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Pat Dye Field => War Damn Eagle => Topic started by: Kaos on March 06, 2008, 12:25:45 PM
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Goodbye, you Jay Barker-humped pile of All Americal Football League turds. I hate that you disgraced Karibe Dede like you did, but I won't miss you. How could I? You were never actually there.
According to al.com, the league is about to fold. God-awful marketing and a piss-poor concept will do that to you sometimes.
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That's funny. I saw the first AAFL commercial last night, urging everyone to come out and support "Team Alabama." It showed nothing but Crimson Turd highlights throughout the commercial.
Great marketing ploy there.
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Best news I've heard all day. Fuck that league, fuck their fucking fucked up marketing campaign, and fuck the food stamp swapping for tickets assholes that would have filled the stands to watch this bullshit.
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Fuck Me, I hope I get a refund on my season tickets :devil:
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All American Football League on verge of scrapping inaugural season
8 hours ago
ATLANTA — The new All American Football League will postpone its 2008 season unless it finds additional financial backing.
The announcement Thursday came less than a week before camps were to open for the six-team league.
The league, which held its inaugural draft in January, has rosters and staffs in place for six teams: Detroit; Little Rock, Ark; Gainesville, Fla.; Birmingham, Ala.; Knoxville, Tenn., and Houston.
Training camps were scheduled to open Wednesday, followed by the first games in April.
The league will push its plans back to 2009 unless it secures a TV deal or other funding.
The league announced Thursday it was exploring "multiple financing options" to address its funding crisis.
League chief executive officer Marcus Katz said Thursday night that discussions continue with several prospective investors. A statement released by the league and attributed to Katz said the start of pre-season training camps will be "delayed briefly" with plans for games to begin on April 12.
The AAFL was formed to fill the void created when the NFL shut down NFL Europe earlier this year after 16 seasons. That league was losing a reported US$30 million a season, and now the AAFL, lacking a TV deal, also faces a financial crisis before it can stage its first game.
Among the first players drafted on Jan. 26 were quarterbacks Bryan Randall, by Tennessee, and Eric Crouch, by Texas. Former Troy offensive lineman Zarah Yisrael was drafted No. 1 overall by Arkansas.
According to a statement released by the league, the AAFL's financial problems are tied to the national subprime mortgage crisis.
Katz co-founded a company that provides student loans.
The statement said camps would open Wednesday "if liquidity can be immediately restored."
If not, plans for an inaugural season will be pushed back to 2009.
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Awww... I take it that you wittle feewens were upset at the teaming being called Alabama. Could be that the state is called Alabama, not Auburn, and we have a larger fanbase than you? It's called business, and you market to the biggest audience. :fu: :pb:
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It's called business, and you market to the biggest audience. :fu: :pb:
Not completely true. You gear your marketing towards the largest customer base WITHOUT alienating the rest of your potential customers in the process.
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Not completely true. You gear your marketing towards the largest customer base WITHOUT alienating the rest of your potential customers in the process.
It's obvious ash, eh hem, el guapo doesn't know much about marketing. Even a little basic research into the local area would have told that group not to market soley to the Crimson audience. Very poor marketing job. Even down to the commercials. Terrible.
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Not completely true. You gear your marketing towards the largest customer base WITHOUT alienating the rest of your potential customers in the process.
Sani your are 100% correct sir! :silence:
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Awww... I take it that you wittle feewens were upset at the teaming being called Alabama. Could be that the state is called Alabama, not Auburn, and we have a larger fanbase than you? It's called business, and you market to the biggest audience. :fu: :pb:
No, it's more proof that gulible bama dickholes will buy anything as long as it has ties to tha tahd. Why else would they play that stupid assed rammer jammer bullshit? Is that the state song? No, it's the mating call of a bunch of inbred bama fucktard suckers that are more than willing to throw their rent money at anything and everything that has to do with that piece of shit football team in tuscaloosa.
At first, I thought the marketing team for this catastrophe should be hanged. The more I think about it, the more I think they had it right all along. No one else but an idiot would buy into this horseshit, and where better to find a willing sucker than in the bama wear section of teh Wal Mark. These poor, ill-educated saps were the only hope for this snake oil/medicine man show.
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It's obvious ash, eh hem, el guapo doesn't know much about marketing. Even a little basic research into the local area would have told that group not to market soley to the Crimson audience. Very poor marketing job. Even down to the commercials. Terrible.
