🏈 how does it feel to be the most hated team in college football

All I know is everywhere my son and I have been the past few days (airports, restaurants, etc...) from ATL to Phoenix to San Diego to LA everyone was saying Roll Tide both before and after game. He had his Mark Ingram jersey on, and I was in my houndstooth. You would have thought we were rock stars. It was really funny!

I don't know if that many people hate Texas or if they just wanted to go with the favorite. Some were fellow Bama fans, and I swear any city not in the N'east was flooded with Bama fans at the ATL airport. There must have been some strange traveling combinations and itineraries because our fans were going all over to get to this game (Phoenix, any CA airport, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, Dallas, Salt Lake, Cincinnati, Memphis, even some Florida airports, etc....).

I had so many fellow SEC fans come up and wish us luck and let us know they were pulling for us. Almost made me feel guilty...not! :smile:

I didn't see any Texas fans until getting to stadium. It looked like it was going to be all Alabama before the game, but I think it really ended up being close to 50/50. Funny thing was Alabama fans were in their seats 2+ hours before kickoff. Texas fans not so much, maybe 30 mins before.

It was neat to be around a program that seemed to have mutual respect for our program. Of course we had a few Texas jerks around us too, but that seems to be the case no matter where we go.
 
It's nice to be the belle of the ball for a change. Let's not forget that the same hatred, however, that we feel now from our rivals is the same hatred that lead people to attempt to bring Bama down almost 10 years ago.

With success comes reward, but also scrutiny. I'm going to enjoy the success for now!
 
Totally agree with Bamadezz! They hated us when we were killing them in the 1960's and 1970's, hated us in the 1980's because we beat them even when weren't the best team on the field. They hated us in the 1990's because we were winning again. They've hated us forever. It just doesn't feel different at all.

Hey, they've got a good reason to hate us: Alabama is the team no one wants to play anymore. That makes me proud of my degree and the tag holder that says "Alumni: University of Alabama". BTW, that's still the only indication on my car at all of what color my blood is.
 
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