It's Not Revenge Alabama Is Seeking on Auburn: It Is a Reckoning!

Alabama sits 11-0 and is currently sitting at the top of the BCS rankings.

Alabama has accomplished more this year than any Alabama fan could have ever expected so soon after Nick Saban's arrival.

All of Alabama's loftiest preseason goals are either already accomplished or are now within their reach.

We are unbeaten and are heading to the SEC Championship Game in search of our 22nd SEC championship. If we are successful there, we will head to Miami in search of our 13th National Championship.

It has been a long, difficult road back to prominence thanks to circumstances beyond Alabama's control.

Along the way we have had personal scores to settle—perceived wrongs that needed to be, shall we say, righted.

Scores that needed to be settled like the following:

We have paid back the Georgia players for celebrating in the Student Section End Zone after Georgia's overtime victory last year with a sound whipping in their own stadium and ending their dreams of a national championship.

We helped send the cause of our NCAA misery, Tennessee's Coach Phillip Fulmer, into an early retirement by handing Tennessee back-to-back lopsided losses.

We have broken LSU's five-game winning streak that dated back to 2002 and have silenced a sarcastic Les Miles for his "It looks like Alabama loses to all the Louisiana teams" statement, as well as put his future at LSU in doubt.

We have ended a humiliating two-game losing streak to our closest neighbor school, Mississippi State, that is located just 82 miles down, coincidentally, Highway 82.

Alabama has had its hands tied behind its back since its run-in with the NCAA, and all of our rivals have gotten in their licks on a helpless Alabama team.

Those days are over now, and the world is spinning correctly on its axis again!

Many wrongs have been righted, but the most important wrong that needs to be righted is now in Alabama's crosshairs.

That worst of all wrongs, the smug and arrogant Auburn Tigers!

The Auburn Tigers have also had their own brand of fun these last six years at Alabama's expense. They have enjoyed a humiliating six-game winning streak over "The Tide" spanning all the way back to 2002.

Auburn fans have twisted the knife and rubbed salt in Alabama fans' festering wounds day in and day out for 2,190 days. They have teased and taunted Alabama fans for over 26,280 hours.

You see, Alabama and Auburn fans live, work, and even go to church together. They are friends, relatives, and even husbands and wives.

There are 1,576,800 minutes of pent-up frustration hiding just below the surface in millions of Alabama fans.

That adds up to over 94,608,000 seconds of pure Hell just about to be released on the Auburn nation.

So on November 29, 2008, it is not revenge Alabama is seeking. In the words of Doc Holliday in the movie about Wyatt Earp, "It is a reckoning!"

For those of you not familiar with that term, it means...the working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.

We have had to suffer under Auburn's temporary reign of terror over Alabama for the past six years.

We have had to watch the Auburn head coach's immature taunting of Alabama fans and students by holding up the number of fingers relating to the winning streak.

We have had to witness Auburn players celebrating on our field while Auburn students and fans celebrated in our stadium, all holding up their fingers as well.

We have to go to work, school, and even church where Auburn fans waited with T-shirts depicting "Fear of the Thumb" and writing taunting messages on their windshields.

We have even witnessed a classless Tommy Tuberville disembarking Auburn's chartered plane over a month later at Auburn's Bowl game wearing his own Fear of the Thumb T-shirt.

Well, to quote Wyatt Earp again, we are Alabama and..."This stops now!"

Alabama is ready to resume its rightful place in our state, in the SEC, and in the nation as one of the nation's premier college football programs.

Alabama is ready to be Alabama again. Now it is our turn to have a little fun at our rival's expense.

Alabama has always tried to win with class and lose with class, but in this case, you may have to forgive us Bear—they all have it coming to them.

Make no mistake about it, Hell is coming and Alabama is coming with it!

Alabama is back!

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