Mind-Blowing Tales of the Anti-Tide
by Nico2.0
on Dec 26, 2008 10:00 AM CST
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When I first read the story linked to below, I was going to put it in the daily roundup post, but the more I got to thinking about it the more I realized it deserved its own separate post.
A story from the Desert News about Utah equipment manager Kelly Sharitt kind of has me fired up this moring. Apparently Utah's equipment manager grew up an Alabama fan but dropped his allegiance to the Tide while working at UAB after his boss had a "feud" with an Alabama basketball coach (no details disclosed.) The story says that "soured" him on Alabama (along with having a Barner wife.)
That's all well and good I suppose and it's a free country after all so I won't hold that against him. I know people that have switched football allegiances after a lifetime of fandom for silly reasons like getting married to a fan of another team...and we all know that's simply ridiculous given the divorce rate in America today. Though I personally don't understand the switching of allegiances merely because of where one attends university, it does appear to be enough of a cultural phenomenon that it's one I'm willing to accept. Personally, I've attended three different universities and Alabama remained the heart and soul of my football world no matter which campus I was on (and they all had FBS teams.) Like I said though, we see enough of switching at the college level to where I accept that it happens without question. Back to the story though....
The kicker though is that his family, alleged Alabama fans will be pulling for Utah because "blood is thicker than fandom." Now wait just a minute. Seriously? Their relative is not a player or a coach and they're going to pull against Alabama because of someone that has no bearing on the outcome of the game? See, I don't get that. We all know I'd be cheering for Alabama even if my dad was Utah's head coach, but maybe that's just me. I can understand someone cheering for their current employer over their fan allegiance because, hey, we all gotta eat, but the family members I just don't get.
As if this that weren't surreal enough already, Sharitt worked for Louisiana-Monroe last year and keeps a game ball in his office from that debacle with the score on it. And his alleged Bama fan family also pulled for La-Monroe at BDS last year. Then to take things up a notch, Sharitt and his wife wore La-Monroe gear to the Independence Bowl last December for our game against Colorado.
Seriously, this band of Bama haters must have their bragging rights stripped away posthaste.
ROLL TIDE FOREVER!
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Bullshit
Not nor never was a true fan. I can understand pulling for a team because you have someone close to you that works for that team, but pulling against Alabama for no good reason is insane and sounds like the guy is an attention whore. What are the chances ole boy is a barner and just because he is from the state of Alabama he is playing that up to get some attention that, frankly, an equipment manager would never get?
I don’t buy it. Great post, Nico. WTF would you keep a gameball of an embarrassing loss for a team that you are supposedly not a fan of (lamonroe)? This story doesn’t add up like piss and vinegar.
"With a girl - I-HOP; with the guys - Waffle House; with a girl you are pulling wingman on - Taco Bell." Comer, on his favorite place to eat at 3 a.m.
by BamaReturns07 on
Dec 26, 2008 10:14 AM CST
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The equipment manager guy...
…definitely appears to have sour grapes, but I can at least understand him cheering for his employer in the case of both LA-Monroe and Utah. I don’t understand his family though cheering against Alabama because he works for them…especially since it’s in a non-game impacting capacity.
by Nico2.0 on
Dec 26, 2008 10:38 AM CST
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To me, that sounds more like Barnie behavior as that is PRECISELY something they would do.
by TaylorTot on
Dec 28, 2008 10:27 PM CST
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As far as people switching allegiances according to their school...
I know here at Troy we had the smallest crowd of the year the night we played for the conference championship against Arkansas State for a bid to a bowl game. The reason? Bama was playing.
Alabama and Auburn are the reason Troy has hardly any real fans. No one switches allegiances. I doubt half of our school could name 5 starters on our own football team.
im not impressed with your performance
by troy145 on
Dec 26, 2008 10:18 AM CST
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Actually...
…if I remember correctly, that game was the same day as the SEC Championship game of LSU against Tennessee, which means the other 10 SEC teams had no game. I was going to go to the Troy vs. Arkansas State game, but I was in Atlanta on Friday night and my friends talked me into staying the rest of the weekend.
by Nico2.0 on
Dec 26, 2008 10:36 AM CST
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ah thats too bad that was a great game
troy has several players that i wish bama had, most notably their QB, Levi Brown. He’s quite honestly the best pure passer ive seen this year in college football. He’s put up great stats in just 7 games. I cant wait til next year when he gets a whole season and a better receiving corps.
im not impressed with your performance
by troy145 on
Dec 26, 2008 3:32 PM CST
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Sure, not...
…everybody switches allegiance, but a lot of people do. I know a handful of hardcore UAB fans that dumped Alabama or Auburn because UAB was their school. I also know 2-3 guys that were HUGE Alabama fans growing up that became Auburn fans because they went to school there.
by Nico2.0 on
Dec 26, 2008 10:43 AM CST
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yeah i know what you mean
Im a Troy-firster until I graduate or transfer just because theyre the ones giving me an education and UA totally screwed me over in the application process and did nothing to make it right except acknowledge their suckery
im not impressed with your performance
by troy145 on
Dec 26, 2008 12:07 PM CST
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I remember listening to the Tide
every week on radio because we had no tv rights. Just to say that no matter how bad we are I’m still a FANATIC for the Tide. Nothing will change this. No job, no marriage,no affilitions will change this.
His family may be great people but to say they are fans(FANATICS) is absurd.
You brought back some memories Nico of times when i’d sit in the truck at home to listen to the games. Great post.
