Converting an Auburn fan
by RTR1322 on Feb 16, 2012 11:32 AM CST
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Ok here's the deal. I have a friend who is a "fringe" Auburn fan who is considering switching over to the good guys (Roll Tide). This all started back in December culminating on Jan. 9th. He like all of us had heard the talk saying Bama didn't deserve to play for the title blah, blah, blah. So I convinced him to watch the BCS NCG and cheer for Alabama citing that we had a common enemy in Les Miles. He agreed, and was blown away by our complete domination of LSU. So he has asked me to come up with a presentation of why I love Alabama after which he will "get off the fence and pick a team". So I come asking for help from the RBR community. There are so many things that make us great it's difficult to put into words. I would also like links to awesome Youtube videos to use in the presentation. I am not that tech savy; so I would love a good idea of how to download said videos on my laptop. I don't want to be at the mercy of how fast my internet can stream video on a given day. Any help would be appreciated. Let's pull this fine young man out of the clutches of darkness. Thanks and Roll Tide Roll!!!
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Objective Reasons To Love Alabama:
Best Winning Tradition in College Football
Best Coaches past and present
Best Stadium atmosphere
Most loyal fans
Best looking uniforms…best school colors
Best Fight Song
Best Band
National Champion Cheerleaders
Big Al
Best looking fan gear
Awesome campus atmosphere
Most polite fans toward their opponents
Most likely team at present to win a NC year in and year out
Nick Saban
Barrett Jones
Best traveling fans
Statues
Coach Bryant
and Dreamland Barbeque
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
by 5026 on Feb 16, 2012 11:51 AM CST reply actions 3 recs
Archibald's is King
although I still enjoy Dreamland
i've been fallin' so long it's like gravity's gone and i'm just floatin'...
by JunctionCrimson on Feb 16, 2012 12:43 PM CST up reply actions
Best of luck
but being an Alabama fan is not something you’re sold on. It comes from a desire to be the best, to associate yourself with winning and tradition. No presentation can convince me to be something I’m not.
by Fat, Drunk & Stupid on Feb 16, 2012 12:04 PM CST reply actions
I would disagree.
I was a born and bred florida fan til my first day of school at bama. I saw what it meant to be Bama, and never turned back
by Patrick Murphy Sux on Feb 16, 2012 1:39 PM CST up reply actions
CHEERS and ROLL TIDE!!!
Just wanted to be a voice of affirmation.
Talent can only get you so far. Give me a player who has less talent, but the heart of a champion and the will to succeed.
I'd say you were an Alabama fan all along
you just didn’t know your true self until you strolled the Capstone.
Free Will v Predestination – where do you fall?
by Fat, Drunk & Stupid on Feb 16, 2012 5:17 PM CST up reply actions
I'd go with Free Will on this one.
God would never assign someone to be an Auburn fan. He is not that cruel.
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
by 5026 on Feb 16, 2012 5:51 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Well...
if PMS chooses not to decide, he still has made a choice.
Fourteen.
by Darth Saban on Feb 16, 2012 5:55 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Simple....we're Bama and they're not
If he doesn’t get that simple concept, then he’s not worth wasting your time on. Some people can’t be helped no matter how hard you try.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. ~General George S. Patton~
i dont know...i mean if you
have to be converted…i don’t know that just sounds weird to me. If hes a Barner now he should stay as one.
Follow on twitter @thelyell
A Hundred Pounds Lost
I'm not one...
…but there are regulars here who used to consider themselves Aubs. I hold no grudges for those once were lost but now are found….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Feb 16, 2012 12:48 PM CST up reply actions
I pulled for AU when I lived there.
And still did when they weren’t playing Bama until last year. The Trooper/Cam/God’sTeam Show drove me away screaming.
its not like id look at him or any other person as
2nd rate citizen but something about the term “converted” sounds odd to me is all. I say go where your heart is and not what is hot at the time.
