Jeff Sessions decided to beef with Tommy Tuberville and it was weird

Jeff Sessions went after Tommy Tuberville for flaming out at Auburn. 

If you had Jeff Sessions beefing with Tommy Tuberville on your quarantine BINGO card, congrats.

Tuberville and Sessions are in a race to win a senate seat in Alabama this upcoming November, and things are getting personal. Specifically, Sessions isn’t above slamming Tuberville’s football record as a means of snuffing out his political aspirations.

Sessions is a  career politician who holds his law degree from the University of Alabama served as the 84th United States Attorney General under President Donald Trump from February 2017 to November 2018. Before that, he served Alabama in the United States Senate from 1997 to his appointment to Attorney General.

Tuberville is the former college football head coach.

While Tuberville led the Ole Miss Rebels, the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Cincinnati Bearcats, he’s best known for being the the Auburn Tigers head coach from 1998 to 2008. His 2004 Tigers went undefeated, but didn’t get to play for a national championship.

Despite being in the same political party, the college football colors run deep with these two senatorial candidates. Even so, it still came as a complete shock Sessions tried to harpoon how Tuberville’s tenures at Auburn and Cincinnati ended over Twitter Tuesday night. It was as weird as it sounded.

Jeff Sessions attacks Tommy Tuberville over college football failures on Twitter

“If watching you coach taught me anything @TTuberville, it’s that you’re no good at sitting on a lead. That’s why you finished 5-7 and 4-8 in your last seasons at Auburn and Cincinnati. If you are too weak to debate, you do not deserve to represent the people of Alabama.”

Yeah, that was Sessions coming from the top rope at Tuberville, despite trailing him in the polls. Will this tweet alienate the Auburn faithful from ever voting for him, or will it have the Tigers fan base turn on their former coach like they did over a decade ago? It’s not politics in Alabama without the Iron Bowl. Everybody knows that!

Whoever wins the Republican nomination between Sessions or Tuberville will have to go up against the Democratic incumbent Doug Jones. He won the Senate seat after Sessions was named President Trump’s Attorney General. Jones is the junior senator in Alabama, serving alongside Republican Richard Shelby, who switched political allegiances during the Clinton Administration.

For Sessions to win, he needs to have the Crimson Tide fanbase to carry him and pick up some of the trusted Auburn supporters of Tuberville. Even if it is a presidential election year, this will be the senatorial race we’ll keep talking about. Tuberville on Capitol Hill, who saw that coming five years ago?

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