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I'm pulling for Bama
- Thread starter Leakfan12
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I want a meteor to land in the middle of the stadium during the game.
FrozenGator
Gator Fan
As with every game that does not involve the teams I love, I am praying for catastrophic numbers of injuries on both sides of the field. Not catastrophic severity (I want no one's career to be over, nor long-term health risked), but I want them both to have to play LBs at QB, and their kickers can all play center. Don't care one bit.
And if some of the refs from the UGA game happen to be there, well, I won't object if they have to take the post-season off to recuperate.
And if some of the refs from the UGA game happen to be there, well, I won't object if they have to take the post-season off to recuperate.
I've always agreed something happened there, something that stinks--and its anti-Gator bias has been reinforced by the trend of evidence in our subsequent games, culminating on Saturday in that ACC-officiating-squad's just horrendously called game--but "still tilted" in just one direction, against us: Even the announcers kept assuming the flags were on FSU, then were amazed when they were not (taken to ridiculous extremes in the 2nd half, when for eg. you saw a blatant push-off by a receiver called "pass interference" on our defender-- with him lying on the ground 5 yards away!)...as in the Cocktail Party, every penalty was called in order to extend their drives while stopping our own and moving us back instead...Pay-Off? I don't know, but "vested interest handed down from "the-powers-that-be"--well, it sure went beyond "chance and coincidence"! Whether that alone is enough to support the Tide here, well, that has wider considerations and repercussions, and we'll get to it in a moment...
As my Dad used to say (usually when it was 2 SEC-teams OTHER than our Gators), "I hope they both lose..."
Honestly, I wasn't sure which one rating-icon was the most appropriate here, "Like", "Agree", "Funny"...? when I stumbled on "Winner", which I've never actually used here before--and realized that this was the place for it, since it best covers "all-of-the-above"...Sure is an attractive alternative in all of this, just to throw our hands up and say "Blow 'dem ALL up! Hey! 'Dey blowed up GOOD!!!" (Anyone remember this from that old comedy show, SCTV?)
Yeah. Right. Sure...I'm certain you were thinking all of those properly civilized things when it first went thru' your mind, FG...Don't worry about it, Gator! We all have the same thoughts, minus the rest of it at least at first impulse--it's HUMAN, after all...and as I say, unless you find yourself acting on any of it, no reason for concern: we all tend to think the same things when we hear or see injuries to our rivals, hoping that, directly or indirectly, it will benefit us somehow.
Speaking of the complexities of this question (as I was above) and the temptation to throw our hands up, there are still some reasons to root either way, hard as they may be to stomach at first thought. In breaking the SEC Championship down, picking who you prefer can be done either of two ways--the first is to ask yourself simply who you despise more (for most of us UGA, of course), and root against them...Assuming (as we all do) that either will beat Notre Dame, the idea here is that we deprive our more-despised rival of its glory in this way.
However, if, like me despising Notre Dame and their annual "free ride" against mediocre competition until they finally (usually) begin losing to even a few of those, so that when they do manage a season where the right combo of circumstances and patsies carries them through while the simpering media-fools (led by the worst-of-the-worst, Irish apologists like Lou Holtz, Mike Golic, and too many others) fall all over themselves in gushing admiration, then seeing them beat, and beat badly--ripping away the artificially created "veil of competence" from an over-hyped and WAY over-rated season and team--trumps all other considerations here...The decision of which SEC team to hope emerges from Atlanta bound for Miami should be decided according to which team is more likely to utterly destroy Notre Dame on-the-field:
On the one hand, most of us by now imbue 'Bama with so much long-standing power, poise, balance and dominant depth that they are always "The-Team-To-Beat", at least it seems that way...but remember, Lattimore is gone (now that one we do feel bad about--all of us--we might have started out from that same "petty, low-down, get-him-outta-there" attitude, but if you actually saw the injury, or once hearing how bad it was, well, then we remember what we share as "humans"...), they haven't been blowing teams off the field, and they allowed basically just one hot mobile QB to beat their much-vaunted "D". Down the (same) stretch, UGA has been on a tear since nipping us. If I had to pick a "hot" team right now (assuming I couldn't pick us--as I would now but wouldn't have until after the FSU game), it would be a close call between UGA and TAMU--and TAMU's not in this one.
Still, having said all that, I just resent the Bulldogs too much to cheer for them, to find any pleasure in them and their fans partying on the field at the end of the season (and, with everything that's happened, how they got there and why it isn't us, knowing the whole time that, more than ever, "That should have been US!"). If they make it, so be it, and I will hope that our one consolation will be, come January, their just drilling Notre Dame, a team and program I have specifically resented and despised since I first became a college football fan as a little kid.
Come to think of it, I can't see myself being all that jazzed at either team's "coronation" as "National Champion" at the end of this season...In fact, of anyone, UGA, while seemingly "hot" and maybe the team-of-the-moment who might blow-out the Irish, is also quite capable of blowing this chance, if given it.
On balance, I suppose I will have to just watch and wait it out with the not-too-enthusiastic feeling that the Tide is our safest, least obnoxious and likeliest candidate for reliably sweeping N.D. aside...and that'll have to do.
