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Bama Llama

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  1. This will be our fifth new OC in seven years. It's like starting from scratch every year. According to AL.com, one of the names in the hat is Dan Mullen. I always thought he was a damn good OC and QB whisperer, not so much head man. Watching the Gators shit the bed vs UGA last few years does not inspire confidence, though. Horns, Tennessee and LSU coming to Tuscaloosa this fall. It shall be interesting.
  2. Maybe he’ll be the one who achieves communication from the World of Coming Attractions. That’d be just like him. Hope it happens in the middle of a big pharma ad. “Almost . . . (perfect pause) . . . cut my haiiiyyyairrrrrr . . .” I ‘spect he wouldn’t really want to rest in peace, so dear Mr. Crosby, whom I never met but whose musical collaborations helped get me through high school, college, wimmens, psilly this, lysergic that, shakeups and breakups, saludos monfrere, you had that swing and je ne sais quoi. Rock on, motherfucker, a Sixties Soul for Eternity.
  3. Jesus, what a fucking shame. When did people stop using their minds? Why don’t they think? Why don’t they fucking care about human life?
  4. Current PBP and Color: Klatt ++++ Blackledge ++++ Fowler +++ Nessler +++ Gus ++ Tessatore ++ Herbstreit + McElroy + Danielson - Brando - - I don’t have enough recent years screen time with any others. I liked Keith Jackson and Frank Broyles on ABC college games. MNF was okay for a time. I was watching when Cosell reported John Lennon’s death - he handled it like a professional. Awful shit there. Chris Schenkel was my least favorite of that era. He always seemed elated at PATs. There’s the snap, it’s placed down . . . And the kick is . . . GOOOOOOOOD! No shit, Chris, as are 99% of the fuckers.
  5. For ten years or more we honored the A Christmas Story tradition by hiding our 1984-born daughter’s main Santa gift a la Ralphie’s air rifle. It never failed to produce a joyful surprise.
  6. The Year of Hypnotoad is simultaneously arriving and concluding in parallel universes. His laser eyes will dice and slice. His aura will envelop Thurston Bennet Howell, IV, and transport him to Carl’s garage in Caddyshack. Kirby Smart will have visible diarrhea stains all down his khaki breeches. Chaos will reign. Mike Leach will laugh over the P.A. and the Hollywood sign will lift off to the Moons of Meepzor. Frogs uber Dawgs, skrait up. Long live Jambi.
  7. On second thought I’ll have nude Eva Green painted gold in a Caribbean bungalow for $2,000, Alex!
  8. The dance off between the Indian homeboys and upper class brit twits is exhausting and amazing. Bollywood Gumnaam dissects the Raj. Peoples be banging on the drum all day. RRR taps into something . . . refreshing.
  9. Only TV show that ever made me cry - Howdy Doody’s last episode, which aired September 24, 1960. The news passed quickly from house to house and 15 neighborhood kids gathered at my sainted Aunt’s house. When Buffalo Bob, Clarabell, Chief Thunderthud and the gang waved goodbye for the last time we all cried like babies. I had just turned nine. We had watched that show all our lives snd it was gone forever. It was a shock because none of us knew about it until the day before. I didn’t believe it until it happened right in front of me. It was like Ralphie when he decoded the Ovaltine messsge: “Sonuvabitch! They can’t do that!” Puppets, clowns and kid show hosts may creep sone people out but Howdy Doody was a really good kids’ program.
  10. Shirley Eaton will always have a special place in my heart. Of course I was only 12 at the time and this sight blew out my pubescent circuits.
  11. I’m seventy-one and my favorite is A Christmas Story. Jean Shepard’s delivery of the narration was like being in the conscience of a boy for post WW2 Christmastime. The perfect set decoration, Ralphie’s fantasies, Randy whining at his meatloaf, the look on the Old Man’s face when Ralphie came out with F-U-U-U-U, it was a real Christmas without the saccharine. Santa brought me a Benjamin pump air rifle when I was nine. I immediately pumped it fifteen times, loaded it with a bb, opened the back door and fired a hip shot at a female towhee, one of Mama’s favorite birds, pecking around under some bushes twenty feet away. I had zero confidence that it would hit home, a million to one shot. Dropped the poor towhee stone dead. Felt awful about it and still do. YouTube has a treasure trove of Shepard radio shows from his days at WOR in New York. He’s like a latter day Mark Twain with a dose of sick little monkey. Wish he and the little towhee were still here.
  12. SIAP but the yuppie scum next door, Todd, was portrayed by Christopher Guest’s brother, Nicholas, so there’s that.
  13. Hmmmmm, I beg to differ but it won’t change the outcome.
  14. I loved Green Book and the protagonist letting his musical hair down at the juke joint after leaving the snobs at the country club. What a fine odyssey for an odd couple to find common ground.
