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

[mando]

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.

This!!!! You youngins need to understand the standard was set before Saban. Some would even say before Bryant. Bottom line in my lifetime I have watched the two greatest coach at Bama. No other program comes close. Now I admit there are some first that have occurred under Saban and that's saying something at a place like Bama. I certainly have major respect and appreciation for what he has added to Bama's history and tradition.

 

[BAMAneck]

10bears

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

Born in '68. We moved to Alabama when I was 3. Dad was a huge clanga fan but living in Vernon and Winfield all of dad's friends were UA fans. All I heard about was UA vs barn. In particular 2 of his associates were decently moneyed UA boosters. At 5 I had picked up on how important CPB was in the state. He came to the car dealership of one of dad's friends and dad grudgingly took me to meet him. My memory of CPB will always be as this craggy faced giant towering over me and shaking my hand. He told me he was proud of me as a fan. This became a personal point of pride for me. I believe my dad always secretly hated that he was responsible for my introduction to UA football. Been to games at Legion and most anywhere else that UA has played regularly. Finally got to where I could afford season tickets in early 2000's. Unfortunately the tickets I had bought for years (aftermarket) almost quadrupled in price by 2011 and I had to bow out on them. Still try to get over for a couple of games every year and otherwise never miss a game either on TV or radio. Some of my best memories are listening to those games in the 70s on radio.

 

[c5vetman]

for as long as I can remember. My earliest memory was Tiffin's kick when i was about 11, but I know I was a fan before then. My parents couldn't care less about sports, but my best friend was 3 years older than me, and he was always a big Bama fan, so I know he's the one to credit. I honestly don't remember much from early childhood, but Bama is in my earliest memories. And then I graduated from there, so the roots run deep and won't jump off ever. Been through the worst years and some of the best.

 

[We All Bleed Crimson]

Bama fan since the Joe Namath days back in the 60s. Roll Tide!!!

 

[94 Grad]

I can't say when I became a fan... having parents that grew up in Alabama and went to Alabama... I think I've always been a fan, just like my Dad; however we lived in Chicago and Philadelphia, so I'm not sure how much a fan I really was. It wasn't until we moved to Georgia in the early 80's that I really became a "fan". My most distinct memory from that time was Coach Bryant's last game in 1982 Liberty bowl win. As an 11 year old kid, I cried knowing it was his last game. I don't think I even understood how incredible a coach he was at that time/age, but it overwhelmed me anyway.

 

[Bamabww]

Some of my best memories are listening to those games in the 70s on radio.

Oh yeah, mine also. The one I think of most often was the 1971 USC game to open the season. Played on the west coast in prime time pacific time, it didn’t kick off until 9 or 10 pm here. For some reason, the only place I could pick the game up that late was in the bathroom with the transistor radio in the open window. I listened to the entire game there except when the other 6 in my family had to use the bathroom before going to bed!
We surprised the Trojans with the wishbone that night and won the game. My best radio memory.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

the only place I could pick the game up that late was in the bathroom with the transistor radio

I can remember hooking up all kind of home made contraptions to my AM/FM 8 track deck to try and bring games in clearer. My papaw on mom's side still had one of the wooden cabinet radios with 100's of frequency options. If you could get it tuned it was the best radio for sports listening but it was cantankerous about tuning

 

[PurlJam]

Holy shit you people are old.

I was born in 1994, but they've always been a part of my life. To me people like Bear Bryant and Gene Stallings were like mythical legends that existed in folk lore. I was relegated to watching Bama during the not so good days in the 2000s.

Who could forget such classical moments like the defense shitting the bed on 4th and 18 against UT in 2003 or having LSU rip your heart out in OT in 2005?

Old my ass....well seasoned like a fine cut of Ribeye is the way I see it, just can't see it without my glasses.

 

[PurlJam]

Born in '68. We moved to Alabama when I was 3. Dad was a huge clanga fan but living in Vernon and Winfield all of dad's friends were UA fans. All I heard about was UA vs barn. In particular 2 of his associates were decently moneyed UA boosters. At 5 I had picked up on how important CPB was in the state. He came to the car dealership of one of dad's friends and dad grudgingly took me to meet him. My memory of CPB will always be as this craggy faced giant towering over me and shaking my hand. He told me he was proud of me as a fan. This became a personal point of pride for me. I believe my dad always secretly hated that he was responsible for my introduction to UA football. Been to games at Legion and most anywhere else that UA has played regularly. Finally got to where I could afford season tickets in early 2000's. Unfortunately the tickets I had bought for years (aftermarket) almost quadrupled in price by 2011 and I had to bow out on them. Still try to get over for a couple of games every year and otherwise never miss a game either on TV or radio. Some of my best memories are listening to those games in the 70s on radio.

John Forney, Doug Layton and Jerry Duncan.

 

[kenbama]

Have been Bama fan since early 60s, got to see many highs and a few lows. Namath, Stabler, Sloan, Todd as QBs. Some lows-66 MNC, 73 Notre Dame, 65 Stabler 4th down throwaway; HOWEVER, many more highs. Coach Bryant, wishbone, D Thomas, up to Tua and those WRs. Go Bama.

 

[252BAMA]

Have been Bama fan since early 60s, got to see many highs and a few lows. Namath, Stabler, Sloan, Todd as QBs. Some lows-66 MNC, 73 Notre Dame, 65 Stabler 4th down throwaway; HOWEVER, many more highs. Coach Bryant, wishbone, D Thomas, up to Tua and those WRs. Go Bama.

Re: The Stabler throwaway. For those too young to remember. I, for one, put the blame on Coach Bryant. He was alternating Sloan and Stabler every other play at the end of the game. Many have said if you have two QBs you don't have any. It fits here. Again for those too young to remember, Paul Harvey had a five minute radio show called "And Now, The Rest of the Story". It won't take you five minutes to read mine.

On the last set of downs, Stabler was in on the first and goal just inside the ten. I do not remember what occurred on that down. Sloan was in on second down and was sacked at the eighteen. Stabler was back in on third down and ran SEVENTEEN yards to the one. I, for one, can not put the blame on a young man who is being run in and out of the game and probably doesn't know if he is coming or going for thinking that he achieved a first down after running SEVENTEEN yards. It was too late to get Sloan, who may or may not have known it was fourth down, back into the game.

The ironic part of the story is that the rules then required a receiver to be in the area to avoid intentional grounding. Stabler threw the ball about two feet over the head of a wide open Ray Perkins in the End Zone!

Editor's note: I WAS there. The account is first hand.

 

[Mgeod]

I used to fish with a older man that worked with my Mom in the 70"s . I was a young boy . He would always listen
to Bama football . Hooked for life after a few games. Raised both my boy's to be Bama fans and the youngest is at awbern and has become a traitor. LOL

 

[rick4bama]

I used to fish with a older man that worked with my Mom in the 70"s . I was a young boy . He would always listed to Bama football . Hooked for life after a few games. Raised both my boy's to be Bama fans and the youngest is at awbern and has become a traitor. LOL

I raised my daughter the same way and her three kids. My two older granddaughter are all Bama girls!! The grandson I must have drop him on his head. He is now like your son on the wrong side of the field.