Congratulations Alabama! You have finally lived up to your expectations. You are officially dumb.

Your ‘University’ may have the No. 1 spot in the pre-season football polls, but misspelling Mississippi on your tickets has put you back in the second grade. The good news is that all of your students can now have that recess time they have been asking for. The bad news is that it is tough to recruit during Man on Sand.

Let’s be real, we all kind of expected it, but this recent ‘slip’ has just cemented our feelings that Alabama is only good for one thing: Entertainment. And I’m not talking about the football games.

Alabama is always the go-to-state when we think of rednecks and people kissing cousins.

Sure, it’s comical to poke fun at Alabama, but now it has just become clear that even the most educated people in that state still belong in elementary school.

Mississippi is the only state that I can spell without thinking. Mi-ss-iss-ippi. I can bust that thing out in 1.78 seconds. Why? Because I have been spelling it ever since I could tie my own shoes. And I am confident that this is the same case for everyone else, besides residents of Alabama. I will admit that spelling can be tricky sometimes, but this is just pathetic.

Mississippi has been a neighbor of Alabama for literally hundreds of years. Is it possible that no one in that school knows how to spell correctly? Did all 28,000 students and more than 1,000 faculty members all look at that ticket and not see anything wrong with it?

I know its summer time, but computers still do have spell check. Unless these tickets were completed on a typewriter, there is no excuse for this.

Well Crimson Tide, you may have the reigning Heisman trophy winner back, but I leave you with some words of advice, spell check the name on his jersey.

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Logan Rhoades is a Los Angeles-based writer and contributor to Sports Climax. With an extensive knowledge of ESPN topics and celebrity gossip, he is known for mixing sports and pop culture to entertain his readers. Follow him on Twitter @loganrhoades.

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