Crimson Tide Football and Other Alabama Sports Musings

Historic Rematch For those who don’t remember the birth of Alabama’s soon-to-be century of setting the standard for achievement in college football, you should go back and read about Alabama’s win that resulted in its first national championship…1926 against Washington in the Rose Bowl. Bama, as a huge underdog, won the game 20-19 under Coach Wallace Wade and with the great play of the famous Johnny Mack Brown. Brown, from my hometown Dothan, Alabama, was a halfback known as the Dothan Antelope. He went on to a long film career in westerns with such actors as Mary Pickford and John Wayne. Bama’s biggest threats from Washington You have to go back ten years to really understand the threat from Coach Chris Petersen, who made Boise State a household name and synonymous with playing up to the competition. In the 2007 Fiesta Bowl where he coached Boise State against Oklahoma, Peterson demonstrated not only how David can slay Goliath, he showed he has a brilliant offensive min...

Before starting my analysis of Bama vs. Washington, I thought it would be fun to look back at 2015 and what was being said. Last year I posted this analysis below on Facebook after hearing national uproar over Bama being named by the CFP committee above Michigan State. I thought it would be fun to read it again in light of Bama holding MSU to 239 yards and giving them a total ass kicking 38-0. Not to mention going on to win the Natty.  Dec. 8, 2015 Dear Bama-Hating Fans and Uninformed Pundits, Michigan State has a great team and one that can beat Bama. It’s that good. It deserves to be in the football final four. I will be very proud if Bama wins and will know it was a quality win. I will not sit here and boast that Bama can whip the Spartans any day of the week and twice on Sunday, even if I believe it, because the teams are both too good for silly claims from those of us who sit in the stands. I’m not here to knock the MSU team, but after seeing so much in the news and so...