| FTBL "The Tide Have Come Home"

[Birmingham]

It wasn't supposed to happen this year. Alabama was supposed to start their season off 0-1 after meeting Clemson in the Georgia Dome. They were returning only 9 seniors, one of which was a quarterback that most people felt couldn't graduate soon enough.

What followed the 34-10 victory over Clemson has been a series of battles that have progressively made them stronger. Soldiers standing not one in front of the other, but side by side. Moving forward each week, leaving their victories behind them.

They left Atlanta that night a team that knew the worst of the fighting was still ahead of them. They said goodbye to the Georgia Dome in hopes that they would find their way back. 11 games later, the men in crimson have come home...


http://bleacherreport.com/articles/87890-the-tide-have-come-home

 

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It wasn't supposed to happen this year. Alabama was supposed to start their season off 0-1 after meeting Clemson in the Georgia Dome. They were returning only 9 seniors, one of which was a quarterback that most people felt couldn't graduate soon enough.

What followed the 34-10 victory over Clemson has been a series of battles that have progressively made them stronger. Soldiers standing not one in front of the other, but side by side. Moving forward each week, leaving their victories behind them.

They left Atlanta that night a team that knew the worst of the fighting was still ahead of them. They said goodbye to the Georgia Dome in hopes that they would find their way back. 11 games later, the men in crimson have come home...


http://bleacherreport.com/articles/87890-the-tide-have-come-home

Thanks for the read B-HAM!

 

[planomateo]

damn, i got like multiple favorite parts of this article...awesome post.

Alabama continually gives their opponents kicks to the legs, like a lumber jack chopping at a tree, waiting patiently and relentlessly for them to fall.

There has been many times that the Tide were supposed to lose this season and one by one the fans from the newly fallen team assure our Men in Crimson that they'll never get past "the next team". Leaving the job that it was theirs to do, hoping another team will do it for them.

No matter what happens this coming Saturday, when the Men in Crimson make their way back home, you can rest assured that the two best teams in the SEC are exactly who will be playing. It will be a game that, aside from what it assuredly means for whoever wins, will possibly be the best football game played in 2008.

I was asked a question today. I was asked "Who has Alabama beaten this year?". The tone that the question was asked told me all I needed to know of the intent of the one asking it.

When thinking of the adversity that these boys have overcome this year as they have made their way back to where it all began, I feel good knowing that the answer to the man's question "who has Alabama beaten this year" is simply everyone who's stood before them.