about supporting LSU the rest of the way on their run to the NC, but I take those words and stance back. I had previously said on this board that I would pull for LSU the rest of the season, mainly because my wife has never been one of those typical "obnoxious, illogical-ranting, hard-to-decipher trash talking" LSU fans.
Sorry, honey, that all changed today when I received a copy of this article from a so-called friend, who is also a die hard LSU fan. Your fellow Tiger fans are hard to stomach these days, so . . .
GEAUX Hogs! Beat LSU!
Go Kentucky! Beat Tennessee (because I think Georgia would have a better chance at beating LSU in the SECCG than the Vols)!
Btw, I thought some of y'all probably would like to email Chad Scott and tell him what y'all think of his journalistic skills after y'all have read this article, so I have also included his email address just in case.
After skimming this crap, I think I understand why Mr. Scott was "denied employment" twice, and I doubt the reasons really had anything to do with him not being "pro-Alabama" enough as he claims.
Roll, Tide, Roll!
Chadd Scott
TigerBait.com Columnist
Knock, knock.
"Who's there?"
Louisiana-Monroe.
"Louisiana-Monroe who?"
Louisiana-Monroe who just beat Alabama at Bryant-Denny on Senior Day, that's who!
Now if you don't think that's funny, there's something wrong with you, because it's hysterical.
Timing is an interesting thing.
You may or may not know, but just last week, Mobile Press-Register columnist Neal McCready, who also hosted a talk show on a sports radio station there, was fired by the station and the reason he was given by the gutless program director – who chose to do this over the phone – was that Neal wasn't pro-Alabama enough.
Welcome to the club Neal.
I've twice been denied employment and the direct reason given was that I wasn't pro-Alabama enough. Not that I wasn't talented enough, not that I wasn't experienced enough, not that I wasn't the right candidate or wouldn't do a great job, but that I wasn't pro-Alabama enough. The people doing the hiring were either so afraid of recriminations from Alabama fans, or had been sufficiently pressured by Alabama fans, that they denied me the opportunity to apply my trade, to make a living, to secure my future because I didn't slobber over and bow to the all-mighty Tide.
Neal McCready got "Chadd Scott-ed."
I hope it's the only time it happens to him; I doubt it will be the last time it happens to me.
My honesty regarding Bama continues to cost me to this day.
At my other job as producer and co-host of the regionally syndicated "The Sports Tap" radio show (www.sportstap.net), after mentioning this story on air, my partners received calls from two of our affiliates, both in the state of Alabama, pressuring them to suspend me.
I was not suspended, but for a small company trying to build a name for itself without the backing of huge corporate dollars like ESPN or FOX, the threats were taken seriously and are a concern.
With that in mind and not wanting to lose another job, I'd like to comment on the Tide's narrow loss to ULM in a fashion I hope all the Crimson clad idiots out there will appreciate. After this, perhaps you'll see I'm pro-Tide all the way and you'll invite me to your "Bama Room" where we can gaze lovingly at your Daniel Moore prints of the goal line stand against Penn State or watch old Beta tapes of the "Bear Bryant Show," or maybe you can bring out the sweater you wore to the Iron Bowl the day Jay Barker touched you.
Alabama is catching a lot of grief for losing to the WarHawks, but I think that's unfair and anyone who would say that is showing a clear anti-Alabama, pro-Auburn, pro-LSU, pro-Tennessee bias.
Consider this:
• None of the Alabama players peed themselves during the game as far as anyone knows. That's pretty good.
• This wasn't Louisiana-Monroe's first victory over an SEC opponent. The WarHawks have always been a hard out racking up two other wins in the previous 32 times they've clashed with the SEC.
• The game was tied at halftime.
• Louisiana-Monroe comes from the same state as the top ranked LSU Tigers, by proximity that must mean they're a dangerous team.
• Nick Saban didn't quit after the game.
I think when you start to consider all of those angles that the blatantly anti-Alabama media missed while just focusing on the final score, you'll see the game was not a loss, but a building block to further dominance for the most revered, respected and accomplished football program of all time.
Sadly, that's about the level of commentary you get from the media in Alabama, precisely because most folks working there know they'll get canned if they don't sugar-coat everything Tide related.
No other fan base, not just in the SEC or in college football, but in all of sports, goes as far as Alabama fans do to injure the few people who have the guts to mention the emperor has no clothes.
