You can defend the Tide, but it just riles our rivals. We have had a long tradition of beating them when they were down, and now we have been in their position the past decade. It’s a never ending battle, and unfortunately there will be the whacked out fans that instigate most of these blow ups. I have just resigned myself to not saying anything to our rival blogs or reading them for that matter. The only site I really go to is this one and a few other Bama blogs. I don’t even post on Tidesports, cause it seems that all the radical chop your head off fans are there. I stay here cause I know the people on here know how to have CLASS. The winning will come, and when it does our rivals will know it. They don’t need everybody and their brother telling them. Say what you want to say to other Bama fans, but have class in front of your rivals.

SDBama78 about some of the other sites. I was booted from one because I wrote something critical that pissed a lot of those “we’re going to win the National Championship in 2007 because we’re Alabama!” fans off. I wasn’t even being hard on the Tide, I was just saying that we didn’t have a lot of depth and it was unrealistic for people to expect as many wins as some of those people were predicting.

I don’t go to the Auburn or LSU sites because I know there are a lot of hotheads there and I don’t have anything to say to them. I don’t talk trash when we win. I don’t ever. Never. I never taunt an opponent and I don’t even participate in the Rammer Jammer chant because I don’t agree with it. I don’t want to discourage people from doing it, but I just don’t see it as something I personally would/will do.

That said, I don’t want to hear a bunch of Auburn or LSU fans talk trash, especially when they’re 18-23 year old kids who just started following football in the last few years. If they talk trash, they’re really stupid to do so because they’re only setting themselves up for a major embarrassment when we finally do beat them. Perhaps that will be a good lesson learned. But most of them will probably find a new team when that happens, so they don’t have to eat the slice of humble pie fate has served them.

I guess I don’t have any fun with the trash talk (I’m not talking about getting angry, arguing, or defending oneself, but I am talking about taunting and rubbing in a victory). I think it disrespects the sacredness of the game and throws all the goodness of competition out the window. That’s just me, though.

Auburn fans are just not important enough to get into a pissing match with. They will never come remotely close to our tradition and devotion to our team through good times and bad. I went to their site recently because I thought they had already switched to the new format and I wanted to see it. It was pathetic with their most recent diary being from 2 months ago about our arrests. Why would you want to post there? I’d be ticked off 24-7 if I read the tripe they spew and I have better things to do. Besides, I don’t want to talk to a Barner any more than I would want to date one and orange makes my skin crawl to look at. The trolls are pretty bad at tidesports.com(both SEC Tigers teams), and I do not wish them here. I would rather talk to people who know what it’s like to be CRIMSON TIDE and that’s a nonnegotiable fact.

I know I saw the same thing on all their post that 2 months was the most recent and I could not believe it THEN I ran across the comments about our kids that are there and the ones that are in coming being nothing but criminals and I got real pissed I mean it is one thing to comment on some one that you know first hand to not be on the up and up but not on 18-20 yr old kids that are excited and earnestly trying to better themselves by getting a education and becoming part of greatest family they could be a part of. I really did not expect the response that came or all of their crap info they put out to be the truth but instead it is far from it almost to the point of delusional at times. I also agree on the dating thing I actually went on a date with this lady that I did not know was a AU fan until after I had already picked her up and taken her to eat and thats when the date became real awkward and went down hill fast. It goes with out saying I havent do that again. It seems to be a pretty rare find especially being stationed away from God’s country to find a woman who understands the importance of being a tide fan. roll tide roll