This Ain't Kentucky

There's the original. It's almost cinematic...nobody does it better than Vern.




Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer,

Hey ______, Hey ______
We Just Beat the Hell Outta You.
Rammer Jammer, Yellow Hammer,
Give 'em Hell Alabama

that's how you're serenaded when you lose to Alabama. I was there that day. Loosing in Tuscaloosa is a thoroughly unpleasant experience for any of the eleven SEC teams not located in the state of Alabama.

For Auburn...a mere 200 miles away meaning there is no geographic separation, these fanbases live right on top of one another 365 days a year...it's an issue with traumatic potential.

You might say...well, it works both ways, Alabama's barely 200 miles from Auburn isn't it? No...it doesn't work that way. Never mind that Auburn has their own great traditions, or that they're the reigning National and SEC Champs, never mind that that they've had a couple of the greatest players to ever play the game and their own share of characters....Fair or not, nobody measures themselves against Auburn...least of all Alabama.



Did he say 22 SEC Championships...Twenty...TWO??? :grindsteeth:

While 10 teams in the SEC love to hate Alabama*...for Auburn it's a genuine burden. It's not just football. Alabama's old money, doctors and lawyers go to Alabama...farmers go to Auburn. A Cow College...that's what they call it and when Auburn comes to Tuscaloosa they're greeted with Old McDonald Had a Farm. The fact that the Auburn's Engineers and Agriculturalists go on to do just as well if not better than Alabama's Doctors and Lawyers makes the persistence of the stereotype that much more bitter. So bitter that an Auburn victory over Alabama in the Iron Bowl is never exactly sweet...



...more cathartic really.

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"I LUH YOU CHARLIE"

It's worth pointing out here that they still had an SEC Championship game and a National Championship game left to play.

To be fair, the game causes it's own peculiar psychosis for the Alabama fan who, as it turns out, is not always a doctor or a lawyer.

To be continued...

P.S. The Alabama slot is still open if anybody wants it...they are as elephantine as ever. Ridiculous defense...

*Among the many accomplishments of Steve Spurrier one of the greatest was to finally provide Bear Bryant with something approaching a peer and to put Florida in a position to challenge the dominance of Alabama...which they have more than managed to do for 20 years now.