College football

[billy.pilgrim]

I'll have to look it up again, but I believe we play something like 6 from the top 12 before a bowl game. It will be a tough schedule, but should be some fun (possibly embarrassing) games to watch, but if we win, it won't be because we stacked our schedule.

Chances are that my in state game will be way better than your in state game.

[Vrede too]

[1 CAT FAN]

[Vrede too]

Ohio State University Is Trying to Trademark the Word 'The' — and Other Colleges Have Thoughts

Although, I'd be okay with it if OSU trademarked "Sucks".

[billy.pilgrim]

Punt bama, punt

Fear the thumb

Kick six

And of course

https://youtu.be/2G3yIIJPGFM

[O Really]

"The UK will face a three-month meltdown at its ports, a hard Irish border and shortages of food and medicine if it leaves the EU without a deal, according to government documents on Operation Yellowhammer.

The documents predict severe extended delays to medicine supplies and shortages of some fresh foods combined with price rises as a likely scenario if the UK leaves without a withdrawal agreement, which is due to happen on 31 October."

Don't know why they picked than name unless there's some Alabama fan in England.

[Vrede too]

"The UK will face a three-month meltdown at its ports, a hard Irish border and shortages of food and medicine if it leaves the EU without a deal, according to government documents on Operation Yellowhammer.

The documents predict severe extended delays to medicine supplies and shortages of some fresh foods combined with price rises as a likely scenario if the UK leaves without a withdrawal agreement, which is due to happen on 31 October."

Don't know why they picked than name unless there's some Alabama fan in England.

All new to me. Found these:

Yellowhammer

(US) A person from Alabama. This name originated during the American Civil War when some troops with yellow trim on their uniforms were nicknamed for appearing similar to the bird locally called the yellowhammer (the yellow-shafted variant of the Northern flicker). In 1927 "The bird commonly called the yellow-hammer" was designated the state bird and Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State. Outside of Alabama, yellowhammer is sometimes used derogatively for members of communities who migrated north from Alabama along the Hillbilly Highway in search of work.

Operation Yellowhammer

Operation Yellowhammer is the codename used by the UK Treasury for cross-government civil contingency planning for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit. In the event of exit with no-deal, the UK's unilateral departure from the EU would disrupt, for an unknown duration, many aspects of the relationship between the UK and European Union, including financial transfers, movement of people, trade, customs and other regulations. Operation Yellowhammer is intended to mitigate, within the UK, the effects of this disruption, and would be expected to run for approximately three months. It has been developed by the Civil Contingencies Secretariat (CCS), a department of the Cabinet Office responsible for emergency planning....

... The plan, named at random after the small yellow songbird, has been established to co- ordinate government preparations....

Idk if I believe "random", but maybe it's an Alabama hater rather than a fan since the topic is self-defeating stupidity.

[O Really]

"Random" is total bullshit. That would mean they did something like opening a bird book and pointing to a name. Or asking Google for a "list of bird names" and taking whatever is at the top (it wouldn't be "yellowhammer.") I'm guessing they meant "arbitrarily selected" which would mean that the name didn't have any particular significance, but was just picked because somebody liked it.

As it turns out, the yellowhammer is common in Great Britain and Europe, and is actually a different bird from what they call a yellowhammer in Alabama. The Alabama bird is actually a Northern Flicker. The Brit version is a bunting that, unlike the Alabama bird, is actually yellow.

[O Really]

Of course, mis-naming a bird makes about as much sense as having an elephant for a mascot of a team called the Crimson Tide, which itself means little other than a toxic algae bloom.

[Vrede too]

Of course, mis-naming a bird makes about as much sense as having an elephant for a mascot of a team called the Crimson Tide, which itself means little other than a toxic algae bloom.

Go Tigers! War Damn Eagle! :confusion-scratchheadblue:

[billy.pilgrim]

"The UK will face a three-month meltdown at its ports, a hard Irish border and shortages of food and medicine if it leaves the EU without a deal, according to government documents on Operation Yellowhammer.

The documents predict severe extended delays to medicine supplies and shortages of some fresh foods combined with price rises as a likely scenario if the UK leaves without a withdrawal agreement, which is due to happen on 31 October."

Don't know why they picked than name unless there's some Alabama fan in England.

Inside joke


It's the exact same excuse bammer used for 40 years when Auburn complained about playing every year at the bammer home field.

[billy.pilgrim]

Of course, mis-naming a bird makes about as much sense as having an elephant for a mascot of a team called the Crimson Tide, which itself means little other than a toxic algae bloom.

Go Tigers! War Damn Eagle! :confusion-scratchheadblue:

We are actually, The Plainsmen

[Vrede too]

We are actually, The Plainsmen

Go Damn Plain Tigers!

[O Really]

We are actually, The Plainsmen

Amish footballers?

[O Really]

Here's an article that clears up the Tiger/War Eagle/Plainsmen... issue.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/127 ... ots#slide1

"...“War Eagle” is a battle cry, not a mascot. The Tigers do have an eagle on the sideline of every game that is named Tiger, but Tiger is not the mascot—it is more of an emblem of the Auburn spirit. "Right. Got it.

[Vrede too]

We are actually, The Plainsmen

Amish footballers?

Here's an article that clears up the Tiger/War Eagle/Plainsmen... issue.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/127 ... ots#slide1

"...“War Eagle” is a battle cry, not a mascot. The Tigers do have an eagle on the sideline of every game that is named Tiger, but Tiger is not the mascot—it is more of an emblem of the Auburn spirit. "Right. Got it.

... According to the Office of Communications and Marketing at Auburn University, the Tigers home jerseys are officially Blue PMS 289.

A third 'not actually a nickname' nickname:

... Auburn even highlights the color blue in two cheers, “Let’s go big blue, let’s go” and Bodda Getta that finishes with the line “kick’em in the butt, big blue.”

Go Big Damn Plain Blue PMS Tigers!

[O Really]

Auburn's not the first name that comes to mind if I hear "Big Blue."

[Vrede too]

Auburn's not the first name that comes to mind if I hear "Big Blue."

How could you of all people omit:

[O Really]

Yeah, but different blue. And the team's never been referred to as "Big Blue."
"Carolina Blue" may be whiners, but it's not from PMS.

[Vrede too]

Yeah, but different blue. And the team's never been referred to as "Big Blue."
"Carolina Blue" may be whiners, but it's not from PMS.

My bad . Go Carolina Puny Blue!