You mean you didn't enjoy hearing Rammer Jammer every time the AAFL was advertised?
Seriously, what the hell were they thinking? Typical Bammer education.
I'm sure all the executives in charge of TV deals are Auburn fans trying to keep the Bammer alums down.
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You mean you didn't enjoy hearing Rammer Jammer every time the AAFL was advertised?
Seriously, what the hell were they thinking? Typical Bammer education.
I'm sure all the executives in charge of TV deals are Auburn fans trying to keep the Bammer alums down.
Has there EVERRRR been anything, that DIDN'T go Bammer's way, that DIDN'T take the "It's just a plot by the man to bring down my people" stance?
If it wasn't for individuals suffering from an extra chromosome or two, there wouldn't be Bama fucking ANYTHING in this state.
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Boo hoo. Anybody in bammerham who really cared to see a bunch of guys paid to play for a bammer team will just have to go 40 miles further down I-59 now.
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Haha! You guys sound like a bunch of pissy little bitches that didn't get invited to a party. Hell, it was giving Auburn guys a chance to play also, but fuck them! They play for Alabama now. You guys sound like elitist douche bags. If you had a problem with the league, or the team, email the fucking heads of the AAFL. Sitting on a board and moaning about it fixes nothing. Bitching just to bitch it what it seems like.
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Haha! You guys sound like a bunch of pissy little bitches that didn't get invited to a party. Hell, it was giving Auburn guys a chance to play also, but fuck them! They play for Alabama now. You guys sound like elitist douche bags. If you had a problem with the league, or the team, email the fucking heads of the AAFL. Sitting on a board and moaning about it fixes nothing. Bitching just to bitch it what it seems like.
Nothing to bitch about. It was a bad idea, poorly executed. At least this turd never saw the light of day.
You just sound like a douchebag. At least we're elitist.
For the record? I did email the team and the league. I told them what I thought of their marketing strategy. If they had marketed it as a unified team with appeal to the entire state -- without purposely urinating in the face of Auburn fans with the Jay Barker-pimped Rammer Jammer ads -- then maybe we wouldn't enjoy it's ultimate flop as much.
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Haha! You guys sound like a bunch of pissy little bitches that didn't get invited to a party. Hell, it was giving Auburn guys a chance to play also, but fuck them! They play for Alabama now. You guys sound like elitist douche bags. If you had a problem with the league, or the team, email the fucking heads of the AAFL. Sitting on a board and moaning about it fixes nothing. Bitching just to bitch it what it seems like.
How can you type so much with your boyfriends dick in your mouth? :taunt:
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How can you type so much with your boyfriends dick in your mouth? :taunt:
It's not that difficult. It's a little penis.
Nothing to bitch about. It was a bad idea, poorly executed. At least this turd never saw the light of day.
You just sound like a douchebag. At least we're elitist.
For the record? I did email the team and the league. I told them what I thought of their marketing strategy. If they had marketed it as a unified team with appeal to the entire state -- without purposely urinating in the face of Auburn fans with the Jay Barker-pimped Rammer Jammer ads -- then maybe we wouldn't enjoy it's ultimate flop as much.
Hey, at least you did something. I find it hard to believe that Auburn fans are so happy to see this fail when it gives your guys a chance too. Also, I heard may ads for the Alabama team on JOX that Al Del Greco did.
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It's not that difficult. It's a little penis.
Hey, at least you did something. I find it hard to believe that Auburn fans are so happy to see this fail when it gives your guys a chance too. Also, I heard may ads for the Alabama team on JOX that Al Del Greco did.
Listen fuckstick, if you can't gather that the obvious fact that a marketing firm from Bumblescrew, Wyoming somewhere, thought blindly that marketing to the fucking redneck retardation bammers would score, then you're exactly what we already gathered, you're an extra chromosome inflicted unibrowed inbred bricked foreheaded hairy waterhead fucktard. Well, as it turns out, like anything else that is marketed to the incorrect crowd, buyer or prospect, it flopped miserably.
This isn't about players getting a second chance. If they were good enough to play in the real leagues, they'd play. This league was built around making an extra buck on the backs of players from the past. It was incorrectly and ignorantly marketed to a thin market (Alabama rednecks), and now it's going to fail.
