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Stayed in the Fairfield inn here in Spanish Fort overnight. Woke up with heartburn went downstairs to get something to put the fire out. When I got back on the elevator a very nice black family got on going to the same floor. Their accent lead me to think they were from this country. But when we started to exit they ask what ROLL TIDE meant on my hat. For fear of nightmares I didn't ask where they were from.
Should've asked them if they had "one second" so you could explain it!
Haha fin I thought that might be your replay. It's all in fun that's one of the many joys of living in this great state. See y'all soon.
Perhaps you can print the following and have it available to hand out the next time you are questioned by an uninformed “alien”.
(The following contains excerpts from a Wikipedia article): Alabama Crimson Tide football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ROLL TIDE
The Alabama Crimson Tide football team represents the University of Alabama (variously Alabama, UA, or 'Bama) in the sport of American football. The Crimson Tide (hence the motto “ROLL TIDE”) competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team is currently coached by Nick Saban. The Crimson Tide is among the most storied and decorated programs in NCAA history. Since beginning play in 1892, the program recognizes 15 of the national championships awarded to the team, including 10 wire-service (AP or Coaches) national titles in the poll-era, the most of any current FBS program. From 1958 to 1982, the team was led by Hall of Fame coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, who won six national championships with the program.
As of the completion of the 2013 season, Alabama has 838 official victories in NCAA Division I (an additional 21 victories were vacated and 8 victories and 1 tie were forfeited), has won 27 conference championships (4 Southern Conference and 23 SEC championships) and has made an NCAA-record 60 postseason bowl appearances. Other NCAA records include 23 10-game+ win streaks and 19 seasons with a 10–0 start. The program has had 32 10–win seasons (plus one vacated), and has 35 bowl victories, both NCAA records. Alabama has completed 10 undefeated seasons, 9 of which were perfect seasons. The Crimson Tide leads the SEC West Division with nine division titles and eight appearances in the SEC Championship Game. Alabama holds a winning record against every current and former SEC school, except for SEC newcomer Missouri (2-2). The Associated Press (AP) ranks Alabama 4th in all-time final AP Poll appearances, with 51 through the 2013 season.
Alabama currently plays their home games at Bryant–Denny Stadium, located on the campus in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. With a capacity of 101,821, Bryant-Denny is the 7th largest non-racing stadium in the world and the fifth largest stadium in the United States.
Crimson Tide football finished with the number 1 recruiting class (again) in 2014.
For more information, please visit ROLLTIDE.COM - University of Alabama Official Athletic Site and the ESPN commercial ESPN Alabama Roll Tide Commercial - YouTube.
You can also visit www.rolltide.com
I was hoping for an explanation for the obsession with laundry detergent and toilet paper!
http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/...ps635d3e3f.jpg
I guess were waiting on the tiger/ eagle explanation. Lol
Help Mr. Wire!!!
It is pretty simple.Quote:
Originally Posted by coach
Mascot is the Tiger aka Aubie.
War Eagle is the battle cry!
Having an actual live Eagle fly down the field; PRICELESS!
Just like an Auburn fan. Always confused. Don't know if they are eagles or tigers. Now I have Foghorn Leghorn stuck in my head. "I say I say I say boy, you're doing it all wrong."
Chief that is just to funny.lmao
Not an obsession with toilet paper, it's just that The U of A tends to "wipe out" all opponents.
Fixed it for ya George! BTW, I give U an A for effort :congratulatory:Quote:
Originally Posted by Haywire
Ive got the feeling i don't want to get caught up in an Auburn Bama debate
RTR
first off it only takes a SECOND or SOONER to beat the mighty crimson tide….. and how do you explain an elephant and a tide rolling???
WAR DAMN EAGLE
Gbo!!! ;)
how do you explain war eagle and a tiger as a mascot?Quote:
Originally Posted by kingkiller7255
Roll Tide Roll
One more time:Quote:
Originally Posted by southernfishin
Auburn Tigers, therefore the mascot is a Tiger aka Aubie.
War Eagle is the battle cry! Look up the history of the phrase.
Having an actual live Eagle fly down the field; PRICELESS!
Butt this really needs an explanation:
http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/...psdaaee364.jpg
yea yall dont have a big fat elephant run around the field do you..... and you damn sure dont have a tide rolling around the field lol
After one wades through all the ostentatious and sometimes ludicrous hype that commonly pervades and permeates such an intense college football rivalry, and ultimately arrives at the bottom line of it all, the obvious, undeniable truth is that ALABAMA JUST HAS A LOT MORE BALLS THAN AUBURN, Waterford Crystal balls, that is.
But if auburns mascot is the tiger the why does an EAGLE fly down the field (and sometimes crash into the glass lol)
But if auburns mascot is the tiger the why does an EAGLE fly down the field (and sometimes crash into the glass lol)
The Eagle was much more receptive to the idea of flying than the Tiger was.
Welcome aboard PJ, I hear that Aubie is enrolled in skydiving class so he can fly in with the eagle!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pop Jiggity
The conversations will shift to all fishing related threads soon! Or at least until football season kicks off in the fall, then it will be football and fishing again.
