This is the September 11th of the Auburn-Alabama rivalry.
Just like after September 11th, I had to make a conscious effort to remind myself that the hateful extremest Muslims that committed the crime that affected me emotionally were not reprisentative of all Muslim people.
It was hard for me to look at any of the bammers at my work yesterday, despite them being of the rare congenial breed. My visceral instinct was to inflict pain on them, just for being bammers.
Belive it or not, despite the fact that I know a few decent Bama fans, this is harder. I didn't have Muslim extremists showing up on my bookface feed with comments like "Shouldn't have put that Cam jersey on the Bear, barners! Maybe if you pour some Cammy Cam juice on the tree it will grow again! Lol"
I don't want to hear "Harvey Updyke is not representative of the Alabama fan base". Bull. Fucking. Shit. He is the cookie cutter prototypical mold of a bammer. Look at his pictures and the fact that he named his two children Crimson and Bear and tell me who the fuck he represents? He is the Alabama fan base defined. The ones who are truly outraged and embarrassed (and aren't just paying lip service while barners are listening) are the exception to the rule, not the other way around.