So, every year right before football season I post this. It's usually the only thing that I post but I am on this forum daily. I read this article all the time and still get chills EVERY time. I can't wait to get back in the stadium!!!

ROLL TIDE!!!!



This IS Alabama Football
There has been a lot of talk about Alabama football during the season. Some good, some bad. During the past few years, many people may have forgotten what Alabama football is all about. In case people have forgotten, don't know, or just want a reminder, THIS IS ALABAMA FOOTBALL !!!!!

It is Wallace Wade.
It is Paul "Bear" Bryant.
It is not Bill Curry.
It is the Rose Bowl.

It is knowing there is no other game Keith Jackson would rather call than an Alabama game. It is watching George Teague running down Lamar Thomas in the 1993 Sugar Bowl, then rewinding it and watching it again.It is hearing the first notes of "Sweet Home Alabama." And having a chill run up your spine. It is the desire to beat Auburn at any competitive event that exists. It is the houndstooth hat. It is having enough pride to fight for your school but having enough class not to. It is cheering the same amount for a first down on 2nd & 6 as on 4th & 1.

It is watching Cornelius Bennett give Notre Dame QB Steve Beuerlein a concussion on that October day in Birmingham in 1986 and knowing every man on the Alabama team wished him a fast recovery and good health. It is determining whom you are going to date & marry by which team they swear allegiance to. It is watching The Bear on the Jumbotron in Bryant-Denny Stadium and almost seeing him leaning against the goalpost. It is spending a day at the Bryant Museum & still not seeing everything. It is cool crisp fall Saturdays where you can smell football in the air & feel it with the slightest breeze. It is watching The Bear get #315 against Auburn (how appropriate). It is watching The Bear get #323 against Illinois in his final game. It is knowing no matter how many wins Bobby Bowden gets, he'll never measure up to Paul Bryant nor will he ever be as good.

It is hearing Paul Kennedy call the play-by-play as Van Tiffin kicks the 52-yd game winning field goal against Auburn in 1985. It is hearing Eli Gold call the play-by-play as Phillip Doyle kicks the 45-yd game winning field goal against Tennessee in 1990. It is knowing how many days until the start of the season year around. It is driving down Colonial Drive to see Bryant-Denny Stadium, not the sorority girls, although some may disagree. It is getting chills up & down your entire body whenever you hear anything about the 1993 Sugar Bowl & the pride you feel because on that night,TRADITION RULED.

It is hearing Coach Bryant's voice & having all the hair on the back of your neck stand straight up because you know that no matter what he said, it was something special. It is hearing The Million Dollar Band play "Yea Alabama" and knowing it just doesn't get any better. It is imagining hearing Penn State QB Chuck Fusina ask Alabama linebacker Marty Lyons "How close is it?" & hearing Marty say "About an inch, you'd better pass" right before 4th down during the Goal Line Stand in the 1979 Sugar Bowl. It is almost coming to tears whenever Alabama loses to Auburn or Tennessee. It is The Kick. It is the Goal Line Stand. It is The Desperation Block. It is purposely not wearing any clothes with orange in it, any shade or variation. It is the 3rd Saturday in October. It is not needing an alarm clock on game days. You sit straight up in bed long before it goes off, knowing it's game day. You can sleep after the bowl game. It is walking into the stadium with the feeling that Alabama will win the game, simply because that is the way it is supposed to be.

It is having a winning record against every school in the SEC. It's watching highlights of all 12 of Bama's championships on the Bryant-Denny jumbotron before the team comes out of the tunnel. It is saying "Offense wins games, defense wins national titles." It is the Bryant "A." It is walking into the stadium hours before the game just to be there. It is walking into another school's stadium & having those fans hate you because you're a Bama fan. It is walking into any other stadium and know that the atmosphere just can't compare to that of Legion Field or Bryant-Denny. It is the pride that a father has when he brings his children to a game so they may cherish the tradition. It is hearing "Roll Tide" and all you feel is pride.

