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re: Four Fingers for Fourth Quarter

Posted on 12/29/14 at 10:58 pm to
Posted by Alert Mi
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Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 12/29/14 at 10:58 pm to
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Sweet source


It's true though. I'll get you a link to a game in the 70's when Bama had already started doing it.
Posted by asphinctersayswhat
Parts Unknown
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 12/29/14 at 11:00 pm to
Just curious Altie, how many boards have banned you?
Posted by MrLarson
Member since Oct 2014
34984 posts
Posted on 12/30/14 at 8:50 am to
So an Alabama player says they started it so it must be legit.

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That’s what started the fourth-quarter thing, is we knew if the game was within six points either way, we’d win,” Patton said.
Today, it’s common for football teams to hold up four fingers at the end of the third quarter, as a way to state that the fourth quarter will belong to them. Patton said that is something Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant did long before anyone else had heard about it.


In 1961 Alabama was never within 6 points going into the 4th Qtr.
This post was edited on 12/30/14 at 8:59 am
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