re: Favorite Iron Bowl Moments....

I had to take a long arse walk around the neighborhood at halftime to clear my head after that first half of the 2014 Iron Bowl.

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Fran knew all year that he was leaving. Hell, he almost went to Kansas the year before. I think he made the deal with A&M privately weeks, maybe even months before. He was such a calculating and deceptive person, that it would fit his m.o. to throw the Iron Bowl in order to create a little backlash so he could be seen as justified for abandoning the team.

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Fran is to this day the man, not including boosters, who I despise most from the entire dark era. And that will never, ever change.

I understand that he was probably slightly misled on the severity of the probation coming down the pipe, but to just throw those kids who had sacrificed everything to the wolves for his own self interest after promising them he was there with them - fvck that guy. He got everything he deserved.

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I don't blame him for having any ill will over that, but he had a lot of support from the fans. He was arguably more celebrated than any other coach in the time between Bryant and Saban. Fran would've been given a pass during the inevitable tough seasons that were ahead. Hell, people weren't even that upset at him immediately after the loss to Auburn.

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Absolutely right.

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He's a snake and considering his shotty recruiting and the way things worked out, it's probably a good thing that he didn't stick around. Fran is a prime example of why you don't hire a coach who's never seen one of his own recruits graduate. He was a fraud.

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Yea, total fraud, and his future results played that out.



In summation, fvck that guy.

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Back on the subject though, the 1994 game is really underrated. The Toderick Malone TD is one of my favorite plays.

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I like his 1995 TD more

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I wasn't there, but who could ever forget "Wrong way Bo"

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My dad loves nothing more than yelling "I WAXED THE DUDE" during the Tradition video.

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The 2008 Iron Bowl is there for me. Everything about that day was freaking electric. Inside the stadium, with how low the clouds were, you got the sense that we were on top of Mount Olympus watching a team made up of ancient Greek gods take the field against Auburn. When Siran Stacy went wild after the coin toss, you got the sense that this was it. This was the game that broke the streak. I just knew right then and there that there was no way Alabama was losing that game. That Rammer Jammer was easily the most satisfying one I have ever participated in.

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Yep - agree. As Fairhope said earlier, it was a bloodletting half a decade in the making.

Among the favorites have to be Van Tiffin’s Kick and 2008 sticking 36 points up Tub’s arse and those seniors finally getting a win over Auburn.

Worst in recent memory....2010 of course, but we had already lost to South Carolina and LSU and any chance at the NC was gone.

Punt Bama Punt sucked, but I was only 7. It did make me hate Pat Sullivan and Beasley for years (I later came to respect Sullivan).

Worst feeling after loss.... 2013 Kick Six. Having a watch party at my sister’s and bro-in-laws. Drinking, having a good time, whooping and hollering and pacing around, just knew we’d pull it out in OT even if the FG missed. Then Davis took it to the house.

We sat in stunned silence for a few minutes. A few quiet “WTF just happened?” were uttered. Five minutes later, we turned the lights out and everybody either went home or went to bed.

ETA: The 49-0 curb stomping in 2012 was very satisfying. It could have been 99-0 and I wish it had been.

Coach Bryant broke Amos Alonzo Staggs record in the 1981 Iron Bowl thanks to two big Linnie Patrick runs in a close 4th quarter. RTR!

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