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  1. Yes, this was one helluva game and I agree should be in the top 25. I was in the 9th grade and had only seen or listened to Bama lose four times in the previous five seasons. From this game, I learned humility and not to celebrate prematurely.. I watched it at home with my parents, the first televised game I had ever seen IN COLOR, as NBC promoted it with the animated peacock logo. My father was a tough old bird, played end both ways at Alabama in the early 1930s at 6'0" 178#, but he was no sunshine boy. After two or three series, he declared that Bama was being whipped on both lines of scrimmage and "Son, we've got our work cut out for us," his way of saying we'll have to do better than this to have a chance to win Namath, with a seriously gimpy knee, did not start but played more and more as the game went on (today he wouldn't even have dressed out). Ernie Koy running and George Sauer catching and running both had big time 80-yard touchdowns in the first half. Can't recall the name of the Texas qb but he was damn good. I think Don Maynard was on that Horns team, too. The great Tommy Nobis lived in our backfield all night. The halftime score was 21-7 Texas. Bama's D played tougher and so did Namath in the second half, when Bama held Texas scoreless and added 10 points. Late in the 4th, on 4th and goal at the 1, down 21-17, Namath, not the bench, not Bryant, called his own number. In those days the players didn't prairie dog and look around for the call. The qb called it in the huddle and the team executed it. Joe ran a sneak over right guard, the ref on the goal line signaled touchdown and I immediately hollered and leaped up and jumped around yelling "We're number one!" The pre-bowl rank didn't mean shit to me and still doesn't Then here came the back judge from 10 yards away, waving his arms. The refs went into a huddle, the first "fuck me!" ref huddle of my life. The referee signaled first down Texas going the other way, and it broke my young Tuscaloosa heart to pieces. And my buddies and me all learned a valuable lesson. Namath came to the sideline complaining to Bryant that he had driven across the goal line with the football. Bryant told him, "You should have gotten your whole ass over the line and eliminated all doubt!" This one still sticks in my craw but the Horns earned the win and Bama didn't. Tip of the "A" cap to the University of Texas and their nice SI cover later in the week. Alabama did not win the title in 1964, not in my book anyway.
  2. All Sprint ads. Every last fucking one of em. If I wanted to see that much yellow and black for three seconds, much less thirty seconds, I'd go wander around in a school bus parking lot. And the Verizon turncoat pitch man is a dweeb to boot.
  3. Remember the Titans was quality filmmaking but I cite it without the major enthusiasm I have for Slap Shot in hockey or Hoosiers in roundball. Bama's most unlikely 2nd and 26 snatching a title from the jaws of defeat two years ago was more improbable than the screenplay of any movie named above. Vince Young sweeping right to win the 2006 Rose Bowl a very close second. A truly great football flick has yet to be made.
  4. God knows what lies ahead for the Lane Train, but in three seasons at Alabama, he transformed a moribund (shitty) offense into a national contender three times running. He'll need some help on defense and some serious counseling to keep the debutante belles and hoochie selfie addicts up offa him, and him offa them. Give him a year and he'll have Ole Miss back where Hugh Freeze did. Literally. I for one don't care - bring on the scandals as long as they stay in Mississippi.
  5. It is not I whom am insane, it is I who am MAD!
  6. Financially deceptive, borderline fraudulent new vehicle ads, e.g.: 2020 Lexus SUV only $256/month ($37,500.00 due at closing)
  7. Bama Llama

    Led Zeppelin

    Oh to have been a college freshman in the city of Houston in the fall of 1969 and to have then been introduced to Led Zeppelin I, weed and Pacifica radio all in the span of a few weeks, and then with all that, to have added Zep II to the mix, that was very hood indeed. It launched a young man to another level of awareness. This was major karma at work and I am so thankful to have experienced it. Actually had a promotional record store inflatable Led Zeppelin hanging frim my ceiling. God, where is it now? Spent a year one Friday night in some wreck of a shack out behind a friend's house in Center, Texas listening to I and II over and over and over. Part of me is still there. Thank you Jimmy, Bonzo, Robert and John. If I only had one musical hat to tip in my life, it would have to be to the Beatles, for changing music forever and for the better, but these other four guys worked so many fine unforgettable wonders. There's still time to change the road we're on. Ohhh, yes. Turn on the smoke machines and cue up No Quarter and let loose the dogs of doom.
  8. Cleopatra: Kneel. Antony (outraged): What!? Cleopatra: On. Your. Knees! Antony: You dare ask a proconsul of Rome to . . . Cleopatra: I asked it of Julius Caesar. I demand it of you!
  9. Yes. Go to eight, with round one at the top four seeds' home field. Conference championships have outlived their usefulness. Start summer practice and first games a week later. The season is too long anyway.
  10. Clint Eastwood, in every one of the over fifty films in which he has appeared, except that godawful Every Which Way But Loose and the Bronco Billy dreck show. I mean, it's the same squint, raspy voice and take no bullshit guy every time. Not the same role? Okay, never mind. Here's one - Donald Trump getting up 1,000 days in a row acting like a president - . . . naah, he's not acting presidential at all. I apologize to OP.
