Tragedy brings Tigers, Tide together

[pmull]

Alabama-Auburn is an all-consuming football holy war. It is more primal, more organic and more self-defining than anything else in college sports. It's forgotten more about intensity and an addiction to bragging rights than, say, Florida-Florida State or West Virginia-Pitt will ever know.

Forget about table manners; it doesn't have any. It also doesn't care what you think … especially what a Yankee thinks. It is unabashedly and unapologetically over the top in a jump-the-shark, provincial kind of way.

Babies are taught to say "Roll Tide," or "War Eagle" at the same time they learn, "Mommy" or "Daddy" -- maybe earlier. The entire state counts the days -- each and every one of them -- until the annual, season-ending Iron Bowl is played. And then they start over again.

 

And then last Wednesday a monstrous, unforgiving band of killer tornadoes dragged their funnel spouts through parts of the South, including Tuscaloosa, home of the Bama campus. Now almost nothing, most of all a football game, seems too important anymore.

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[cbbama99]

Great article. Gene is consistently one of the best college football writers out there. He gets it. And this just shows once again that humanity should ALWAYS trump football (I know that is hard to hear for some, and sometimes I find myself not believing it, but we know it is true) and I want to add my kudos to the Auburn nation for stepping up and helping T-town and other areas out now in our darkest hours.

[pmull]

Great article. Gene is consistently one of the best college football writers out there. He gets it. And this just shows once again that humanity should ALWAYS trump football (I know that is hard to hear for some, and sometimes I find myself not believing it, but we know it is true) and I want to add my kudos to the Auburn nation for stepping up and helping T-town and other areas out now in our darkest hours.

I agree. 

[ricky023]

God Bless all people, there is no color, there is just love and charity and love. God Bless Alabama.

[SUPERCOACH]

I know that the town of Auburn has adopted the town of Rainsville and has sent truck loads of supplies.  I think it is time for the wise to step up and take control of this rivalry.  There is no sense in killing their trees, or them vandalizing our statutes or CNS's lake house.  All of that stuff is really a reflection of how much society as a whole has fallen in the last few decades, not so much the Alabama-Auburn rivalry.  A rising tide lifts all boats, but a sinking society capsizes the whole world.  This effect is amplified in intense rivalries.

I am beginning to sense that things have gotten so bad in the world, that the good people, the silent majority, are about to be spurred to action.  These storms may have been the last straw that finally pushes people to take notice of everything that is going on around them instead of just going through life as a helpless spectator.

[pmull]

I know that the town of Auburn has adopted the town of Rainsville and has sent truck loads of supplies.  I think it is time for the wise to step up and take control of this rivalry.  There is no sense in killing their trees, or them vandalizing our statutes or CNS's lake house.  All of that stuff is really a reflection of how much society as a whole has fallen in the last few decades, not so much the Alabama-Auburn rivalry.  A rising tide lifts all boats, but a sinking society capsizes the whole world.  This effect is amplified in intense rivalries.

I am beginning to sense that things have gotten so bad in the world, that the good people, the silent majority, are about to be spurred to action.  These storms may have been the last straw that finally pushes people to take notice of everything that is going on around them instead of just going through life as a helpless spectator.

Well said.   

[cbbama99]

I know that the town of Auburn has adopted the town of Rainsville and has sent truck loads of supplies.  I think it is time for the wise to step up and take control of this rivalry.  There is no sense in killing their trees, or them vandalizing our statutes or CNS's lake house.  All of that stuff is really a reflection of how much society as a whole has fallen in the last few decades, not so much the Alabama-Auburn rivalry.  A rising tide lifts all boats, but a sinking society capsizes the whole world.  This effect is amplified in intense rivalries.

I am beginning to sense that things have gotten so bad in the world, that the good people, the silent majority, are about to be spurred to action.  These storms may have been the last straw that finally pushes people to take notice of everything that is going on around them instead of just going through life as a helpless spectator.

I hope you are right, SC. I know that I am game.

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