NY Times Article on LSU/Bama fan day

Damit, tnxs

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¶ When I arrived in Baton Rouge, the cabdriver who brought me to my hotel talked almost exclusively about the heavy rain the area had been getting. The driver who brought me to my hotel in Tuscaloosa asked if I thought Alabama would repeat as national champion almost as soon as I climbed into his cab.

¶ I popped into Mexican restaurants near both university campuses. In Baton Rouge, the employees wore uniforms that reflected the theme of the restaurant. In Tuscaloosa, employees dressed as if they would be attending an Alabama football game when they finished work.

¶ The breakfast buffet at my hotel in Baton Rouge was listed on my receipt simply as a “breakfast buffet.” The breakfast buffet at my hotel in Tuscaloosa was listed as the “Walk of Champions buffet.”

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After lunch, Ted and Suzan, now with her husband’s ashes lovingly tucked away inside one of her pants pockets, joined a few thousand of their fellow Alabama fans inside the stadium. With her brother by her side for emotional support, Suzan walked down from the stands and made her way to the stadium’s aforementioned brick partition, right next to yours truly. I then watched Suzan — clearly a bit frightened, but determined — reach into her pocket, pull out the plastic baggie holding John’s remains and empty its contents onto the field.

“Excuse me, but did you just pour someone’s ashes out onto the field?” I asked before Suzan and Ted could scurry away unnoticed.

“Yes, I did; it was my husband,” she replied nervously, her voice cracking slightly. “I was worried I’d get arrested doing this, but he loved Alabama football and wanted to have his ashes spread on the field here. I was worried I’d get arrested, but this was his dying wish, and I didn’t want him to haunt me for the rest of my life if I didn’t do it.”

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RAHL TIDE

Those frickers in tuscaloser are pathetic. No wonder they are the dirtiest program of all time.

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Football is religion in that state.

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I started to consider how incredible it would be to be arrested over a photograph taken of an Alabama football practice from a parking lot.

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I had a very similar experience as I was jogging around the outskirts of the practice facility at LSU a few years ago. Took a peak through the hole in the fence during practice, and was immediately driven up to by someone demanding I keep going

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Anyone know if the author is cajunboy? Looks a lot like his writing style but a bit toned down for the public.

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It is, he got a solid hat-tip over @ deadspin.

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No other school even comes close.......

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I don't know about that. fUSC has been on probation at least 4 separate times since I started watching college football.