"Nothing sucks like a big orange"

#51
#51
bamawriter said:
An Ole Miss fan called us the elephants, not a sports writer, and the science department had nothing to do with the selection, and the "Crimson Tide" has nothing to do with the natural phenomena you mentioned.
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Again truth is stranger than fiction oh ye member of the dinoflagellate reproduction byproduct.

Red tide is produced by a plantlike protist called a dinoflagellate. When they reproduce quickly in large numbers, the result is a reddish colored toxin.
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#52
#52
Hoss Diesel said:
What a fine tale! I continue to be blown away at the deep meanings and traditions of that fine school.

Can you tell us the meaning behind the school hauling the NC trophy down to Walmart? I'm eager to learn more.
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Sure. The trophy display at Wal-Mart is part of a contract with Dr Pepper that the schools have to agree to in order to get the crystal football. It would have been displayed at a Wal-Mart in Austin had Texas won last year, and at a Wal-Mart in Eugene had Oregon won this year..
 
#53
#53
DD4ME said:
Again truth is stranger than fiction oh ye member of the dinoflagellate reproduction byproduct.

Red tide is produced by a plantlike protist called a dinoflagellate. When they reproduce quickly in large numbers, the result is a reddish colored toxin.
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Great. And that has no more to do with Alabama's team name than it did the first time it was mentioned.
 
#54
#54
bamawriter said:
Sure. The trophy display at Wal-Mart is part of a contract with Dr Pepper that the schools have to agree to in order to get the crystal football. It would have been displayed at a Wal-Mart in Austin had Texas won last year, and at a Wal-Mart in Eugene had Oregon won this year..
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Are their Walmarts in Oregon?

I didn't think they were in every city.
 
#55
#55
bamawriter said:
You have the second part right.

The elephant part comes from a column about a Bama-Ole Miss game in the early part of last century. The Ole Miss fans were said to be praising the size of their football team during pre-game warmups, but when the Alabama team took the field, one Ole Miss fan shouted "Hold your horses! Here come the elephants!"
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That sounds about right. Bamas are so freakin ignorant that they let a single Ole Miss fan determine their mascot. And a piece of the story you left out was that Ole Miss fan was referring to your cheerleaders, not your players.
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#57
#57
bamacheats said:
That sounds about right. Bamas are so freakin ignorant that they let a single Ole Miss fan determine their mascot. And a piece of the story you left out was that Ole Miss fan was referring to your cheerleaders, not your players.
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Clap....... Clap.......
 
#58
#58
bamawriter said:
Clap....... Clap.......
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Don't you have some post tornado garbage and debris to clean up around your trailer park somewhere, would seem more productive and less creepy than hanging around the Vols forum :crazy:
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#59
#59
SandoVOL said:
Don't you have some post tornado garbage and debris to clean up around your trailer park somewhere, would seem more productive and less creepy than hanging around the Vols forum :crazy:
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Tornado humor. Classy.

I've spent several days cleaning up around Cullman and Tuscaloosa, leaving my comfortable home in Nashville to help out those who lost everything to those storms. It's nothing to joke about.

Jackass.
 
#61
#61
Somehow I knew you were one those people. Tennessee plate on the back Bama plate on the front. Your previous posts were just oozing with class btw.
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#63
#63
bamacheats said:
That sounds about right. Bamas are so freakin ignorant that they let a single Ole Miss fan determine their mascot. And a piece of the story you left out was that Ole Miss fan was referring to your cheerleaders, not your players.
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Nice post!! It's tragic how pathetic that school, and it's fanatics are.
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#64
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SandoVOL said:
Don't you have some post tornado garbage and debris to clean up around your trailer park somewhere, would seem more productive and less creepy than hanging around the Vols forum :crazy:
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A tornado hit his trailer, and did 20,000$ in improvements.
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#66
#66
SandoVOL said:
Somehow I knew you were one those people. Tennessee plate on the back Bama plate on the front. Your previous posts were just oozing with class btw.
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Link to me making fun of one of the storms that killed 300+ people, and then we can compare class.
 
#69
#69
bamawriter said:
When all else fails, go gay joke.

It failed too, but you if you have a system you gotta stick with it.
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Where did it fail at? It got a response out of you, so it apparently worked. Keep
flapping your gums though, it's quite amusing
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#71
#71
Snakes on a Wii said:
I've heard a lot of rival fans, particularly older ones, say this when bashing UT. Does anyone actually know what this means? I can't for the life of me figure out where the pun is.
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I have personally never seen a orange suck anything....Just kinda sit there and look pretty all plump and delicious...That is an old Alabama saying...Consider the source and you will figure it out lol :good!:
 
#72
#72
Yikes, well I have to say I respect rich tradition and history and that's why I respect Tenn., b/c it's 2nd only to Alabama in history and tradition in the SEC and in 2nd to Bama in SEC titles.

