The destruction of people's lives throughout Alabama was real and significant. From what was reported, the bama football team helped those in need. They went to hospitals to visit kids and gave people who really needed it support and comfort. I commend them for the good deeds they did. I thank them for what they did to help comfort those in agony. We are all sec. We should be proud of any sec team that helps their community. It doesn't matter if they are gumps. If they did a good thing to help people in need, I have no problem with them being awarded for their good deeds. Thanks for your community service, you did the sec family proud.
How I see it , we're all sec. We are family. We are the south. When a team does community service to help those in need , it makes us all look good. It doesn't matter if they are damn gumps. If they donated their time to clean up, work food banks and visit wounded children in hospitals, they deserve to be recognized for their service. We are all sec. We are family. We look out for each other. I have no problem giving credit to any young man that donates his time to his community , even if he is a stinking gump.
This was a Spirit Award, it had nothing to do with LSU-Alabama. I can't believe anyone would be offended or angry that Bama was given this award. You've got your priorities mixed up if you do. A massive tornado ripped right through Tuscaloosa and took hundreds of lives and you're p***** because Bama got "sympathy"? I'll never understand some people.
This is a dumpster fire of a thread. I found nothing out of line with Alabama getting the Spirit Award, or the attention that goes with it. Someone said something about "crying to get attention", and I refuse to quote it so others will see it. But Carson Tinker was thrown hundreds of feet after his girlfriend was ripped from his hands. He's extremely lucky to be alive, and is an amazingly resolute young man. His girlfriend wasn't so lucky. She was killed after being ripped from his arms. I doubt he's doing anything for sympathy, but regardless, he has mine...and my respect. Shameful thread.
I don't know many specifics, but fish stated a fine example. Because that team went out and helped the needy there is absolutely no need to feel any jealousy for their award or have any hesitation acknowledging their contribution to that community.
I think the bama players did what ANY decent human WOULD do if they lived a city that suffered that much devastation! The spirit award was more of a sympathy award, imo. That whole player who visited a boy who lost both parents, couldn't the team have done something more than a visit? ANYone would go sit with an orphan...thought this award was more of going ABOVE and beyond what the norm would do.
The fact that any team would do those things is a testiment to the quality young men in the sec and NCAA football in general and to us as Americans. The fact is Alabama did do it and congratulations them for doing so.