Nobody gives a shit what your bitch ass has to say at that league office, or here. They don't care what we say. We can write letters all day. Nobody here wants to organize a sit in, or walk out, or march on Montgomery over this bullshit, so get your boyfriends mini-dick out your mouth and see this for what it is.
Just another example of Auburn guys laughing their collective asses off at the Alabama douchebag nation and their failed football experiment. You guys are death to anyone and anything associated with your piece of shit program. It's FUCKING HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love how your comeback was to tell us how easy it was to suck your boyfriends "little penis" though. ...fucking brilliant. :rofl:
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I find it hard to believe that Auburn fans are so happy to see this fail when it gives your guys a chance too.
The only Auburn player that was going to be on the team that I am aware of is Karibi Dede, whom I do feel bad for.
However, Karibi is an incredibly smart guy and I have no doubt that if he does not make it in the CFL, he will be just fine out in the real world.
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Listen fuckstick, if you can't gather that the obvious fact that a marketing firm from Bumblescrew, Wyoming somewhere, thought blindly that marketing to the fucking redneck retardation bammers would score, then you're exactly what we already gathered, you're an extra chromosome inflicted unibrowed inbred bricked foreheaded hairy waterhead fucktard. Well, as it turns out, like anything else that is marketed to the incorrect crowd, buyer or prospect, it flopped miserably.
This isn't about players getting a second chance. If they were good enough to play in the real leagues, they'd play. This league was built around making an extra buck on the backs of players from the past. It was incorrectly and ignorantly marketed to a thin market (Alabama rednecks), and now it's going to fail.
Nobody gives a shit what your bitch ass has to say at that league office, or here. They don't care what we say. We can write letters all day. Nobody here wants to organize a sit in, or walk out, or march on Montgomery over this bullshit, so get your boyfriends mini-dick out your mouth and see this for what it is.
Just another example of Auburn guys laughing their collective asses off at the Alabama douchebag nation and their failed football experiment. You guys are death to anyone and anything associated with your piece of shit program. It's FUCKING HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love how your comeback was to tell us how easy it was to suck your boyfriends "little penis" though. ...fucking brilliant. :rofl:
You are aware that if the league does fold, it's not because they marketed to the incorrect crowd, right? Just because you have this moronic idea that there are more Auburn fans than Alabama, and they should have pushed there shit on you is laughable. I'm going to assume that's not what you meant.
The crack on 'Bama fans about being inbred, retard, toe sucking, male ass fucking, cum drinking, meth making, dick cheese eating, fuckmoe's is stupid. Most of the 'Bama fans that live in the state are the same goddamn people as Auburn fans. I forget though that depending on who you cheer for, matters whether or not you have webbed feet.
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Most of the 'Bama fans that live in the state are the same goddamn people as Auburn fans.
Hardly.
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You are aware that if the league does fold, it's not because they marketed to the incorrect crowd, right? Just because you have this moronic idea that there are more Auburn fans than Alabama, and they should have pushed there shit on you is laughable. I'm going to assume that's not what you meant.
Thats the thing. They didn't have to choose which team to market it towards. They could have marketed it to the state of Alabama. There was never any need to play Rammer Jammer, War Eagle, or any other fight song during the ads. If they had marketed it as the state of Alabama team vs. the state of Texas team, etc, they would have been much more successful.
If they fans were split 95-5, then yeah, alienating one fan base is fine. However, since the split is probably 60-40 or 65-35...it was a horrible idea to alienate 35 percent of your possible fans.
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Thats the thing. They didn't have to choose which team to market it towards. They could have marketed it to the state of Alabama. There was never any need to play Rammer Jammer, War Eagle, or any other fight song during the ads. If they had marketed it as the state of Alabama team vs. the state of Texas team, etc, they would have been much more successful.
If they fans were split 95-5, then yeah, alienating one fan base is fine. However, since the split is probably 60-40 or 65-35...it was a horrible idea to alienate 35 percent of your possible fans.
You are probably right, but Texas uses that burnt orange for their color... And though I have seen none of the other states programs, I would assume they just take the top, or assumed top, program for the state and used their colors and the whatnot.
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You are aware that if the league does fold, it's not because they marketed to the incorrect crowd, right? Just because you have this moronic idea that there are more Auburn fans than Alabama, and they should have pushed there shit on you is laughable. I'm going to assume that's not what you meant.
