🏈 Raise your hand if you became a Bama after 2007. It's okay to admit it because I know damn well (more)

[Secondand26]

1966.
First memory of a TV - seeing Johnny Musso run down the field in shoulder pads - tear-away jersey.
Hearing Barn fans chant "Punt Bama Punt" - hated those bastards ever since!

 

[50+yeartidefan]

that you guys could not have survived the Shula/DuBose years.

And Ears.....damn....am "old man" as earlier described by a certain poster...."old fart" by another....but it is what it is...been called worse...

 

[RollllTide!]

In 1986 we moved to B'ham from South GA. I grew up a dawgs fan until I moved to B'ham. I stayed a dawgs fan for a while and most of my family still are. My Nephew played for GA. After hearing the question are you a BAMA or Auburn fan I would say I already hate Auburn so I am a BAMA fan. Got sideline passes one game from a childhood friend, the uncle of Mike Bobo, (He was a coach for Perkins) and I have been hooked ever since, Even when I moved to Texas for a few years. I live in South Alabama now and we pull for BAMA no matter who they play. Even Jawja.

 

[rueben]

I'm younger than some here. Dec 1986, whole family is Alabama Alumni and boosters. I grew up with Alabama Football and I will stay with them even after we inevitably slow down again. My first real memory of keeping up with the scores and players was 1992, my Dad and I watched the Championship Game together which he loved, he's also a huge Bama fan. I was so excited, having just turned 6 years old, he wanted to get me the game to watch it so he had some of his Fraternity brothers still on campus send him a copy of the 92 championship game on VHS for me to watch. I must've watched that thing 100 times..literally cover had to be replaced I would take it out and watch it so often. That was my first real fun time watching Bama football.

I was buying Beastie Boy's "License to Ill" Around your B'day.

 

[BAMAneck]

Wished I was . I had to suffer through Perkins tearing down Bears’ tower , and all the other mediocre coaches all the time knowing BAMA had everything to win championships except the head guy ..

I was starting to think that the decision makers were perfectly happy living off our past , while selling shirts that read “ got 12 “ . I was almost ready to give up ... then coach Mal came through for BAMA National .

 

[Bama Guy]

Shhhhh.....grew up an Auburn fan. Went to school at Alabama and saw the light. 1973. Now, f*** awbern.

 

[bamachine]

Not '07, more like '77. I could say '71 when I was born but I did not watch them play until around '77.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

...and Ten Bears?

Never trust a guy with a ponytail and wearing blue makeup

 

[BamaFan334]

Never trust a guy with a ponytail and wearing blue makeup

Who is Ten Bears? I hear y'all talking about it/him a lot.

 

[XXL TideFan]

18 October 1961

 

[252BAMA]

that you guys could not have survived the Shula/DuBose years.

Hell, I survived Whitworth. Shula/Dumbose was nothing.

 

[alabamajack]

July 10 1968. another old geezer here. Some of y'all are making me feel old being born around the time I was graduating.

 

[alabamajack]

I was buying Beastie Boy's "License to Ill" Around your B'day.

Now I can't get that tune out of my head. "You've gotta fight for your right to party" thanks a lot

 

[sean]

i remember my mom and my grandparents watching them on tv (when they were on) back in the (mid/late) 70s. but it was mostly to them on the radio as being on tv was pretty much a once-a-season thing. and i remember The Bear Bryant Show on sundays. it was pretty much a given that we were gonna watch it every sunday during the season. and as a young BAMA fan, i certainly didn't mind.

 

[SnakeFan]

Holy shit you people are old.

Yep, March 15, 1963. All I can remember is Alabama Crimson Tide, Dallas Cowboys, and the Atlanta Braves

 

[planomateo]

Honestly can't say that I've been an Alabama fan since I was born, that doesn't compute in my opinion. Being a fan is a choice right?

I'm 45, I'd say I've been an Alabama fan for 40 years give or take. My dad is an Alabama fan and my mom is an Auburn fan.

I'm a Braves fan because I spent alot of time with my grandmother while my mom (divorced and single) was going to night school at Jeff State. She loved baseball.

I'm a Nolan Ryan fan because I collected baseball cards as a kid and I got his 1970 Topps card. Eventually my dad bought me his rookie card a few years later as a birthday present, he paid $45 for it. I still have it, it's in mint condition.

 

[tider79]

So glad to be an old fart....got to experience two of the greatest football coaches of all time. Feel sorry for you young ankle biters that know nothing living thru the past glory years of bama football.

 

[Bamabww]

I can remember when Coach Bryant came back home. My uncle, who is only 7 years older than me, introduced me to Alabama thru Coach Bryant. I remember when I asked him, "Who is Bear Bryant ?" he replied, "the coach who will make us Champions again."

I have thanked him several times for introducing me to Alabama and Coach Bryant. So I have been a fan since 1958 and have never wanted to jump ship.

 

[bradenob]

December 31, 1973. I had just turned 8. Parents had a party and watched the game downstairs. I had already decided to pull for Alabama that year, but not in any serious way - you could say it was fate, like being drawn by the Force. Everyone was drinking downstairs and watching the game - I had to stay upstairs and get updates when mom or dad would come get more food. The game ended, and I wanted to know what happened - the Johnsons were Auburn fans, and I'll never forget the glee on her Mrs. Johnson's face as mom and dad walked upstairs with her, dejected.
"Who won?" I asked, so hopeful.
"NOTRE DAME!" exclaimed the evil Auburn fan, as if she had won the lottery.

That day I became a true Alabama fan, steeled in my love of the Crimson Tide, and in my disgust, not hate, of Auburn and its fans.

I would later explain to my children, who were raised to hate Tennessee, but lived thru 'The Thumb' and the verbal abuse from the little barners in their school, and therefore have always hated Auburn, that Auburn never mattered when I was a kid-they were simply irrelevant (I was too young for 17-16, but anytime an Auburn kid would yell that at us Alabama fans we'd smile and yell back "35-0.") Tennessee was our competition back then, and the rotten oranges pelted on you by drunk, unruly Tennessee fans after they would lose at Legion Field to us, the ensuing years with Phat Phil snitching, and Peyton leading the band; only solidified that hatred.

 

[TideatMileHigh]

The majority of us that have been posting on here long term definitely pre-date 2007, buddy. I've been an Alabama fan since I was old enough to sit up and watch Alabama games. I believe I started posting on here 2004 or 2005 when I was in high school. Even got banned one time because of how much I crapped on Marquis Johnson (I think that's who it was) in 2006.

I myself started out shitposting on AL.com around 2009ish, and found out about TideSports in 2010 right before the dick weasels made it a pay site. Was a dedicated poster of WoollyAl for many years, and while I was in boot camp in San Diego in 2014 my dad actually sent me printed out conversations of threads occurring at the time. I remember reading about Blake Barnett committing in the summer that year lol.

One of the first things I did when I got my cell phone was watching his highlight video and being stoked.