This deserves it's own thread
58-56
Quote:Don't play their game.
The Watzi narrative is to make this about attendance, as if Ray and Junior and Finis somehow are proven right if fewer than X number of people show at Legion Field. (And make no mistake, the number is X - whatever the totals, real or falsified by Fumbles at Ray's order, the Watzis will declare that it should have been more).
The story is not about attendance. The story is how real people stood against an evil combine of state and corporate power, one that had not lost at anything since 1865, and smacked them in the nose.
The story is Mitch Miller giving the Blazer oath. The story is Tim Alexander speaking to every city council of every 23-person village in central Alabama. The story is a pack of band nerds serenading Ray Watts until he confiscated their tubas and had to take a helicopter to work. The story happened in the hallways of State House, it happened in the parking lot outside the ancient dentist's office, it happened in the Faculty Senate, it happened in the dark back alleys of the national media where Kaleidoscope alums fought the planet's supposed top crisis-management firm and won the day.
Attendance doesn't matter. The score doesn't matter. What matters is that UAB will play football on Saturday in defiance of the racist shadow power structure that has foiled social progress in this state for 152 years. And we made it happen. Not boosters. Not athletic administrators. Not politicians. We fought for our city and our university and we won.
We earned this. We defied all of the odds, we defied every obstacle they threw at us. We were given nothing: we took this day.
The attendance figure that matters? One. As long as one of us is there, we won. Clay Ryan, Ray Watts, Paul W. Bryant Jr. - all of you, and your Sard-Verbinnen and Direct Communications mercenaries, your low-wage troll farms and your University Alumni Association - you lost. You had every advantage, and you lost. You had money, you had power. We had belief.
This is our day. This is our city. This is our game.
Thank you.
Everyone needs to remember how we won this fight:
Controlling the narrative. It's not about attendance. It's the fact that UAB is playing football at all. Stop helping the Watzis push their narrative.
In the broad scheme of life, it's not a big thing. We didn't stop hunger or climate change or nuclear war or terrorism. But evil is powerful. Evil almost never loses. Almost. That first player stepping out of the tunnel on Saturday proves that evil can be beaten. And that is a story to tell your grandchildren.
Send that to al.com or Scarborough as an opinion piece.
(08-30-2017 09:06 AM)cb4029 Wrote: [ -> ]Send that to al.com or Scarborough as an opinion piece.
Yes! This should be published! At least give the Daily Dragon folks permission. Too many have forgotten what this took. We all lost days of our livelihood. Marches, council meetings, trips to Montgomery, hours of social media bombs, traveling to BOT meetings. It feels GREAT right now! But let's not forget how we got here, why it happened, & what could happen again if we fall asleep at the wheel.
(08-30-2017 09:21 AM)stc Wrote: [ -> ] (08-30-2017 09:06 AM)cb4029 Wrote: [ -> ]Send that to al.com or Scarborough as an opinion piece.
Yes! This should be published! At least give the Daily Dragon folks permission. Too many have forgotten what this took. We all lost days of our livelihood. Marches, council meetings, trips to Montgomery, hours of social media bombs, traveling to BOT meetings. It feels GREAT right now! But let's not forget how we got here, why it happened, & what could happen again if we fall asleep at the wheel.
Feel free to re-post wherever you see fit.
It's a long and meaningless story why, but as an undergrad I ended up taking a PoliSci course at UAT, Contemporary Soviet Politics. There was this really annoying little ****, a Young Repub type from Pensacola named Joey who sat in the front row and totally kissed the prof's ass like every five minutes. I hated that guy. So don't send him the piece.
Amen, 58-56.
All recruiting, smack talk, etc. posts are hidden on another section of the board...can we hide all attendance posts on a separate page as well.
Either some mentally-unstable UAB fans are obsessed with a number that doesn't really matter, or this site has been infiltrated by loser UAT lurkers/trolls who have way too much free time.
Seriously, our team is suiting up for the first time in two years and all some people can worry about is a number?
In fairness, the question of attendance was asked by a well-meaning non-UAB fan who is coming to Saturday's game as his first UAB experience, so I'll give him a break there.
Furthermore, while I agree that it is not about attendance, I am not worried about attendance making us look bad (which hasn't always been the case). Saturday promises to draw a very big crowd. How big doesn't matter. It'll be big enough to make the atmosphere great. And atmosphere is what will bring casual fans back to future games!
Marshall crowd was electrifying.
I'm in total agreement with the post thread.
I've tried to sway people all along not to give in to the narrative that it is about a certain attendance figure (or lack thereof) or financial figure (or lack thereof).
It was about neither.
(08-30-2017 01:18 PM)the_blazerman Wrote: [ -> ]I'm in total agreement with the post thread.
I've tried to sway people all along not to give in to the narrative that it is about a certain attendance figure (or lack thereof) or financial figure (or lack thereof).
It was about neither.
This. It was not about attendance. It was not about money. But that is still the narrative that is repeated over and over again by the administration, the media, and even some fans.
(08-30-2017 01:34 PM)blazerfrombirth Wrote: [ -> ] (08-30-2017 01:18 PM)the_blazerman Wrote: [ -> ]I'm in total agreement with the post thread.
I've tried to sway people all along not to give in to the narrative that it is about a certain attendance figure (or lack thereof) or financial figure (or lack thereof).
It was about neither.
This. It was not about attendance. It was not about money. But that is still the narrative that is repeated over and over again by the administration, the media, and even some fans.
I don't think it will matter if that narrative drives on or not. We are set up now to impress everyone, including us older fans. Enjoy the ride!
(08-30-2017 10:45 AM)grendelson138 Wrote: [ -> ]Amen, 58-56.
All recruiting, smack talk, etc. posts are hidden on another section of the board...can we hide all attendance posts on a separate page as well.
Either some mentally-unstable UAB fans are obsessed with a number that doesn't really matter, or this site has been infiltrated by loser UAT lurkers/trolls who have way too much free time.
Seriously, our team is suiting up for the first time in two years and all some people can worry about is a number?
you are out of line sir! there are twice as many posts about having to pay for toddlers than attendance. so its obvious people care about more than a number. Its the football game they dont care about because what you dont see are any posts about the acutal game.
(08-30-2017 08:33 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote: [ -> ]This deserves it's own thread
58-56
Quote:Don't play their game.
The Watzi narrative is to make this about attendance, as if Ray and Junior and Finis somehow are proven right if fewer than X number of people show at Legion Field. (And make no mistake, the number is X - whatever the totals, real or falsified by Fumbles at Ray's order, the Watzis will declare that it should have been more).
The story is not about attendance. The story is how real people stood against an evil combine of state and corporate power, one that had not lost at anything since 1865, and smacked them in the nose.
The story is Mitch Miller giving the Blazer oath. The story is Tim Alexander speaking to every city council of every 23-person village in central Alabama. The story is a pack of band nerds serenading Ray Watts until he confiscated their tubas and had to take a helicopter to work. The story happened in the hallways of State House, it happened in the parking lot outside the ancient dentist's office, it happened in the Faculty Senate, it happened in the dark back alleys of the national media where Kaleidoscope alums fought the planet's supposed top crisis-management firm and won the day.
Attendance doesn't matter. The score doesn't matter. What matters is that UAB will play football on Saturday in defiance of the racist shadow power structure that has foiled social progress in this state for 152 years. And we made it happen. Not boosters. Not athletic administrators. Not politicians. We fought for our city and our university and we won.
We earned this. We defied all of the odds, we defied every obstacle they threw at us. We were given nothing: we took this day.
The attendance figure that matters? One. As long as one of us is there, we won. Clay Ryan, Ray Watts, Paul W. Bryant Jr. - all of you, and your Sard-Verbinnen and Direct Communications mercenaries, your low-wage troll farms and your University Alumni Association - you lost. You had every advantage, and you lost. You had money, you had power. We had belief.
This is our day. This is our city. This is our game.
I sit at my computer today with the first game of #TheReturn less than 48 hours away, and think about what they crowd will sound like when our players come out of the tunnel onto the field. If there is any justice in the world Tim Alexander will do that.
I'll be screaming my guts out with shivers up my back and tears streaming down my face, and I couldn't be prouder to say so.
Just to point it out, Tim will be doing a pregame show with Scot Harrison prior to Crane & Irvine.
AttallaBlaze: You are G D right! Thank God Blazers never give up!
Folks, all I know is that I've been hurting for the past 2 years, and waiting for #theReturn it seems for 20+ of the same.
We are Blazers, and We are Winners! Saturday is the physical attestation of our collective spirit, will, and Belief...
Our Belief has been rewarded.
GO BLAZERS!!!
#theReturn