🏈 The best generation of Alabama football fandom: those that were in school in 1992.

[TerryP]

Grew up in the 70's.
Found our oasis with Bebe's.
And today.

Tell me I'm wrong.

 

[Sid Youngleman]

Freshman year at Bama was 1961; graduated in 1966 thanks to spending 1962 season on Army active duty, That's three national championships in the four seasons I was on campus, graduating the spring before the one we were shamefully screwed out of in '66. Then Coach Bryant's Seventies dynasty, followed by the wilderness years until Bebes beat Miami for the MNC in '92. Next, the even longer dry spell until the night Colt got hurt (still my favorite Championship Game) and we took up our current residence in the Promised Land. It's been a privilege (call it Crimson Privilege if you like) and a blast living through all of it. And I might also point out that I'm still living.

 

[OldPlayer]

If you were enrolled at Alabama in the 70s, you only had three games in Tuscaloosa. Three to four games were held in Birmingham which meant you had to drive there to watch a game, with limited bus service. Alabama wasn’t on TV every week. Today these fans are key members and contributors to every major fund raising effort, athletic and non-athletic, at Alabama.

 

[bama alum]

c/o '92! RTR!

 

[PurlJam]

In school in '92?...hell, I was in my 8th year at Alabama Power in '92.

 

[mando]

All generations of Alabama football are the best (except for the 50's). This is sustained excellence Terry, you know this . Pretty special to have lived thru Bryant's, Stallings and Sabans runs. Was born in 64 so I do not remember Bryant's first run. When the 70's came I was all about Bama football. My Dad raised me right .

Since I have always been a Bama fan I have always thought how pitiful it must be to be raised a fan of any other school.

 

[Elderfalsedemigod]

By 92 I was on my 2nd marriage

 

[TerryP]

All generations of Alabama football are the best (except for the 50's). This is sustained excellence Terry, you know this . Pretty special to have lived thru Bryant's, Stallings and Sabans runs. Was born in 64 so I do not remember Bryant's first run. When the 70's came I was all about Bama football. My Dad raised me right .

Since I have always been a Bama fan I have always thought how pitiful it must be to be raised a fan of any other school.

You have a few years on me but you get what I'm saying here.

Very few college football fans grew up with their favorite team winning championships. Very few college students were able to be around their school when they won a title. Very few adults get to relive what they experienced as a child, as a fan.

In the same vein I've had a bit of an envious view of another generation of Bama fans. Think about what it was like to grow up in Bama during the Thomas and Wade years only to live through Ears as an adult. Then, when they hit "our age" they saw the resurgence under Coach Bryant. That had to be quite the experience as well.

 

[rick4bama]

How many can say watching the first TV game at night. Ole Miss vs Bama? Or the first time the Sugar Bowl was in indoor! Penn. St vs Bama the one that got that monkey off Coach Bryant back!

 

[UAgrad93]

Class of ‘93! Born and raised a Bama fan. My Dad’s oldest brother was recruited by BAMA to play basketball back in the 50’s, but he got a job out of HS instead and help my grandmother raise his 5 younger siblings. I watched the end of the Bryant era and knew before he retired, I would play for him. Walked on under Curry and welcomed Coach Stallings in his first year and was in the Superdome watching the beat down we put on Miami. Experienced the wilderness as a HS coach going to the clinics while other coaches scoffed. Now, Tuscaloosa and a Saban Clinic is the place to be. Great times!!!

 

[50+yeartidefan]

How many can say watching the first TV game at night. Ole Miss vs Bama? Or the first time the Sugar Bowl was in indoor! Penn. St vs Bama the one that got that monkey off Coach Bryant back!

Or being at first OrangeBowl.....at night....
Or watching Namaths first game...
Or seeing a game BB...before Bear..
Or meeting the BEAR and Nick..and Joe..and Snake...etc

the 92 NC was incredible........incredible

 

[rick4bama]

Or being at first OrangeBowl.....at night....
Or watching Namaths first game...
Or seeing a game BB...before Bear..
Or meeting the BEAR and Nick..and Joe..and Snake...etc

the 92 NC was incredible........incredible

Hold your beers, because I not only met this Bama coach! I shook his hand! It was during the freshmen coming in at the Field house. It was around August when the FM were coming into the school. He had the soft hands. Fran was this one.

Now I did met Coach Stallings he was at one of the store at the Tuscaloosa Mall. It was before the 3rd SEC game with Fla. I met him, his wife and son at this singing.
I also met the sportswriter that voted Bama No#1 during the 1992 season, we met him at the Bryant Museum. That was during the parade.

 

[TideatMileHigh]

Freshman year at Bama was 1961; graduated in 1966 thanks to spending 1962 season on Army active duty, That's three national championships in the four seasons I was on campus, graduating the spring before the one we were shamefully screwed out of in '66. Then Coach Bryant's Seventies dynasty, followed by the wilderness years until Bebes beat Miami for the MNC in '92. Next, the even longer dry spell until the night Colt got hurt (still my favorite Championship Game) and we took up our current residence in the Promised Land. It's been a privilege (call it Crimson Privilege if you like) and a blast living through all of it. And I might also point out that I'm still living.

Is your profile picture a self portrait?

(Sorry)

 

[RTB X Bot]

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Grew up in the 70's.
Found our oasis with Bebe's.
And today.

Tell me I'm wrong.

@Sid Youngleman says "hold my Poor Richard's".

 

[Sid Youngleman]

@Sid Youngleman says "hold my Poor Richard's".

I totally understand (and share) the excitement of those who are living through their first experience of Bama Supremacy. But it's reportedly been shown, for instance, that people generally prefer for the rest of their lives the type of music that they most liked when they were 30. Maybe it works that way with football epochs as well. Nostalgia makes supremacy seem even supremer in retrospect.

 

[c5vetman]

Class of '97. I'm too young to remember the Bear very well, I remember his commercials more than I remember his coaching. Senior in high school when we won the 92 MNC, then just the suffering between Stallings and Saban, been gravy ever since.