The crack on 'Bama fans about being inbred, retard, toe sucking, male ass fucking, cum drinking, meth making, dick cheese eating, fuckmoe's is stupid. Most of the 'Bama fans that live in the state are the same goddamn people as Auburn fans. I forget though that depending on who you cheer for, matters whether or not you have webbed feet.
You don't get it at all, do you?
The problem with this team/league is that it was marketed poorly. It's not that it should have been marketed exclusively to Auburn fans it's that in the marketing for this drunken donkey of a league, they pissed in the face of a large segment of the state's population.
Whether you recognize it or not, most Auburn fans think Rammer Jammer is a classless cheer and only appropriate to throw back in the face of disconsolate Alabama fans after scalding your ass. Only after there was disdain clearly expressed by Auburn fans did this floating turd league attempt to back up and try some half-ass appeasement efforts.
We don't WANT to watch former Auburn players in Crimson jerseys "celebrating the legacy that is Alabama football". We're, frankly, OFFENDED by it.
Turn it around the other way. New league coming to Birmingham. Going to call itself the Birmingham Eagles. Blue jerseys with orange and white trim. White helmets with orange and blue trim. Stan White, Randy Campbell and Lionel James are the front men for the team. They hold a draft and pick up two dozen Auburn players and Ken Darby. The radio commercials play "Glory, Glory to ole Auburn" in the background. You can hear Jim Fyffe screaming TOUCHDOWN AUBURN! faintly. The audio clips used are from one of the (many) times in recent years that Auburn beat Alabama.
Would you shed a tear if that league never got off the ground?
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You don't get it at all, do you?
The problem with this team/league is that it was marketed poorly. It's not that it should have been marketed exclusively to Auburn fans it's that in the marketing for this drunken donkey of a league, they pissed in the face of a large segment of the state's population.
Whether you recognize it or not, most Auburn fans think Rammer Jammer is a classless cheer and only appropriate to throw back in the face of disconsolate Alabama fans after scalding your ass. Only after there was disdain clearly expressed by Auburn fans did this floating turd league attempt to back up and try some half-ass appeasement efforts.
We don't WANT to watch former Auburn players in Crimson jerseys "celebrating the legacy that is Alabama football". We're, frankly, OFFENDED by it.
Turn it around the other way. New league coming to Birmingham. Going to call itself the Birmingham Eagles. Blue jerseys with orange and white trim. White helmets with orange and blue trim. Stan White, Randy Campbell and Lionel James are the front men for the team. They hold a draft and pick up two dozen Auburn players and Ken Darby. The radio commercials play "Glory, Glory to ole Auburn" in the background. You can hear Jim Fyffe screaming TOUCHDOWN AUBURN! faintly. The audio clips used are from one of the (many) times in recent years that Auburn beat Alabama.
Would you shed a tear if that league never got off the ground?
I am probably the wrong person to ask that last question. I just love watching football. Sure, the only college team I pull for every game is Alabama, but if there is football on, I will watch it. Arena League, CFL, NFLEuropa (when it was around). I just love watching the game.
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I am probably the wrong person to ask that last question. I just love watching football. Sure, the only college team I pull for every game is Alabama, but if there is football on, I will watch it. Arena League, CFL, NFLEuropa (when it was around). I just love watching the game.
Come on, guys. Lay off of him a bit. The Crimson Tide haven't had a good team in almost a decade. He's just trying to enjoy the game of football - whatever way he can.
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How can you type so much with your boyfriends dick in your mouth? :taunt:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
I have some bammer friends that were happy this Shithole League didn't take off, because they didn't want to see another XFL. The XFL, they said, reminded them of watching women's basketball, college or pro (If it's still around?). I for one was kinda looking forward to seeing some More Football...only if it wasn't Crappy, like women's basketball or any uat game in any sport.
As for the marketing ploy....Why in Hell would they think it would be a Great Idea to market the New League to a fan base (92,000 Strong is what the Wife Beater T-Shirts say) that couldn't give more than $26,000 (The boosters gave $10,000, so that's not added in) to the Tornado victims during a Practice where uat didn't charge for admission and didn't charge for water? The average was around .26 cents per person...."Yeah, here's a quarter....Keep the change *wink*."
