BCS Title Game Thoughts

Well, here we are again. Another college football season winding down, another CRIMSON TIDE  appearance in the BCS Championship Game. Once again, all the haters can come out. Sadly, though, I didn't get to see their heads explode at the prospect of another all-SEC title game again.
 Sure-- just like last year, BAMA needed some help after a mid-season loss to get back in the picture, and just like last year-- they got it. Like I had said all year, Johnny 'Football' Manziel was the real deal, and dangerous. He made the plays, and Texas A&M's defense stepped up to the plate. Luckily, The TIDE fought their way back, teams ahead of them lost, and BAMA's back in the game-- this time as SEC Champs...!
 With SIX teams in the Top Ten, it's a shame that the Georgia Bulldogs didn't even get a BCS Bowl bid. After that SEC Championship Game slugfest with BAMA, they deserved it. With Florida, LSU, South Carolina and Texas A&M, this was a pretty impressive showing. The Gators get the Sugar Bowl bid as next highest-ranked, and The Bulldogs are relegated to a lesser-tier bowl.

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ON to THIS year's CHAMPIONSHIP Game. I remember learning to hate Notre Dame early on. As a child, I had perfectly good Christmas Holiday vacations RUINED-- two years in a ROW-- by the Fighting Irish. Two weeks out of school, Christmas gifts, fun-fun-fun. All wiped away by soul-crushing losses by BAMA to Notre Dame. The first time in the Orange Bowl, 24-23. The very next year was a repeat in the Sugar Bowl, 13-11.

As a child, I had become accustomed to The CRIMSON TIDE always winning. When they lost-- on a national stage, no less-- I was emotionally confused. Back then, there were only a few games televised every year. If you were lucky, you could see The TIDE twice, maybe three times in a season. Usually, you listened to games on the radio. TV games were a rare treat, but better when the outcome was a win. 

Throughout the years, I've always harbored ill feelings for those bitter memories, as I'm sure thousands of fans have, as well.

 I was never "over-the-top" like SOME, though. I remember that there was a gas station on Schillinger Road that was obviously owned by auburn fans. After every TIDE  loss, they always would post something 'clever' and derogatory about The CRIMSON TIDE. After the '74 season, following the Sugar Bowl loss, they posted "THE TIDE GOT ROLLED" on their marquis. I knew it was a bad idea for them when I saw it. After the first day or so, someone broke (vandalized) their sign, but inexplicably THEY PUT IT UP AGAIN!

 The following weekend, some bitter redneck burned the gas station to the ground! These lunatics took that stuff seriously even way back then...!

 I will post my thoughts and prediction for the upcoming game in a week or so. In the meantime.....

ROLL TIDE!!

ONCE Upon a Time.... SAD CORNDOGS!

WHAT IF "BIG AL" and his travels throughout the SEC were put into picture-books? Here's a page from a possible collection of children's stories......

COUNTDOWN!

ROLL TIDE, brothers and sisters!
After seven months of enjoying the seat on the throne of College Football, we begin the trek to NUMBER 15! As you all know, THE UNIVERSITY of ALABAMA completely dominated LSU in a re-match of SEC juggernauts while the rest of the world hated, fumed, and spewed jealous bile.
Bottom line: To BE the best, you have to BEAT the best. Coach Nick Saban is not one to rest on his laurels (in this case, Championship laurels from the Beatdown in the Bayou), and he has brought in some MAJOR talent to replace the departed leaders. This group should be good enough to beat Michigan early, and should gel by November 3rd, the date of the LSU game in Baton Rouge.
Gonna be a doozy of a season, folks! Hang on!
 While we wait, I have begun a series of "SEC BAMA Villains". Here are the first two :

LSU's Les Miles as the 'Mad Hatter', drinking the 'Crimson Kool-Aid'

auburn's Gene Chizik as 'the Joker'

There will be more to follow when I get some time.....

