARN....LOL.

 

[peteswell4]

I believe that the "sports vent" that the quote is part of is just a system where readers can post quick, humorous remarks, and then other readers can rate how good they are. I would not get too upset over it.

 

[Jack Bourbon]

The UGA fans are sorta pathetic. I guess they can't beat UT and UF when they need to, so they lash out at UA to feel better since they can't trash talk their actual rivals. They are a little clueless.

 

[TommyMac]

Anything that adversely affects Furman Bisher is fine with me.

 

[sabanball]

I guess they can't beat UT and UF when they need to, so they lash out at UA to feel better...

Wonder how thats workin' out for 'em? :biggrin:

 

[Leeroy]

If the NcAa had requirements on color books, UGA would get the death penalty. UT and the Barn too.




Roll Tide

 

[bama_wayne1]

If the NcAa had requirements on color books, UGA would get the death penalty. UT and the Barn too.




Roll Tide

Now that's funny right there, I don't care who you are!

 

[Hal Bennett]

It has always seemed to me that Bama football fans don't realize how competitively LSU fans on the west side, and Georgia fans on the east side, each view University of Alabama football. Once Paul Bryant left the scene, and LSU began beating Bama in Tuscaloosa, it began to eat me up, since I was living in New Orleans and hearing what was said all the time down there about Bama by LSU fans. I always felt like walking up on top of Red Mountain and hollering over towards Tuscaloosa, "You better get ready for LSU, because they sure are ready to play Alabama!"

My brother and I played HS football in Mississippi and NW Florida, and we won a conference championship at the latter place in 1959. He was the QB and I was the LHB. About that time Paul "Bear" Bryant was making his debut on his Sunday afternoon TV show on WTVY out of Dothan. My brother, Tom Bennett, said early on, "I don't like Bear Bryant. I don't even like the way he TALKS."

When Tom graduated from Florida State University in 1965, he immediately went to work for (sports editor) Furman Bisher at the AJC, covering high school football. This was just after the big bru-ha-ha between Bear Bryant and Bisher. (If you don't know the story, I won't bore those who DO know it.) Tom would tell me stuff like this -- "Bisher said in his column the other day that he opened up a copy of THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS sports page, and there wasn't a thing in there about either Bear Bryant or Charlie the Mule (Charlie Finley's Oakland A's mascot who would show up at Birmingham Barons games.)"

Gaylon McCullough points out in his latest book, THE LONG SHADOW OF COACH PAUL "BEAR" BRYANT, that in about 1980 Bisher noticed that Bryant had had a face lift, calling it "Bear's new face."

It might be fair to say that LSU people developed a strong competiveness with Bama football when Bryant pretty well treated Charley McClendon as his lap-dog for two decades; and that Furman Bisher, who still writes and makes radio talk show appearances, has been content to see fans in Georgia keep alive the feelings they developed back when he and Bryant disagreed as to who should dominate football in the Southeast.

 

[bamagradinATL]

So do I. I tend to stay away from the vents and comments sections. I don't need to get my blood pressure up reading comments from the village idiots.

 

[Tidetwin]

So do I. I tend to stay away from the vents and comments sections. I don't need to get my blood pressure up reading comments from the village idiots.

No matter the topic, sports, politics, religion . . . it is an asylum.

 

[bmcklv]

Not necessarily a "new thread" but it must be said again. I hate the ajc! Tonight's headline on their online edition vent/blog:

"I have to laugh every time I hear "Alabama football" and "college textbooks."

uga fans are the worst.

They probably laugh because the UGA players never use textbooks.

 

[THE BAMA IRISHMAN]

All that talent at Georgia and they are unable to win the NC. They can only laugh at others to hide the pain of being the Brides Maid year in and year out. No other talented team gets whipped like the Puppies. All that talent :biggrin::biggrin: