Bama13 Posted June 2, 2015 #26 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Alabama football is: Author Derek Camp It is Wallace Wade. It is Bear Bryant. It is not Bill Curry. It is the Rose Bowl. It is hearing Keith Jackson call 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 the desire to beat Auburn at any competitive event that exists. It is a 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 second and 6 as on fourth and 1. It is watching Cornelius Bennett give Notre Dame quarterback Steve Beuerlein a concussion on that October day in Birmingham in 1986. It is determining who you are going to date & marry by which team they swear allegiance to. It is watching The Bear on the jumbotron before a game in Bryant-Denny Stadium and almost seeing him leaning against the goalpost in the end zone. It is spending a day at The Bryant Museum and still not seeing everything. It is cool crisp autumn Saturdays where you can smell football in the air and feel it whenever there is a slight breeze. It is watching The Bear get number 315 against Auburn. It is hearing Paul Kennedy do the play-by-play when Van Tiffin kicked the 52-yard field goal against Auburn in 1985. It is knowing how many days until the start of a season year around. It is driving down Colonial Drive to see Bryant-Denny Stadium not the sorority girls. It is getting chills up and down your entire body whenever you hear anything about the 1993 Sugar Bowl and the pride you feel because that night tradition ruled. It is hearing The Bear's voice and having all the hair on the back of your neck stand straight up because you know no matter what he said, it was something special. It is hearing The Million Dollar Band play "Yea Alabama" and knowing it just does not get any better. It is imagining hearing Penn State Quarterback Chuck Fusina ask Alabama Defensive Lineman Marty Lyons "How close is it?" and hearing Lyons say "About 6 inches, you'd better pass" right before fourth 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 the colors orange and blue. It is the Third Saturday in October. It is not needing an alarm clock on game days, you sit bolt upright in the bed long before the alarm goes off because you know that it is a gameday, you can sleep after the bowl game. It is walking into a stadium and knowing Alabama will win the game no matter who they are playing because is just the way it is supposed to be. It is the saying "Offense wins games, Defense wins national titles." It is the Bear Bryant 'A'. It is getting to the stadium hours before the game just to be there. It is walking into another team's stadium and having those fans hate you because you are from Alabama. It is the pride that a father has when he brings his children to a game so they may cherish the tradition. It is beating LSU in Baton Rouge. It is hearing the crunch as a linebacker dressed in crimson and white hits a running back dressed in orange and blue. It is the pride you take in being every team's rival. It is pulling for any team that is playing Auburn. It is pulling for any team that is playing Tennessee. It is hoping for the stadium to blow up when Auburn plays Tennessee. It is knowing that the SEC Championship is a birthright. It is being respected and feared at the same time. It is holding up four fingers at the end of the third quarter. It is knowing what "Mama Called" means. It is having 23 Southeastern Conference Titles. It is having 15 National Titles. It is more than I can ever mentioned in this article. It is class. It is tradition. It is Alabama Football. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama13 Posted June 5, 2015 #27 Share Posted June 5, 2015 (edited) 9/3/2016 – USC vs. Alabama (at AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas) – Notre Dame at Texas – UCLA at Texas A&M – LSU vs. Wisconsin (at Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin) – Georgia vs. North Carolina (at Georgia Dome, Atlanta) – Clemson at Auburn – Oklahoma vs. Houston (at NRG Stadium, Houston) – Missouri at West Virginia – BYU vs. Arizona (at University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Ariz.) -- BC vs. GT (at Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland) Depending on what the NCAA does to UNC this could be the best opening weekend of college fo0tball I've seen in a long time. Edited June 5, 2015 by Bama13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooklynGuy Posted June 11, 2015 Author #28 Share Posted June 11, 2015 (edited) September 5th kickoff this year GO IRISH!!!!! ND: https://youtu.be/8r0PfgtJvHU Schedule: http://espn.go.com/college-football/schedule Edited June 11, 2015 by BrooklynGuy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama13 Posted June 12, 2015 #29 Share Posted June 12, 2015 Hey Brooklyn check these out!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooklynGuy Posted June 13, 2015 Author #30 Share Posted June 13, 2015 Hey Brooklyn check these out!! No questioning the great history and storied tradition at Bama, who do you think are the top five programs all time? I'll go with these in no particular order. Alabama Michigan Notre Dame USC Ohio State Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama13 Posted June 18, 2015 #31 Share Posted June 18, 2015 No questioning the great history and storied tradition at Bama, who do you think are the top five programs all time? I'll go with these in no particular order. Alabama Michigan Notre Dame USC Ohio State Hard to argue with that list. Honorable mentions to: Texas Oklahoma Nebraska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooklynGuy Posted June 25, 2015 Author #32 Share Posted June 25, 2015 The top ten team projections are out and that Pesky Alabama team leads the list. The latest edition of the College Football Future Power Rankings was released this week, projecting the potential for success for college football programs over the next three seasons. ESPN Insider's Travis Haney led a panel of experts who ranked teams in five categories and combined those ratings into an FPR score designed to identify teams best positioned to compete for conference and national championship accolades in the 2015 to 2017 seasons. Read more: http://espn.go.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/13146459/projecting-top-10-college-football-teams-2015-2017-alabama-crimson-tide-no-1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakari Posted June 26, 2015 #33 Share Posted June 26, 2015 The top ten team projections are out and that Pesky Alabama team leads the list. The latest edition of the College Football Future Power Rankings was released this week, projecting the potential for success for college football programs over the next three seasons. ESPN Insider's Travis Haney led a panel of experts who ranked teams in five categories and combined those ratings into an FPR score designed to identify teams best positioned to compete for conference and national championship accolades in the 2015 to 2017 seasons. Read more: http://espn.go.com/c...imson-tide-no-1 ESPN has been orally stimulating Alabama for years now. Nothing new. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama13 Posted June 26, 2015 #34 Share Posted June 26, 2015 ESPN has been orally stimulating Alabama for years now. Nothing new. ESPN only sucks up to the best! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakari Posted June 27, 2015 #35 Share Posted June 27, 2015 ESPN only sucks up to the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonKing Posted July 1, 2015 #36 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Well Sakari if it doent happen in the playoffs over the next 3 years first,Oregon gets a chance for revenge in the 2019 opener AU vs Oregon in jerry world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakari Posted July 1, 2015 #37 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Well Sakari if it doent happen in the playoffs over the next 3 years first,Oregon gets a chance for revenge in the 2019 opener AU vs Oregon in jerry world Saw that this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama13 Posted July 2, 2015 #38 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Well Sakari if it doent happen in the playoffs over the next 3 years first It won't because that would require auburn actually making the playoffs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama13 Posted July 2, 2015 #39 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Interesting interactive map about college brands, and what they should be. http://www.si.com/college-football/2015/06/26/college-football-branding-oregon-ducks-tennessee-volunteers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooklynGuy Posted July 3, 2015 Author #40 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Interesting interactive map about college brands, and what they should be. http://www.si.com/co...ssee-volunteers Good stuff Bama13 thanks for the link. I thought it was very interesting how they draw top talent to small out of the way markets like Oregon. Also Oregon State recruits heavily at many of the High Schools down here and has faired quite well in recent years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooklynGuy Posted July 5, 2015 Author #41 Share Posted July 5, 2015 The Irish steal one from Alabama Brock Lesnar lookalike shuns SEC and commits to Notre Dame On Thursday, Boudreaux -- a 6-foot-4, 287-pound offensive guard ranked as a three-star prospect in the Class of 2016 in 247Sports' composite rankings -- made it official by committing to Notre Dame. He reportedly had narrowed his choices recently to Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Clemson, Florida and Georgia Southern -- I don't know who's in charge of recruiting the Orlando area for Georgia Southern, but they did a hell of a job to even be a finalist for Boudreaux along with those other schools -- before picking the Irish, but he could have gone almost anywhere. Look at his official offer list: Alabama, Auburn, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Ole Miss, Michigan State, Miami and many others, not including the aforementioned finalists. Read more: http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-coverage/wwe-brock-lesnar-lookalike-commits-notre-dame-fighting-irish-parker-boudreaux-070215 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrimsonKing Posted July 5, 2015 #42 Share Posted July 5, 2015 I can't wait for the season to start! I think/hope LSU is much improved! And Brooklyn some are picking Auburn against Notre Dame in the playoff semi finals 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted July 6, 2015 #43 Share Posted July 6, 2015 The Buckeyes will be in the top 5 all season. Still don't know who the starting QB will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooklynGuy Posted July 9, 2015 Author #44 Share Posted July 9, 2015 The Buckeyes will be in the top 5 all season. Still don't know who the starting QB will be. Myles I'm guessing most teams would love to have the Buckeyes quarterback dilemma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakari Posted July 10, 2015 #45 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Myles I'm guessing most teams would love to have the Buckeyes quarterback dilemma. It's a hell of a lot better than FSU's....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrooklynGuy Posted July 10, 2015 Author #46 Share Posted July 10, 2015 It's a hell of a lot better than FSU's....... Couldn't agree more, glad they got rid of the QB that hit that girl but FSU is a sleazy program IMO. Will have to see how Golson does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama13 Posted July 10, 2015 #47 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Kenny "Snake" Stabler passed. One of my favorite players of all time. The "run in the mud" will forever be a part of the BAMA legend. RIP Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myles Posted July 10, 2015 #48 Share Posted July 10, 2015 RIP Kenny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakari Posted July 10, 2015 #49 Share Posted July 10, 2015 RIP I read his book years ago....One hell of a Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama13 Posted July 16, 2015 #50 Share Posted July 16, 2015 SEC media days is wrapping up. Gotta love the media. They voted Georgia to win the East, BAMA to win the West, and auburn to win the conference. Don't they understand that if auburn doesn't win the West they can't win the conference? Spurrier was the most entertaining, again. Shot at 10rc and Arky. He said they are celebrating 7-6 record last year while USC is bemoaning the same 7-6 record. Saban is misunderstood, again. I don't see how saying that the NFL draft ratings distract they players could be used as an excuse. I mean all the top schools have underclassmen thinking about declaring for the draft. It wouldn't just affect BAMA players. It would affect Oregon, Ohio State, and Florida State (just to mention the teams in the playoffs) also, along with most other "power" schools. Everyone else is mostly spouting "coach speak". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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