Posted on 02/20/2007 7:02:24 PM PST by BnBlFlag
ROLL TIDE!! What else is there to say?
I absolutely agree...and the other great moment in my opinion was Van Tiffen's 50+ year field goal to beat the heated Awburn....Roll Tide
some of my fondest memories of the 10 years I lived in DC (83-93) was going to Penn St every other year for the Bama-PSU game....it was always so much fun, the fans up there were always so gracious and kind...in fact, after one game (where we won - Roll Tide), some friends and I were in the bar at the hotel afterwards and some PSU fans sent over a bottle of champagne....is that class or what? The last game there (the next year in Tuscaloosa was the end of the series) you cannot believe all the Bama and PSU fans that were walking up to each other crying and hugging....It was a great series and I hate that it ended!
one of my favorite clippings about Bama is from former football coach John McKay, "When I went duck hunting with Bear Bryant, he shot at one but it kept flying. 'John', he said, 'there flies a deck duck'. Now that's confidence." I cut that out when I read it the week Coach McKay died, had it laminated and have carried in my wallet ever since!
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Being an orange-bleeding Tennessee Volunteer fan, there's teams you can't stand (Gators) and teams that you respect. My hat's always off to the Crimson Tide for some great games over the years.
What a great memory! I hope some schedule of the future reunites us again.
From the headline, I thought they were talking about the 1970 USC - Alabama game. THAT was a game that changed the south, and the University of Alabama.
Read a book recently, "The History of the South" that made this same point. It signaled the end of reconstruction to some.
Right back at ya.
Oh Rocky Top, You'll Always Be Second in the SEC!!!
Thanks for your kind message about Coach Paterno.
Paterno is every bit the class act they say he is. Education always came first with him, and many students would find themselves being tutored by his wife, Sue.
Back when I was at PSU (way back, shortly after QB coach Jay Paterno was born), I was at the outdoor campus swimming pool when the entire Paterno clan filed in--literally, in single file. Joepa was wearing a whistle around his neck, but didn't need to use it as I recall.
Eight years ago, my Dad retired at the age of 80 from a job he'd held for 60 years. The "guys" asked Joepa to send my Dad a videotape of congratulations, which he did. Dad sent him a thank you note, which was returned with a handwritten note from Joe, that he thought he might follow my father's lead and work until he's 80, too. Just about there.
LOL, Spurrier ruined you guys. I thinks its a love/hate thing with Spurrier and not so much the fans really. Yep, y'all have bested us many times in recent years (like the last 15) but we'll have to wait to see how the long term rivalry compares.
Alabama, well I've admired "The Bear" and Gene Stallings and they always acted gentlemenly, whether they were kicking our tails or getting theirs kicked. I know there are some obnoxious Volunteer fans also and it distracts from the spirit of competitive rivalry but like I said, the orange is in the blood (grandaddy played for UT back in 1921).
We'll see how this year's VOLS stack up to the Gators. Year before last we couldn't beat William and Mary (even if William didn't show up). ):
No one is claiming those others were conservatives. Mencken for some reason is regarded as a conservative "demigxd."
And William Jennings Bryan was no "holy roller."
Mencken is a hero for three reasons: his anti-Semitism, his German ancestry, and his founding of a magazine that became (long after he left it) an viruently anti-Semitic and ultimately an avowedly national socialist publication.
Bryan was a species that's all but died out today: A Christian Fundamentalist Leftist. His ideas are vertiable sourcebook on 20th century liberal economic policy.
Unfortunately, today's Fundamentalists allow economic conservatives to determine conservative policy and have come to place free enterprise and small government ahead of genuinely important matters like G-d's Law. Plus the Left has put immorality and freedom from G-d ahead of any economic program.
As to whether Bryan was a Leftist, that is debatable. Was Huey P. Long a Leftist? Was Father Coughlin a Leftist? Was Congressman Louis T. McFadden a Leftist? Was William Lemke a Leftist? Was Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. (of the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party) a Leftist? Was Dr. Francis Townshend a Leftist? Were the Populists of the late nineteenth century Leftists?
The fact is that many "palaeocons" look up to these people as fighters against "Jewish international bankers" or "the Insiders" and they get a pass for their "leftist" economics.
Hmmmmmm....good, compelling stuff here. Thanks to both of you.
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