BAMA’S ANDRE SMITH OUT FOR BOWL GAME
He is clearly allergic to Brandon Spikes, but most football players on the offensive side of the ball share this medical condition. Now what we’ve found yet another way to express our undying love for Brandon Spikes, it might help you to know that the offensive lineman featured in that video, Andre Smith, is an All-American pedigreed badass who eats whole pieces of chainlink fence for snacks and has anchored the left tackle spot for Bama since he was a freshman.
He is also suspended for the bowl game for unspecified violations of team rules. No ideA, aGain, whEther aNyone will geT to the bottom of why, but we’re sure some anonymous internet rumor will suffice for truth in the meantime.
(Also: the Papa Johns.com Occluded Artery StrokeFeed Bowl just got off to a crazygonuts start with a fake FG for a Rutgers TD and then a missed XP. Keep Shaun King away from the breadsticks; his jowls are getting to be positively Swindle-sized.)
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Vol says:
Is anyone actually surprised by a bammer rules infraction anymore? And didn’t they have to forfeit their entire season the last time they had a problem with player/agent contact?
December 29th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
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Bamaman says:
Let me go on record as saying DAMMIT ANDRE!!! 3 awesome seasons with nothing but good publicity, great play, and then this. One of the best linemen in school history and a heckuva citizen (assuming this suspension isn’t for killing a hooker) and now he’ll forever be remembered for a one game suspension.
It’s like the end of “No Country for Old Men” – Just an excellent movie for 90 minutes and then Tommy Lee Jones goes all metaphysical over juice at breakfast and the screen goes black. Terrible end to an otherwise excellent film.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
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Tater Salad says:
Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck
December 29th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
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Tater Salad says:
@1:
It was because Langham played the following season after having improper contact with an agent in New Orleans at the Sugar Bowl.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
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Doug says:
Can I just tell you how happy and grateful I am that someone’s actually watching the Papajohns.com Bowl? It’s a great thing you’re (sniff) doing for the good people (sniff, wipes tear away) of Birmingham, a proud . . . I’m sorry, I’m gonna need a minute, I’m sorry . . .
December 29th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
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Vol says:
What’s the over/under on the number of years before they’re back on probation?
December 29th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
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MSUDoginAL says:
As a MSU alum and fan that lives in Alabama and has to listen to some of the most ignorant Bama fans alive, all I can say is that it couldn’t happen to a better school.
/cackles evilly
And my Tide Pride father-in-laws response to the news..”Shit”
I am sure that was the clean version since he is at the hellhole called Legion Field with my wife and kids.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
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Counter Trap says:
@ Vol: Tennessee fans casting aspersions can cause space/time contiuum rifts. Please don’t end the world, it’s the only one we have.
All agents, Ryan Seacrest and gregg Easterbrook should be sent to Gitmo anyway.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
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TAFKastOSUB says:
Lest we forget who took home the Fulmer cup this year…I know the 12-0 regular season wiped away the luster and daily reminder that Alabama won the Fulmer Cup, but the fact remains…there is a Fulmer Cup in the trophy case.
For a team that just came off of probation and was an inch away from the death penalty (still one of the saddest days for me when I found out the NCAA was letting Bama off the hook – I just wanted to see the meltdown up close and personal), you guys have sure cleaned your act up.
The textbook 5 scandal, players dealing cocaine, players robbing students at gun point, and now the most celebrated player on the team making improper contact with a sports agent.
No one is surprised…we’re all just waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it will drop…it’s just a matter of time.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
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El Kabong!!! says:
TAFKTSOUBSQWERTY,
You can come watch up close when I break my foot off in your yankee ass, if it pleases you.
And as for Teflon Tennessee, don’t act like your shit don’t stink, you just manage to pay off the NCAA investigators as well as the players.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
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Tim Gunn says:
What happened to Andre?
December 29th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
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ATL AU Tiger says:
Is this the first Saban Alabama suspension that has preceded an arrest?
December 29th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
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PW says:
TAFKastOSUB–
C’mon, having Jimmy Johns on your Fulmer Cup team is like having one of those 6′, 200 lb, mustachioed 12-year-olds on your little league team.
December 29th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
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CapstoneAlum says:
If anyone thinks anything NCAA related is going to come out of this..you’re out of your damn mind. The interaction was post-SECC game. When UA caught wind of it, Andre was told to hit the bricks. (Not that that was anything special on Sabans part as Smith is no longer an amateur and Saban had no choice) In relation to the Sugar Bowl, UA will just do what they did against Auburn with great success…run to the right. 36-0 bitches.
Now on to “the Artist”. Let it go. Just let it go. I know the guy who took your lunch money everyday was an Alabama fan..but damn..its time to move on.
December 29th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
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Counter Trap says:
Terry Bowden knows the answer to your question, ATL AU Tiger, but his hush money agreement prevents him from commenting. Now please apply another coat of wax to Mr. Lowder’s car.
December 29th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
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Mr.Pelican Pants says:
The only shoe thats gonna drop is the one Texas will be using to stomp that Buckeye ass in a few days.
December 29th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
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TAFKastOSUB says:
Well played Pelican…lol.
The fact remains…this is just another example of the slime that surrounds the bama football program…
Saban, the outsider remind you, might be the cleanest thing going in Tuscaloosa, and that’s saying something.
December 29th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
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www.southbendblarney.com says:
Agents and dirty women…the kryptonite to future NFLers everywhere
December 29th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
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Jegtar says:
Oh, and by the way, your 2007 recruiting class is over-rated…nothing more than Rivals and Scout trying to pull memberships in…
Comment by TAFKastOSUB — June 24, 2008
suck it.
December 29th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
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Cheatypants McSweatervest says:
I see the resident Suckeyes didn’t get any smarter for Christmas.
Gonna be funny watching the Suckeyes get anally violated by someone other than an SEC team.
Hopefully, there will be a doctor in Blowhio that will be able to medically remove the longhorn from your colon without too much damage.
December 30th, 2008 at 10:26 am
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Ohio State Sucks Fishheads says:
1.Andre did not have any direct contact with the agent.
2. Andre did not know that the family members involved did.
3. The family mebers in question were out for themselves, and Andre got caught in the middle.
3. UA Compliance probably over reacted, but hell, we know why.
4. TAFKastOSUB is an ignorant, pathetic jealous little snot.
December 30th, 2008 at 10:38 am
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JIMatUA says:
Latest internet rumor has it that Andre did noting wrong, but that a family member had “improper” dealings with an agent. I hate agents even more than a jort wearing, mullet sporting, Tebow!!!!
December 30th, 2008 at 10:57 am