From: tonyf@rm1.interlan.com (Tony Fernandez)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Re: Quit pickin' on the poor 'Canes
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:57:23 GMT
Organization: Racal-Milgo, Sunrise, Florida

harbinjm@infonode.ingr.com (Mitch Harbin) writes:

>I too would like to add my $.02 worth.  I was in New Orleans last week and
>all I heard from the orange and green (what suck colors) clad partisans was
>a case of bigmouthitis.  They were talking about how bad it was going to be
>and that BAMA didn't belong in the Sugar Bowl.  Some people said we hadn't
>played any body and you know they're right, we STILL haven't played any body.
>The CANDY Canes need to take their medicine and eat their crow.  Tastes good
>don't it folks.

I was there too, and I saw plenty of Alabama fans who also had pretty
strong opinions on the game.  Is there any team whose fans are not going
to act this way?

>Even Dennis Erickson said Bama gave the CANDY Canes a good old fashioned
>whuppin.

I don't see anyone denying this.  Why would Erickson attempt to deny this?

>Coach Stallings has said that next year should be our year.  That along with
>the CANDY Canes losses to graduation means that you don't really want no mo'
>of the TIDE.  If might just be a worse ASS KICKING next time.

Now, was that a woof?  Isn't this just the kind of thing all you classy fans
from that Most Classy Institution find so repulsive from us barbaric trash-
talking thugs from Miami?  Nah, it couldn't be. 

>It's funny how you found the blowhards out in the French Quarter all week long
>spoutin' off but after the game there was none to be found.  Oh there were
>some who shed their Miami garb and bought BAMA shirts and hats to blend in with
>the crowd and some CANDY Canes who turned their shirts inside out to escape
>the humiliation but that was as I expected FAIR WEATHER fans who go with a
>winner and the TIDE was the BIG winner when it counted.

Well, after the game, I and a small group of other Hurricane fans went to
the French Quarter for a while.  I was planning on having a good time,
have a few drinks and enjoy my last night in New Orleans.  We were even
walking around chanting 'We're number 2' and even a few roll tides.  After
a while we left because it just didn't seem safe among all those drunk
Alabama fans.  We could take the good natured ragging, but some of the fans
were downright hostile.  I mean, one of those classy guys from Alabama
had to beat up Erickson's teenage son in an elevator just because he was 
wearing a Miami shirt.  

>SO CANDY Canes, take whats coming to you and listen as BAMA Fans take their
>turn to talk.  You had your turn but it was all for naught.

Rub it in all you want, we can take it. Trash talk all you want, but then
don't accuse Miami fans for talking trash when you all are doing the same.

And by the way, the amount of crap comming from Bama fans this year seems
to be much more than the combined woofing from Miami and Washington fans
last year.  And just about every message seems to be accusing the Canes for
being obnoxious.

>Mitch Harbin

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