Saban Soundbites

[GH2001]

What a bunch of pathetic losers.

I also agree with your second and third posts as well Chizad. 

[AUChizad]

Fuckin site problems....

Get on it Godfather!
 

[dallaswareagle]

They forgot "unemployed". Or midnight shift at the DQ

Auburn fans can't show up in fucking droves like that because they have somewhere to be from 8-5 on a weekday. Shocker.

What he said.

[dallaswareagle]

They forgot "unemployed". Or midnight shift at the DQ

Auburn fans can't show up in fucking droves like that because they have somewhere to be from 8-5 on a weekday. Shocker.

What he said (again)

[JR4AU]

 

[JR4AU]

 

[AUChizad]

Ha! I'm not the only double-post victim!

(I think I'm still the only triple poster)

[JR4AU]

 

Ha! I'm not the only double-post victim!

(I think I'm still the only triple poster)

[Saniflush]

Ha! I'm not the only double-post victim!

(I think I'm still the only triple poster)

Difference is I think JR is doing it on purpose to make fun of you.

[The Prowler]

Little Brother Syndrome...ULBS = uat

[JR4AU]

Difference is I think JR is doing it on purpose to make fun of you.

This, every bit of it. 

[RWS]

Little Brother Syndrome...ULBS = uat

I'm not so sure. I think our fanbase just has alot of people like you in it, and in your fanbase, you're more of the exception instead of the rule.

[AUChizad]

Kevin Scarbinsky, Birmingham News 07/24/2011 5:34 AM

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - I'll take authors of famous phrases in Alabama football history for $500, Alex.

OK. The answer is, "Don't you know how much I hate these, um, guys?"

Contestant No. 1: "Who is Harvey Updyke at Toomer's Corner?" No.

Contestant No. 2: "Who is Eric Blackerby at the Wynfrey Hotel?" Sorry.

Contestant No. 3: "Who is Nick Saban on the Bryant-Denny Stadium sideline during the 2008 Iron Bowl?"

Correct. Not that there's anything wrong with that. No, seriously. It's as elementary as Sesame Street.

One of those three is not like the other. One of those three doesn't belong as we either rebuild what should be the greatest rivalry in college football or let it continue to become the worst.

Sorry, but they're not all links in a chain.

One of those three individuals mentioned above, allegedly, committed an actual crime. When Updyke poisoned the trees at Toomer's Corner, allegedly, he didn't take part in the rivalry. He tried to take it apart by trying to destroy one of the schools' most important symbols.

The other two people, who got most of the ink Friday at SEC Media Days, were guilty of something that was less than a crime, less than a sin and a more than necessary part of any epic rivalry. In different ways, Blackerby and Saban committed nothing more than clean, old-fashioned hate.

I know. Hate's a terrible thing. We're supposed to hate hate, if that's even possible. We're supposed to keep it on the field, to knock each other down and pick each other up, in a sporting way, and not confuse life and death with winning and losing.

You know, the way a lot of Alabama fans actually did after Updyke poisoned the two Toomer's trees, allegedly, and the way a lot of Auburn fans actually did after the April tornadoes ripped through the heart of Tuscaloosa.

When it really mattered, the color of people's shakers didn't matter.

The real trouble starts when people who aren't willing or able to put aside their differences won't or don't, when fans of one school wage an endless, blistering multimedia campaign to get their rival busted and fans of the other school start to respond in kind.

Blackerby, the now-infamous Alabama fan who wore the "I Hate Auburn" T-shirt Friday to the Wynfrey, doesn't seem like one of those fringe lunatics in person. I spoke to him before and after Saban was asked about his T-shirt, before and after he met Saban in the lobby.

I asked Blackerby what's become a defining question for Alabama fans in the wake of Auburn's 2010 BCS championship and the Cam Newton recruiting questions that, fairly or not, continue to shadow it. Would he rather see Alabama win this season's title or watch Auburn lose last year's?

Blackerby didn't blink, hesitate or stare at the floor. He didn't act one way and answer another. He said he doesn't care what happens to Auburn's 2010 championship. He's too busy looking forward to Alabama's 2011 title.

Was he being honest? He may have been the most honest person in the building Friday, perhaps more than Saban when the coach was asked in the big print media room upstairs about the T-shirt heard 'round the world.

"That is not really the way that we should respect the opponents that we have," Saban said.

True, in a perfect world, but having respect for an opponent and disliking that opponent intensely are not mutually exclusive. Saban demonstrated that, as picked up by CBS microphones, when he tried to keep his players whipped into a frenzy during the 36-0 beatdown of Auburn in the 2008 Iron Bowl.

Can't have it both ways, coach.

As the most divisive off-season in the rivalry's history winds down, it's almost football season again. It'll be a shame if the harmful kind of bitterness that's out there now continues.

And if the harmless kind doesn't.

Can we have it both ways? Can this rivalry be saved?

[Buzz Killington]

The real trouble starts when people who aren't willing or able to put aside their differences won't or don't, when fans of one school wage an endless, blistering multimedia campaign to get their rival busted and fans of the other school start to respond in kind.

Whatever could he be referring to?

[The Prowler]

I'm not so sure. I think our fanbase just has alot of people like you in it, and in your fanbase, you're more of the exception instead of the rule.

Keep trying updyke, you'll eventually get...maybe.

[AUChizad]

http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2011/07/i-hate-auburn-shirt-sellers-claim-to-have-given-shirts-to-bama-coaches-players/