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If you will note, at right, I am currently reading Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer which tries to answer the question of what makes a sports fan a sports fan and why are they all so effing crazy. He tries to answer this question by tailgating with all of the RVers at Alabama football games. The author Warren St.John is a lifelong Alabama fan and even includes a pic of him with Bear Bryant in the introduction. In the beginning, I really liked the book and definitely identified with all of his crazy fan things and the tailgating anecdotes but there's one aspect of the book I can't get past. The guy is an Alabama fan and I hate Alabama. I am sick of hearing about every Alabama game that season. Unfortunately for me the book takes place during Dinardo's last season when we went 3-7, winning our only SEC game against Arkansas with a substitute head coach. I am dreading the chapter about that game. Apparently my fandom runs too deep to get past this and just enjoy the book.One interesting point he makes in the book is about what nick calls "t-shirt fans"..people who support a football team even though they didn't go to college there. While I think he uses this as a derogatory term, St. John says that most of these fans look down on the alumni as lesser fans because the fans that aren't alumni could have chosen any college in the U.S. to support but they chose THAT team whereas alumni have their team built in. Maybe I'm especially defensive of these fans b/c I was raised by a huge bunch of them. GEAUX TIGERS!!
Thursday nights just aren't the same without The Office.
posted by carolyn @ 2:27 PM
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I am a T-SHIRT fan - I was raised by them too - born with that Fighting Illini Orange on...
what can you do!
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would have gone there if i could but you know that shit called out of state tuition sux ass.
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