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Alabama fans need to understand one thing today, a day after their Crimson Tide was knocked off the top of SEC Mountain with its loss to LSU:
The knives are going to come out, especially on social media.
When you win as often as Alabama does, for that long, you can’t expect anything else.
So this is going to be an all-Tide edition of Sad Fans. You hear that, Arkansas and South Carolina? We’re letting you off the hook for losing at home to Group of 5 programs on Saturday. Got it, Missouri and Vanderbilt fans? We’re letting you off the hook for being shut out in SEC play.
This is the lone reprieve for y’all, though.
Our first glimpse is two sad fans and … well, not quite a Surrender Cobra or even a Surrender Stefon in the middle. More like a unique “This game is making me mad and my ears are cold” pose.
Bama gals can't handle it #sadSECfans pic.twitter.com/YktNzVSttZ
— sadSECfans (@sadSECfans) November 10, 2019
One fan’s gesture seems to indicate that she thinks the Tide served this game to LSU on a platter:
finally. sad bama fans pic.twitter.com/dgCs5emZ8L
— snowyshmason (@shmasonsays) November 9, 2019
It’s understandable that some Alabama fans had a hard time processing what they were seeing:
#sadSECfans pic.twitter.com/5cQerdjYmu
— sadSECfans (@sadSECfans) November 9, 2019
https://twitter.com/MadRiverCPA/status/1193322184204312579?s=20
Yep, stunned:
Stunned #sadSECfans pic.twitter.com/rux4iQ9rdq
— sadSECfans (@sadSECfans) November 9, 2019
This is a pretty funny take on how long it had been since Bama lost to LSU:
https://twitter.com/thejasonkirk/status/1193293165031284737?s=20
LSU fans had their moments of tension as well, because the Tigers had to fight to put away the Crimson Tide:
Nervous time for these LSU fans #sadSECfans pic.twitter.com/qzjBcJjMjG
— sadSECfans (@sadSECfans) November 9, 2019
But in the end, Bama fans saw their prayers go unanswered:
#SadBamaFans pic.twitter.com/UnPTsuWora
— Matt Moscona (@MattMoscona) November 9, 2019
Even the Crimson Tide cheerleaders were shocked:
#sadSECfans @nocontextcfb pic.twitter.com/9WxCzef0Ev
— sadSECfans (@sadSECfans) November 9, 2019
We can’t leave this topic be without grading attempts at the Surrender Cobra, or what people mistakenly call the Surrender Cobra:
Lol…nothing better than sad #Bama fan pic.twitter.com/pSIxiUem6M
— G (@GFunk_Error) November 10, 2019
Nope, not quite …
[checks in on alabama-lsu]
ahh pic.twitter.com/JBNfSQOP4w
— mike taddow (@MikeTaddow) November 9, 2019
Still not there …
First quarter #SurrenderCobra pic.twitter.com/Rb8J7yTIFW
— Surrender Cobra (@SurrenderCobra) November 9, 2019
Closer, but we rule against it …
You hate to see it #SurrenderCobra pic.twitter.com/HpDkUYwc8A
— Chad A Graham (@Sonnie_CG) November 9, 2019
Oh, come on, not even close …
Once the #surrendercobra? came out in Tuscaloosa … it was all over… hopefully now they can go away since this is the only ranked team they've played.. no more free passes #GeauxTigers #GeauxLSU pic.twitter.com/w2KGFpXKTG
— Chris Snusz (@under2catching) November 10, 2019
There we go, that’s the one.
Never EVER put your Hands on Top of your Head during a Game…
Instantly on TV ? #SurrenderCobra— PFM (@PFM_Louisiana) November 8, 2019
Others we enjoyed:
https://twitter.com/uagrad89/status/1193224930223165442
Me caught wondering who Arkansas’s next head coach hire is… Who can turn this program around? #WPS pic.twitter.com/yq8AT96oL2
— Hilary Hunt (@Hilary_TV) November 9, 2019
You are right, Paul E. – but we hope nobody ever listens to you, because the glory of Surrender Cobra knows no bounds.
Enjoy this win and this edition of Sad Fans, LSU rooters. But watch out: You never know when the cameras will catch you being struck by the Surrender Cobra. Or would that be a Surrender Ceauxbra?
Longtime newspaper veteran Jim Tomlin is a copy editor and writer with SaturdayDownSouth.com.