Follow on twitter @thelyell
A Hundred Pounds Lost
Rod Carew converted.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
and im pretty sure gods
gonna have a chat with him about that…
Follow on twitter @thelyell
A Hundred Pounds Lost
Oh, I meant that he converted
lots of stolen base attempts.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
Rod Carew was teh awesomez....
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Feb 16, 2012 9:59 PM CST up reply actions
Another thing, if he's mathematical
The first college football game was played in 1875 by Harvard and somebody else. Therefore, college football has been around for 137 years. Bama has 14 national championships, Auburn has 2. Bama has won a national championship in over 10% of the years of college football history. It took Auburn over 50 years to win their first, and another more than 50 years to get their second. If he’s young enough, he MIGHT see another Auburn NC before he dies. But he wants an average of 1 out of every 10 years (even more than that)……well……some folks may not have the mental wherewithal to understand that.
If you have to convince someone that Bama is the team to root for, why bother?
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. ~General George S. Patton~
I love Alabama football because...
1. We win. We’ve won more championships (14) than any modern major college football program. We’ve won more AP championships than any team in CFB history. We’ve eight national titles in the past fifty years. We have had more national championship winning head coaches (five) than any other school. We won the Rose Bowl so often they wouldn’t let the SEC bring any more teams out to play…until we beat Texas to win another national title in 2009 at the Rose Bowl. We’ve won more SEC titles (22) than any other team. One of our coaches retired as the winningest coach in CFB history; he also still has won more national titles than any head coach, ever. Another one is the only coach to lead two different teams to BCSNCG victories. We’ve had more 10-win seasons than any team in college football. We’ve won more games (48) over the past four seasons than any other school, at a pace of exactly 12 wins a year.
2. We support our team. We travel better than any other fan base. We’ll bring an army of RVs to any stadium in the continental U.S., and we’ll rent ‘em in Hawaii, during a losing season if we have to. We bring 90,000+ fans to watch our team play Kent State or Georgia Southern, and we’ll bring more to watch us play LSU or Florida. And we’ll have that many show up to watch the team scrimmage in the spring. We’ll pay through the nose to get there, but we love that the University doesn’t charge admission for A-Day.
3. We appreciate, and demand, excellence. It takes a special type of coach to survive and thrive at Alabama. We haven’t had a coach since the fifties who couldn’t win at least ten games in a season, but a majority of them couldn’t hang around long enough to do much more, and not necessarily because they were fired. We’ve only fired the ones named Mike. However, we were in awe of how Coach Bryant turned Alabama football around…twice. We love Coach Stallings for reminding us, however briefly, of why we loved Coach Bryant. We’re blown away by our current coach, whose own demands of excellence seem to supersede our own. We built the most beautiful stadium we could. Our cheerleaders are gorgeous (like most Alabama coeds). We have more honor students on our football team than any SEC school. Our campus is beautiful. We have a million dollar band.
4. We honor tradition. We respect what the men in leather helmets did in the 20s and 30s just as much as what today’s athletes achieve. We recognize that Xen Scott, Wallace Wade, and Frank Thomas were just as capable and dedicated as Paul Bryant, Gene Stallings, and Nick Saban. We make uniform changes when player safety and/or performance dictates, but otherwise we still keep it simple with basic colors, stripes, and numbers. Georgia Tech may have left the SEC fifty years ago, but you wouldn’t know it from our fight song. We know the words to it, too. We start every home game with a montage of the men who brought us to where we are today. We like speed and creativity, but we the main foundation for all our teams has been toughness and discipline. It’s the size of the fight in the dog. And we ain’t never been nothing but a winner (see point #1, rinse, repeat).
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Feb 16, 2012 12:46 PM CST reply actions 16 recs
^This should be green
If Auburn was in New Mexico and we never played them I would still hate them and their dumb coach and their cheating players.
I started reading this all ho-hum-like...
but had chills when I read your closing argument.
