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Discussion by: Ryan 2-27-07 After Auburn's Basketball team beat Alabama for the second time this year, Ryan sent an e-mail to a random sampling of Auburner readers and asked the question; "Is beating Bama getting old?" Here are the responses; Beating uat will never get old! It is the most exciting thing AU does and as we become more proficient at beating them in everything, possibly they will keep their mouths' closed and the media will begin to be frightened of us too. Well, I can dream, can't I? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't care if it were chess, checkers, trivial pusuit, a race to the ice cream store, who could blow a bigger bubble, paper, scissors, rock, beating bammer in anything would never get old to me. War Eagle!!! Ken Ward --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think I have the ultimate response to beating Alabama getting
old. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NO, beating Bama never gets old. I equate beating them to the feeling I get everytime Legends of the Hidden Temple comes on TV, and that feeling is really good. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Honestly, I think
the Auburn - Alabama games are becoming onesided. It is no longer interesting
to see. There are no tough battles won with galant plays or amazing defense.
Auburn just takes care of business. I think we should play football or basketball
with some new handicap, possibly withholding use of one hand or something
to make the game fun again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan, Brett ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beating Alabama
has become what our mothers always taught us was wrong to do...... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan, Whoever says that beating Alabama is getting old is not a true Auburn fan. I haven’t been an Auburn fan for a long time (since fall 2002 when I first landed in this country), but I know a lot about the hostility between Auburn and Alabama to term it just as a mere rivalry. It’s like a war which never ends and no one likes to lose them, do they? Alabama fans may give vague reasons saying that Tenn (and now LSU) are bigger rivals for them these days, but it comes from the fact – as you stated – Auburn is going to win no matter what sport we are going to play against Alabama. If the Auburn fans start thinking that beating Bama is getting old, it would be easier for the Bama fans to deal with the pain (at least on the outside). Also the Auburn fans should realize this that with the first loss Auburn has; the Bama fans are going to rub it in our face as if like we have been losing to them ever since Bryant stepped into Tuscaloosa. And also by thinking its getting old, the Auburn fans are under-mining the immense effort put in to the wins by the fine Auburn athletes.
WAR EAGLE!
Ashish Ainapure -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beating Bama
never gets old. I am still bitter about losing to them in --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beating Bama
is like seeing boobies. -Chad Crawford |