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re: NY Times Article on LSU/Bama fan day
Posted on 8/26/12 at 11:27 am to Jim Rockford
Posted on 8/26/12 at 11:27 am to Jim Rockford
All of this led to my main conclusion after spending time in each place on a nongame weekend: Alabama fans are, well, just crazier about their football team than L.S.U. fans are.
i think this article was horrible to neglect to mention the difference in city size. Or course, in tuscaloosa the fans are more concentrated.
tuscaloosa:
91,000
baton rouge:
231,000
baton rouge is 3 times the size of tuscaloosa and is a state capital. there better be more going on there than tuscaloosa.
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It pains me to admit this, mind you, as in SEC country, the sheer lunacy of the fan base one exists in is often a source of irrational pride. I’ve actually gotten into arguments with people over whose fan base tilts more toward the insane. But L.S.U. football in Baton Rouge is a sideshow — an elaborate sideshow people feel passionately about, yes, but a sideshow nonetheless. In Tuscaloosa, Alabama football is the main event, a full-blown circus in the Greatest Show on Earth tradition of P. T. Barnum. To put it bluntly, on any given day, Tuscaloosa is probably the closest thing to a college football theme park that a person could visit.
i think this article was horrible to neglect to mention the difference in city size. Or course, in tuscaloosa the fans are more concentrated.
tuscaloosa:
91,000
baton rouge:
231,000
baton rouge is 3 times the size of tuscaloosa and is a state capital. there better be more going on there than tuscaloosa.
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Posted on 8/26/12 at 11:38 am to LSU Fan 90812
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All of this led to my main conclusion after spending time in each place on a nongame weekend: Alabama fans are, well, just crazier about their football team than L.S.U. fans are
I know a Gump that took out a loan to buy BCS tickets last year. He told me that he knew people who went to crazy extremes to get tickets (sold family heirlooms, sold their cars, etc.).
I don't think it means that we care any less about LSU or that our fans are any less passionate; we just realize that it's a game and not the be all and end all of our existence. Gumps clearly don't feel the same. It's more of a sad reflection on them and their state than it is a knock on us.
Posted on 8/27/12 at 12:12 pm to LSU Fan 90812
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i think this article was horrible to neglect to mention the difference in city size. Or course, in tuscaloosa the fans are more concentrated.
Agreed, but I'd hardly say this painted Alabama in any kind of positive light.
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