Audemus jura nostra defendere
"What makes a second chance worth having comes from taking advantage of it, from correcting the mistakes you made and burning for redemption. Not wishing for it. Earning it." -Cecil Hurt, 10 JAN 2012
by animalcracker on Feb 16, 2012 6:01 PM CST up reply actions
"We ain't been nothing but a winner"
Stay gold, Nice Li’l!
Seriously, your words make me feel like drankin’ right now. That, and either going somewhere to dance with my wife. . . .or going somewhere to start some shiwith anyone who looks at me sideways AND THEN go out and dance with my wife.
I’m jacked, yo!
by BixBeiderbecke on Feb 16, 2012 10:46 PM CST up reply actions
"Alabama Crimson Tide"
is the best, most evocative team name in all of sports. Even my English professor, who hates sports but loves language, confesses this is true. We’re so used to hearing it, but if you step away from it and imagine you’ve never heard it before … the Alabama Crimson Tide … it’s pretty awesome. And the classic crimson uni’s really add to the aura of that name.
One reason I love it...
…is because it’s not really about the sea. It’s about a mixture of Alabama mud and blood. That’s real.
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Feb 16, 2012 2:44 PM CST up reply actions
Why be little brother...
…when you can be Mandingo?
I knew it was coming, but I wasn't thinking about it. So the intensity of the dump was the problem. - Nick Saban
by TheRedTideConsumes on Feb 16, 2012 1:40 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Converting an Auburn fan
Best looking cheerleaders (sorry, Southern Cal), nicest people, great campus, cool stadium, awesome barbecue, 14 titles, and just to be able to say “Roll Tide.” Ooops, forgot Big Al. Who wants to be a Barner when you can have all this?
I'm not disagreeing with you...
…but there is certainly some hawtness at SC….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Feb 16, 2012 2:41 PM CST up reply actions
And Oregon, and Ole Miss...
Shake it, Bake it, and he makes it! Touchdown!
by rolltidefromaz on Feb 17, 2012 10:37 AM CST up reply actions
We really had to get 3 posts deep here before someone mentioned Arizona State??
God bless our Dark Lord.
Are you sure you REALLY want to do this?
Can we risk being infested by even a little of Barnerism?
Whenever I read about anything having to do with Auburn, . . . .
. . . .the sound of the music and words of the Rolling Stones’, “Under My Thumb” always pops into my head.
It’s not even funny how much we own that town, that team, and that fanbase. Sure, they’re a bitch to play, the Iron Bowl simply dictates that much. But. . . . .we got them. Their uncomplicated hatred of us is so silly, results in the frenzied irrelevance of their daily existence. So, even when we lose- we win. They’re so beaten by our peerless historical tradition, that still as yet unborn generations of ’em will continue to be broken by our rivalry.
I can only give ’em credit for showing up. Simple as that.
by BixBeiderbecke on Feb 16, 2012 10:56 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Dem Bammerz only care about footbawl PAWWWWLLLLL.
If your lookin for a ejucashun you come to Auburn. Or if your a Christian and don’t wanna be around dem cheaters. Did you hear that Saban makes them players take drugs, PAWWWWLLL? Imma hang up an lissen.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
About a year ago. . . . .
. . . .I bought some camping gear off these older folks out here in some random suburb of LA. Found ‘em off the craigslist, right? So anyway, she tells me she and her husband are moving out to Hawaii because her daughter is about to deliver twins and she’s all they got these days. Turns out, this couple have very little family- except those out in the South.
I tell her she has the cutest most awesome drawl and she tells me she’s from Alabama. I totally started to charm her up. Talkin’ ‘bout the Tide like I’m a player on the damn team.
They were Auburn fans. (felt like a dude in a Southwest airlines commercial: “Wanna get away?”)
