1973, I was 7 years old, always playing outside with a white football with crimson bands around it, you know the one, very small and if it hit you in the face it would unleash bodily harm second to only a baseball. Took it everywhere just in case there was a pick up game and anybody ready to catch it. My father being only the second most Alabama fan in the world, me being the number one fan, would occasionally zip that ball back and forth to me on Sundays, cause Saturdays was saved for Bama football. I can remember my father pacing up and down the living room giving the refs every part of the English language and some foreign words to boot. Most games we had to listen to it on the radio, but one game (the Iron Bowl) we sat and watched on the TV. My father took me up on his lap and said, "you see that guy walking the sidelines? His name is "Bear" Bryant coach of the University of Alabama football team. One great coach." I didn't know it at the time but I was witnessing greatness.
Its hard to imagine that I have seen 5 Alabama National Championships during my lifetime, that's more than LSU has in their football history. (I think they claim 3) I have not forgot all the down years, nor the great years, It is in my Blood. One true lifelong passion that I will never give up, never budge for, and never waiver. It is etched in my everyday "doings". Not to many pictures out there of me without it on my personal somewhere, usually in the form of a cap. Some people call it being obsessed, some call it rediculos that someone follows a team so closely, I call it "Me". Like many of you, Alabama Football is yourself, it is your passion, it is your team. Tonight my friends, we unite again to watch our beloved Tide hit the gridiron and go after its 14th National Championship, and it doesn't get any better than this! Our team, Our Passion, Our Alabama Crimson Tide!
Roll Tide Roll!!!!
Its hard to imagine that I have seen 5 Alabama National Championships during my lifetime, that's more than LSU has in their football history. (I think they claim 3) I have not forgot all the down years, nor the great years, It is in my Blood. One true lifelong passion that I will never give up, never budge for, and never waiver. It is etched in my everyday "doings". Not to many pictures out there of me without it on my personal somewhere, usually in the form of a cap. Some people call it being obsessed, some call it rediculos that someone follows a team so closely, I call it "Me". Like many of you, Alabama Football is yourself, it is your passion, it is your team. Tonight my friends, we unite again to watch our beloved Tide hit the gridiron and go after its 14th National Championship, and it doesn't get any better than this! Our team, Our Passion, Our Alabama Crimson Tide!
Roll Tide Roll!!!!
