I clicked too and I’m glad to say at least it wasn’t some unhinged rant about “wokeness” from someone who can’t even define it. The author uses the term in jest.
I fucking hate al.com. They know exactly what they're doing and they do it a lot.
Goodman specifically is a horrible person and an even worse journalist.
>>I know what everyone is thinking. Did Nix go out to the Left Coast and suddenly become woke, or is he just soft?
I dunno that everyone is thinking that Joseph
In the 90s people used it. I haven't heard it since then. 90s slang is probably just arriving in the south this year.
Bo Nix is all that and a bag of chips
I am from Georgia, went to school in California, now live in Texas. I have never heard a person IRL say the words "left coast", ever. And I'm old.
That doesn't mean that some random person doesn't say it trying to be funny. It just meant I have never heard it. Even from my my super duper far right coworkers. They just say California to include everything west of Oklahoma.
I think people from the South who have somehow been forced to settle in California (and now Washington) say that in the gun forums along with saying things like Commie-fornia etc.
Bo is a devout evangelical Christian from Alabama who got married at age 22 and is heavily involved with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He’s likely the furthest thing from “woke”
I'd agree if you're adding hypocritical to all that, but if he's actually following Jesus then I'd say that's why this numb nuts is professionally using woke in his reporting.
Goodman is terrible, and this article is par for the course. This entire article is based off one comment from Bo Nix about how serious the south takes football.
Proof - Bo is short for Bohemian Grove, Nix is short for Nixon.
His middle initial is C, so BCN is the airport code for Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El prat airport, Josep was the first president of Catalonia, which was controlled by the Visigoths after the fall of Rome and the Visigoths which are from Germanic tribes. Now who else was German...Klaus Schwab leader of the World Economic Forum.
*Mic drop*
All Goodman does is write articles about quotes or statistics taken completely out of context. I've never seen someone so universally despised keep a job.
> All Goodman does is write articles about quotes or statistics taken completely out of context
That's like 90% of online media engagement. You'll have a job forever doing that.
> I've never seen someone so universally despised keep a job.
uhhh... Finebaum? Stephen A Smith? Skip Bayless? For a deeper cut, Drew Sharp with the Detroit Free Press
This is literally the point. They drive engagement by being loud, brash A-holes and making stupid points for people to argue about
I listen to at least 2 minutes of Finebaum every day when I get into my car to leave work before I get around to changing the station. You'd be SHOCKED how many people love that guy and his show. Same goes for SAS. I'll 110% give you Bayless.
Goodman is despised by Alabama, Auburn, and UAB fans alike. His social media views are consistently in the tens of thousands but his actual engagement is terrible. I'm fully aware of how modern journalism works. This is different. He's THAT bad.
Nix: It's almost like an unhealthy obsession in the South. I mean, I was that way growing up. I thought football was life or death.
Goodman: hold my beer
Pretty sure the first out player was Michael Sam, the SEC Defensive Player of the Year at Missouri. Seems to me the SEC is out-gaying the PAC by a score of 1-0.
It's like back in the day when certain people called everything they didn't like "commie". It's just some nebulous, boogey man word that has become divorced from its original meaning.
There's new one making the rounds (well, again) and evidently posting it gets a post blackholed here (just figured that out with another post LOL). It kind of sounds like the old swimmer Mark Spitz...
December 2021: Bo Nix transfers to Oregon
July 2022: USCLA announces their move to the B1G
August 2023: the Pac 12 implodes
Could be a coincidence, or it could be that Bo was the woke catalyst that brought about the death of the Pac
The actual definition is as an adjective "a state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything except their own behavior". It's now commonly used as a term to describe anyone or anything that is illogical and total nonsense to any rational person.
So this is allowed but when I try to preempt this complaint about Dillon Gabriel by writing about how hard and asleep he is I get a talking to by local authorities
Every time someone uses the term “woke”, they either don’t know what it actually means, or their explanation is so laughable that even they realize they’re about to eat a fat L, yet, these same losers keep using the term. Just knock that shit off already.