  11. Play it. Play Les Marseillaise!
  12. Anyone old enough to remember Highlights for Children and "Goofus and Gallant?" This game was loaded with examples. Goofus MSU safety celebrates a sack by strutting and beating his chest. Gallant Ole Miss receiver trots back to the huddle, conserving energy. Same Goofus safety, winded and giddy, blows coverage on the next play. Same Gallant Ole Miss receiver catches a pass on 4th and 24 as Miss gains 48 yards. Gallant players on both sides score 5 touchdowns and politely toss the ball to the ref. After scoring a big TD to keep Ole Miss in the game, Goofus Miss #8 portrays a dog whizzing on MSU fans and draws 15-yd penalty, creating 35-yd PAT for Ole Miss kicker, who misses the kick, as Ole Miss becomes a punch line on Russian TV. Way too much dumb, energy wasting, look-at-me celebrating after almost every fucking play these days. D Linemen hulk-pose and strut around like King Kong after a sack on 2nd or 3rd down, then don't have the juice to apply enough pressure on 3rd and 4th, as the qb keeps the drive alive. And you young kids get off my lawn with your clothes and your hair and your internet highway.
  13. Ole Miss poise coach getting the pink slip. #8 wins dumbass of the year award. Shades of Leon Lett.
  14. I'd rather drink Jameson's and eat saltines and vienna sausage on my couch than eat cafeteria food with the poor zombies in that Luby's line. My favorite Thanksgivings were with my in-laws in their prime - tender, juicy, crusty, spicy, sweet everything on the big table, and my bookie FIL in the recliner drinking Miller and taking bets on Cowboys and Lions games, Texas vs Ags (this was the 70s, 80s and 90s), and jacking up the line on his loyal Alabama bettors for the Auburn game. Ahh, Stimpy, those were the days. Sorry, no misery or drama. The attitude is gratitude in these funky times, brothers. Good luck fixing whatever's messed up on the 40 acres. We have a home & home coming up soon. Hope we don't start tailing off either. Bama vs Texas needs to rock.
  15. Soon headed for South Beach
  16. Sometimes you have to wander in the wilderness. When you are obviously saddled with a loser, or an incompatible individual, cur the cord and start searching and when you find (1) a proven winner (2) with serious HC experience, then go get him, whatever it takes. After the sad later Stallings years, we at Bama endured Mike DuBose (sacked after affair with ath dept secretary), Dennis Franchione (never signed, bailed to Aggies when probation hit), Mike Price (fired after Pensacola stippers scandal), and Mike Shula (nuce guy, not a head coach) before we got lucky. If LSU had been open in '07, we might still be looking. If Urbs is best available, go get his ass but I think he may be hexed. WTF happened since the Sugar Bowl? I saw Texas as top 5 this year.
  17. The Wal-Marks tycoons need to lure Aunt Gussie from the Plains back to Arkansas. Then the stage would be set for the Pirate to bring the age of enlightenment to East Alabama and have a few interesting duels with Nick Saban before he retires to Mount Olympus. The quizzical looks of attendees at press conferences alone would be worth it. He would start weighing in on the absurdity of keeping those majestic bald eagles caged. In the dark wee hours of a winter morning he would open all the doors at the Raptor Center and set them free, to which the Boogereaters could only cry "Whar eagles?"
  18. Clemson, Ohiya State and OU win out. LSU wins out and shreds Georgia. Bama somehow wins out. Does OU leapfrog Bama and the Utah/Oregon winner and get in? What irony if Jalen Hurts is the bouncer who pulls the velvet rope across the entrance to the CFP Club and clicks it shut? Stranger things have happened the last couple of years. And gosh darn it I was pullin for tha Gophers. Jeez.
  19. I want someone to resurrect this, including the fine writing and someone remotely approaching the acting chops of Richard Boone:
  20. Tua has now been injured for the fourth time trying to extend a play when he should have thrown the ball away. It's a flaw, maybe the only one, in his game. For the sake of football, I hope his surgery is successful and that he plays again with a bionic hip. He's the best passer ever at Alabama and I saw Joe Namath play live several times. Joe, before his knee injury, was a better runner, but Tua's the more accurate. Tua himself will always be a winner, football or no football. Blaming Nick Saban is off the mark. This one's on Tua. Football involves high speed collisions of large, fast bodies. QBs should avoid them whenever possible.
  21. Most watched game this season to date was viewed by <10 million. ESPN top 150 games thread tells us _50_ million , including Milhous Nixon live and in person, watched Texas beat Arkansas in 1969. That's 25% of all then-breathing Americans. Are you serious, Clark? Well hell, now I've got to fact check fuckin ESPN.
  22. Agreed, there are many quotable lines. But when the house band cranks up La Marseillaise and the patrons all join in and drown out the Nazis, and the hooker with a heart of gold at the bar sings out "Aux armes, citoyens!" and shouts "Vive la France!" at the end, it gets me right in the old heart every time. Strong, strong stuff. I don't know of a more memorable sequence in any film.
  23. Ahhh, sublime, profane speculation; thy name is Surly. Scanning through such excellent bickering among philosophers who just happen to be Longhorns fans is much more pleasing than getting ready for work. I cheered with gusto when Vince scored, by the way, in my Alabama dirt floor hovel with faded images of Bryant, Wallace and Jesus hanging askew on the wood paneling. Had he not scored, I would have cursed loudly and disturbed my sweet sleeping wife. Long live Surly, its successors and assigns.
  24. Laszlo: Play La Marseillaise. Play it! Bandleader: Looks at Rick Rick: (nods) The rest is seared upon the eyes and ears of history - epic, man. Epic.
  25. Back before electricity when I was a kid, all and I mean ALL of Bama's games after September kicked off at 2:00, as did most of the games in the SEC except at LSU, which had night games because hoodoo. I still think 2:00 or 2:30 CT games are the best. Fuck ESPN, Disney, ABC, Fox and all the weasels they rode in on. Baseball and football were meant to be played in the daytime. Hey! You little shits get out of my yard!
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