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Bubbler · Oct 5, 2006

dixiehack said:

You know something, this is the golden age for Auburn football. They won every game they played in 2004. They might do the same this year, and make it to Fiesta Bowl 2: Electric Boogalo in the process. I know about Shug Jordan and Pat Dye, and Tommy Tuberville still may be the best coach they've ever had. They win games, they have an aesthetically pleasing offense, they put players in the NFL and every time any sort of scandal threatens to erupt, shit never sticks to them. It's the best of times.

And yet for all that, 90%-plus of the fanbase can't just enjoy it for what it is. They always have to benchmark themselves against Alabama. They always have to prove that they "belong," they can't be truly happy unless it's low Tide in Tuscaloosa. Whenever you read their letters to the paper, their blogs and message boards, there's always that obsession with what Bama's up to, what discipline Shula is or isn't handing out, why there are so many Alabama fans who didn't attend the school and a million other pieces of petty bullshit. No matter how great their team does, they will always have that "little brother" inferiority complex, just like their cousins at Florida State, Michigan State and every other "No. 2-in-the-state" school.

Penis envy. An Auburn tradition since 1856.
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I have to admit, from afar, that totally rings true about Auburn. And the comparison to No. 2 schools is interesting.

The penis envy seems to skip some areas.

I don't sense an overriding obsession among Purdue fans about Indiana, I mean, they don't like each other, but it never reaches obsessive paranoia. When I've been in Iowa, I've never sensed it with Iowa State and Iowa (probably helps they're in different conferences). Kentucky and Louisville hate each athletically, but there's not an overriding sense that one school is superior to the other, I've always thought that boiled down to a big city vs. rural thing.

But Auburn, NC State, Michigan State? There's definitely some penis envy going on that seems bigger than athletics.

I'd be curious to know about some other two-school state dynamics (from major conferences, don't bring Ohio State vs. Ohio U to the table). Oregon? Mississippi? Kansas? Colorado? Virginia?

farmerjerome · Oct 5, 2006

dixiehack said:

You know something, this is the golden age for Auburn football. They won every game they played in 2004. They might do the same this year, and make it to Fiesta Bowl 2: Electric Boogalo in the process. I know about Shug Jordan and Pat Dye, and Tommy Tuberville still may be the best coach they've ever had. They win games, they have an aesthetically pleasing offense, they put players in the NFL and every time any sort of scandal threatens to erupt, shit never sticks to them. It's the best of times.

And yet for all that, 90%-plus of the fanbase can't just enjoy it for what it is. They always have to benchmark themselves against Alabama. They always have to prove that they "belong," they can't be truly happy unless it's low Tide in Tuscaloosa. Whenever you read their letters to the paper, their blogs and message boards, there's always that obsession with what Bama's up to, what discipline Shula is or isn't handing out, why there are so many Alabama fans who didn't attend the school and a million other pieces of petty bullshit. No matter how great their team does, they will always have that "little brother" inferiority complex, just like their cousins at Florida State, Michigan State and every other "No. 2-in-the-state" school.

Penis envy. An Auburn tradition since 1856.
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Ah, a man after my own heart.
The Tide will rise again.

Johnny Dangerously · Oct 5, 2006

Heh heh. Heh. He said penis. She said rise.

Heh heh.

FuerteJ · Oct 5, 2006

Johnny Dangerously said:

Heh heh. Heh. He said penis. She said rise.

Heh heh.
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Brilliant.

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