ordnance11 Wrote:To everyone living outside the ole' Confederacy and especially to those outside the U.S. You have to remember this Southern truism:In that case, the teams can pass the collection plate rather than being paid taxpayer money... right?
Football..especially southern college football is religion.
The Sunday games are church services.
Bear Bryant is Saint Peter. If anyone doubts me, go see his shrine in UAB Tuscaloosa!
Nick Saban is Saint Paul here in Alabama.
And I dare anyone to challenge the folks around here!
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012