Alabama Fans and their Mascot

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I thought it would be fun to compare how Alabama Fans and their Mascot, the Elephant, are similar.

1) Both walk on all fours, but can been seen standing on their hind legs at times

2) Females are referred to as Cows

3) They both travel in herds

4) Both can be heard making grunting noises in the wild

5) Males leave the herd at around 15 years of age

6) Both have small beady eyes with poor eyesight

7) They both have offspring until around 50 years of age

8) They both have only four toes

9) Its difficult to tell the difference between the sexes without close examination of the reproductive organs.

10) They can both be seen wallowing in mud to remove insects and pests such as body lice. They also use this to cool their bodies.
 
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What exactly is a Crimson Tide? And why do they have that elephant? And what does a yellow hammer have to do with anything.
 
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ORANGEUAVOL said:
What exactly is a Crimson Tide? And why do they have that elephant? And what does a yellow hammer have to do with anything.
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I don't know about a crimson tide, but a "red tide" is a noxious and poisonous phenomenon caused by low-life algae. It takes all of the oxygen out of the water. Lack of O2 causes brain death. So yes, I see where the nickname comes from after all :)
 
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ORANGEUAVOL said:
What exactly is a Crimson Tide? And why do they have that elephant? And what does a yellow hammer have to do with anything.
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At risk of getting FLAMED as a troll...

Crimson Tide - The first nickname to become popular and used by headline writers was the "Thin Red Line." The nickname was used until 1906, when writers started referring to the team as the Crimson Tide. (after a rain soaked, muddy game)

Elephant - "On October 8, 1930, sports writer Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal wrote a story of the Alabama-Mississippi game he had witnessed... where he and other writers continued to refer to the Alabama linemen as "Red Elephants," the color referring to the crimson jerseys. "

Yellowhammer - Acutually the state bird of Alabama. It is mentioned in one of our cheers. (What some refer to as the Rammer Jammer cheer... but it originated as the "Ole Miss cheer" as a response to Hotty Toddy)
Also - a strong drink available just off of campus...
 
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Both are circus workers one in the center ring , the other in the freak show(bearded lady,fat lady,and dog boy etc.)
 
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OrangeTsar said:
I don't know about a crimson tide, but a "red tide" is a noxious and poisonous phenomenon caused by low-life algae. It takes all of the oxygen out of the water. Lack of O2 causes brain death. So yes, I see where the nickname comes from after all :)
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we had one here last year and it absolutely stinks. The fish are killed and they wash up and rot. Perfect nickname for them :good!:
 
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AirVol said:
They're still trying to find their identity
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Is it any different than the Volunteer and the Hound Dog?

(I DO think that Smokey is cool BTW - being the owner of a Treeing Walker Coonhound and a Beagle myself...)
 
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Lost in Gatorland said:
Just ask my girlfriend, happens once a month, not very fun.:)
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Reminds of something -- funny and true. One of my wife's best friends was buying tampons in the grocery store. Her 4 year-old daughter noticed the box of tampons when she took them out of the grocery cart and put them on the checkout counter. Her daughter said, "Aw mommy, please don't buy those. They make you so mean."
 
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g0t_12 said:
Is it any different than the Volunteer and the Hound Dog?
(I DO think that Smokey is cool BTW - being the owner of a Treeing Walker Coonhound and a Beagle myself...)
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Yes. A volunteer and a blue-tick hound go together.
A elephant and an ocean does not. Much like Auburn,..the damn eagle and tiger. Which is it? You people down there can't decide. Why doesn't Alabubba have a moonshiner too?
 
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g0t_12 said:
Crimson Tide - The first nickname to become popular and used by headline writers was the "Thin Red Line." The nickname was used until 1906, when writers started referring to the team as the Crimson Tide. (after a rain soaked, muddy game)

Elephant - "On October 8, 1930, sports writer Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal wrote a story of the Alabama-Mississippi game he had witnessed... where he and other writers continued to refer to the Alabama linemen as "Red Elephants," the color referring to the crimson jerseys. "
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Wait a second. Both your mascot and your team name come from sports writers? No tradition, history, heritage? Just the media?

Holy crap, that is seriously lame! The vast majority of colleges have mascots and team names that are modeled after historic figures or events relevant to the region. BAMMER IS A COP OUT! Seriously, is that the trade-off you made early on to ensure you guys ended up with SEC Media Days?
 
