The Case For Alabama: The Sun Will Wait

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There is this magnificent moment at the end of the SEC title game when Alabama, odds and strategy and balance be damned, just said frick this shite and started running the ball every down. Mind you, this is what they are good at, and this makes a fair amount of football sense. Steve Spurrier runs the same play over and over again because if it works, well, when planting time comes it doesn't make much sense to put something other than the money tree in your backyard.

I also know this is why Alabama did it, but I'd like to think it had something more to do with identity. It's more emotionally satisfying to me to imagine Alabama--clinical, counterpunching, robotic Alabama--doing it because when you strip them down to their skeleton, place them under the highest stresses imaginable, and dare them to feel one ounce of emotion more than yours--that they found the one thing left in their heart.

That thing was rage, pure, dark hatred, an anger borne from a thousand displaced and redirected miseries brought onto the football field.

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