Wright Thompson on the Auburn tree poisoner

Because when that first base coach got jumped from behind by a pair of opposing fans ... that was in the South, too, right?

How about when that opposing fan got beaten into a coma in the parking lot after a win? Where was that, Houston?

And when Cliff Lee's wife was spit on ... that was in Atlanta, wasn't it?

 

Do you live in LA instead of the South?

 

Backtracking 101: Get called out for talking out of your ass, and then insist you were just joking.

 

Christ. It couldn't have been easier to detect his sarcasm.

Shocker that some missed it.

 

For those upset by this, try reading it with the implied "like we do" at the end. Hear the change in tone?

 

I worked in the South. After I took the job, a co-worker who had worked in the area where I was going asked me, "What's the most passionate fanbase you've been around?" I said probably Nebraska. He said, "OK, take the craziest Nebraska fan you've ever seen, multiply that by 1,000 and make him as mean as can be. Then you have your average SEC fan."

I thought he was crazy and then as soon as I got there, I realized he was 100 percent right.

 

It was in the SEC where fans poured urine on a coach's wife.

Most of the writers I've known who have gotten death threats got them when they covered the SEC.

 

Steak, I think you missed this one. I got what Headbutt was doing. Southern boy that I am (was?), I still didn't see anything but a wink in his post. No harm, no foul.

 

While we're telling stories of idiot Bama-Auburn fans, a buddy of mine who covered the Iron Bowl was driving through a parking lot at one of the stadiums. Can't remember which one. Anyway, he watched as a vehicle decked out in one team's decorations was pelted by beer bottles from the opposing fan base. Auburn. Alabama. Can't remember which was which. Doesn't really matter.