Hey I have this Great Idea....Okay, let's market this New League, that's hanging on by a thread, to the Ethiopians.
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One thing I don't think you guys realized is that the league, if it did well, wanted to put a team in Auburn as well. Now, could you imagine that if the marketed the team to both sides, had a neutral jersey, and then put a team in Auburn, who would cheer for them? It wouldn't work very well to have a state team, then another team in the state that was 'Auburn-esc'. See what I mean? This makes sense in my head, but most things do, until I try it.
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One thing I don't think you guys realized is that the league, if it did well, wanted to put a team in Auburn as well. Now, could you imagine that if the marketed the team to both sides, had a neutral jersey, and then put a team in Auburn, who would cheer for them? It wouldn't work very well to have a state team, then another team in the state that was 'Auburn-esc'. See what I mean? This makes sense in my head, but most things do, until I try it.
You are a seriously oblivious fucking idiot. :blink:
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You are a seriously oblivious fucking idiot. :blink:
How so?
Also, I'm going to disagree on the idiot part.
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One thing I don't think you guys realized is that the league, if it did well, wanted to put a team in Auburn as well. Now, could you imagine that if the marketed the team to both sides, had a neutral jersey, and then put a team in Auburn, who would cheer for them? It wouldn't work very well to have a state team, then another team in the state that was 'Auburn-esc'. See what I mean? This makes sense in my head, but most things do, until I try it.
El Guano is right, I have heard that the AAFL wanted to put a team in Auburn if the league started strong and continued on a couple of seasons. Too bad that this thinking is doomed from the start. What Auburn fan would knowingly support a team that they knew would eventually become the UAT has-been squad? Why wouldn't I just wait until we had a team of Auburn has-beens? The way I see it, if you're the AAFL you would have one of two choices:
1. Either have one team per state, and market the team to be for the State of Alabama, instead of a branch of any university, or
2. Start with two teams, one for UAT and one for Auburn.
Since the league doesn't have the capital available to start having one team per college, they should have marketed the league to have one team per state, and that team should encompass ALL universities in said state. (It appears they don't have the capital to have one team per state, either.)
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El Guano is right, I have heard that the AAFL wanted to put a team in Auburn if the league started strong and continued on a couple of seasons. Too bad that this thinking is doomed from the start. What Auburn fan would knowingly support a team that they knew would eventually become the UAT has-been squad? Why wouldn't I just wait until we had a team of Auburn has-beens? The way I see it, if you're the AAFL you would have one of two choices:
1. Either have one team per state, and market the team to be for the State of Alabama, instead of a branch of any university, or
2. Start with two teams, one for UAT and one for Auburn.
Since the league doesn't have the capital available to start having one team per college, they should have marketed the league to have one team per state, and that team should encompass ALL universities in said state. (It appears they don't have the capital to have one team per state, either.)
Maybe I just don't like football that much. The thought of watching a bunch of unable-to-cut-it-in-the-NFL Auburn players doesn't excite me at all.
If there ever was an Auburn AAFL team, would you really enjoy watching this lineup?
QB - Brandon Cox
RB - Tre Smith
FB - Jake Slaughter
WR - Jeris McIntyre
WR - Silas Daniels
WR - Lee Guess
OL - Troy Reddick
OL - Monreko Crittenden
DE - Brett Eddins
DT - Roderick Chambers
LB - Travis Williams
LB - Kevin Sears
CB - Montae Pitts
CB - Horace Willis
SS - Junior Rosegreen (this one would be fun)
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Maybe I just don't like football that much. The thought of watching a bunch of unable-to-cut-it-in-the-NFL Auburn players doesn't excite me at all.
If there ever was an Auburn AAFL team, would you really enjoy watching this lineup?
QB - Brandon Cox
RB - Tre Smith
FB - Jake Slaughter
WR - Jeris McIntyre
WR - Silas Daniels
WR - Lee Guess
OL - Troy Reddick
OL - Monreko Crittenden
DE - Brett Eddins
DT - Roderick Chambers
LB - Travis Williams
LB - Kevin Sears
CB - Montae Pitts
CB - Horace Willis
SS - Junior Rosegreen (this one would be fun)
This is bullshit. I wouldn't watch unless I can watch the Lizard and Rusty Williams run circles in the backfield around Cox a few times.. That's funny and good quality entertainment.