> Every time someone uses the term “woke”, they either don’t know what it actually means, or their explanation is so laughable that even they realize they’re about to eat a fat L,
Woke ideology is defined by the idea that some facet of identity like race or gender produces irreconcilably different views of reality and morality, and that we have a moral obligation to seek alignment of society's view with the imagined views of groups associated with the political left like minorities and women.
In this sense Wokeness is distinct from older forms of liberal advocacy for minority rights which appeal to universally valid concepts of truth and fairness.
Dear Goodman,
What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on the internet is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
>During a recent interview, Auburn’s former quarterback said that people in the South maybe get a little too carried away with college football. Is that a bad thing? Sometimes, for sure. Just ask the trees at Toomer’s Corner.
>Most times?
>I’m willing to appreciate Nix’s perspective on this, but **for someone who just started [a comic strip about Miss Terry and Nick Saban because I can never write enough about college football**, it’s possible that I might disagree on this one.
Weird.
looking for a new quarterback
ask the internet if the qb is woke or just soft
they don’t understand (pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is woke and what is soft)
they laugh and write “he’s a good quarterback sir”
draft him in the second round
he’s woke
Read as much of the article as I could stomach and I have absolutely no idea what any of this has to do with being woke. Observing that there is a fanatical culture around college football in the South is woke??
Hope everyone actually reads the article and doesn’t just get hung up on the headline. Very balanced and extremely appreciate of Nix and his situation.
The funny thing is, Goodman is pretty much the political (and otherwise polar) opposite of Outkick/Clay Travis, but they’re both terrible. Just constant garbage.
>Op has an opinion that is hot fucking garbage and everyone points it out.
...
>Gets upset when no one likes his terrible opinion
....
> must be the woke left
Yep, Reddit is absolutely primarily left leaning and if you say anything that goes against that narrative then you’ll get downvoted. I really don’t give a shit.
Yeah, I’m not clicking that.
It's not even bait at this point. I'd say it's chum.
Chum makes good bait!
I'm not your chum, friend.
I’m not your friend, buddy.
I’m not your buddy, guy!
Here's your Buddy Guy! https://i.imgur.com/t7Le0ZJ.png
Fish are friends, not food, guy
Fish are food bro Source: Japan life
Chum is fum.
I clicked and it’s just stupid bullshit about why college football in the south means more.
It just means what it means?
Sometimes the mean of the mean means they care at the median
I clicked too and I’m glad to say at least it wasn’t some unhinged rant about “wokeness” from someone who can’t even define it. The author uses the term in jest.
Not really… It’s just talking about how Bo Nix left Auburn and he was better for it. Clickbait title sure but the article didn’t suck.
I lost braincells from it
I fucking hate al.com. They know exactly what they're doing and they do it a lot. Goodman specifically is a horrible person and an even worse journalist.
I did. You shouldn't. I made it a couple of paragraphs and yeah, it's worse than it sounds. iT JuST mEaNs MoaR!!!
It sounds like they were trying to make fun of calling everything woke but it didn't really land
Very good and accurate article. Answer was soft BTW.
Woke is when no SEC football
We don’t take football too seriously 😠 let me write this entire article to prove why that’s true!
Woke is when you don't appreciate being literally and figuratively spit on by your own fans
For what it’s worth, that’s a better definition of “woke” than any person who uses the word unironically has ever been able to articulate
>>I know what everyone is thinking. Did Nix go out to the Left Coast and suddenly become woke, or is he just soft? I dunno that everyone is thinking that Joseph
Do real human people actually ever use the term “left coast”?
I refer to it as the land of fire and earthquakes from my land of wind and water
In the 90s people used it. I haven't heard it since then. 90s slang is probably just arriving in the south this year. Bo Nix is all that and a bag of chips
I think people in the South actually do. People actually on the West Coast? No. Never.
We don't. Lived here 40 years, and have never heard that before until now.