Want proof? You're reading proof. Mike Scarborough who publishes this web page invited me to write uncensored, unedited, pure opinion pieces for Tigerbait.com. Even if my columns criticize LSU, which they often have, they run, and they do so on a web site operated entirely for LSU fans.
Do you think an Alabama fan site would allow me to write for it?
When I have criticized LSU in this space, the e-mail responses I've taken from you have often been supportive, occasionally been feisty, never been nasty, and are always appreciated.
That speaks highly of the LSU fan base's hospitality, allowing someone into your home and letting him stay even after he calls your wife "fat" and your décor "tacky."
When I critique Alabama, the response is always ugly, always mean-spirited, always personal, and usually asserts I engage in a completely inappropriate physical relationship with my mother or involves the hope that my kids get AIDS and die. I have numerous of those I keep for summer reading.
I have said before and I'll say again, Alabama has the worst, most thin-skinned, humorless, myopic, revolting fan base in all of college football and the e-mail I'll receive for saying so, and that Alabama fans actually menace businesses who try to employ honest commentators, is all the proof I'll ever need.
Alabama fans use their numbers, vitriol and influence to bully the media into fawning coverage and have for decades; I wonder how they'll spin what happened Saturday?
One last thing:
Nick Saban, long believed to be a strident disciplinarian who professes to think it important to "do things the right way," suspended the team's leading receiver D.J. Hall before the weekend's meltdown vs. Louisiana-Monroe.
The floating suspension was lifted at halftime as the Tide's offense gasped like an asthmatic trying to climb Everest.
I'd never suggest Saban cut the suspension short because his team was playing like poo or that he values winning over discipline and ethics, but I thought Saban's comment after the game regarding Hall's suspension was interesting.
Saban said Hall's transgression, "warranted at least what was given."
"At least," huh?
When it comes to discipline of star players, is that Saban's standard: "at least?"
Would that standard be ok if it were applied to the assistant coaches' efforts in recruiting, the players' commitment to off season conditioning, the fans' support of the team?
I doubt it, so why is it ok for Saban to use the standard of "at least" what was "warranted" when it comes to discipline?
Maybe all that talk about winning with class and winning with character and doing things the right way… I've said enough, I have a mortgage to pay.
Chadd Scott - backtalk@chaddscott.com
hear me nightly at: www.sportstap.net
* * * * *
Oh, and my LSU buddy even added the lyrics to this song (sung to the tune of "The Ballad of Jed Clampett") with his email correspondence:
The Ballad of Nick Saban
by: Chuck Redden
Come and listen to the story bout a coach named Nick,
A self centered, overpaid, camera happy prick.
When the team that he was leadin' won the national championship.
He took the glory and the credit all for himself.
The next thing you know he's a household name,
His face on all the magazines, he was rollin' in the fame.
Then they said the NFL is the place you oughta be,
So he loaded up his trophy headed down to Miami.
Now things turned out to be different in the pros.
Multi million dollar players like to take a little toke.
But they had contracts and didn't have to take his lip.
And they wasn't afraid of losin' scholarships.
So after just a year he came up with a plan,
to get his smilin' face back on TV once again.
He said Tuscaloosa is just the place for me.
And everybody loves me in the good old S.E.C.
The papers and the TV got the news out fast,
Then he let it slip he know the word coonass.
And the folks in Baton Rouge wearin' purple and gold,
were gonna add a whole new meaning to Roll Tide Roll.
The Georgia Bulldogs were the first to take him down,
Then Florida State put a tarnish on his crown.
But a couple more wins and folks were all smiles.
Waitin' for that November date with Les Miles.
It took em afour quarters but the Tigers shut him up,
and he said that LSU had some really good luck.
He never would admit he was anything but great.
Then he took it on the chin to Mississippi State.
The mighty coach had now lost two in a row.
And he countered with "the SEC's tough, don't ya know."
And easy victory was assured the 17th.
Against a little Louisiana Monroe Team.
Nobody gave the Warhawks very much hope,
Against a powerhouse team and a superstar coach.
But little did they know they were in for quite a shock.
And when the final gun sounded, A bunch of jaws dropped.
I guess it goes to show that you never can tell,
when you put 22 players on the field.
Notariety can be achieved pretty fast.
Each and every time somebody new kicks your ass.
So here's to the coach that proclaimed himself a king,
Ridin' on the back of one champion team.
Here's to all your money, here's to all your fame.
We'll see you on the TV every time you lose a game.
Ya''ll keep puttin' them little teams on the schedule now......ya hear!!!