Rex E Mathis
by rmathis on
Dec 26, 2008 11:35 AM CST
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Marriage?
only way i marry a gal thats not a tide fan is if her name starts with taylor and ends with swift……or a georgia fan, i can deal with those. but i will always be a tider
Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!
by comer4tide on
Dec 26, 2008 11:40 AM CST
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just find one wit
no allegiances and then make her a Bama fan…thats what i did and we watch all the games together.
When you are an Alabama fan you are expected to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because I want to.
by bammer on
Dec 29, 2008 9:49 AM CST
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Well now, there's *fans* and there's FANS
We who wear the title of Bama FAN, should know this. Being a FAN is a way of life. It doesn’t turn off when the season ends, it doesn’t wane when your team has an off year, it doesn’t leave the stands when your team is behind. A FAN doesn’t sell his/her allegience to the most winning team, or the team with the best Vegas odds, or the most hyped recruiting class or the team with the most game day air time. A FAN will stand and talk for hours with a complete stranger, met at the gas station, in a state far from home, about any and every detail about our stadium, our quad, our tradition, our hopes for the future and our acceptance of our now.
Then there are the fans who, like designer jeans and tv reality shows, fade as soon as the hype is over. Fans are like the ultimate A.D.D. afflicted soul, they can’t actually focus on a team long enough to become a FAN.
We who come to RBR are, in my opinion, FANS. And that love of team, of fandom itself, is what feeds the fire of our bamanation. These other fans are just the wind blowing…uh, did anyone else hear that? or was it just the wind?
Roll Tide Roll from a FAN in Fhoenix AZ. :-)
by bamaskigirl on
Dec 26, 2008 11:52 AM CST
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Probably what the fight was about!
Between the UAB/UA coaches….that the equipment mgr. drank his own pee! UA had pic documentation, so that is why he is no longer a fan. Humiliation! What an idiot.
by crimsongirl on
Dec 26, 2008 2:27 PM CST
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pictures are deadly
when it comes to blackmail
Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!
by comer4tide on
Dec 26, 2008 2:34 PM CST
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A real fan
never changes…period. But these days you see a lot of people who want to somehow be winners at something and so they will jump on which ever team is hot. Where I live (GA) a lot of guys have gone for Florida in the last 20 years that were never gators before. Heck, if Bama wins a NC a bunch of them will jump to us.
I had a friend who was a Vandy fan and finally switched To UGA last year because he just couldn’t take it anymore. As soon as Vandy started winning he was back…truth is he was never really gone, just depressed.
by 5026 on
Dec 26, 2008 4:33 PM CST
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There is more....
to this story than this guy is letting on. I’d be willing to bet that he tried to get on at Bama as the equipment manager and was denied. No way do I believe for a second that he gave up his loyalty to Bama over a tiff with a basketball coach. If he is anything like 99% of the Bama fans I know, myself included, there is not much in the world that could make me quit pulling for the Tide. Whatever the case may be there has to be more to this story than is being told, but isn’t that the case most of the time?
by sixfoot7 on
Dec 27, 2008 9:58 AM CST
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Real Fans
I graduated from Aubarn in 2001……………..RMFT nuff said
by UA on
Dec 27, 2008 12:17 PM CST
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I love that you joined RBR...
…just to tell us that. YOU are what our TRUE FANS are all about. As rmathis said above also, NOTHING in our lives can change the irrefutable fact that we will be CRIMSON TIDE faithful FOREVER.
"I hate everything orange"
It's all about Crimson - ROLL TIDE!!!
by bamavicki on
Dec 27, 2008 2:11 PM CST
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Never
have I rooted for a team over the Tide. I have switched “second favorite” team status numerous times over the years. Too many to count and for too many reasons to list. But my TEAM, no way, no how would I switch.
I have it on good authority that the Utah guy had his brain snatched by the body snatchers, as a part of the swine research project while he was at the Barn. I think this particular guy’s brain was snatched during the excrement denitrification portion of the project and his former brain was used to un-stink the pig poop. Bama brains were unfortuntely the only ones that could unstink the poop to any meausrable degree. So, since his former brain was used for such a noble purpose, we must forgive him. Same thing, unfortunately, happened to the rest of his family. Please do not publicize the fact that I am telling you this. Gouge will be hiring someone to kill me, which a hired killer form Gouge might tickle and I hate being tickled….
marycontrary
by adeleswims on
Dec 27, 2008 3:02 PM CST
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I
married an Auburn and it only intensified my love of all things Bama. I graduated from the University of South Alabama who is in the process of putting together a football program. I will root for them no doubt, especially since I grew up in Mobile but never will they take the place of Alabama in my heart. Nothing will. I don’t really care where you went to school or even if you never attended college, your support is where you choose it to be. Not taking shots at certain school or fanbase here but I know several of my peers who attended Auburn but never graduated (for some reason or another), but they hold this fact up as some kind of status symbol. Like it makes them more of a fan or something. And these people didn’t even got degrees like I did, yet they give me crap about not going to UA. Go figure.
Thirty-Six to Nothing
by Bens4vcobra on
Dec 27, 2008 3:22 PM CST
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Didn't
even GET degrees… wow I type stupid today.
Thirty-Six to Nothing
by Bens4vcobra on
Dec 27, 2008 3:23 PM CST
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Well . . .
If this is the kind of story we ned ot get fired up about a game I’d say there is little wrong in the world. This is a “who cares” story.
by MeanBobMean on
Dec 30, 2008 3:11 PM CST
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