NYT runs article on bammer nation

[cooltigger21 0]

Good overall description of the turd fans. Has a nice little feature on several different ones, including Phyllis from Mulga. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/sports/ncaafootball/alabamas-success-under-nick-saban-is-felt-all-over-state.html?_r=0

[Randman5000 4,226]

I like this one better

http://www.clickhole.com/article/heartwarming-fraternity-brother-came-out-gay-and-w-1666

[Randman5000 4,226]

Good overall description of the turd fans. Has a nice little feature on several different ones, including Phyllis from Mulga. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/sports/ncaafootball/alabamas-success-under-nick-saban-is-felt-all-over-state.html?_r=0

It's a shame that bamA fans don't read the nytimes because they think it's "liberal"

[AUDub 11,147]

http://www.clickhole.com/article/heartwarming-fraternity-brother-came-out-gay-and-w-1666

[AUCody15 0]

Good overall description of the turd fans. Has a nice little feature on several different ones, including Phyllis from Mulga. http://www.nytimes.c...state.html?_r=0

It's a shame that bamA fans don't read the nytimes because they think it's "liberal"

They don't read the NY Times because...they don't read.

[AU64 10,122]

I'm not going to read about bama anywhere...and won't make an exception for the NYT...but I take it that since Phyllis from Mulga, or wherever, was included they must have trolled to the bottom of the bama gene pool for commentary.

Does anyone think this season's outcome will change anything? NOPE....bammers will be bammers no matter what the W-L for the season.

[cooltigger21 0]

I like this one better

http://www.clickhole...-gay-and-w-1666

I'll give him credit for being proud of it and not trying to hide it.

[homersapien 11,366]

Hell, I'd rather be gay than a bammer.

[sandyclawedtiger 206]

Hell, I'd rather be gay than a bammer.

Wow..

[autigeremt 6,599]

Good overall description of the turd fans. Has a nice little feature on several different ones, including Phyllis from Mulga. http://www.nytimes.c...state.html?_r=0

It's a shame that bamA fans don't read the nytimes because they think it's "liberal"

They don't read the NY Times because...they don't read.

It's called limitations. Sometimes you just have to accept them. Lol

[doc4aday 1,887]

Isn't Mulga the place with the lake that serves as a sewage depot for that area of the county? I think it is called Bayview Lake? Educate me on this.

[CJBas 4]

It's disgusting to know that bammers are actually proud of their dirt bag fans like Phyllis, Updike, ball hanger, etc. These are the people they hold up as their heroes.

[quietfan 233]

I had never heard this story (opening NYT link)::

Ken Rosenberger, owner of the luggage store Birmingham Trunk, noted that his grandfather J. D. Rosenberger was part of the crowd that gathered at the Birmingham train station to see the Crimson Tide off on their journey to Pasadena, Calif., for the 1926 Rose Bowl. J. D. Rosenberger gave each player a small red token depicting the store’s logo, an elephant with one foot on a suitcase, to demonstrate durability. So, the story goes, an elephant became Alabama’s mascot.

So their vaunted mascot began as merely a dumb animal in a luggage ad? Reasonable, I guess, but I can think of a newer ad that probably fits them better:

[Slammer1 409]

I had never heard this story (opening NYT link)::

Ken Rosenberger, owner of the luggage store Birmingham Trunk, noted that his grandfather J. D. Rosenberger was part of the crowd that gathered at the Birmingham train station to see the Crimson Tide off on their journey to Pasadena, Calif., for the 1926 Rose Bowl. J. D. Rosenberger gave each player a small red token depicting the store’s logo, an elephant with one foot on a suitcase, to demonstrate durability. So, the story goes, an elephant became Alabama’s mascot.

So their vaunted mascot began as merely a dumb animal in a luggage ad? Reasonable, I guess, but I can think of a newer ad that probably fits them better:

Boy did this comment bring back memories for this old man. I remember seeing that logo when I was a 9 or 10 year old kid and they are still in busines. The story makes perfect sense to me.

[PigskinPat 2,579]

I had never heard this story (opening NYT link)::

Ken Rosenberger, owner of the luggage store Birmingham Trunk, noted that his grandfather J. D. Rosenberger was part of the crowd that gathered at the Birmingham train station to see the Crimson Tide off on their journey to Pasadena, Calif., for the 1926 Rose Bowl. J. D. Rosenberger gave each player a small red token depicting the store’s logo, an elephant with one foot on a suitcase, to demonstrate durability. So, the story goes, an elephant became Alabama’s mascot.

So their vaunted mascot began as merely a dumb animal in a luggage ad? Reasonable, I guess, but I can think of a newer ad that probably fits them better:

I had always thought it was from a reporter referring to one of Wallace Wade' teams and their big linemen calling them "red elephants"?

[cooltigger21 0]

I had never heard this story (opening NYT link)::

Ken Rosenberger, owner of the luggage store Birmingham Trunk, noted that his grandfather J. D. Rosenberger was part of the crowd that gathered at the Birmingham train station to see the Crimson Tide off on their journey to Pasadena, Calif., for the 1926 Rose Bowl. J. D. Rosenberger gave each player a small red token depicting the store's logo, an elephant with one foot on a suitcase, to demonstrate durability. So, the story goes, an elephant became Alabama's mascot.

So their vaunted mascot began as merely a dumb animal in a luggage ad? Reasonable, I guess, but I can think of a newer ad that probably fits them better:

I had always thought it was from a reporter referring to one of Wallace Wade' teams and their big linemen calling them "red elephants"?

That's the version I always heard. Wouldn't surprise me that they made that up to cover the real story.

[DKW 86 7,419]

http://www.clickhole.com/article/heartwarming-fraternity-brother-came-out-gay-and-w-1666

indeed

[doc4aday 1,887]

Good overall description of the turd fans. Has a nice little feature on several different ones, including Phyllis from Mulga. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/sports/ncaafootball/alabamas-success-under-nick-saban-is-felt-all-over-state.html?_r=0

I tend to think of "Chumlee" from Pawn Stars when I hear Phyllis of Mulga decree her bammerness to the world.

[jacksrc 4]

Dang that's a low blow to chum Lee.