On the BCS Trophy Being Displayed at Wal-Mart

It used to be free a couple of years back (last time I went)

Let those without a WalMart cast the first stone

Otherwise

People in glass houses…

Florida displayed their trophy at various Alltel locations throughout Gainesville, and had to limit the number of views at each location, leading to public outcry.

LSU displayed theirs at various Verizon locations (giving the same result as above) and then put it on display at 2 Chevy dealerships as a result.

I guarantee those respective fans who waited in lines for hours only to be turned away would have loved for the display to be at such a place as Walmart.

And now since Dr. Pepper is the main sponsor of the Trophy, they make the rules, whereas the universities have been in charge of this in the past. So if it’s their decision to find the venue with the most parking to put this thing on display, there’s nothing anyone can do about it. One thing’s for sure, it’s going to be utter pandalerium at those locations…

Bottom line = it’s at our damn Wal-Mart

No matter who won it, it was going to be displayed at Wally World anyway. But let a team like Alabama, Georgia, Auburn, Mississippi, or Tennessee win it and the pundits are going to be all over us.

did you say you didnt like wal-mart?? thats un american!! only commies shop at target. i bet you wish they made that crystal football out of tofu!

I’d rather go to Family Dollar or some other establishment. Hell…most Walmart employees hate Wally.

…“why yes, us stupid rednecks are displaying our NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY THAT YOU DON’T HAVE at Wal-Mart. Also, IT’S OUR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY on display. Just so we’re clear it’s the TROPHY PRESENTED TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS, ALABAMA. Where are you going to display your cute little non-NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP trophy (doesn’t apply to Tennessee, South Carolina, or LSU fans….)?” .

…I take it was you that added that photo and caption?

did anyone else notice at the beginning of the trophy presentation a Dr. Pepper executive was throwing up the hook ‘em horns. I can certainly appreciate a person’s love of their team but to the winner go the spoils. Let those kids who actually won have their moment in the spotlight.

Here’s a picture of waiting in line at the Tuscaloosa Wal-Mart to see the trophy. Looks like quite a wait.

seriously? That place is pure evil!

Have they forgotten that their People’s National Championship Trophy stayed at Joe’s Pawn Shop for weeks before being permanently placed in their sociology department?

Those with the gold, rule. Wal-Mart probably sells more Dr. Pepper than every other seller in the U.S. put together. If Wal-Mart wanted to hold the BCS game in one of its parking lots, it could probably be done within a few years. I don’t like Wal-Mart either, and as a lawyer, I am personally aware of how poorly it treats its employees. But Wal-Mart will take in at least ten times its normal gross receipts over the next few weeks.

There was an article in the Mobile paper (the day before the game) where the owner of the Bama Fever store said that his typical gross receipts for January were in the $20,000.00 range. He predicted an excess of $200,000.00 in January for a Bama win. The economic impact to our state from this win is enormous.

I don’t mind being the butt of everyone’s jokes. Bama has a 2009 National Championship trophy, and wherever it’s displayed, Wal-Mart, Kroger, or the Bryant Museum, none of you fans of other schools can say that today.

We’ll cash our check from Wal-Mart (thank you!), get laughed at, but Bama has another national championship. Kiss our ring or kiss our ass. Frankly we don’t care

Yes, it’s true. Cosmopolitan, cooler-than-thou Austin, Texas, showed its crystal at the Wal-Mart in Round Rock. I know because I was there and enjoyed the experience … even flashed the Horns for my sister-in-law and dad, who graduated from UT in the mid-50s. So, am I to assume that these critics live in places that are better than Austin? Doubtful. And at the risk of stating the obvious … scoreboard.

It’s what happens when people with degrees from Boston College and Syracuse who live in Connecticut and New York hear that Southerners are doing something perfectly reasonable that they don’t understand. NASCAR gets the same sort of mockery from people who don’t know how many Midwesterners drive race cars.

When one of those Yankee hockey teams wins the Stanley Cup, they take the trophy on a tour. Every player on the team gets to take the trophy home. They drive it here, yonder, and everywhere and take pictures of it. Because Canadians and other northerners are doing it, though, it’s part of a grand tradition.

Let a Southern team win a championship and take enough pride in its trophy to display it publicly where fans can see it, though, and, all of a sudden, we’re all a bunch of inbred idiots. Nevermind the fact that, immediately after the game, Nick Saban specifically spoke of how this was a triumph for the entire state of Alabama; it would seem that putting the trophy in a public place readily accessible to the many Alabamians who understandably would like to see the spoils of the victory their head coach said was won for them simply supports what Coach Saban said . . . but, of course, acknowledging that would mean giving up the “OMG! NICK SABAN SAID HE WASN’T TAKING THE JOB WHEN HE WASN’T TAKING IT THEN CHANGED HIS MIND AND HE OVERSIGNS AND GETS HIS RECRUITS IN SCHOOL! EVIL EVIL EVIL LIAR LIAR LIAR! GO BIG TEN!” meme.

I congratulate the Crimson Tide on their richly deserved national championship and I hope the good people of Alabama are able to enjoy this entirely appropriate public display of a victory trophy won by representatives of a public university. I hope our teams’ paths will cross in Atlanta next December.

Everyone knows that the South and Southerners are the only group left that’s it’s not politically incorrect to insult and stereotype. There’s no reason for us to constantly feel that we have to ‘prove’ we’re not all a bunch of backwoods hillbilly rednecks. Relax and enjoy the win and if you feel like it, go on down there and check it out.

You would think that at least a few of those geniuses from Syracuse, et al, would understand about basic economics and how Dr. Pepper’s biggest sales agent will get first rights of display….duh. Do they sell many Dr. Pepper products at Nordstrom these days?

We won, it’s our trophy, and all these people attempting to mock us are just envious of our success. I hate the rest of the world right now, between the jokes about this trophy display and the increase in unfounded attacks on the number of NCs we claim. Screw them all. We don’t need their approval…we won the whole thing. Roll Tide Roll.

dr pepper is a texas soft drink.

…on the T-News website today. That’s exactly how it should be!

This part was awesome too:

Fans who had their picture taken with the trophy received a card with a link to a Web site where they could retrieve the photo for no charge.

On average, the clientele of Wal-Mart is something to be made fun of. It’s equally true in New Orleans, Natchitoches, and Baton Rouge or in Eugene and Salem.
On the other hand, when they displayed the trophy in Eugene (before the SC-UO game on Halloween), in the exact same manner, they put it in a Fred Meyer, a Northwestern store vaguely like Wal-Mart but with fewer redneck shoppers, when there’s a Wal-Mart a little ways further down the street. It’s not like the only available large stores are Wal-Marts.
And probably the biggest thing is that if you’re stereotyping a group of people, you’ll do it no matter what. Just like the post said, this isn’t the only weekend they’d be making fun of Alabama/Southerners.

And, yeah. It’s not like I’d have any complaints if the trophy were in the Eugene Wal-Mart right now.

…that she had asked her husband, “Why are they showing Alabama’s trophy at Wal-Mart?” and her little girl replied, “So all the Auburn fans can see it….”