re: Alabama Superfan Dick Coffee dies at age 91

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RIP Mr. Coffee. This man's accomplishment seems like a wasted life to me. I would hate to know that people only remembered me for attending football games.

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Dumbass. How many Auburn fans will take notice when you die? Probably none outside of friends and family. Just because all we know about him is he went to a lot of Bama games doesn't mean that's the only thing he did in his life.

sir! RIP.

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Dang, any other school's have some super old fans with long game streaks. I remember hearing about a Tennessee fan who'd been to several hundred straight.

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SEC representing well, even Vandy is in on the action

top 20 superfans

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16. Mike Woods (Georgia) Why does Mike Woods -- known as the "Big Dawg" -- have a giant Georgia Bulldogs logo painted onto his head? To honor his late father. It was Woods' dad who created the tradition when the two hit the road for the 1982 Sugar Bowl versus Pitt. When Woods' father passed away a couple of years later, Woods continued the practice in his dad's honor. Woods' wife starts by laying down a base of white paint, hardening it with a mini fan and then plastering on a Georgia logo. Woods also wears a pair of overalls covered with Georgia material to games, as if you couldn't tell where his allegiance stands.

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14. Jim Brown (Kentucky) There are plenty of basketball fanatics in Lexington, but a football super fan? Ninety-one-year-old Jim Brown must be a glutton for punishment, because he had seen every Kentucky home game -- 412 in all -- from 1945 until this past October, when an illness kept him at home. He's witnessed some pretty lean years like, say, the entire 1990s, when UK had just one winning season. He also had the misfortune of witnessing the Bluegrass Miracle in 2002. Brown said he'll be ready for the home opener Sept. 11 versus Western Kentucky.

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10. Lance Smith (Vanderbilt) Most people find heckling college students to be in extremely poor taste. But Lance Smith, aka "Vandy Lance," isn't most people. Although he never attended Vanderbilt, Smith has been a staple of Commodores home games since 1969, when he witnessed Vandy knock off mighty Alabama and Bear Bryant. Since then, he's become a world-class heckler at Vandy sporting events, including women's basketball and baseball, the Robin Ficker of college football.

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7. Dwayne Gilbert (Georgia) If you haven't caught on yet, they take football pretty seriously in the SEC. Dwayne Gilbert, a former police officer used to driving long distances, has attended 423 straight games since 1974. Now 83, he's got No. 500 in his sights. "Of course I'd like to reach that magic number of 500, but that's a long way down the road right now," Gilbert said. That might be, but long distances on the road have never stopped Gilbert before.

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6. Mitch Lavinghouze (Ole Miss) This 81-year-old has attended 439 consecutive Ole Miss games dating back to the 1972 season opener against Memphis, when his son Steve was a freshman kicker on the team. But even after Steve and his brother Robin finished playing at Ole Miss in 1977, the elder Lavinghouze just kept trucking with the Rebels. He has his own Rebel Room in his home that includes photos, memorabilia, figures and an autographed photo of the greatest Rebel of all time: Archie Manning.

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5. Tony Brandino (Alabama) Yes, another Alabama super fan with an insane attendance streak. From 1954 to 1997, Tony Brandino attended 500 straight Alabama games before a bad case of the flu stopped him making the game in Oxford, Miss., for 501. Wrote Brandino in his memoir, "FANtastic," about his illness: "If I had made it to the stadium, I would have puked on everybody in sight." Lovely. Now 94 years old, Brandino lives in a senior living facility. He isn't well enough to attend Alabama games but still tunes in on Saturdays to watch the team play.

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2. George Edmondson (Florida) He's known affectionately as "Mr. Two-Bits," but many people don't realize George Edmondson's famous "Two Bits" cheer actually started when he was at The Swamp to watch his alma mater, The Citadel, play the Gators in 1949. As the years went by and Edmondson's fame grew, he led cheers around the stadium about 15 times a game in his patented dress shirt, tie, slacks and saddle shoes, accompanied by a whistle, a "2-Bits" sign and a megaphone. After 60 seasons on the job, Edmondson retired after the 2008 campaign. He still attended Florida home games last season but didn't lead the cheer, as Albert the Alligator dressed up in Mr. Two-Bits regalia and led it in Edmondson's honor. But the 88-year-old Tampa resident hasn't ruled out leading the cheer in the future. Said Edmondson: "I told the university that I would always be available for some kind of cameo appearance if necessary but haven't found it to be necessary."

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1. Dick Coffee (Alabama)

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Tony Brandino attended 500 straight games and hes 94.

Sir Dick 781

Hint , if you are faithful , you are blessed.

In all seriousness Dick needs a statue inside the stadium somewhere

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RIP Mr. Coffee. This man's accomplishment seems like a wasted life to me. I would hate to know that people only remembered me for attending football games.

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really? seems like the opposite. How many of us spend our whole lives so that something more than a tombstone marks our short time in this world.

Harvey Updyke will offer the eulogy. He will also be spiking the punch at the reception.

R.I.P.

fanhood

Dude got to see some damn good football.

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seems like a wasted life to me

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This coming from someone who averages about 30 posts per day?