It is beating LSU in Baton Rouge for thirty years in a row. It is hearing the crunch as a crimson clad linebacker takes down a running back in any shade or combination of orange. It is the pride you take in being EVERY team's rival. It is pulling for any team that's playing Auburn. It is pulling for any team that's playing Tennessee.. It is knowing that the SEC Championship is a birthright. It is owning Ole Miss and South Carolina. It is being respected, & feared at the same time. It is holding up four fingers at the end of the 3rd quarter. It is knowing what "Mama Called" means. It is having 21 SEC Championships (more than anyone else). It is having 12 National Championships (more than anyone else). It is more than I can ever mention in these few paragraphs.
It is class.
It is championships.
It is tradition.
IT IS ALABAMA FOOTBALL!!

http://www.thebamababy.com/gpage.html

I dont think there is one hair on my neck sitting down. I can't scream ROLL TIDE loud enough right now. This is what makes me have an entire room devoted to the Tide and what makes me continue to spend exorbitant amounts of money on tickets and flights just to see the Tide play!!!!!!

RTR

Its Roman Harper taken the head off a RB near the goaline. Big time players making big time plays. ROLLTIDE

"It's horribly botching 6 coaching searches. It's hiring Ronnie Cottrell and almost incurring the death penalty. It's losing to Louisiana-Monroe at home, on senior day. It's beating Auburn once in the 21st century, and losing every game at home."

Let's not get out of hand here.

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Originally posted by dd4bama:
"It's horribly botching 6 coaching searches. It's hiring Ronnie Cottrell and almost incurring the death penalty. It's losing to Louisiana-Monroe at home, on senior day. It's beating Auburn once in the 21st century, and losing every game at home."

Let's not get out of hand here.

thanks debbie

Man, that gets me pumped! 8 days!

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Originally posted by dd4bama:
"It's horribly botching 6 coaching searches. It's hiring Ronnie Cottrell and almost incurring the death penalty. It's losing to Louisiana-Monroe at home, on senior day. It's beating Auburn once in the 21st century, and losing every game at home."

Let's not get out of hand here.

What a garbage post. You amuse me most of the time...but that is a little ridiculous.

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What a garbage post.

Indicate one thing that is not a fact.

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Originally posted by dd4bama:
Indicate one thing that is not a fact.

They are all facts. I also think these things are pretty fresh on the minds of Alabama Fans.
Why is it neccesary to bring these things up in reply to this particular post? It was a nice post about Alabama Football...why cant we just let it be that.

FACT: dd lives in his own little world.

The rest of us enjoy Alabama football...

Lets all be nice and remember times past when we were a legitimate concern in college football. One recruiting class and Nick Saban does not change anything, yet. Please remember, 7-6 last year and it could have easily been 3-9. That is Alabama football of late.

I do disagree slightly with DD, however. I think 2010 will be the year. We will be potentially starting a mediocre or red shirt freshman quarterback, which could keep us out of contention.

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One recruiting class and Nick Saban does not change anything

Why would you say they do not change anything? Pessimists say playing freshmen will hurt the team, others say some of these guys are upgrades.

It will change something...good or bad. If not why waste your time and $$$ on recruiting?

It would be best to say we are unsure about the impact of the recruiting class AND the returning players who have stepped up.

Interestingly, you cut "yet," off of my sentence, which helped fit your argument. Read the whole line and you see that I sort of agree with you.

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Indicate one thing that is not a fact.

Indicate one thing that is incorrect with the original post.

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Originally posted by KELLEYNORTH:
Lets all be nice and remember times past when we were a legitimate concern in college football. One recruiting class and Nick Saban does not change anything, yet. Please remember, 7-6 last year and it could have easily been 3-9. That is Alabama football of late.

I do disagree slightly with DD, however. I think 2010 will be the year. We will be potentially starting a mediocre or red shirt freshman quarterback, which could keep us out of contention.

With '07 losses being less than a TD, it could have also been 10-3 or 11-2. There are better days behind and there will be better days ahead. I take 'em as they come. I don't see much wrong with a little romanticism with regard to Bama history and lore, as evidenced by the post that started this thread. DD, I have been a staunch defender of most of your posts but it really does get into the unnecessarily negative realm to rain on this thread's theme. It's sort of like bringing up slavery as an institution to temper the patriotic fervor at a 4th of July celebration. Yeah, it's a fact of our history as a country but do you really have to bring it up at such a time, when folk are relishing the best of their memories and feelings?