🏈 The Gumption Boys - Montgomery Advertiser Sports page

[planomateo]

Nailed it!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/bohicks">@bohicks</a> here's the sports page to match your hangover. <a href="http://t.co/M3Y2nqjB2Q">pic.twitter.com/M3Y2nqjB2Q</a></p>&mdash; DC (@CambroLiving) <a href="https://twitter.com/CambroLiving/statuses/379248230229610496">September 15, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[bamaledge]

Seriously? Is that really the sports page? classless

 

[planomateo]

Classless is putting the Bama team in a small ass locker room with no A/C.

I happen to love the sports page :biggrin_blue:

 

[BAMA JAMMA]

I don't like being called a Gump so yea, don't care for the title. To each their own.

 

[bcracker]

I don't see it as a play on Forest Gump. I see it meaning "gumption," as in the word. But if they meant the "Forest" variety, I say embrace the Gump. Nothing gets in the craw of would be haters more than taking their intended insult and and turning it into a badge of honor, like "redneck."

 

[PhillyGirl]

It seems like play on Gump, the word "gumption", and "The Junction Boys".

 

[BAMA JAMMA]

It seems like play on Gump, the word "gumption", and "The Junction Boys".

That's how I took it as well. Tongue in cheek coming out of Montgomery.

 

[BamaFan615]

Whatever it is, that was a hell of a win, and I think just about anyone could just say just anything about us right now...and it wouldn't bother me one bit. We had a hell of a win in a chaotic environment. We took their best shot on the chin and proved that we're the best in the nation.

 

[Ump]

Whatever it is, that was a hell of a win, and I think just about anyone could just say just anything about us right now...and it wouldn't bother me one bit. We had a hell of a win in a chaotic environment. We took their best shot on the chin and proved that we're the best in the nation.

Well said. Ditto.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I gump pretty hard these days, so I love it.

 

['65 Cobra]

I think y'all are taking it wrong. It's a play on the Junction Boys, and there is nothing wrong with the word Gumption. The Merriam-Webster definition is simple: "courage and confidence." It is absolutely fitting. If it were a play on Forrest Gump, the "G-u-m-p" portion would have been in quotes or italicized.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Yeah as I said it really works on 3 levels. Pretty clever title, really.

 

[planomateo]

Of course its a play on Junction Boys...I might go so far as to suggest you aren't a Alabama fan if you didn't know this.

 

[tidentrue]

Calling BAMA fans a gump is definitely an insult ..just as Bammer is

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Calling BAMA fans a gump is definitely an insult ..just as Bammer is

A certain level of gumping is appropriate, if not encouraged. No insult at all to me.

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

My middle name is Gumption. Seriously, I see nothing wrong with it.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

My middle name is Gumption. Seriously, I see nothing wrong with it.

^^^^^^^^This dude gumps hard 24/7/365^^^^^^^^

I've learned a lot from him.

 

[ElephantStomp]

I don't see the problem with the title. A play on Junction boys and gump. It's cool

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I don't see the problem with the title. A play on Junction boys and gump. It's cool

They had to be thinking of the Gump angle, but it's multifaceted play on words, and a real word as well. Bonus points awarded.

 

[bamaraider]

No one from Montgomery should be calling anyone "Gumps".