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re: Alabama Mascot History... A must read!!!
Posted on 11/6/08 at 10:39 am to houndstooth mafia
Posted on 11/6/08 at 10:39 am to houndstooth mafia
Atleast you didn't waste nine months like your mom did.
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Posted on 11/6/08 at 10:39 am to houndstooth mafia
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Thank you for wasting 3 minutes of my life
Go back to your own board then.
Your welcome for saving one of you LSU fans the time to type it !!!
Posted on 11/6/08 at 10:44 am to Steven4bama
Posted on 11/6/08 at 10:57 am to bcarr9617
Steven is a closet LSU fan
Posted on 11/6/08 at 11:34 am to That One
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The crimson tide ladies and gentlemen..
Ok, that was disturbing and pretty much uncalled for.
Posted on 11/6/08 at 11:40 am to omegaman66
Actually, Bama's mascot is Big Al, the elephant.
Their official nickname is Crimson Tide.
LSU's mascot is Mike the Tiger, a live animal. (And a costumed one, too)
Our official nickname is Fightin Tigers.
Mascot= The one on the sideline.
Official Nickname= What we are called.
Get it right, or you sound dumb.
Their official nickname is Crimson Tide.
LSU's mascot is Mike the Tiger, a live animal. (And a costumed one, too)
Our official nickname is Fightin Tigers.
Mascot= The one on the sideline.
Official Nickname= What we are called.
Get it right, or you sound dumb.
Posted on 11/6/08 at 11:44 am to omegaman66
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quote "algae, more specifically phytoplankton, are microscopic, single-celled protists " unquote
fyi.. when you are quoting someone, merely using the "" punctuation is enough...
Posted on 11/6/08 at 11:44 am to deaux68
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The name "Crimson Tide" is supposed to have first been used by Hugh Roberts, former sports editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald. He used "Crimson Tide" in describing an Alabama-Auburn game played in Birmingham in 1907, the last football contest between the two schools until 1948 when the series was resumed. The game was played in a sea of mud and Auburn was a heavy favorite to win. But, evidently, the "Thin Red Line" played a great game in the red mud and held Auburn to a 6-6 tie, thus gaining the name "Crimson Tide." Zipp Newman, former sports editor of the Birmingham News, probably popularized the name more than any other writer.
Now, that's just stupid
Posted on 11/6/08 at 12:20 pm to deaux68
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But, evidently, the "Thin Red Line" played a great game in the red mud and held Auburn to a 6-6 tie, thus gaining the name "Crimson Tide."
Shows how stupid they are. It should be Tied not Tide.
Posted on 11/6/08 at 12:27 pm to deaux68
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I guess we could just be Tigers like 60 percent of the nation.
And for the record: The Fighting Tigers came from not an animal but from a unit that fought like animals in the civil war. Wheat's Fighting Tigers.
Posted on 11/6/08 at 12:30 pm to roscoethetiger
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Shows how stupid they are. It should be Tied not Tide.
Excellent
Posted on 11/6/08 at 12:57 pm to omegaman66
quote:Please remove head from arse...
nycajun: And I might add that we had the tiger mascot first! The others are just trying to imitate us!
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Princeton’s mascot, the tiger, was likewise adopted at the end of the 19th century through custom rather than proclamation, ironically at about the same time the Class of 1879 donated a pair of monumental lions to guard Nassau Hall’s entrance. Throughout the 1880s football players sported wide orange and black stripes on their jerseys, stockings, and stocking caps. Sportswriters of the day referred to some of the players as tigers. A popular cheer used “Tiger!” as a rallying cry. College songs began to refer to tigers. In 1882 the senior class issued a humor magazine called the Princeton Tiger. In 1893 one of the eating clubs, the Inn, changed its name to Tiger Inn.
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Way back in the fall of 1896, coach A.W. Jeardeau's LSU football team posted a perfect 6-0 record, and it was in that pigskin campaign that LSU first adopted its nickname, Tigers.
FWIW I once had a 'Bama alum tell me it was becasue of the red wild flowers that cover the hills was where nickname "Crimson Tide" came from. Yea, he was gay.
Posted on 11/6/08 at 1:28 pm to Section28
why tigers?? seriously I know a lot of teams have tigers as their mascot/nickname (whatever) but aren't Lions supposedly the King of the Jungle? - Wouldn't think Lions would be more feared than tigers?? Or is this just an end result of the cowardly lion in the wizard of oz? Seriously, there is an incredible absence of the use of lions as a mascot. Name one lion mascot besides Detroit.
Posted on 11/6/08 at 1:45 pm to Globalx39
Penn State - the Nittany Lions... Nittany comes from the nearby Mount Nittany
Posted on 11/6/08 at 2:28 pm to Bigamike
I hope that Thin Red Line will allow Scott, Williams and TH to run all day long. Tigers turn the dumbo into gumbo on Saturday!
Posted on 11/6/08 at 2:39 pm to omegaman66
This is the legend that I heard. A gump had been screwing his sister wife and when he was done he had blood all over him. Being ignorant of women's cycles he thought that he had some how punctured her with his angry inch while he was supposedly pleasuring her for that extremely long 10 seconds. Seeing the blood he exclaimed "My woman, my incher punctured you and and its flowing out like a crimson tide." Those last words stuck with him because it reminded him of his beloved gump team as they flowed in similar fashion on the field and he started calling them the crimson tide.
He spread this around to his brothers and friends who also had a similar experience with their sisters and the name caught on.
He spread this around to his brothers and friends who also had a similar experience with their sisters and the name caught on.
Posted on 11/6/08 at 6:07 pm to los angeles tiger
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This is the legend that I heard. A gump had been screwing his sister wife and when he was done he had blood all over him. Being ignorant of women's cycles he thought that he had some how punctured her with his angry inch while he was supposedly pleasuring her for that extremely long 10 seconds. Seeing the blood he exclaimed "My woman, my incher punctured you and and its flowing out like a crimson tide." Those last words stuck with him because it reminded him of his beloved gump team as they flowed in similar fashion on the field and he started calling them the crimson tide.
I dunno.
I prefer Ketchupy Goodness, bet it tastes better.
This post was edited on 11/6/08 at 6:08 pm
Posted on 11/6/08 at 6:16 pm to omegaman66
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Because I wasn't sure if their mascot was diatoms, plankton or phytoplankton. Now I know.
Fvckin' geek.
Posted on 11/6/08 at 6:18 pm to BamafanNGA
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Fvckin' geek
Typical Bama fan. Calling someone a geek because they can use more than two syllables in a word.
Posted on 11/6/08 at 6:19 pm to omegaman66
they invented the term redshirt too
just ask them, they will tell you
just ask them, they will tell you
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