AUBURN, Alabama -- Still stinging from last weekend's Iron Bowl upset, fans of the Alabama Crimson Tide might have something to say about the latest edition of The Auburn Plainsman.



Less than a week after Auburn's miracle win over the heavily favored University of Alabama, the student-run paper published today an editorial bashing Tide fans -- dubbed "bammers" -- as classless and a "sad, lonely bunch of folks who define their lives by a college football program."



"We won't go into all the Bammer stereotypes, even though they are quite funny and mostly true," reads the opinion piece attributed to the paper's editorial board. "No, we just want to take this time to show how even in the classless world of college football, Bammers make us all look like royalty."



It goes on to allege that only a minority of tide fans attempted to distance themselves from Harvey Updyke Jr., who infamously

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"He is the Bammer patriarch and they have taken his vitriolic insanity as gospel," it reads.

The Plainsman also alleged that "Bammers" were responsible for threats against Tide kicker Cade Foster after he missed two field goals and had another blocked during the Iron Bowl match-up.

And it calls on UA to learn from Updyke and the "Bammers" and remember that "just because you're a bunch of winners doesn't mean you can't be a bunch of losers."

Questioned about the editorial, Kelsey Davis, editor in chief of The Plainsman, said it was intended as a good-humored jab at Auburn's longtime rival.

More seriously though, she said the editorial is meant to point out the problems on both sides of the rivalry and how college football in general is being taken too seriously.

"Football is being blown out of proportion," she said.

The Plainsman's opinion editor, Benjamin Croomes, who wrote the editorial, agreed with that assessment.

Updated at 6:59 p.m. Dec. 5, 2013 to add comment from Croomes.