ULM 21
ALABAMA 14
Boy, Crimson Pirate, how are you enduring your time in the Bayou State these days? :roll:
Sorry, honey, that all changed today when I received a copy of this article from a so-called friend, who is also a die hard LSU fan. Your fellow Tiger fans are hard to stomach these days, so . . .
GEAUX Hogs! Beat LSU!
Go Kentucky! Beat Tennessee (because I think Georgia would have a better chance at beating LSU in the SECCG than the Vols)!
Btw, I thought some of y'all probably would like to email Chad Scott and tell him what y'all think of his journalistic skills after y'all have read this article, so I have also included his email address just in case.
After skimming this crap, I think I understand why Mr. Scott was "denied employment" twice, and I doubt the reasons really had anything to do with him not being "pro-Alabama" enough as he claims.
Roll, Tide, Roll!
Chadd Scott
TigerBait.com Columnist
Knock, knock.
"Who's there?"
Louisiana-Monroe.
"Louisiana-Monroe who?"
Louisiana-Monroe who just beat Alabama at Bryant-Denny on Senior Day, that's who!
Now if you don't think that's funny, there's something wrong with you, because it's hysterical.
Timing is an interesting thing.
You may or may not know, but just last week, Mobile Press-Register columnist Neal McCready, who also hosted a talk show on a sports radio station there, was fired by the station and the reason he was given by the gutless program director – who chose to do this over the phone – was that Neal wasn't pro-Alabama enough.
Welcome to the club Neal.
I've twice been denied employment and the direct reason given was that I wasn't pro-Alabama enough. Not that I wasn't talented enough, not that I wasn't experienced enough, not that I wasn't the right candidate or wouldn't do a great job, but that I wasn't pro-Alabama enough. The people doing the hiring were either so afraid of recriminations from Alabama fans, or had been sufficiently pressured by Alabama fans, that they denied me the opportunity to apply my trade, to make a living, to secure my future because I didn't slobber over and bow to the all-mighty Tide.
Neal McCready got "Chadd Scott-ed."
I hope it's the only time it happens to him; I doubt it will be the last time it happens to me.
My honesty regarding Bama continues to cost me to this day.
At my other job as producer and co-host of the regionally syndicated "The Sports Tap" radio show (www.sportstap.net), after mentioning this story on air, my partners received calls from two of our affiliates, both in the state of Alabama, pressuring them to suspend me.
I was not suspended, but for a small company trying to build a name for itself without the backing of huge corporate dollars like ESPN or FOX, the threats were taken seriously and are a concern.
With that in mind and not wanting to lose another job, I'd like to comment on the Tide's narrow loss to ULM in a fashion I hope all the Crimson clad idiots out there will appreciate. After this, perhaps you'll see I'm pro-Tide all the way and you'll invite me to your "Bama Room" where we can gaze lovingly at your Daniel Moore prints of the goal line stand against Penn State or watch old Beta tapes of the "Bear Bryant Show," or maybe you can bring out the sweater you wore to the Iron Bowl the day Jay Barker touched you.
Alabama is catching a lot of grief for losing to the WarHawks, but I think that's unfair and anyone who would say that is showing a clear anti-Alabama, pro-Auburn, pro-LSU, pro-Tennessee bias.
Consider this:
• None of the Alabama players peed themselves during the game as far as anyone knows. That's pretty good.
• This wasn't Louisiana-Monroe's first victory over an SEC opponent. The WarHawks have always been a hard out racking up two other wins in the previous 32 times they've clashed with the SEC.
• The game was tied at halftime.
• Louisiana-Monroe comes from the same state as the top ranked LSU Tigers, by proximity that must mean they're a dangerous team.
• Nick Saban didn't quit after the game.
I think when you start to consider all of those angles that the blatantly anti-Alabama media missed while just focusing on the final score, you'll see the game was not a loss, but a building block to further dominance for the most revered, respected and accomplished football program of all time.
Sadly, that's about the level of commentary you get from the media in Alabama, precisely because most folks working there know they'll get canned if they don't sugar-coat everything Tide related.
No other fan base, not just in the SEC or in college football, but in all of sports, goes as far as Alabama fans do to injure the few people who have the guts to mention the emperor has no clothes.
Want proof? You're reading proof. Mike Scarborough who publishes this web page invited me to write uncensored, unedited, pure opinion pieces for Tigerbait.com. Even if my columns criticize LSU, which they often have, they run, and they do so on a web site operated entirely for LSU fans.
