It's much easier to achieve mediocrity? Or maybe it's so great to them because they possess (or like to think so) an indepth knowledge of all things Bama.. it's really quite humorous that the average (or is that below average) Barn fan knows more about Bama than they do Boogville.
Why is it so great to be an Auburn Fan?
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auburn fans are seriously delusional like bad case of it, they think next year we will be average they will beat us bad and mark ingram will have an average year, if he does its because we incorporated trent and lacy more not because he is average!
The reality of the situation is that Auburn's program is not really on a level that most Barn fans think it is, but it's also nowhere near as bad as most Alabama fans think it is.
It's probably somewhere in the middle...which is where API football has been for most of its existence.
It's probably somewhere in the middle...which is where API football has been for most of its existence.
Well, this IS a football message board.
They ARE our bitter in-state rivals.
We ARE currently in a slow period and will be til spring practice starts.
And finally, they ARE a never ending source of amusement.
This is really a great question, and one that deserves an answer. Not sure I can provide it, but here is a try:
I cannot remember the exact phrase the historians use, such as Wilbur Cash (The Mind of the South) and Virginia Hamilton (Alabama: A History), but it has to do with a sort of fierceness of spirit that runs through the Southern character and its history. It has to do with such things as Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, even with the cruelty of slavery, the downright rebelliousness against the North, the obstinance and individualism regarding the Southern way of life, right down to an emphasis upon States' Rights.
The state of Alabama does not have a professional football or basketball team, or a major league baseball team. Yet Birmingham used to claim the title "Football Capital of the South" -- it was right there emblazoned on the upper deck facade at Legion Field. SEC headquarters are still there, even though the SEC championship has moved to Atlanta. If Birmingham had a good domed stadium, they might move the game back there.
It's not just Alabama and Auburn that have college football in this state. The U of North Alabama (formerly Florence State Teachers College) and Troy (formerly Troy State Teachers College) have both fielded tough, championship-level football teams. Bobby Bowden had terrific football teams at Samford U when it was Howard College. I challenge anyone to look around in this country and find a state that has promoted college football as strongly as this state has.
Auburn, to my mind, has trained farmers and pharmacists. If you were to live in or around Foley, Alabama, where WHEP radio is the longest continuous Auburn University affiliate, you might begin to understand something of the Auburn mystique. In the first place, Baldwin County is the largest county in the state, geographically. Roundabout Foley, west, north, and east, are large farms. When asked why WHEP is an Auburn station, the manager's wife said, "It has fed my family." If you go to church in the Foley area, you may see outside a bunch of men after services talking football. If you are a Bama fan, you might as well stay away -- they are talking Auburn football. This is all the more amazing in that Foley is the home of Kenny Stabler.
I think that both farmers and pharmacists would agree that to an extent they build their own little kingdoms. Their lifestyle doesn't lend itself to standing in awe of someone else, and that includes the University of Alabama football team. You don't make it as a farmer or pharmacist standing in awe of someone else. You make it by believing in yourself and your program, by exercising discipline and having faith, a positive attitude in your future and your present. That is basically the same attitude that the University of Alabama has.
When Nick Saban brought "The Process" to Alabama, he brought it to a place that already understands what he is talking about. All he had to do was say the word, and the troops -- that's the fans as well as the players -- understood what he was talking about. It's a certain no-nonsense approach to life, a realization that life can be tough, and that you've got to keep digging, as Bear Bryant once told Jackie Sherrill.
What if anything has separated the University of Alabama as a "football school"? I think it is the understanding that only a championship can bring the plaudits a coach wants to hear, but if he wins that championship, he becomes a legend. They will build museums in your honor and statues of you at Alabama if you win a championship. Why hasn't it happened at Auburn like it did at Tuscaloosa? I find it hard to say. They might have won more national championships under Shug Jordan, but they had to compete with a tradition and a man at the Capstone.
I cannot remember the exact phrase the historians use, such as Wilbur Cash (The Mind of the South) and Virginia Hamilton (Alabama: A History), but it has to do with a sort of fierceness of spirit that runs through the Southern character and its history. It has to do with such things as Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, even with the cruelty of slavery, the downright rebelliousness against the North, the obstinance and individualism regarding the Southern way of life, right down to an emphasis upon States' Rights.
The state of Alabama does not have a professional football or basketball team, or a major league baseball team. Yet Birmingham used to claim the title "Football Capital of the South" -- it was right there emblazoned on the upper deck facade at Legion Field. SEC headquarters are still there, even though the SEC championship has moved to Atlanta. If Birmingham had a good domed stadium, they might move the game back there.
It's not just Alabama and Auburn that have college football in this state. The U of North Alabama (formerly Florence State Teachers College) and Troy (formerly Troy State Teachers College) have both fielded tough, championship-level football teams. Bobby Bowden had terrific football teams at Samford U when it was Howard College. I challenge anyone to look around in this country and find a state that has promoted college football as strongly as this state has.
Auburn, to my mind, has trained farmers and pharmacists. If you were to live in or around Foley, Alabama, where WHEP radio is the longest continuous Auburn University affiliate, you might begin to understand something of the Auburn mystique. In the first place, Baldwin County is the largest county in the state, geographically. Roundabout Foley, west, north, and east, are large farms. When asked why WHEP is an Auburn station, the manager's wife said, "It has fed my family." If you go to church in the Foley area, you may see outside a bunch of men after services talking football. If you are a Bama fan, you might as well stay away -- they are talking Auburn football. This is all the more amazing in that Foley is the home of Kenny Stabler.
I think that both farmers and pharmacists would agree that to an extent they build their own little kingdoms. Their lifestyle doesn't lend itself to standing in awe of someone else, and that includes the University of Alabama football team. You don't make it as a farmer or pharmacist standing in awe of someone else. You make it by believing in yourself and your program, by exercising discipline and having faith, a positive attitude in your future and your present. That is basically the same attitude that the University of Alabama has.
When Nick Saban brought "The Process" to Alabama, he brought it to a place that already understands what he is talking about. All he had to do was say the word, and the troops -- that's the fans as well as the players -- understood what he was talking about. It's a certain no-nonsense approach to life, a realization that life can be tough, and that you've got to keep digging, as Bear Bryant once told Jackie Sherrill.
What if anything has separated the University of Alabama as a "football school"? I think it is the understanding that only a championship can bring the plaudits a coach wants to hear, but if he wins that championship, he becomes a legend. They will build museums in your honor and statues of you at Alabama if you win a championship. Why hasn't it happened at Auburn like it did at Tuscaloosa? I find it hard to say. They might have won more national championships under Shug Jordan, but they had to compete with a tradition and a man at the Capstone.
You must have missed where I compared them to the motocross ad that takes up the entire screen. My point was that there are so many of the threads that they're kind of unavoidable. And I feel it necessary to remind people who are so concerned with the smells coming from the ugliest village on the plains that WE won the National Championship and they've got a LONG row to hoe before they can even consider it a possibility.
I don't think Auburn is off limits on this board by any means. I've discussed them myself. However, we've had thread after thread of people worrying themselves sick over the fact that Auburn did well in recruiting or whatever. I have never seen such major discussion of them, and I wouldn't have predicted this after we became the unquestionable National Champion. Some are trying to downplay Auburn's success in the big picture of things, others are trying to mitigate that success by making fun of them...I think the best policy is just to ignore them. If 2004 taught us anything, it's that Auburn hates being ignored.
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Back in 94, I hooked up with a Barner girl. She had a bed in her trailer. I was at our frat house chapter that was not furnished yet. She said I have an extra bed in my trailer. I said shotgun on that bed! We went to the LSU game the next day, the year Jamie Howard lost the game for LSU. Needless to say, I was saying to myself, what the heck am I doing here.....it was a bad dream, but not one where I could wake up. I was living it. I did feel out of place there, I was glad to get back to Tuscaloosa!
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DITTEAUX!
Well stated, Ham. Indeed, barners hate being ignored. They take great pleasure, when we are obsessed with them, as this and other recent Auburn threads illustrate, IMO.
I was banned from Scout's ITAT in their wholesale house cleaning after our 36-0 beat-down in '08. So, others will need to give a more recent report. Prior to banishment, my lurking revealed their total obsession with anything Bama. Reckon it is much the same there and on other barner boards, now.
We know our traditions and program is better. They have affirmed it. Nuff sed!
It's a "family thing" and we apparently would not understand.
However, they understand the numbers of 13 & 22.
OK....even if you want to argue the #13 and go with #8 fine. We have still LOST more NC games than they have even had the opportunity to play in.
Their jealousy is consistently noted.
However, they understand the numbers of 13 & 22.
OK....even if you want to argue the #13 and go with #8 fine. We have still LOST more NC games than they have even had the opportunity to play in.
Their jealousy is consistently noted.
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it would be good to be an auburn fan right now because they almost beat us in the iron bowl, but almost only counts in horse shoes and dynamite.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this has motivated me to create the 2010 slogan for the mighty Auburn Tigers.
Auburn Tiger Football:
We may lose a lot, but we never quit.
or
We'll never be Alabama, but we'll keep trying.
or
We're AUfully envious of AuLAuBAuMAu!
or
Our village is lovely, but it smells like manure.
or
If you want to know what it is like to be an Auburn fan and win the national title, ask your great-grandfather.
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Exactly, we have won eight even to those who think college football started in the 1940's. However, those people are idiots. We can claim anywhere from 13 to 17, but my university claims 13. Therefore, we have 13 big ones.
Cause if you have a barn tag on your car, you can park in the handicapped parking places; if you have on barn attire, you get all kinds of nice people patting you on the back saying "bless your heart"; and when the barn graduates get fired from their jobs at Burger King and Waffle House, they can handle it because they're used to losing. :biggrin:
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