Mixed Up Fan Mixed Me Up--Funny

[TUSKaloosa]

Yesterday in Pensacola Fl I was out doing a little shopping. As I approached the front door of a store in a strip mall, I saw a guy with his back to me wearing a maroonish/red and white hat. Because I see more Bama fans in this area than from any other college, I usually say Roll Tide and keep walking. As I got up even with him I said Roll Tide and looked over and his cap said OU. I started laughing and said, "oh sorry about that." Then I looked down and he was wearing a *burn t-shirt and I laughed even more and said, "now I guess you really like me." He was a good sport and just laughed. I did not bother asking who he really pulled for but I really got a kick out of his reaction.

It is amazing the # of Bama fans you see here versus UF or FSU. Not saying they aren't here, just don't advertise it like we do.

 

[Carol91670]

Living in Paris, TX, I've almost made that mistake a lot. You see that Crimson and see that it ends in an A and I stop just in time! I see a good bit of Bama here in Paris. One day I saw a man with a Orange Tennessee T on his shirt. I commented that we don't see much Tennessee here. He was surprised I knew it was not UT said most people mistake him for a Texas fan. I told him not me, I'm a SEC girl and I know my football.

 

[skipster63]

I hear you. I live in the DFW area. I was going into Chipotle here in Coppell and decided to help some poor guy trying to get out of the store. When i finally got him out, he saw my Bama shirt and said War Eagle. I said I knew you had to be a Barn fan. He asked me how I knew because he wasn't wearing any Auburn anything. I said I knew it because you could not open a simple door to a restaurant. He just bowed his head and left on that one.

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

We are everywhere in Pensacola, but Bama isn't but a hop, skip...

 

[TUSKaloosa]

Yeah, P'cola is just an extension of LA.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Yeah, P'cola is just an extension of LA.

Shoulda been part of Alabama...

 

[KrAzY3]

Shoulda been part of Alabama...

My mother always said that. She'd periodically complain about Florida having part of our coast and she spent a lot of her youth in Miami. Go figure...

 

[TUSKaloosa]

Shoulda been part of Alabama...

Earle, I often wondered how Florida swung that deal. Probably some politician got rich off that.

 

[BJP4UA]

how did we get screwed in that deal? from Apalachicola west is alabama.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Earle, I often wondered how Florida swung that deal. Probably some politician got rich off that.

Some guy wrote a book on that I'd been meaning to pick up. Each little border jog has a history. The original Mississippi Territory included all of present MS + AL plus the pan handle.

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

Some guy wrote a book on that I'd been meaning to pick up. Each little border jog has a history. The original Mississippi Territory included all of present MS + AL plus the pan handle.

From what I've read it did not include the panhandle. Pensacola was once capital of Spanish Florida. It extended all the way to Louisiana. Florida tried to sale the panhandle to Bama, but Alabama refused. Don't want to get into anymore history/geography tonight.

 

[MBA_99]

how did we get screwed in that deal? from Apalachicola west is alabama.

In high school my required Alabama History textbook stated that Alabama had the opportunity to buy the panhandle from Florida in the 1800's, but declined because it was not worth it to them at the time. The coast is great today, but the rest of that land is worthless, and the coast would have been worth nothing in a time when there was no beach recreation. Only the port at Mobile Bay would have been worth anything.


EDIT: If you believe Wiki, this is a great read. Apparently the issue spanned most of the 19th century, and most involved favored annexation, but finally after the Civil War Alabama balked at the price.
Link

 

[rgw]

I have a buddy who graduated with me at Alabama that went to ND Law afterwards. I imagine his loyalties are mixed...need to touch base with him and see what he thinks.

 

[TUSKaloosa]

I think FL showed AL those flood plain maps and talked about how insurance premiums would be affected 180, 190 years from then and that sealed the deal.
In all seriousness though, in the early 1800's people were probably so busy farming just to try and keep themselves fed, who would have had time to hop a mule and wagon and go to the coast so it was probably just never a big deal as no one had the vision of what it would become and the value it would one day have. Too I have read what one person mentioned that Pensacola was the capitol of spanish FL so the boundaries go back further than the early 1800's when AL became a state. Just as the Jacksonville area is considered an extension of south GA., the panhandle is considered and extension of AL. Regardless, we accept our Florida brethen into the "Bama Fambly" and we are all one and the same and maybe another "one" on January 7.

