re: Living in Bama...

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tigerfan in bamaland

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Just when I thought I have heard of everything the gumps top it again. Sorry your son had to go through that. My sister in law is wheelchair bound and has lost her eyesight. How someone to take a football rivalry and ratchet it up to assault your son is..........wait isn't Alabama where they kill their kids and relatives over football games?

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I have to disagree with those who say fight back. There are times and places to wear team colors,

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I really don't recommend physical violence, even though I jest about it a bit. But honestly, a 6th grader should be able to wear anything within the school dress code without having to worry about being physically assulted over it. Let just presume for arguements sake, that a girl wore some "masculine" type clothes... and yeah, she could be expected to possibly take some namecalling or heckling about being a dyke or something, while that would still be wrong- I could see her having to take that... but she should NEVER be expected to tolerate being pushed or shoved. It sounds like the step across the line to physical action came when tigerfan's son was pushed back into his wheelchair. I feel sure that he's used to having to verbally defend his clothes and team allegiance, but wheelchair or not, this thing should have never reached a point of physical contact. And once it did, I think that tigerfan's son was in the right to defend himself, and it's too bad he didn't get to run that wheelchair up over the kid's leg and really give him something to remember!

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Something in this story tells me there is more to it than just wearing LSU sportswear.

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There is. This kid needed some attention, so he decided to get some by picking the easiest target and using the LSU card to get the reaction he wanted. I am sure the other boys gathered around to witness the debate. Now my son probably said something to this kid which he could not refute, thus the physical altercation ensued.

I will have to warn my son not to match wits with an unarmed participant in the future.

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I will have to warn my son not to match wits with an unarmed participant in the future.

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More true words were never spoken. It was never a fair fight...

I'll go out on a limb and guess his comment had something to do with Utah.

I hope that boys parents beat his as* raw. I don't care if your son is in a wheelchair or not, the Bama kid shouldn't have started talking trash. I'm so sickened by this story. I really hope that in the end this doesn't make you think worse of Alabama fans than you probably already do . Not all are like that and I know that I sure as hell wasn't raised like that.

Move somewhere else.

Living in Bama... (Posted on 2/20 at 10:47 a.m.)

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Raising my son as a Tiger fan in this state is not without tribulation.

I recieved a call from his school today (he's 11 and a 6th grader) informing me he was involved in a fight during PE. It was all started by this kid who is a Bamafan who ragged my son by repeatedly telling him how much LSU sucks. An argument ensued and apparently it turned violent.

Now I know boys will be boys and this stuff happens all of the time, but my son suffers from Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy and is confined to a wheelchair.

I'm not infering that Bammers raise their kids to behave this way. This is one kid out of many. I try to tell my son to ignore the taunting, but anyone who has been in Jr. High knows this cannot always be done.

My wife has asked me to not encourage his passion for the tigers and has even forbidden him from wearing LSU gear to school, but the cat is somewhat out of the bag and the kids all know his colors are purple and gold.

Should I heed my wife's advice and tone it down, considering where we live? I don't think I can un-ring that bell even if I wanted to.

Anyhow, thanks for listening

on behalf of the decent bama fans,i just wanted to apologize for this. i to have a child in a wheel chair, born with spina-bifida. though there has been no violence,i can't count the times she has been ridiculed,embarrassed,by auburn kids for wearing bama gear. kids are gonna be kids,but ultimately, it is the parents fault totally for failure to discipline them from the time they are just toddlers.the bama kid should be suspended for a few days,at the very least,along with his dad having HIS arse whipped

Every Alabama fan?

Yeah seriously, you try to subdue a handicap and your parents get called with a warning? I have never heard of anyone doing such a thing, for a guy any age. That school is a joke.