I already know about Tenn's tradition from how the color was chosen to the mascot and the volunteer nickname.

Some seem confused about Bama's though.

The names weren't arbitrarily chosen by the student body...they were given to the University of Alabama by the media due to their success.

First, Crimson Tide is the Nickname...The Elephant is the mascot.

Crimson Tide:

Early newspaper accounts of the University's football squad simply referred to them as the "varsity" or the "Crimson White." The first nickname popular with the media was the "Thin Red Line," from the Rudyard Kipling poem about a British soldier in World War I, which was used until 1906. Hugh Roberts, former sports editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald, is credited with coining the phrase "Crimson Tide" in an article describing the 1907 Iron Bowl played in Birmingham. The game was played in a sea of red mud with Auburn, a heavy favorite to win. Alabama held Auburn to a 6-6 tie, thus graduating to their newfound nickname.

The Elephant:

There are two stories, perhaps both true, about how Alabama's football squad became associated with the elephant, both dating to the coaching tenure of Wallace Wade (1923–1930).

The earliest account attributes the Rosenberger's Birmingham Trunk Company for the elephant association. Owner J. D. Rosenberger, whose son was a student at the University, outfitted the undefeated 1926 team with "good luck" luggage tags for the trip to the 1927 Rose Bowl. The company's trademark, displayed on the tags, was a red elephant standing on a trunk. When the football team arrived in Pasadena, the reporters greeting them, including syndicated columnist Grantland Rice, associated their large size with the elephants on their luggage. When the 1930 team returned to the Rose Bowl, the company furnished leather suitcases, paid for by the Alumni Association, to each team member.

Another story dates to 1930. Following the October 4 game against Ole Miss, Atlanta Journal sports writer Everett Strupper wrote:

"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."

Sports writers continued to refer to Alabama as the "Red Elephants" afterwards, referring to their crimson jerseys.


Also, in reference to the tornadoes.

Having gone to school at the Capstone for the last 4 years, I have experienced UT at Bama home games in '07 and '09. Some Tenn. fans invited some of us UA students to tailgate and we really had fun talking and watching the other days' games on tv before and after the Bama/UT game...and Tenn. fans were probably the best experiences of opposing fans I had.

Those UT fans were classy...I guess I would find that here, but perhaps I shouldn't have been looking for class on a website called volnation...I guess that's my fault.

I gotta say though, I was appalled...actually got a little sick to my stomach when I saw some people in this thread were making light of the tornadoes. I live off of Hargrove Rd., so my place nearly missed the destruction path in Tuscaloosa...but a lot of my friends' places were blown away, also after the tornado we were literally digging screaming people out of their buildings or "debris" as someone earlier in this thread put it. One girl in one of my work groups in one of my classes this past semester I later found out died. Back in the county where my hometown is, they were literally having funerals everyday last week. Three days after the storms I also found out about some of the people I went to church with back home, a young family with his wife, 3 year-old son, newborn boy and his mother-in-law went to their storm shelter where I assume they survived the tornado, but a car got flipped on the door of the storm shelter and they got trapped...and somehow water was able to get in (I guess a puncture from the car hitting it) and it poured in and filled the small shelter to the top...they didn't survive.

So yeah, I guess the past two weeks we've been cleaning "debris" out of our yards. As far as trailors, I don't know...these tornadoes didn't discriminate on socioeconomic status...the area where I live in Tuscaloosa it hit student housing (apartments and condos), low-income housing, and also 5-bedroom 2-car garage houses that were worth hundreds of thousands of dollars as well as damage to million-dollar condos that the alumni usually buy for gamedays...so young and old, rich and poor...all were in the same boat...but all were helping each other...clean up the "tornado debris out of our yards."

There was a church from Tennessee that helped us...Our church helped in Louisiana after Katrina when we went down to Slidell,LA. I know several Alabama churches that helped after the Nashville floods.

Football is football...real-life is real-life.
Don't confuse the two.
 
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#75
#75
That was really low. I love Tennessee more than most could imagine but I would never joke about something like that. As much as it means to me to be a Vol fan there are things in life that are more important than sports rivalries.

I wouldn't even expect it from the fanbase that includes the likes of Harvey Updyke. Shame on you.
 
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