Sunday, August 11, 2019

Alabama!


I hate Alabama. I hate their football team, I hate their Governor, I hate their legislature, I hate everything about them.

Well except Doug Jones, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Harper Lee, the cities. Huntsville, Joe Louis, rocket research, ok ok I dont hate Alabama. Its a fine state with a minority of decent folk willing to move forward. But man that Jesus shit rules.

See above billboard in Tuscaloosa. Virtually everything on that board is a blatant lie or half truth. Alabama may have 17 national what I assume are football titles, but you still have far less titles than the "pointy headed intellectuals' up north in Princeton and Harvard so take that. They're not only smarter than you, they played better football than you.

That billboard is a joke. Who are you trying to appeal to? The dumbest of the dumb? Congrats, you've done it!

Years ago in rural Nebraska as we would travel along the highways to small town USA, there was a homemade billboard in the front yard of a small farmhouse that had a picture of Herbie Husker (one of the worst mascots in America) and the hand painted statement updated monthly that said "Over 16,000 future Husker fans have been aborted". The sign was a signal that the entire car would begin deriding it. It made me want to find a different route. Then one day it was gone. Oh not because the people living there had a sudden change of heart. No, it disappeared because the University of Nebraska threatened to sue their ass for trademark infringement. Yeah, they actually trademarked that horrid creature.The threat from the University must have worked. That stupid sign came down.

Maybe the University of Alabama should do the same.

1 comment:

E.A. Blair said...

If I'm not mistaken, "Titletown" is the official nickname of Green Bay, Wisconsin.