During the Iron Bowl, the Auburn radio announcers didn’t care for the calls from the referees and they let their listeners hear it.

It’s a tradition like no other and it seems to never fail. Alabama wins a game and fans complain about the referees. That’s what we are supposed to do. After all, fan is short for fanatical. Where the line should be drawn is with radio announcers.

The stellar team of Rod Bramblett and Stan White seemed to really start having trouble on the late hit out of bounds that was called on Auburn’s Jonathan Ford. Well, that’s when I sensed their blood pressure starting to rise. I could even understand their frustration on that one. It really could have gone either way. Ford did hit him out of bounds, but I could have seen them letting it go as well.

“Once again, an official is going to make his mark on the Iron Bowl”, rang through the airways of Auburn fans’ radios. What really got them upset was the unsportsmanlike penalty on the Tigers’ bench that gave the Tide another 15 yards tacked on to the previous 15. Apparently, they thought the call was on head coach Gus Malzahn but I didn’t see him doing anything. I did see assistant coach Will Muschamp not having a nice conversation with the referees. They should have a good point to bring up, right? “I have never seen a coach in college football ride officials like Nick Saban does”.

Here is the deal. HEAD coaches can get away with a little more than ASSISTANTS. They are right. College coaches don’t get called for it too much. However, when you have someone making a fool of themselves like Muschamp did, you can pretty much guarantee that they are going to get rang up.

All we can do is sit back and laugh. The least we could do is send them a souvenir from Atlanta. Roll Tide.