Do you think an Alabama fan site would allow me to write for it?
When I have criticized LSU in this space, the e-mail responses I've taken from you have often been supportive, occasionally been feisty, never been nasty, and are always appreciated.
That speaks highly of the LSU fan base's hospitality, allowing someone into your home and letting him stay even after he calls your wife "fat" and your décor "tacky."
When I critique Alabama, the response is always ugly, always mean-spirited, always personal, and usually asserts I engage in a completely inappropriate physical relationship with my mother or involves the hope that my kids get AIDS and die. I have numerous of those I keep for summer reading.
I have said before and I'll say again, Alabama has the worst, most thin-skinned, humorless, myopic, revolting fan base in all of college football and the e-mail I'll receive for saying so, and that Alabama fans actually menace businesses who try to employ honest commentators, is all the proof I'll ever need.
Alabama fans use their numbers, vitriol and influence to bully the media into fawning coverage and have for decades; I wonder how they'll spin what happened Saturday?
One last thing:
Nick Saban, long believed to be a strident disciplinarian who professes to think it important to "do things the right way," suspended the team's leading receiver D.J. Hall before the weekend's meltdown vs. Louisiana-Monroe.
The floating suspension was lifted at halftime as the Tide's offense gasped like an asthmatic trying to climb Everest.
I'd never suggest Saban cut the suspension short because his team was playing like poo or that he values winning over discipline and ethics, but I thought Saban's comment after the game regarding Hall's suspension was interesting.
Saban said Hall's transgression, "warranted at least what was given."
"At least," huh?
When it comes to discipline of star players, is that Saban's standard: "at least?"
Would that standard be ok if it were applied to the assistant coaches' efforts in recruiting, the players' commitment to off season conditioning, the fans' support of the team?
I doubt it, so why is it ok for Saban to use the standard of "at least" what was "warranted" when it comes to discipline?
Maybe all that talk about winning with class and winning with character and doing things the right way… I've said enough, I have a mortgage to pay.
Chadd Scott - backtalk@chaddscott.com
hear me nightly at: www.sportstap.net
* * * * *
Oh, and my LSU buddy even added the lyrics to this song (sung to the tune of "The Ballad of Jed Clampett") with his email correspondence:
The Ballad of Nick Saban
by: Chuck Redden
Come and listen to the story bout a coach named Nick,
A self centered, overpaid, camera happy prick.
When the team that he was leadin' won the national championship.
He took the glory and the credit all for himself.
The next thing you know he's a household name,
His face on all the magazines, he was rollin' in the fame.
Then they said the NFL is the place you oughta be,
So he loaded up his trophy headed down to Miami.
Now things turned out to be different in the pros.
Multi million dollar players like to take a little toke.
But they had contracts and didn't have to take his lip.
And they wasn't afraid of losin' scholarships.
So after just a year he came up with a plan,
to get his smilin' face back on TV once again.
He said Tuscaloosa is just the place for me.
And everybody loves me in the good old S.E.C.
The papers and the TV got the news out fast,
Then he let it slip he know the word coonass.
And the folks in Baton Rouge wearin' purple and gold,
were gonna add a whole new meaning to Roll Tide Roll.
The Georgia Bulldogs were the first to take him down,
Then Florida State put a tarnish on his crown.
But a couple more wins and folks were all smiles.
Waitin' for that November date with Les Miles.
It took em afour quarters but the Tigers shut him up,
and he said that LSU had some really good luck.
He never would admit he was anything but great.
Then he took it on the chin to Mississippi State.
The mighty coach had now lost two in a row.
And he countered with "the SEC's tough, don't ya know."
And easy victory was assured the 17th.
Against a little Louisiana Monroe Team.
Nobody gave the Warhawks very much hope,
Against a powerhouse team and a superstar coach.
But little did they know they were in for quite a shock.
And when the final gun sounded, A bunch of jaws dropped.
I guess it goes to show that you never can tell,
when you put 22 players on the field.
Notariety can be achieved pretty fast.
Each and every time somebody new kicks your ass.
So here's to the coach that proclaimed himself a king,
Ridin' on the back of one champion team.
Here's to all your money, here's to all your fame.
We'll see you on the TV every time you lose a game.
Ya''ll keep puttin' them little teams on the schedule now......ya hear!!!
ULM 21
ALABAMA 14
Boy, Crimson Pirate, how are you enduring your time in the Bayou State these days? :roll:
