Top Five Reasons for Vols Fans to Hate the Alabama Crimson Tide

Oct 10, 2015; Tuscaloosa, AL, USA; A general view of Bryant-Denny Stadium during the game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and Arkansas Razorbacks. Mandatory Credit: Marvin Gentry-USA TODAY Sports

5. They Think the World Revolves Around Them

From Nick Saban to Gene Stallings to Bear Bryant to, well, all the way back to Wallace Wade, college football history starts and ends with Alabama if you talk to anybody in Tuscaloosa.

They’ll tell you they have a national title every year, and in years they don’t win one, they’ll go back and reclaim it retroactively. But more n that later.

All I need for this is to bring up some of the callers on the Paul Finebaum Show.

Usually, sports talk shows are supposed to be about listening to professionals give their intelligent analysis on said sport.

And to be fair, Finebaum gives very intelligent analysis, while he also brings on intelligent football people to talk about college football.

But there is always a segment of talk shows in which callers spark intelligent debates. Not on the Finebaum Show.

There is no football talk, just a bunch of people who want to cuss out rival teams and talk about what Nick Saban does in his personal life.

You might hear somebody call in and start a debate about what Nick Saban had for lunch the day before and how Bear Bryant would have celebrated Independence Day.

But you won’t hear an analysis of the game unless it is useless criticism of the other program, which inexplicably gets louder when they lose.

Oh, and at that point they decide to do irreparable damage to another university’s property when they do lose, crossing every line of fandom in he book.

So let’s move to reason No. 9 to hate the Alabama Crimson Tide: Harvey Updyke.

Next: #4: Harvey Updyke