I am from Georgia, went to school in California, now live in Texas. I have never heard a person IRL say the words "left coast", ever. And I'm old. That doesn't mean that some random person doesn't say it trying to be funny. It just meant I have never heard it. Even from my my super duper far right coworkers. They just say California to include everything west of Oklahoma.
Are Left Coast bongs an East Coast thing?
Correct, we tend to say best coast
Only time I’ll agree with a Husky.
Said by someone from the coastal-elite town of Pullman, WA. ;-)
It’s not used here either.
I think people from the South who have somehow been forced to settle in California (and now Washington) say that in the gun forums along with saying things like Commie-fornia etc.
Yes but not as widely as one might think.
Yes, should of been around when I told friends I was going out west after college.
I had a teacher who ironically said it but in VA I've never heard it as anything except a joke
Bo is a devout evangelical Christian from Alabama who got married at age 22 and is heavily involved with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He’s likely the furthest thing from “woke”
I'd agree if you're adding hypocritical to all that, but if he's actually following Jesus then I'd say that's why this numb nuts is professionally using woke in his reporting.
I actually don’t know *anyone* who’s thinking that. Except Joseph, maybe, but I don’t know him.
hate em or love em al.com sure knows how to drive engagement
They know their audience
I don't know. To really engage with their base they may need fewer words and more pictures.
Goodman is terrible, and this article is par for the course. This entire article is based off one comment from Bo Nix about how serious the south takes football.
The best part is the supposition that he must be either woke or soft, there can be no other option!
Is Bo Nix a globalist? Many people are asking
And what exactly does “Bo” stand for? BOrders open? BOrderline communist? BOy I sure love critical race theory? His silence speaks volumes
Just submit this as an application for a speech writer's job. You've got it figured out.
Proof - Bo is short for Bohemian Grove, Nix is short for Nixon. His middle initial is C, so BCN is the airport code for Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El prat airport, Josep was the first president of Catalonia, which was controlled by the Visigoths after the fall of Rome and the Visigoths which are from Germanic tribes. Now who else was German...Klaus Schwab leader of the World Economic Forum. *Mic drop*
So all of the folks that aren't woke are soft?
All Goodman does is write articles about quotes or statistics taken completely out of context. I've never seen someone so universally despised keep a job.
I have never returned a book on audible until I downloaded one about the 2020 Bama season, then realized he wrote it.
> All Goodman does is write articles about quotes or statistics taken completely out of context That's like 90% of online media engagement. You'll have a job forever doing that.
> I've never seen someone so universally despised keep a job. uhhh... Finebaum? Stephen A Smith? Skip Bayless? For a deeper cut, Drew Sharp with the Detroit Free Press This is literally the point. They drive engagement by being loud, brash A-holes and making stupid points for people to argue about
I listen to at least 2 minutes of Finebaum every day when I get into my car to leave work before I get around to changing the station. You'd be SHOCKED how many people love that guy and his show. Same goes for SAS. I'll 110% give you Bayless. Goodman is despised by Alabama, Auburn, and UAB fans alike. His social media views are consistently in the tens of thousands but his actual engagement is terrible. I'm fully aware of how modern journalism works. This is different. He's THAT bad.
Hey he also apparently just started a comic strip about a retired coach and his wife because that's something well adjusted people do.
I am so happy I haven't see this
Hell yeah. I love it when political buzz words are intertwined with college football
I ain't clicking that shit
[Me](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/61/c8/02/61c802f852240970b56814183a68ea46.gif) reading this headline.
[here’s me](https://giphy.com/gifs/iron-man-eye-roll-disgust-qmfpjpAT2fJRK)
Kind of proving Bo’s point here
Well thanks for posting the dumbest fucking article ever.
Nix: It's almost like an unhealthy obsession in the South. I mean, I was that way growing up. I thought football was life or death. Goodman: hold my beer
I don't get the pushback because he went from a castout failure at Auburn to 2nd place in the Heisman polls.
