"I wish you'd get out of my life and shut up!"

Is what Napolean Dynamite said to his Uncle Rico and what many Auburn fans have no doubt said to Bammers in their lifetime. In a heated debate amongst friends during the never-ending barrage of "crootin" championship claims by Bammers this offseason, a friend of mine said during the heat of the moment, "Bammers remind me of Uncle Rico." There's no comeback for that and it got WRAS to thinking, how much like Uncle Rico are Bammers? Let's analyze some of Uncle Rico's quotes in the movie and see if there are any similarities...

"Anyway uh... so we still feelin' pretty good about this, uh, 32-piece set, here?"

Sounds like what Bammers will be saying in three years about their "crootin" champunship. WRAS bets no, they won't be feeling good about it.

"Back in '82, I used to be able to throw a pigskin a quarter mile. How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?... Yeah... Coach woulda put me in fourth quarter, we would've been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind."

1982 was the last year the Bahr coached and everything's been going downhill ever since. Like Bammers, the exploits of Uncle Rico have blurred the line between fact and fiction. Even claiming he can throw a football the length of over four football fields which is like Bammers claiming "12 nashunul champunships". Note the "would've been state champions" line, been a long time since that's happened, for Bammers and Uncle Rico. In Uncle Rico's mind and in Bammers, only the fourth quarter counts, as in Bammers win the fourth quarter but not the whole game. Just ask Brodie or the Britt brothers, they'll tell you. On another note, hasn't the defining play of the Iron Bowl streak been UAT kicking an onside kick late in the fourth quarter down by 7 or more points? It wouldn't be November without it.

"We also need some way to make us look official, like we got all the answers. We need like some name tags with our picture on it, all laminated and what not. I mean, we gotta look legit man."

Maybe their houndstooth visors and other hideous hats, Got Mike, Got Fran, Got Mike, Got Mike, Got Nick shirts and red jumpsuits make them smarter. WRAS knows it wasn't their UAT education, most don't have one.

"You... you? You pay the bills for that? Does that cost money every time you're on, like, for minutes on the phone?"

Sounds like conversations Sa6an has had with various members of the REC and other Bammer boosters during the time leading up to their "crootin" champunship.

"I reckon... you know a lot about... cyberspace? You ever come across anything... like time travel?"

Nothing would make Bammers happier than going back in time to 1982 or the 1970s and reliving the glory days that are getting smaller and smaller in the rearviewmirror of life.

Definitely sounds like Uncle Rico is a Bammer at heart, he even has the gold boogie chain to prove it.