   

BAMA Had Game Won Before Kickoff

The beatdown of LSU by THE University of ALABAMA Crimson Tide was inevitable. The BCS National Championship Game was literally won before the first snap.
The Bayou Bengals, despite their dirty play, domination of OTHER opponents, and undefeated record KNEW they were lucky to be in their position. If not for BAMA's special-teams missed-kick miscues, LSU would have lost in Tuscaloosa in November. The TIDE was ready, motivated and hungry.
I had a feeling that BAMA would probably win big, and my suspicions were verified about 6 hours before kickoff. That's right. Coach Nick Saban got so far up in the head of Les Miles that any doubts I had were gone. Erased. Kaput.
 Early gameday afternoon, Coach Miles is out at midfield of The Superdome, posing for photos with family, boosters, whoever. Coach Saban walks out of the locker room, across the field, circles their perimeter in close proximity, yet never looks their direction or acknowledges Miles in any way.
 The expressions were priceless. But don't take my word for it. Look HERE:
http://youtu.be/nznM-BMJvSU

ROLL TIDE, brothers and sisters.

TIDE Swamps, Stomps Gators; Moves To #2

The University of ALABAMA just clobbered the Florida Gators 38-10 down in Gainesville last night in a battle of ranked SEC unbeatens. The Tide started slow & tentative, giving up a long pass play for a spectacular touchdown on the first play from scrimmage, sending the home crowd into a frenzy.
 It was all downhill for the Gators from there, as BAMA pounded, punished and pulverized them in just about every way imaginable. For the third week in a row, the starting quarterback was mercifully pulled in order to minimize injury. In this case, however, he returned when the backup was also knocked out of the game.
 Courtney Upshaw pounded the quarterback, then literally added insult to injury two plays later by taking an interception back for a touchdown. Trent Richardson, as usual, was a beast.

The dominant performance over a previously-unbeaten Florida team leap-frogged The TIDE over the Oklahoma Sooners to the No. 2 spot in the AP Poll.

AUBURN Wins National Championship...?!

How weird is THAT....?! auburn defeats the Oregon Ducks to win the BCS Football National Championship. That's just.... bizarre.

Could the Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world be off by a year...? Or could the Mayans possibly have not foreseen this highly-unlikely and virtually unbelievable outcome?

50-something years...! That's how long the tigers/plainsmen/war eagles or whatever waited between championships. This one will, in all likelihood, be forfeited later due to numerous NCAA rules violations. It wa undeniably won on the field.

Unfortunately, the national media saw these retards roll their OWN yard in celebration.

NCAA & Ohio State: I Call BULL$#*T!!!

In a not-so-surprisingly bone-headed move, the NCAA (Obviously an acronym for NO COMPETENCE AT ALL) made yet ANOTHER questionable ruling in this latest episode by declaring FIVE Ohio State Buckeyes suspended for five games-- NEXT SEASON!

Apparently, these young men sold jerseys & rings and got free tattoos- BOTH rules violations. The NCAA decided (since word got out) that this was clearly a violation, and handed down the penalty of suspensions-- to be served NEXT SEASON. The offending players are eligible for this year's bowl.

Let that soak in a minute. The supposed 'governing body' of collegiate athletics, who finally had an open-and-shut case with the opportunity to punish the offending parties IN THE SAME SEASON decide to wait.

Why?

Because of pressure from the BC$....?

And the network$, specifically E$PN....?

Let's put this in perspective, shall we?

Alabama's Marcel Darius took a trip to Miami which was arranged by a friend on the North Carolina Tarheels football team. He was unaware of the situation and the parties involved. He distanced himself and repaid the money, but was STILL suspended for games THIS season.

Punished.

Georgia's A.J. Green sold his jersey, repaid the money, and yet was forced to miss games the same season.

Punished.

Several on the Tarheels team had been receiving free lodging.

Evicted and punished, they missed several games. This season.

auburn's $cam Newton, arguably the best player in the nation, is ADMITTEDLY and undeniably shopped around by his father(A VERY CLEAR VIOLATION). Claimed no knowledge.

Declared eligible. Wow.

The hypocrisy and discrimination by the very institution whose SOLE existence is to ensure fair play and compliance is mind-blowing. All credibility is gone.
I call "BULLSHIT!"