🏈 Pick One Moment In Tide Football

[alabama mike]

Alright, its the offseason and I am going to see if each of us can pick ONLY 1 moment in Tide football that you would describe as your favorite?

 

[TerryP]

 

[BamaFan334]

Gonna cheat with two. My favorite and then second favorite.

What a game and Yeldon being my favorite player, he is my 1A here...



Just the crowd noise and timing of this one is my 1B...

 

[rick4bama]

I was watching the game on Armed Forces Radio/Tv.

 

[PurlJam]

Being from Walker County..... I've gotta go with.

 

[alabamajack]

Gotta be this

 

[footballer]

1993 Sugar Bowl NC game against Miami.
George Teague with "The Strip".

 

[Tidestalker]

 

[mrchase]

Three things.....or reasons why I’m picking this.
1) the injuries
2) he’s a Raider now and I’m in Vegas
3) he’s really a cool humble guy. (Definitely made my weekend)

 

[UAgrad93]

 

[sean]

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Mike...Is that really possible? One play...one play...really....
Of course....if its oneplay.... its for a National Championship...

 

[mando]

I am with you @50+yeartidefan just one? With the stakes so high you have to go with one of the NC game plays like 2 and 26, goal line stand or George Teagues strip. Many others throughout the years and not just recent years.

It is hard not to go with the play that won the game especially given the circumstances of a freshmen who came into the game at half, in OT and after a sack that lost 16 yards. Crazy when you think of the breadth of the circumstances for that game and that play.

 

[alabama mike]

Yes, one play and yes it is possible. Several, including you have put on one play. Since the play is already loaded on here above, the Goal Line Stand, I'll say Stabler's TD run in the mud.

 

[252BAMA]

Second and 26. Made even more appealing by the actions of my UGA grad nephew on the play. He was sitting on that sideline at the point Smith passed the UGA DB. When Tua released the ball he got up and headed to the exit! Knew it was all over.

IMO, it is not only the greatest play in Alabama football history but THE greatest play in CFB history. When in OT in a NCG you go on ONE play from 1% chance to win to 100% chance of winning it doesn't get any better than that.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

And. I turned brain back a lot of years....so many plays just beating a rival...AU...TN...LSU....GaTech....
Had toget past the infamous plays....
Losses stick around longer than Ws...sad but true ...for me
Missed plays..bad calls...resulting in the L....
But...this on a positive note...
Roll Tide

ps. Hope somebody puts Areanes int of tebow in end zone in 09....
Or on side kick vs clemson....
Or McCarron and his center getting into it on field with a double digit lead..vs ND
or last second FG as time expired vs GT in 59-60 somewhere in there ( by a player who hadnt kicked a FG since HS)
Or...or...or

 

[Davestwin]

I am with you @50+yeartidefan just one? With the stakes so high you have to go with one of the NC game plays like 2 and 26, goal line stand or George Teagues strip. Many others throughout the years and not just recent years.

It is hard not to go with the play that won the game especially given the circumstances of a freshmen who came into the game at half, in OT and after a sack that lost 16 yards. Crazy when you think of the breadth of the circumstances for that game and that play.

Alright, its the offseason and I am going to see if each of us can pick ONLY 1 moment in Tide football that you would describe as your favorite?

I’ll tell you one play that would have been a lot of lists had it not been thwarted by a homer ref ... the Walter Lewis pass to Preston Gothard in the back of the end zone vs. Penn State in 1983. It’s now infamously called “The catch that wasn’t a catch”. Replay video immediately and photos in newspapers and magazines later showed the TE was clearly in bounds but an official unbelievably claimed he wasn’t. If it had been called correctly, the TD catch would have cemented the greatest comeback in Bama history as they were trailing 34-7 in the 4th Quarter. The homer call in the last seconds of the game erased a play that would still be talked about to this day whenever great comebacks in college football history was the subject. Instead, it’s a play that only diehard Bama fans ... most often older ones like me ... remember.

Alright, its the offseason and I am going to see if each of us can pick ONLY 1 moment in Tide football that you would describe as your favorite?

 

[TideatMileHigh]

I was born in 1994, so during my formative years you can imagine what I had to endure. What happened in the past, was nothing more than myths and ancient history to me, and the present during those years were not kind to us Alabama fans.

Imagine growing up and seeing your favorite team, basically being a bitch to all its rivals. I was in second grade when Alabama beat Auburn in the 2001 Iron Bowl, and I was a freshmen in high school in 2008 when we beat their ass for the first time in six years (which to me felt like an eternity).

For that reason alone, the 2008 Iron Bowl was my favorite moment. When Greg McElroy threw that last minute touch down pass to Marquis Maze, it was a total fuck you statement to Tubs for all the shit talking he put us through for 6 years. In that moment, the Barners knew the gig was up and they were relegated to being a second rate school in the state of Alabama.

 

[bama alum]

Such an unfair question! This one is mine, too. The TJ Yeldon run and 2nd and 26 are a close tie for second.

 

[mando]

I was born in 1994, so during my formative years you can imagine what I had to endure. What happened in the past, was nothing more than myths and ancient history to me, and the present during those years were not kind to us Alabama fans.

Imagine growing up and seeing your favorite team, basically being a bitch to all its rivals. I was in second grade when Alabama beat Auburn in the 2001 Iron Bowl, and I was a freshmen in high school in 2008 when we beat their ass for the first time in six years (which to me felt like an eternity).

For that reason alone, the 2008 Iron Bowl was my favorite moment. When Greg McElroy threw that last minute touch down pass to Marquis Maze, it was a total fuck you statement to Tubs for all the shit talking he put us through for 6 years. In that moment, the Barners knew the gig was up and they were relegated to being a second rate school in the state of Alabama.

Rough years for sure. It would have been a rough time to be a young Bama fan.

I follow all you are saying but what I highlighted. The Barn has always been a second rated school. These years were more about how far Bama had fallen than some elevated status of the Barn in my view. They were average but Bama had fallen below average.