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Bama once got fired up by the idea of the Oklahoma "Sooner" covered wagon so they thought they would try similar. It worked ok for the first few games.....but after a rain, the double wide kept getting stuck in the mud :)
 
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Tidal Surge said:
Reminds of something -- funny and true. One of my wife's best friends was buying tampons in the grocery store. Her 4 year-old daughter noticed the box of tampons when she took them out of the grocery cart and put them on the checkout counter. Her daughter said, "Aw mommy, please don't buy those. They make you so mean."
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:eek:lol::lolabove::eek:lol:
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Bama once got fired up by the idea of the Oklahoma "Sooner" covered wagon so they thought they would try similar. It worked ok for the first few games.....but after a rain, the double wide kept getting stuck in the mud :)
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:lolabove::lolabove:
 
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AirVol said:
Yes. A volunteer and a blue-tick hound go together.
A elephant and an ocean does not. Much like Auburn,..the damn eagle and tiger. Which is it? You people down there can't decide. Why doesn't Alabubba have a moonshiner too?
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No argument here re: auburn

Now... I've always thought that a 'moonshiner' went with UT ? It's in your 'unofficial fight song'... Rocky Top.

"Did you know that Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top Dirt's too rocky by far. That's why all the folks on Rocky Top Get their corn from a jar..."
 
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This just in, The Alabama Crimson Tide will change their nickname to the Alabama Repeat Serial Offenders since that is what the media now refers to them as.:dance2:

swordfish_vol said:
Wait a second. Both your mascot and your team name come from sports writers? No tradition, history, heritage? Just the media?

Holy crap, that is seriously lame! The vast majority of colleges have mascots and team names that are modeled after historic figures or events relevant to the region. BAMMER IS A COP OUT! Seriously, is that the trade-off you made early on to ensure you guys ended up with SEC Media Days?
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So they got their mascot's and nickname's from what some sportswriter referred them as in a article?
 
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Here ya go.

Why 'Crimson Tide'?
In early newspaper accounts of Alabama football, the team was simply listed as the "varsity" or the "Crimson White" after the school colors.
The first nickname to become popular and used by headline writers was the "Thin Red Line." The nickname was used until 1906.
The name "Crimson Tide" is supposed to have first been used by Hugh Roberts, former sports editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald. He used "Crimson Tide" in describing an Alabama-Auburn game played in Birmingham in 1907, the last football contest between the two schools until 1948 when the series was resumed. The game was played in a sea of mud and Auburn was a heavy favorite to win.
But, evidently, the "Thin Red Line" played a great game in the red mud and held Auburn to a 6-6 tie, thus gaining the name "Crimson Tide." Zipp Newman, former sports editor of the Birmingham News, probably popularized the name more than any other write









The Elephant
The story of how Alabama became associated with the "elephant" goes back to the 1930 season when Coach Wallace Wade had assembled a great football team.

On October 8, 1930, sports writer Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal wrote a story of the Alabama-Mississippi game he had witnessed in Tuscaloosa four days earlier. Strupper wrote, "That Alabama team of 1930 is a typical Wade machine, powerful, big, tough, fast, aggressive, well-schooled in fundamentals, and the best blocking team for this early in the season that I have ever seen. When those big brutes hit you I mean you go down and stay down, often for an additional two minutes.

"Coach Wade started his second team that was plenty big and they went right to their knitting scoring a touchdown in the first quarter against one of the best fighting small lines that I have seen. For Ole Miss was truly battling the big boys for every inch of ground.

"At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, 'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,' and out stamped this Alabama varsity.

"It was the first time that I had seen it and the size of the entire eleven nearly knocked me cold, men that I had seen play last year looking like they had nearly doubled in size."

Strupper and other writers continued to refer to the Alabama linemen as "Red Elephants," the color referring to the crimson jerseys.

The 1930 team posted an overall 10-0 record. It shut out eight opponents and allowed only 13 points all season while scoring 217. The "Red Elephants" rolled over Washington State 24-0 in the Rose Bowl and were declared National Champions
 
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The yellow hammer has to do with getting out of jail.
It is actually gold. Perhaps it should have a $ sign, or the word "bail bondsman".
 
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