What Makes A True Bama Fan?

[Vinny]

I was not a Bama fan growing up. I really did not follow Bama at all. I knew of them and Coach Bryant and his winning, but never really was a fan. When I came to UA, well that is when all that changed. I just loved the football tradition and beautiful campus.

 

[TexasTideFan]

College just isn't for everyone. I hear barners say crap like this a lot. It's jealousy mostly.

You got that right. It's the inferiority complex kicking in. Aggies really like to harp that most of the Horns' fanbase are t-shirt sips that didn't attend the school and couldn't find Austin with a map. They hate it so they think that real fans have to go to the school just because the only fans A&M has are the students, alumni, and the parents dumb enough to send their kids there.

 

[IMALOYAL1]

Yep, if you carried your colors the past 10 years, you are a true Bama fan.

:BigA:

 

[yellowhammer13]

Being called a delusional fan with unrealistic expectations by your opponents and chastized for your tradition rich football history all these years, yet now embracing it because you're quietly counting the days until we get to "kick the crap out of them" and finally "stick it" to the rest of the college football world while proclaiming..... "You want some... Come get some.... You don't like me... Bite me!!!!!
I know, I know.....Deep breath!! Vendication will be a wonderful thing in the years to come!! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

 

[NYBamaFan]

Do you know the secret handshake? If not, are you really a fan?

 

[BamaJama17]

Do you know the secret handshake? If not, are you really a fan?

Can't believe sombody did not think of that earlier.

 

[BIGBAM]

1.you never ever EVER pull for the barn, or brokeback top's
2.you never ever EVER take up for the sworn enemies labeled by barn, or brokeback top's in any argument,situation,sugar coat their upper handiness in order to seem fair,balanced,classy,nice or whatever else lame trash you want to call it even if its true,no excuse/save it and your quarter,in other words-NO FENCE SITTERS BAMA 100% or none at all
3.orange sux ;anybody or team who wears it -nuff said'
4.the sec arent our friends=they are the enemy;not to mention ND,USC,NCAA,Big 10,Espn,everybody else plus the media-they are walking targets waiting to be drowned by the effects of the Tide
5.Rammer Jammer is your friend

 

[bayoutider]

I have been around long enough to know a card carrying Bama fan from a Bandwagon fan, Troll or Impostor without looking at any list.

 

[Redwood Forrest]

I never attended UA. None of my family or friends went there. No one in my family watched or listened to football. So I have no ties there and was not a football fan.

Then I saw the Sugar Bowl in the sixties when Bama beat Nebraska really bad. It was Magic. I have been a Bama fan since--and I really can't explain why. But I have loved every minute of it, even the bad years.

 

[THE BAMA IRISHMAN]

What makes a true Bama fan? I work with a Texas A&M graduate and he is constantly telling me that since I did not graduate from UA that I am not a true Bama fan. He says that I am a t-shirt fan. According to him you have to be an alumni of said school to be a true fan. I decided in the third grade to be a Bama fan. I wanted to go to Bama but had to go to Jacksonville State, it was in the best interest of my parents. So my question is am I a true fan or as my co-worker says, could I only be a true fan of JSU? I live, breathe and follow Bama with a passion.However I can only share few facts about JSU sports. Thoughts anyone? RTR!!!

You are probably his supervisor. Correct! Have him go get paddled along with all the other nudie cadets in a barn. For some reason that is something special. Why?

Seriously I have two agless fans who work at Homeland Security. Neither of them attended the mudhole in college station. The two even have tatoo's. I emailed them the link. This should have your subordinate fired up.

 

[JD95]

I have 2 degrees from the University of Alabama, but that's not what makes me a Bama fan. A Bama fan is someone who:

1. Loves the Crimson Tide and follows the team through ups and downs, wins and losses, whether in person at the stadium or on TV, on the radio, or merely in spirit.

2. Knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bear Bryant is the best damn coach who ever lived, period. He could take his and beat yours, and he could take yours and beat his. End of story.

3. Hates Auburn and hopes they never win another game in any sport ever.

4. Ditto for Tennessee.

5. Knows exactly what you mean when you mention The Goal Line Stand, The Kick, or 315. No further explanation is required.

6. Loses sleep when Bama loses games (and we've been awful sleepy of late, unfortunately).

7. Knows for damn certain that Namath was in the end zone on the 4th-and-1 QB sneak in the 1965 Orange Bowl.

8. Has not gotten over the crooked Penn State ref calling Preston Gothard out of bounds when he caught the winning TD at Happy Valley in 1983.

9. Knows that a bronze statue of Nick Saban will stand outside Bryant-Denny Stadium within the next 5 years.

10. Knows that if you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride, and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.

 

[bayoutider]

I have 2 degrees from the University of Alabama, but that's not what makes me a Bama fan. A Bama fan is someone who:

1. Loves the Crimson Tide and follows the team through ups and downs, wins and losses, whether in person at the stadium or on TV, on the radio, or merely in spirit.

2. Knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bear Bryant is the best damn coach who ever lived, period. He could take his and beat yours, and he could take yours and beat his. End of story.

3. Hates Auburn and hopes they never win another game in any sport ever.

4. Ditto for Tennessee.

5. Knows exactly what you mean when you mention The Goal Line Stand, The Kick, or 315. No further explanation is required.

6. Loses sleep when Bama loses games (and we've been awful sleepy of late, unfortunately).

7. Knows for damn certain that Namath was in the end zone on the 4th-and-1 QB sneak in the 1965 Orange Bowl.

8. Has not gotten over the crooked Penn State ref calling Preston Gothard out of bounds when he caught the winning TD at Happy Valley in 1983.

9. Knows that a bronze statue of Nick Saban will stand outside Bryant-Denny Stadium within the next 5 years.

10. Knows that if you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride, and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.

That works for me.

 

[BocaLance]

I personally think that anyone who is so preoccupied with, has any interest in, or case for or against what team someone is supposedly a "fan" of should have his or her mind erased blank by the MIB "flashy thing" and start over with a clean slate.

I grew up in Michigan a Michigan fan. Still am and always will be.

I went to school at Alabama and the student loans my wife and I carry with us are enough to forever remind me where my ultimate "fandom" resides.

The fact that someone would even start a debate about the true meaning of being a fan speaks volumes to the degree of his or her education ... and own insecurities.

 

[80UoAGrad]

As a graduate of The University of Alabama, I am happy to call you a Bama Fan with all of the rights, priviledges, thereunto, appertaining......so help me God, etc, etc.

ROLL TIDE ROLL Brother!!!

 

[92tide]

5. Knows exactly what you mean when you mention The Goal Line Stand, The Kick, or 315. No further explanation is required.

and i would add, a grown man who tears up when thinking about or watching any of these.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

My grandfather went to college for exactly one semester, at Texas A&M, before he lied about his age to get into the Big Red One under John Pershing (yes, it was 1917 and I'm talking about WW1).

To the day he died in December, 1967, he loved my grandmother the most, followed closely by his two children (my mother and her brother). But Texas A&M, the University of Alabama, and Coach Bryant were next.

It's alway struck me as fitting that he died in full possession of all his faculties, in apparent good health up until the last few hours, a couple of weeks before Alabama and Bryant went against his beloved Aggies and Gene Stallings in the January 1, 1968 Cotton Bowl. He would have been so torn.