By Internet standards, Alabama's signing day "fax cam" was pretty tame. In fact, it was only notable at all Wednesday as one of the most astonishingly boring ideas ever conceived: A camera pointed at a fax machine, adorned only with some sort of plastic troll and a couple dozen pieces of paper bearing obscure surnames as new Crimson Tide commitments faxed their letters of intent into the 'Bama athletic department. By all rights, it should have been in close competition with Washington's signing day fax cam for the title of "Dullest Live Webcam," and there is no shortage of competition in that race.
Being as it involved the SEC, however – and SEC recruiting, specifically – the cam was not without its moments, and as the Associated Press reported Thursday, not without its critics among the competition:
An Alabama Web cam broadcasting the posting of faxed national letters of intent on signing day has drawn a complaint from another Southeastern Conference school after a provocative photo of a female student circulated on the Internet.
SEC spokesman Charles Bloom says league Commissioner Mike Slive "felt it was inappropriate" and called Crimson Tide athletic director Mal Moore Thursday morning. Bloom says an SEC school called the commissioner, but wouldn't identify the university.
<ludicrous Southern accent>"Why I do declare, Wyatt, how are we supposed to compete with some lusty trollop flauntin' her drawers on the Innanet?! What if those heathens corrupt poor Jadeveon? Call the commissioner."</ludicrous Southern accent>
The lusty trollop in this case was an unidentified member of the "Crimson Cabaret" squad who also works in the athletic department. Why was she in her uniform at her office job, before noon? She was cheering on the 'Bama basketball team Wednesday night against Mississippi State, of course, and tipoff was a mere … uh, seven hours after the webcam went offline at noon. A girl just has to have time to prepare.
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