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How We Know Auburn Sucks

By Pete

Oh, sure. Auburn has done a lot this year to re-emphasize just how much they suck. Played to a 3-2 win over Mississippi State¹. They lost to Vandy and even Arkansas. They fired their offensive coordinator in the middle of the season after not allowing him to run his offense.

So it’s not like the giant sucking sound coming from the greater Opelika area is really news at this point in the season, but I still got a good laugh out of a post over on Track Em Tigers today about “Mudslinging”.

To save you from having to read the drivel, it basically amounts to this: “Take the high road, Auburn fans, and quit talking trash.”

Why all the mudslinging? I am not saying that Auburn folks have not been slinging it at others, especially Bama for the last six years. We have? no doubt about it. Do we deserve some of it back at us? Sure. But does that make it right?

It’s funny, isn’t it? The team starts playing like they’ve never seen a football before and all of a sudden we get calls from the Auburn faithful to take the “high road”… questioning the ethics of talking trash. Auburn has pretty much owned the Iron Bowl for the past decade, and they’ve done a lot of gloating… most of it earned. But many Auburn fans have sounded like they thought their run was never going to end.

Some have said as much. After all, how many times have we been admonished to face the “fact” our program is a washed-up, has-been with no future. How many times have we be told that the Barners weren’t afraid of Saban… he won’t make any difference, they told us, since Tuberville has a winning record over him. Oh, how their tune is changing these days as their program goes into free fall… now they just want everyone to get along.

The game, obviously, is yet to be played and there are a few between now and then, but if Alabama wins (and especially if they win convincingly) there are a whole bunch of Auburn fans who are going to have some payback coming… and I can tell you now what they’re going to say: “But we still have 6 of the last 7.”

When they do, be sure to tell them to “quit living in the past.”

1. The winning team of this annual game gets to drink milk directly out of the udders of losing team’s cows. True story.

Full post as published by PeteHoliday.com on October 29, 2008 (boomark / email).