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CajunBlazer

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14. I am proud of my home town newspaper and our local writing talent
Sat Mar 12, 2016, 01:45 AM
Mar 2016

An excellent article and I find it interesting that Kyle Whitmire, the author of the piece, refers to the UAB/Universtity of Alabama situation. Everyone in Birmingham understands that comparison completely.

I am a huge UAB fan and as you might have heard our "masters" the University of Alabama Board of Trustees and their assassin, Ray Watts, who they installed as our president, did their best to shut down our UAB football program. They were afraid that it would someday in the future UAB would dare to challenge "THE UNIVERSITY" of Aloabama for football supremacy in the state of Alabama. (As if that was ever going to happen.) If there was ever a present day Cain and Able story of of a big brother trying to kill off his little brother, this was it. Absolutely sickening! We fought long and hard and forced them to give our program back.

Some day hopefully someone will write a book on the subject. It would make a great movie; David overcomes Goliath, good and persistence victorious over pure evil.

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