I was GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn’t forget to thank them for the awesome deal they had already given me. Less than $125 for literally $1,000 worth of huge tents, sleeping bags, lanterns, fold-out picnic tables, fishing gear, tire chains, camping stoves, hell- even propane cannisters and a .122 Daisy rifle. for practicing on cans and shit! major deal!)
I hit that freeway so fast, I left my grin at their place!
by BixBeiderbecke on Feb 17, 2012 2:08 PM CST up reply actions
And winning NC’s at all costs.
We have no soul.
"The same things win today that have always won, and they will win years from now. The only difference is the losers have a whole new bunch of excuses why they don’t win or can’t win."-Bear Bryant
(12-4)+2=12 hoping for a +1
Robot Chicken Star Wars should be canon.
by the thin red line on Feb 18, 2012 8:03 PM CST up reply actions
I would
Set up a scene from “O Brother Where Art Thou?”. Except have a choir of singers dressed in crimson robes, then take him down to a small pond. You could wear a number 14 jersey, have him say 5 Roll Tides, dunk him under the water and forgive him for all his Aurburnly sins. Have the choir sing Amazing Grace, emphasizing the part about “once was lost, but now I’m found.”
Or maybe work it like a 12 step program, and be his sponsor. The first step is admitting he had no control over the toothless smile of Chizik, then go from there.
And fellow RBR folks, try not to criticize his friend too much for not being born bleeding crimson. Parents do a lot of stuff to screw their kids up. They could have been dressing the poor kid in blue and orange since kindergarten. Good on him for finally starting to see the light. Let’s welcome him with open arms. I personally have a Domer friend who will, unfortunately, never convert, and I feel that his soul may be lost forever.
Roll Tide.
Shake it, Bake it, and he makes it! Touchdown!
by rolltidefromaz on Feb 17, 2012 10:52 AM CST reply actions
Also,
The fact that my best friend is a Domer should count towards embarrassing admissions for the Michigan game. It was really tough to type that one out.
Shake it, Bake it, and he makes it! Touchdown!
by rolltidefromaz on Feb 17, 2012 10:55 AM CST up reply actions
I'd suggest..
reading up on exorcisms – I’m certain that you will need to have one performed in this situation.
by MDBSax on Feb 17, 2012 11:13 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
i've 'converted' several folks -
not necessarily from another team to Alabama, but mostly either poor yankee souls that weren’t raised on football, or southerners who weren’t raised right and were wandering in the ‘i don’t have a favorite team’ wasteland.
one of my favorite things about being an alabama fan is that we are EVERYWHERE. you tell your friend that no matter where he travels, he will ALWAYS meet a fellow ‘bama fan and share in the camaraderie of our greatness. it’s the tie that binds.
NiceLittleSaturday’s comment above brought chills to my arms and a tear to my eye. We all feel that way. No other school has the history that we have, nor do they have SO MANY die-hard fans that understand that history and are as proud of IT as they are their children. WE ARE ALABAMA – wouldn’t have it any other way
"You have to create 6 seconds of hell each play..."
Coach Nick Saban
by LittleSis on Feb 19, 2012 9:00 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
+1, thassa rec LittleSis!
I wanted to say I agree wholeheartedly with what you’ve written, especially regarding NiceLittleSaturday’s comment. I would like to highlight his “cheerleaders are gorgeous” part. I think they’re totally smokin’ hot!
I’ve got some serious music playing in the background and I’m about to go out to do some more skiing- but I thought I’d put this comment up before I forget!
We ARE Alabama, damn straight we are!
by BixBeiderbecke on Feb 19, 2012 5:46 PM CST up reply actions
Been listening and watching the Tide for close to 40 years now
Only once in all that time, did I ever see or hear of a Bama team giving up—and that was in the 4th quarter of a practically hopeless game after several weeks of nasty injuries to key players. And even then, half the team was still trying to will the other half to compete.
Win or lose, Bama players do … not … quit.
by Steven Mitchell on Feb 22, 2012 9:07 PM CST reply actions
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