What language might you understand best and we will talk Fin into typing it out that way?Quote:
Originally Posted by fishchaser1003
they've definitely broke more :DQuote:
Originally Posted by leen
I thinks he is speaking english wut most people speak in americaQuote:
Originally Posted by DUCK
That's wonderful. What language does he understand? The question has been ask two times and answered two times in this thread, trying to help him out.Quote:
Originally Posted by southernfishin
Duck, thanks for the help, but some people are just not able to understand/comprehend what they read no matter what the language is.
Maybe this will help!
Auburn Tigers - War Eagle!
It is one of the most iconic moments in all of college football: A capacity crowd of nearly 90,000 at Auburn’s Jordan-Hare Stadium standing and cheering as a live eagle soars over the field and “War Eagle” is hammered out by the Auburn University Marching Band.
But for newcomers to SEC football, the “War Eagle” phenomenon can also be rather confusing.
Besides, some might ask, aren’t Auburn teams called the Tigers?
The answer, of course, is yes.
But while Aubie, Auburn’s tiger mascot, remains the official symbol of Tiger athletics, “War Eagle” may actually be more synonymous with the university. The “War Eagle” cry, the song and the eagle’s dramatic pregame flight comprise one of the most unique traditions, and one of the most electric moments, in all of college football.
Origins
Like many other college football traditions, details about the origins of “War Eagle” are sketchy at best. There are, in fact, as many as five different stories about just where “War Eagle” came from.
None is quite as mythic, however, as the following.
During the first-ever Georgia-Auburn game back in 1892, there was in the crowd an aging Civil War vet. The old solider brought with him that day his pet eagle—a bird he had found on a battlefield during the war, nursed back to health, and eventually adopted as his own. At some point during the game, though, the eagle leapt from the soldier’s arm and soared high above the field. While the eagle hovered overhead, Auburn took the lead with a dramatic touchdown drive, and students began chanting “War Eagle!” Auburn won the game, but the poor eagle didn’t have quite as good a day: Legend has it that as soon as the game ended, he took a nosedive onto the field and died. Still, he became an instant legend—and gave birth to the “War Eagle” tradition.
Is this the real “War Eagle” story? Maybe. Maybe not. But most Auburn fans choose to accept it.
Besides, the other explanations aren’t nearly as interesting: One of them, for instance, states that “War Eagle” originated from an Auburn pep rally decades back, when one student misheard what another was saying as “War Eagle,” and began chanting it, too.
Lineage
Auburn fans count seven War Eagles in their history.
The original (1892), of course, lasted only a year. A second War Eagle appeared in 1930, and helped the Tigers to an upset victory over South Carolina that year, but what happened to him afterward isn’t known, even to this day.
Starting in 1960, though, Auburn officials began taking a little better care of the birds. War Eagle III lasted from 1960-1964 and was followed by War Eagle IV (1964-1980), War Eagle V (1981-1986), War Eagle VI (1986-2006) and War Eagle VII (2006 - Present). The current eagle is named “Nova” and was born in the Montgomery, Ala. Zoo in 1999.
The Song
“War Eagle” is the official fight song of Auburn University.
The song was written in the mid-1950s by New York songwriters Robert Allen and Al Stillman, and after it was introduced to the Auburn community in 1955, it replaced the original school fight song, “The Auburn Victory March.”
The lyrics of the song are as follows:
War...Eagle, fly down the field, Ever to conquer, never to yield.
War...Eagle fearless and true. Fight on, you orange and blue.
Go! Go! Go!
On to vic'try, strike up the band,
Give 'em hell, give 'em hell.
Stand up and yell, Hey! War...Eagle, win for Auburn,
Power of Dixie Land!
From 2014 Comic Cowboys Parade...Quote:
Originally Posted by leen
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LOL!
With all due respect to your mascots and traditions, which I really like. Nobody beats the Wisconsin Badgers! One mascot, Buckingham U. "Bucky" Badger and great traditions like this!
'Jump Around' voted best College Football Tradition - UWBadgers.com - The Official Athletic Site of the Wisconsin Badgers
I am very familiar with Badgers' spirit; I was working at a mill in Kimberly WI with a production team when the Badgers beat Auburn in a bowl game a few years ago. One guy had the game on his laptop and kept interrupting the session with score updates.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDL1969
Those guys were relentless, but can't hold a candle to the Elephant, Toilet Paper and Laundry Detergent fans.
Maybe so (maybe not), but at least we have easy to understand Mascots! LOL!
Easy Fin, they will want a rule change if you hurt their feelings.
I will admit that the Alabama state rivalry is quite... involved and interesting. But football in Texas is B I G and has much the same drama and trauma among its fans. So I have to say, while you all here in Alabama have quite a spirited discussion over football... it ain't the only one in the Land of the Free.
Graduate, The University of Texas at Austin, 1981
Hook 'em Horns!
aint that the truth :o lolQuote:
Originally Posted by DUCK
WDE
I always heard that Auburn had to go with the War Eagle after the MAN EATING Tiger got loose in the football dorm and the poor thing starved to death!