 

[Crimson1967]

My grandfather died in January 2009. He lived in Boca Raton and the funeral was the day of the BCS championship game between Florida and Oklahoma, which was played in Miami. After the funeral, we had dinner with my brother and watched the game in the bar at our hotel. (My brother is a Florida alum and a big Gator fan).

Anyway, the next morning, we were leaving our room to check out (the hotel had exterior entries to the rooms) and someone down the hall was outside their room decked out in Florida gear. He yelled "How'd you like the game?". I yelled back "Go Gators" and we left.

It wasn't until a couple minutes later I noticed I was wearing a long sleeved crimson shirt with ALABAMA in arched white letters across the chest. He likely mistook that for an Oklahoma shirt from the distance and was making fun of me for being a Sooner fan.

I've always suspected the stretch of interstate going to Chattanooga that cuts through Georgia may have been arranged by the Congressman from that district many years ago, though the mountains may also have dictated its path. Anyone know for certain?

 

[BamaRevT]

I said I knew it because you could not open a simple door to a restaurant. He just bowed his head and left on that one.

That's funny ! Roll Tide !!

 

[Alasippi]

A lot of fair weather fans wear the cap and t-shirts of whichever team happens to be winning at a particular time lol
I knew a guy once who claimed to be a die hard Nebraska fan even though he lived on the Mississippi coast.
Wore a Nebraska cap everywhere.
Of course they had won back to back national titles.
The next year or so Florida State won the National Title and guess what?? Yep, I saw him and he not only was wearing a Seminole cap he had Seminole flags on his truck...lol
I asked him about it and he said, "Well I mean I like the Huskers but in my heart I've always been a FSU fan".
I haven't seen him in a few years now but I'd bet my last dollar that he now bleeds Crimson and White....lol
Amazing.

 

[BigBama76]

In high school my required Alabama History textbook stated that Alabama had the opportunity to buy the panhandle from Florida in the 1800's, but declined because it was not worth it to them at the time. The coast is great today, but the rest of that land is worthless, and the coast would have been worth nothing in a time when there was no beach recreation. Only the port at Mobile Bay would have been worth anything.


EDIT: If you believe Wiki, this is a great read. Apparently the issue spanned most of the 19th century, and most involved favored annexation, but finally after the Civil War Alabama balked at the price.
Link

I grew up two miles from the Florida line and about 45-50 miles north of the beaches between Panama City and Destin. My grandfather talked about how they used to make an annual trip to the coast in the early 1900's to stock up on fish. He said it took three days there and back by wagon.

 

[cooleddie]

Oh yeah, lots of Bama fans in the panhandle. Heck, I just claim Alabama since I grew up so close & spent so much time there. Speaking of fan misidentification, I was just in Orlando this past eek for my son's state championship game (they won!) and took my daughter to Disney World on Thursday. We spent most of the day & then went back that night at which time my dad joined us. He wassporting his Bama shirt & asked me if I had saw any Bama fans earlier. I said yeah, I saw 3 or 4 & gave them a Roll Tide. We are in the park maybe 2 minutes & he spots a guy (big guy) standing in a red shirt with what looked like Alabama printed across the front but his arms were crossed & covered most of it. . My dad said, "there he is", walked right over to him, pointed, smiled and said Roooollll Tide! About the time he pointed is when I noticed that they guy was wearing an Arkansas hat! I didn't have time to stop my dad. The guy just smirked. When dad turned back to me I told him about his mistake & he did go apologize. Luckily the dude was good natured about it. We must have seemed like huge jerks!

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

I grew up two miles from the Florida line and about 45-50 miles north of the beaches between Panama City and Destin. My grandfather talked about how they used to make an annual trip to the coast in the early 1900's to stock up on fish. He said it took three days there and back by wagon.

Wow! Where are you from?