Posted on 12/30/2014 6:26:08 AM PST by C19fan
‘Biggest Offensive line in ALL of football’ ... and those guys learned how to play as a team this year. The western side of the SEC may belong to them in 2015. I’m a dyed in the Crimson wool Bama fan from the Bryant years and living in B’ham and Anniston for years, so I follow most of the teams in the SEC. Arkansas will be in the playoffs next year, you wait and see. If LSU and Georgia can keep their party boys interested in football post season, the SEC may sweep the bowl scene this year. We shall see what we see when we see what we see ... Roll Tide!
I once met Bear, while I was living Bama.
Well, I HAD To buy the Roll Tide t-shirt when I was down there, LOL! Beau is a big guy, too. He hunted on land owned by Bear; knew the family through some shirt-tail relation.
They were sad to see him leave and return to Wisconsin, but as a Damn Yankee, he had to get back to his roots. :)
My father never forgave Bear Bryant for punting the ball to Notre Dame in 1973. Almost 40 years later, my granddaughter was born two hours before kickoff of the Tide/ND championship game, where the revenge finally came.
This was a wonderful piece, very much enjoyed.
I hope all the students have a great time, Auburn in Tampa and Alabama in New Orleans! One kid we know, he went to MS State . .. home with the FLU instead of with the band in Miami.
War Eagle!
My old girlfriend is from Alabama and a big ‘Bama fan. I’m Ga Tech. There was bad blood between Bobby Dodd and Bear Bryant, so the teams did not play each other from 1962 ( Tech beat #1 Alabama 7-6 in Atlanta) to 1982. To be honest, Tech was outclassed by ‘Bama in football most of the time.
Tech played #2 ‘Bama in 1982 with 78,865 in attendance at Legion Field in Birmingham and low & behold, Tech WON 24-21! Naturally, I had to call her (with Mrs. BN’s permission, of course) to offer my condolences.
Lewis Grizzard wrote about the game, stating:
“The entire state of Alabama is in mourning. Even the State Animal (a dead ‘possum in the middle of the road) was observed to roll over and mutter something unprintable!”
AMEN!
As for Alabama, college football power shifts (albeit less frequently than the pros). The SEC has been dominant for the past decade; that will change.
The only thing that leaves all of us non-SEC fans scratching our heads is the weird SEC loyalty, where fans of SEC teams will actually cheer for other teams in the conference in addition to their favorite team. This is strange to every other sports fan on Earth. I still can't understand why you would cheer for a conference.
That would be an awesome gift!
Alabama is beatable. I think OSU will upset.
Obviously on the field NFL is superior but college has the rabid fans, the bands, cheerleaders (not dancers wearing basically nothing), and the traditions. I would rather watch two college heavy weights go at it than a NFL game.
Good for you! I ate dinner at a table at Batchelor’s Three one evening, at the table next to him and two assistant coaches and Joe Namath and a female beauty. Never met the man though.
Right. College football is a better product in every way except for the actual football. Most college football games are blowouts, even in some of the bigger and better programs. Look at Alabama beating A&M 59-0, or Ohio State beating Wisconsin 59-0 (in the Big 10 'Championship Game' no less!).
That's why I said this year has been great for college football, as there's been fewer blowouts.
But still, the likelihood of a pro game being watchable is much, much better than even "two college heavy weights", as it is statistically likely that the college game will not be close or competitive.
That's why the NFL is a better product.
I found it hard to forgive The Bear for punting to Auburn, the day Auburn had not sustained a single drive for four quarters. That last blocked punt still haunts my dreams, just as Saban's idiotic field goal attempt from the far hash, which came up well short, which allowed Auburn to run the kick back for a 100+ yard touchdown that won the game with no time on the clock.
But being very familiar with both Universities, I have to say they are both very good schools and I would allow my granddaughter to attend either one. [I have to say that since she is seriously contemplating attending Auburn ...]
But, no more. I grew up. I quit wasting my every waking moment watching and calling sports. I don't watch football anymore. Basketball might as well be on the planet Mars and baseball is no longer important either. If I watch any sports, I drive up the highway and catch a high school football game. The last game I went too was two years ago. That is as far as I go any more with sports. Simply got sports over load. Got sick of it. And don't watch anymore. When Alabama played Auburn the other week, I was asleep. That is how much I gave a care any more about sports. I found there was much better uses of my time.
UAB was bleeding money. They gave away tickets to the game. They play in old Legion field in Birmingham. The place was falling apart. They took the top decks off the stadium because they were falling down. It is a really bad part of the HOOD also. You have to pay to park on a public street. If you don’t pay some hoodie to watch your car parked in his front yard, or on the street in front of his house, you might not find the car when you came back. The program was so bad that nobody came to the games. They averaged about 5,000 per game and half that was give away tickets. I have seen high school games with larger crowds at them. The program was going bankrupt. Bleeding money hand over fist. At some point you have to just throw in the towel. All those kids at UAB that were so mad they dumped the program might have tried going to a few games and the program might have made some money and been able to keep the team. There are lower level colleges in the state that do much better that UAB, which is right down town Bham.
Well your wrong. Try UAB was BLEEDING MONEY is the real reason. Jacksonville State, Troy and even North Alabama all did hugely better than UAB in the money arena.
Would that be all three of them or just one or two of them. That is all they had. Average 5,000 for games and half that was ticket give aways. UAB football was a financial nightmare. It put the R-E-D in red colored ink in the financials around UAB.
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