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EXCLUSIVE: Bama Sugar Bowl mom ‘sorry’ but would ‘do it again if I had to’
Yellowhammer ^ | January 3rd, 2014 | Cliff Sims

Posted on 01/03/2014 6:16:18 PM PST by Third Person

Yellowhammer has learned that the female Alabama fan who flew through the air to attack an Oklahoma Sooner fan during Thursday’s Sugar Bowl is Michelle Pritchett, a local photographer from Sweet Water, Ala.

Yellowhammer spoke with Mrs. Pritchett on the phone this afternoon in an exclusive interview, becoming the first outlet to get her side of the story.

“Everyone’s making me look like such a bad guy,” Pritchett said. “What I did was probably not the thing to do. But they were taunting us. They began by going after me. But then they crossed the line and started taunting my 16-year-old son.”

At that point, Pritchett says she walked over to the Oklahoma fans to ask them to “leave her son out of it.”

“It started off being friendly, just us going back and forth about the game,” Pritchett recalled. “But what ended up happening had nothing to do with the game. It escalated. When they said something to my son, I told them to shut their mouths. They were telling my son to come down there and ‘do something about it.’ I said, ‘no, that’s not going to happen. This crap needs to stop.’” As Pritchett’s husband pulled her back the first time she approached the Sooner fans, Pritchett says one of the Sooners called her a “stupid b****” and that’s when she ran across the aisle and dove on top of them.

“The security people had already gotten on to those guys for throwing bottles at people,” Pritchett said. “When they escorted me out, the security guard told them there was no reason to be pressing charges on me because those guys were out of control the whole game. I defended my son. If they had kicked those boys out to begin with, it wouldn’t have happened the way it did.”

Pritchett said she regrets that things escalated the way they did and said she wanted to apologize to “Bama nation.” Her biggest concern seemed to be what Coach Saban’s reaction would be when reporters question him about it.

“I’m embarrassed. I love The Tide and I apologize to all the players and to Coach Saban and to the entire fan base. I’m sorry. Coach Saban’s going to say ‘those crazy fans don’t know how to act.’ And I wasn’t intoxicated either. I want people to know that. I’d had a couple of drinks, but I was not intoxicated.”

But Pritchett says she’d do it all again if she had to.

“I hate to say it, but I’d do it again if I had to. I’m not going to let anyone go after my son.”


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: bowlgames; collegefootball
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She flies through the air with the greatest of ease...
1 posted on 01/03/2014 6:16:18 PM PST by Third Person
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To: Third Person

Watch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJOnMpkyTKw


2 posted on 01/03/2014 6:19:17 PM PST by Third Person (The light pours out of me.)
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"...I’d had a couple of drinks, but I was not intoxicated."

OK...if you like your drinks you can keep your drinks (period)

3 posted on 01/03/2014 6:20:38 PM PST by Brandonmark (OWCM is The new American Minority! 11.06.12 - Day of Infamy!)
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To: Third Person

I had not heard of the incident. Thanks for the video.


4 posted on 01/03/2014 6:23:37 PM PST by fuzzthatwuz
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To: Third Person

she looks hammered and trusting to her gender not to get her butt kicked


5 posted on 01/03/2014 6:24:32 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Third Person

Saban should put her on the scout team. Teach those fat guys how to pass block.


6 posted on 01/03/2014 6:25:38 PM PST by Leroy S. Mort ("Don't say sh*t unless you know for sure it helps." - Raylan Givens)
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To: Third Person

Classy. OU fans + Bama fans = trailer park brawl.


7 posted on 01/03/2014 6:25:53 PM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: demshateGod
I'd rather look at this Alabama fan.


8 posted on 01/03/2014 6:27:28 PM PST by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: Third Person

Go home mom... you’re drunk.


9 posted on 01/03/2014 6:28:36 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: driftdiver

She’s hammered. No doubt.


10 posted on 01/03/2014 6:29:16 PM PST by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: Third Person

Absolute disgrace to the true ladies of my state. Bet ya’ bottom dollar she never even graced the quad of the academic variety. Just treats AL football like the NFL and never went to the Uni.


11 posted on 01/03/2014 6:30:13 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: Third Person

Potentially eligible for a BJ Clinton post-POTUS pardon, pending additional visuals.


12 posted on 01/03/2014 6:31:12 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: Third Person

Woman has grit!


13 posted on 01/03/2014 6:31:46 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Third Person

Over a damned football game??? Get a grip, America.


14 posted on 01/03/2014 6:32:39 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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Can somebody explain to me why so many people get emotionally invested in college football? I can see to a point being a rabid fan of an NFL team but college football? It's just kids looking to make the pros! You see the players for 2 or maybe 3 years and then they graduate and move on.

Over the years, I've read stories of adults sobbing and literally rending their clothing over a college football game. It's really quite bizarre and I would like to have it explained to me - in laymen's terms.

15 posted on 01/03/2014 6:33:14 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Kirkwood

Lol... Dad tried to stop you, but your drunk self wouldn’t have it.


16 posted on 01/03/2014 6:33:29 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: who knows what evil?

Bama needed her on the field playing defense.....


17 posted on 01/03/2014 6:33:42 PM PST by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: Mike Darancette

Not guilty!


18 posted on 01/03/2014 6:34:20 PM PST by deks (Happy New Year!)
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To: Third Person

That video gave me a good laugh!!!


19 posted on 01/03/2014 6:34:48 PM PST by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: KansasGirl

That is the short version of the video. The rest of it shows her swooning or almost falling down drunk... and the security people coming to escort her out....


20 posted on 01/03/2014 6:38:14 PM PST by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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