"Act like you've been there before..."

[jmbeck]

I ask you, is this...

<span style="font-style: italic;">A cherished addage we should all live by. Respect for yourself and your opponent is the threshold of sportsmanship. </span>

or

<span style="font-style: italic;">An overstated phrase used by condescending ******** (especially Alabama fans) as a way to take a cheap shot at another team when they are getting/have gotten their own *** beat.</span>

I'm going to go with the second one. I've heard that line uttered no less than 100 times in 3 years in this hell hole of Birmingham, and always at an opposing team that has achieved something Alabama couldn't that year.

Your thoughts?

 

[MrHooch]

they are definitely words to live by, but then again I live in Starkville so I don't have to listen to pompous Bama fans spewing psuedo-intellectual ******** day in and day out...I think that would have a big effect on my answer...