🏈 When did you become a Bama fan?

[Hardkore]

Simply put,all my life. My dad always watched the games every week while I was growing up. I grew up watching them right there with him. I even have memories of seeing Bear on the sidelines on TV.

 

[bama29fan]

i was around 10-12 yo i would guess....5th or 6th grade maybe. I never really watched sports and my dad was never really in to them either. We moved to Mobile from Panama City about that time and i started hanging out with kids that were Bama Fans. I still didnt follow them real close until i was in my 20's. Started following intently in my 30's. Close to 40 now. so it's safe to say that i've been a fan for about 30 years.

 

[psychojoe]

As some of the others have said, I can't remember not being an Alabama fan. I was very young when my dad tookme to my first Alabama game. I don't remember the exact year, but Red Drew was our coach. We lost to Southern Miss at Crampton Bowl in Montgomery. I can remember listening to the 1954 Cotton Bowl on the radio with Dad. My pain at our loss to Rice was mildly soothed by Auburn getting smacked by Texas Tech on the same day. In 1955 I had my tonsils taken out on a Saturday morning during football season. I remember begging Dad to bring a radio into my hospital room so I could listen top the tide. He wisely thought better of it. Ears Whitworth had become our coach and we were dreadful in 1955, losing all 10 games. He knew a young boy's tears would make an aching throat worse. I got through those rough years, and its been easy sailing for being a fan since then.

 

[crimsontidecasey]

Been a fan all my life. 18 years old. However I fell in love with them back in 05. When they had Shula, Croyle, Prothro, Darby etc.

Roll Tide!

 

[Southern Bama]

As so many have stated earlier......from day 1.....never knew any different...thats just the way it was. Bear and God were interchangeable in our household.......Saturdays with BBQ and friends over to listen to the game on the radio or watch on television. Keith Jacksons voice on a fall Saturday......with BBQ and friends........really...does it get any better than that ?? :a:

 

[RollTideinGA]

My dad was/ is a huge Bama fan. He always had a Bama room with Tide decor everywhere and we had a conversion van decked out in Crimson/White. He took me to my first game in 1978 when the Tide played some team with a Hokie as a mascot. I've seen the Tide win 4 national championships (78,79, 92, '09).

 

[bama4life]

My Grandfather was a pretty big fan. If we were not at the games then we had a traditional lunch on game day.

My Uncle went to UA and played in the band. My aunt went as well and would let me come down on the weekends and hang out and watch the games.

I think it is in my DNA. Now it is my turn to teach my family what it means to be a bama fan. RTR!

 

[252BAMA]

01/01/1953. Had been a Bama "lean" since the Harry Gilmer years but the Orange Bowl that day cinched it for me. The entire month of December of '52 all you read and heard was how the "Beast of the East" Syracuse was going to beat Bama easily.

My first five years, '53-'57, was as tough as it gets. Bama couldn't score much less win. Shutout SEVENTEEN times in those five years! Consider they have been held scoreless only eleven times in the fifty three seasons since and you get the picture. And to make matters worse, my Dad was an Aubie who took me to 3 of their games in 1957* trying to get me to switch.

 

[252BAMA]

As some of the others have said, I can't remember not being an Alabama fan. I was very young when my dad tookme to my first Alabama game. I don't remember the exact year, but Red Drew was our coach. We lost to Southern Miss at Crampton Bowl in Montgomery. I can remember listening to the 1954 Cotton Bowl on the radio with Dad. My pain at our loss to Rice was mildly soothed by Auburn getting smacked by Texas Tech on the same day. In 1955 I had my tonsils taken out on a Saturday morning during football season. I remember begging Dad to bring a radio into my hospital room so I could listen top the tide. He wisely thought better of it. Ears Whitworth had become our coach and we were dreadful in 1955, losing all 10 games. He knew a young boy's tears would make an aching throat worse. I got through those rough years, and its been easy sailing for being a fan since then.

That first game could have been '53 or '54. Bama lost to them both years. And folks, he's not talking about Southern Mississippi University. He's talking about their forerunner, Mississippi Southern COLLEGE - non 1A. That's how bad it was.

 

[psychojoe]

That first game could have been '53 or '54. Bama lost to them both years. And folks, he's not talking about Southern Mississippi University. He's talking about their forerunner, Mississippi Southern COLLEGE - non 1A. That's how bad it was.

I think it was '54. I know we lost 7-2. And I was way too young to appreciate the Dixie Darlings.

 

[bamatommy]

I was in the third or fourth grade, I think. Most of my dad's family are big Alabama fans, and that's not surprising considering how successful Bear Bryant was in the 60's & 70's.