News Article: selmaborntidefan & Elefantman & other TideFans quoted in IndyStar article today (12/30/25)

[BamaNation]

It's a paywalled article but you can see @selmaborntidefan's quote and @Elefantman & @BigAlinKnoxville & others ... and several links to TF...

you can see the full article here

Gregg Doyel, the article author, goes on to call TideFans "snotty know-it-alls"

 

[selmaborntidefan]

HOLY COW!!!

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Does Gregg Doyel not understand that I'm not DISMISSING Indiana?

the rest of my post contradicts the point he thinks he's making:

I have a lot of concerns about us - but for whatever reason, we've tended to play better against the better teams, too (the SECCG was an exception).

 

[Elefantman]

WOW, I'm a delusional blowhard!!!

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Really?

No, it’s not just the snotty know-it-alls on this message board, or that one. The only place dumber than Twitter for legitimate discourse? The only place infected by more groupthink? Message boards, bloated by self-important, delusional blowhards named ElefantMan or LeBron47.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Well, Greg, since we know you read this site...email me at billandjeremyacct@gmail.com if you'd like to actually discover that after biting my head off in a column, you now have more brains in your stomach than you have in your head.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

Does Gregg Doyel not understand that I'm not DISMISSING Indiana?

the rest of my post contradicts the point he thinks he's making:

I have a lot of concerns about us - but for whatever reason, we've tended to play better against the better teams, too (the SECCG was an exception).

Well, he couldn't very well print your whole response! Not enough blogging room for that!

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Well, he couldn't very well print your whole response! Not enough blogging room for that!

But that kinda refutes the idea that I'm engaged in an echo chamber here.

What's even funnier is that my quote appears in an AUBURN book about football and the 1989 season issued about two years ago, but that guy at least was fair with me.

Yes - and Auburn fan who happens to be a writer was fairer with me than a......ahem....journalist.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I was going to pull for Indiana if they beat us, but not so much now.

 

[Huckleberry]

Doyel's X post linking the article has this with it:
The Rose Bowl’s coming. Indiana is respectful, and #iufb is ready. The view from Alabama “ain’t the same thing.”



"Respectful"? Seems to be true for the Indiana players, but their fans are a different story. It's pretty clear what message Doyel wanted his article to deliver.

 

[81usaf92]

It would be a Florida man writing this wouldn’t it.

 

[Cruloc]

HOLY COW!!!

You've done it.

Remember us little people.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

But that kinda refutes the idea that I'm engaged in an echo chamber here.

What's even funnier is that my quote appears in an AUBURN book about football and the 1989 season issued about two years ago, but that guy at least was fair with me.

Yes - and Auburn fan who happens to be a writer was fairer with me than a......ahem....journalist.

If we lose it's your fault for providing "Rat Poison" and BB material. Saban hates you!

 

[BamaNation]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2006020376707436653

... I've responded to his tweet

 

[bamamc1]

Selma, we're lucky to have you around. Thanks for making this a better place.
RTR!

 

[DzynKingRTR]

You've done it.

Remember us little people.

Selma was already famous from 60 Minutes. Now he is Indiana famous too.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

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It would be a Florida man writing this wouldn’t it.

I'm guessing that he was one of the Whoosier fans that has been posting here this past week...

 

[BamaNation]

Selma was already famous from 60 Minutes. Now he is Indiana famous too.

It's almost the same thing.

 

[bamaga]

If they come for Selma they better come prepared. He can teach their Research Department a thing or two!

 

[bamamc1]

Gregg Doyel late in the 4th qtr. Bama vs IU: