Crimson Tide is a really unfortunate name for any team.
I bet I ran into 10 complete strangers today that said roll tide to me just because I was wearing an Alabama T-shirt. It is a wonderful camaraderie. Roll Tide roll!
Crimson Tide is a really unfortunate name for any team.
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I’ve always thought of it as the most dynamic moniker of any athletic team on the planet because to me it invokes the image of a powerful and irresistible force of nature.
Crimson Tide Story
At the 1907 Iron Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama held the heavily-favored Auburn (at the time) at a 6-6 tie. The game was played in a sea of crimson mud and the Alabama players’ white uniforms were stained crimson. As a sports editor for the Birmingham Age-Herald, Hugh Roberts, left the field, he described Alabama as a Crimson Tide. Sports writers then popularized the name and it’s stuck ever since.
https://abook.sa.ua.edu/ua-traditions/crimson-tide/