Screaming, stomping, t-shirt ripping (male and female alike)… smuggled alcoholic beverages poured on people’s heads (mostly accidental, sometimes not)… it was the most emotion-laden sports event I’ve ever attended. The Auburn-Alabama game (a premier Southern rivalry) was off-the-charts insane. I was at Auburn the year they went 11-0 with a media blackout (due to a coaching infraction). I went to high school in Atlanta and attended Auburn University my freshman year (before transferring to a tiny liberal arts college and later studying abroad). In the South, you see, college football fans make regular sports fanatics look like stoned hippies. To understand how wild this is, it helps to have familiarity with college football in the South. WSJ, At Alabama, Fans Are Getting a Little Bored With All the Winning
“You can do a whole lot of other things on a Saturday, like get a head start on your drinking or sleep in, that are a lot more interesting.” “You get to the point where there’s a game against Western Carolina at 11 in the morning that’s not really worth waking up for,” said Marc Torrence, the newspaper’s sports editor, referring to a 49-0 rout last season. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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