Original sentence: As is typical of such games, it is usually scheduled to be the final regular-season game for each team and is always played in late November.The winner of the game has statewide "bragging rights" until the next year, and as is typical of rivalry games of this nature, a win in this game can seemingly salvage an otherwise poor season for the winner, while a loss can ruin what had otherwise been a fine season for the loser
Edited sentence: Auburn boasts two Heisman players while Alabama claims twelve national champions.It has often been said that either of these teams can go winless in a season and completely salvage it with an Iron bowl victory while a near perfect season is considered marred if the only loss is to the other.It is probably because the state of Alabama has very little else to do and never had much prestige in the late 1800's and early 1900's.No other rivalry is discussed 364 days a year and no other state schedules its life by the football season.Now, the game carries a near religious following with people like Bo Jackson, Kenny Stabler, Tommy Tubberville and Paul "Bear" Bryant are given respect as holy.People in Alabama never plan weddings, funerals or bar mitzvahs on the Iron Bowl game day because no one would come.So naturally, with two juggernaut dynasties, the universities from Auburn and Tuscaloosa battle it out for the bragging rights with intense ferocity that the rest of the the country's rivalries marvel at.The a resident of the Yellowhammer state is defined by either crimson and white or orange and blue.The state of Alabama is unlike other states in that the main social division is not between rich and poor, black and white, republican or democrat.Their football team was the first time glory of any kind was brought to the state