This thread shows once again why I wake up every morning glad I'm not an Alabama fan. It's the worst, most pathetic, most pussified thread in the history of the Internet and that's saying something considering what goes on around here.
Football is a sport of emotion. I've seen some of the meanest, toughest sons of bitches on the planet reduced to tears after winning or losing a game. These kids put in untold hours, they work harder than you've ever had to. They put their hearts, guts, souls and lives on the line for our enjoyment for two reasons. Because they love the game and because some of them hope it will sustain them in the future. It's an emotional investment. I'd sure as fuck rather see Ben Tate upset, pissed, crying or beating somebody's ass than I would see him standing around joking and clowning after a loss. Shows me that it means something to him. Better than him being so fucking dense (Julio) that he doesn't even know what the score is and is primarily concerned with gettin' his drank on.
That's not to say that I don't enjoy seeing my enemies reduced to tears.
When do I take pleasure in it? When my team caused it.
You're damn straight I relish to this day the memory of Emmit Smith kneeling on the sidelines crying uncontrollably when he realized his Gators were going to lose to Auburn and there wasn't a damn thing he could do about it. But I fucking respected the emotion and the passion that brought him to that moment.
I also just as reverently embrace the tears Pat Dye often shed in the locker room. His tear-choked speech in 1982 after his Tigers broke Bear Bryant's back can still, nearly 30 years later, make it hard for me to breathe.
That you'd come here and ridicule Tate's emotional reaction to the realization that a personal and team goal he set for himself was not going to come about -- particularly since he blamed primarily himself -- shows just how little class Alabama fans as a whole possess and just how superficial their understanding of the game really is.
Here's a big hint for you, Birmingham and RWS, when you have to constantly remind people how much class you, your program, your coach, your school or your fanbase has? You don't have any.
When you're right I'll defend the point. I'm not a lemming like some of the fucks around here doing the bobble head dog routine and slamming whatever you say just because you chose poorly when you picked a college football team. But in this? You're so wrong you couldn't see right if you climbed a ladder.
This entire thread was a total douchebag move and exemplifies why Bama fans are considered among the least knowledgable, most arrogant and lowest class fans in the country. It's a punk ass thread and if you had any sense you'd delete the whole damn thing.
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