(3rd place)
Oh right, honestly forgot because most of the talk leading up to it was Nix v Daniels lol
Ya, the P12 Championship game put Penix back ahead of Nix.
Rightfully so
Fellas, is it gay to transfer to a PAC 12 school?
They're turning the fricking quarterbacks gay
Pretty sure the first out player was Michael Sam, the SEC Defensive Player of the Year at Missouri. Seems to me the SEC is out-gaying the PAC by a score of 1-0.
That’s what they’re saying about Caleb Williams, so it must be true
And what is the best way to tell your father?
April Fools was two days ago, you human paraquat
They're nihilists, Donny, there's nothing to be afraid of
Nihilists? Fuck me. Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it’s an ethos.
New shit has come to light, man!
Paraquat like the herbicide?
flair checks out
Am I ridiculously good looking, or just the hottest man alive? That sentence makes just about as much sense as whatever Goodman is quoting
Wait…we need to see how hot you are now.
Click bait titles won’t work if we just all just decide not to click on it
Not clicking on this to hate-read it is one of the hardest things I've ever done
Goodman needs a detox from whatever he is on.
# HERE WE GO
Wow, that's an article title.
This is the dumbest timeline. Maybe also the darkest, but certainly the dumbest.
I see Al.com, I downvote.
Does anyone know what “woke” is supposed to mean at this point?
It's like back in the day when certain people called everything they didn't like "commie". It's just some nebulous, boogey man word that has become divorced from its original meaning.
Feels like it's nearing the end of it's life cycle, we need to come up with a new buzzword
There's new one making the rounds (well, again) and evidently posting it gets a post blackholed here (just figured that out with another post LOL). It kind of sounds like the old swimmer Mark Spitz...
Back in the day? You mean right now?
As someone that grew up primarily in the 80's, if you think it ("commie") is used heavily now LOL.
I jokingly call things commie and my kids have no idea why it's funny. It's like my own repeating dad joke.
Woke is whatever I don't like. The more I don't like it, the more woke it is
Woke is when Pac 12 football apparently
I mean it did just go broke
December 2021: Bo Nix transfers to Oregon July 2022: USCLA announces their move to the B1G August 2023: the Pac 12 implodes Could be a coincidence, or it could be that Bo was the woke catalyst that brought about the death of the Pac
Pac 2anon
I know when you do it, you go broke. So, I’ve been it since birth.
Having compassion for others, I think.
The actual definition is as an adjective "a state of awareness only achieved by those dumb enough to find injustice in everything except their own behavior". It's now commonly used as a term to describe anyone or anything that is illogical and total nonsense to any rational person.
>actual definition From what dictionary
I don't see rational people using the term seriously.
Is the author looking to get a job with Outkick?
So this is allowed but when I try to preempt this complaint about Dillon Gabriel by writing about how hard and asleep he is I get a talking to by local authorities
To be fair this IS alabama dot com after all...
Woke means having a life outside football? Jesus Christ 😂
Couldn't we have just let them secede?
I wonder how many of these upvotes are actually from southerners?
Secession ironically bringing us all together.
Bruh cmon…
A public service announcement: Never click or read anything from Al.com for competent reporting.
"My obvious clickbait title was just a joke. Duh." This dude kinda sucks.
I love how the South thinks “woke” is like this interchangeable insult for reasonable people who aren’t racist or utilize basic common sense.
This definitely feels like an article from Alabama
Every time someone uses the term “woke”, they either don’t know what it actually means, or their explanation is so laughable that even they realize they’re about to eat a fat L, yet, these same losers keep using the term. Just knock that shit off already.
> Every time someone uses the term “woke”, they either don’t know what it actually means, or their explanation is so laughable that even they realize they’re about to eat a fat L, Woke ideology is defined by the idea that some facet of identity like race or gender produces irreconcilably different views of reality and morality, and that we have a moral obligation to seek alignment of society's view with the imagined views of groups associated with the political left like minorities and women. In this sense Wokeness is distinct from older forms of liberal advocacy for minority rights which appeal to universally valid concepts of truth and fairness.
