re: Are Gumps too stupid to fear LSU?

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I'd guess it would be the score on 01/09/12.

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...until LSU beats Bama again; then, it will be some other stat that matters more than the score to the Bammers.

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The only stat that matters, ever...





I'd guess it would be the score on 01/09/12.

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Wow. Score? Really? Nice, if surprising, to see a Gump actually admit that score is at least sometimes relevant (just not in the games where Bama scores less, apparently).

Football is just a different sport in Alabama. In other places, like Louisiana, for example, final score is considered one of the more relevant stats in football. In Gumpland, however, it's meaningless. The truly important stat, and the one by which real champions reveal themselves, is missed field goals. The more you miss, the better you are. That's why the Gumps laugh at us when we say this LSU team is so great, knowing all the while they have 11 missed field goals on the season and we only have 2. Too bad Alleman screwed us by making almost 90% of his FG attempts. If he had missed some of those, we might be as good as Alabama.