Looks like the old timers are going to get their wish.

That’s a long way of saying younger fans = fair weather fans.

Is that what you’re saying?

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Will get to go back to their bi weekly naps at the pmac. No more worry about telling the bad mid 20’s fan to sit down after a big play. No more loud cheers. JJ Is about to be back holding open try outs during band camp.

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pretty bold to crap on the fans that kept going to games when no one else was

We only hope the people 18-22 that are in school will stay the entire football games to cheer on the Tigers.
You know the “old timers” like me that stay actually can sit on our asses and cheer loudly.
When you are NOT AT THE GAMES YOU CANNOT STAND AND CHEER!

Frick off a-hole.

Who you calling old timer bitch? Some of us actually contacted the BOS and advised we’d be cancelling our season tickets if Wade gone next year but Alleva was still here. What did you do besides post on a message board?

Earn some more money and buy better tickets!!!!

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Will get to go back to their bi weekly naps at the pmac.

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I’m sick and tired of these kinds of remarks. I resent what you’re saying.

We’re in our mid-sixties. My husband has had season tickets for 35 years. We stand up and cheer, he shouts at the refs continually.
We attend every home game unless sick or out of town. Even when we’re ill sometimes. I had bad bronchitis at the Auburn game. My husband had diverticulitis, went to the ER. They wanted to keep him overnight, he refused saying he wanted to go to the LSU A&M game.

I make signs and posters. I have 4 T-shirt’s that I got #44 Wayde printed on them. We’re old timer super fans!

We use the advantage of being semi-retired to travel to away games, and tournaments. Regardless of who’s coaching and how the team is doing. We could be spending our money on cruises or other recreational travel. So do a lot of other “old timers”.

Here’s what you need to know about “old timers”. They have had season tickets for years and years - 30 or more. They WERE 20 somethings when they started going to games. And they carried on coming. They were standing, cheering, chanting back in their day.

Now they’re elderly and infirm, they can’t get up and down easily. Some attend the games in pain due arthritis etc. I know a lot of them.

Bob Petit, Ned Clarke, Dale Brown are old timers and still support their team. I was walking into the arena with Ned Clarke once, and he had to lean on me to be able to walk along. He still comes, for crying out loud.
Any of the “younger” fans, willing to do that?

Why you expect elderly people to get up and cheer is beyond me.

Should they stay at home now, because they’ve fulfilled their purpose as game going fans years ago? Even though they’ve faithfully followed this team for years and years?
I guess they’re taking up seats that younger, more raucous people should have. I’m sure they would come to every game, through good and bad.

Yes there some grumpy ones who tell people to sit down, but FYI I’ve had younger people tell ME to sit down!

So just shut up with the ageism.

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Growing old beats the alternative.

With any luck, you won't live to be known as an 'old timer'.

Sit down, wet behind the ears