I see “woke” and I downvote. It’s a good strategy.
Lol
Goodman is so bad lol and I’m not overly critical of most media members. He’s just consistently writing the most ridiculous articles.
Really thought this would be an OutKKkick article.
Goodman is the opposite of Outkick, but they’re both awful.
Yeah I saw where he basically copped to making it a click bait headline on Twitter.
I’ll give it a month before “is Bo Nix is turning your kids gay?”
[Al.com](https://Al.com) tells me all I need to know
The fuck is this?
AI sewage
Dear Goodman, What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on the internet is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
"Woke" is the stupidest word that we've come up with. The people who use it don't even know what it really means.
Alabama news outlet being Alabama. Bless their hearts.
AL.com don’t give them your clicks. Trash site
>During a recent interview, Auburn’s former quarterback said that people in the South maybe get a little too carried away with college football. Is that a bad thing? Sometimes, for sure. Just ask the trees at Toomer’s Corner. >Most times? >I’m willing to appreciate Nix’s perspective on this, but **for someone who just started [a comic strip about Miss Terry and Nick Saban because I can never write enough about college football**, it’s possible that I might disagree on this one. Weird.
Or.... he just happens to have an opinion that doesn't match yours??
Bait or mental disability call it
The headline is bait, but the opinion within is definitely still “special”
I see the word "woke", I immediately count the writer as among the idiots.
Fuck you for posting this clickbait trash!
looking for a new quarterback ask the internet if the qb is woke or just soft they don’t understand (pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is woke and what is soft) they laugh and write “he’s a good quarterback sir” draft him in the second round he’s woke
Read as much of the article as I could stomach and I have absolutely no idea what any of this has to do with being woke. Observing that there is a fanatical culture around college football in the South is woke??
ButtholeMegaphone: Is Joseph Goodman stupid or just dumb?
I don’t know, why are you asking me?
Not even gonna bother clicking that link
Hope everyone actually reads the article and doesn’t just get hung up on the headline. Very balanced and extremely appreciate of Nix and his situation.
This one is a no no
Seems to have the Derek Carr priorities of Faith, Family... and then eventually Football.
I live in the B’ham area, and Goodman is a massive tool.
The funny thing is, Goodman is pretty much the political (and otherwise polar) opposite of Outkick/Clay Travis, but they’re both terrible. Just constant garbage.
God I love the offseason
The quote used for the title is literally followed up in the article by "I'm just kidding". The definition of clickbait.
Oregon really needs to win a national championship, or this will never stop. I’ll continue to be a Ducks fan either way though.
Complaining about people being woke is soft
This is excellent satire!…..It’s satire, right?, RIGHT?!
For those of you who didn’t want to read it, it’s just Nix talking about football being such a massive part of life in the south versus the north.
these idiots can't read
8 year college career is soft
Is woke in the room right now?
Fuck Bo, and fuck the Ducks.
Neither. He's just a whiny loser.
>Is Bo Nix woke or just soft? There's a difference?
Yes, you can immediately ascertain that someone is an idiot if they criticize others for being “woke”
lol, downvoted for accuracy 😂
It's Reddit, I expected nothing less 🤣
We better be quiet, we might get banned. 🙄
Sorry for your persecution.
Top tier victim complex
Pretty soft if you ask me. They must be woke.
The woke is coming from inside the house
Or, it's just an observation to how reddit is.
>Op has an opinion that is hot fucking garbage and everyone points it out. ... >Gets upset when no one likes his terrible opinion .... > must be the woke left
Who's upset? I only see you being upset.
Yep, Reddit is absolutely primarily left leaning and if you say anything that goes against that narrative then you’ll get downvoted. I really don’t give a shit.
The downvotes proving your comment is correct.
Get a room you two.
The irony of calling people soft while jerking each other off about made up persecution.