Iron Bowl 2K9

Well the Iron Bowl is here, and Alabama will head into this game undefeated for the second straight year. This team has pretty much annihilated every offense they've faced this year, so Gus Malzahn is going to have to draw up one hell of a gameplan to beat Rolando McClain and company.

Surprisingly, this year's Iron Bowl has featured a little bit of trash talking heading into the week. Even with the terrible, awful things the two fan bases wish upon each other through message boards and such, I haven't heard a whole lot of chatter from these teams in awhile.

So here we go.

When asked about this year's Auburn team, Alabama QB Greg McElroy said, "It's not going to be any pressure. It's just going to be the same old team that we played last year."

This is a truly ridiculous statement. First of all, since all of the players are still in college, how old can they possibly be? 21, maybe 22 at the oldest? To call a team elderly is a new and bold strategy that may or may not backfire for Mr. McElroy. Considering this guy played behind that fatty Chase Daniel in high school and then the mighty JPW, he probably has a skewed sense of reality.

Also, McElroy really didn't do that much in last year's game. Sure he threw for a touchdown late in the game, but by that time I know that most of the Tigers had turned it in. One can only hope that the Auburn defense will figure out a way to introduce McElroy to Pat Dye Field many times, just like his ole buddy Brody Croyle.

The next comment I'm going to share with you comes straight out of the Crazy-verse. Comments by Ochocinco a.k.a. Child Please pale in comparison to this sort of lunacy. Alabama punt returner and CB Javier Arenas grew up in Florida, and apparently never heard of the football giant we like to call Auburn until he moved to the big city up in Tuscaloosa.

He said, "When I heard Carnell Williams went to Auburn, I thought it was a Division III school."

You may be asking, "Whaaaaa?"

Arenas hails from Tampa, Florida, where I'm pretty sure Auburn may have been once or twice on a recruiting visit. It is now obvious that Arenas was not recruited by Auburn, and was probably himself headed for the I-AA ranks before Bama scooped him up.

EDIT: It appears he was also recruited by Florida Atlantic. Are they D-1?

I am truly flabbergasted by such a display, but credit to Arenas for not knocking Auburn down to I-AA, but spiraling toward Division III and football anonymity.

Well, I've got to go rest my head after reading comments from these two media wizards. Hopefully the Auburn players can store these nuggets and use them as inspiration for leaving cold, lifeless bodies of Crimson Tide players on the field at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

I'll be back later on as more lunacy emerges.

War Damn Eagle!!

BEAT BAMA