  15. I stand corrected. A tip of the hat to you for not being too lazy to look it up. Also, the corches’ records should be DKR 2–0-1 PWB 0-3-1 Akers 1-0-0 And, it was the 82 Cotton Bowl. Texas came back from 10-0 to win 14-12, wisely giving up a safety near the end. Texas’ one td was on a qb draw, 36 yards by Brewer. The game is on YouTube if you enjoy blurry lo-def video and the voice of Lindsey Nelson.
  16. Hell, I get pissed every time I even think about 60 Bluebonnet - 3-3 tie WTF?! 64 Orange Bowl - goal line gimpy Namath vs manbull Nobis 72 Cotton Bowl - Tx rb ran out of bounds left on called td 80 Cotton Bowl - can’t remember why but still pissed DKR 3 - PWB 0 It all evens up eventually - bad calls, bonehead plays, weird shit, breaks. Bottom line, Bama trails all time by what, four games?! See you in Tuscaloosa, us with an untested qb and probably several new coaches and/or coordinators, BoB being our handicap if he’s still here. Bring the chaps girls, mmmm hmm! Hope the TV guys will set this one for a night kickoff. No injuries and no bad calls.
  17. Tyler Perry in Alex Cross (2012) I was just flipping channels and found this film. Perry did a fine job IMHO. IMDB gave it a meh score but so what? It’s worth the watch. You’ll never think of Madea the same way.
  18. The key to channeling George’s voice is emulating “wreeeeeaath” in He Stopped Loving Her Today. Find someone who can do that like ol Possum could. He must’ve had a uniquely shaped sinus network or something.
  19. Finally found it. Glasses will be raised to Mike Leach at Flora-Bama for many, many nights to come. From AL.com- Mike Leach once raved Flora-Bama ‘tough to beat’ for best party of his life By Howard Koplowitz | hkoplowitz@al.com Out of every corner of the country Mike Leach had been to in a life that spanned several college coaching stops, the late Mississippi State coach once said it was a beachside institution straddling Alabama and Florida that was “tough to beat” for the best party he had ever been to. “The place is called Flora-Bama … right on the border of Alabama and Florida, and you could go in there and there’d be like three different bands playing, one band slightly different from the next,” Leach said in a 2017 clip shared on social media after his death Monday at 61. “You could get one of those sawed-off boxes like they put the case of beer in, heaping with crawfish.. for like five bucks,” Leach continued in the clip as he raved about the Flora-Bama. “And then they had this triple-level deck out there overlooking the Gulf of Mexico in the middle of the night all the stars, of course the band playing, all the people hanging around all day,” he said. “Fantastic people watching, plus you had crawfish, plus you’re out there on the end of that deck and it’s just gorgeous. “That’d be tough to beat, on the right night, which I actually like weeknights better because [it’s] too slammed on the weekends, but I’d have to say a really good weeknight at Flora-Bama,” the coach said. Leach was known for his pass-happy Air Raid offenses, wide-ranging interests — he wrote a book about Native American leader Geronimo, had a passion for pirates, taught a class about insurgent warfare — andrambling, off-the-cuff news conferences -- including being asked about candy corn, hypothetical mascot fights and the best party he’s ever been to.
  20. Rock on, you Great Space Pirate Wizard Coach. We'll see you again. Tell God to zig out to the green grass. I know you'll throw him open.
  21. No matter how this turns out, Mike Leach will always be in my pantheon of coolest people. This is my favorite Leach quote. He was asked at a postgame WSU presser "What was the best party you ever attended?" All I have is the link but if it works, it's well worth the watch. Sail on Space Pirate, sail on, come what may. https://www.facebook.com/SWXRightNow/videos/10155601289895833/?t=43
  22. Cogburn, after the royally botched ambush in which LaBeouf got shot in front of the shack: "Well, that didn't pan out."
  23. If for no other reason than DKR's great ballsy championship call and the perfect execution thereof, this was definitely one those games you always remember. I was 18, a freshman at Rice but a football fanatic. I watched this game in the smoke filled, dank and dreary Will Rice "College" TV room with about fifty other guys. Bama was mediocre that year and has lost to Auburn 49-26 the previous week. I was starving for a good football game and this was it. A few people hooted when Tricky Dick made it into a photo op but looking back now I can't blame him. Helluva game and to win on the road like that and win late, made this a vintage well-earned natty for Coach Royal and the boys. James Street could spear a goddam marlin with the points of his sideburns. Bravo OP for helping us remember.
  24. Had we TCB vs either Tennessee or LSU, we would be in, deservedly or not. We did not and therefore we are not. That is fucking that. I hope the Dogs and Frogs end up in the final and if so I will be 100% behind HypnoToadZilla. Don't like Wolverines or Buckeyes. Nossir, I don't like 'em.
  25. Fallica always brought this guy to mind:
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