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Roll Tide Roll.....
Posted on 10/23/09 at 12:49 pm
Posted on 10/23/09 at 12:49 pm
Can someone please explain to me how a "Tide" is associated with Alabama? I just asked an Alabama fan at work and she has no idea what Roll Tide Roll means!?!?
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Posted on 10/23/09 at 12:50 pm to Me Bite
See your avie for the answers you seek.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 12:50 pm to Me Bite
came from an announcer....long story someone will copy and paste but not me.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 12:51 pm to Me Bite
Something to do with the size of their players vs an opponent...they were so much bigger they looked like a wave going over the opposition...???
Posted on 10/23/09 at 12:51 pm to Me Bite
Posted on 10/23/09 at 12:53 pm to Auburntiger
...especially this week.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 12:55 pm to Me Bite
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...especially this week.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 12:56 pm to Me Bite
WTF does tiger have to do with Louisiana.
Volunteers, by the way, is one of the most awesome and applicable names in CFB.
Volunteers, by the way, is one of the most awesome and applicable names in CFB.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 12:57 pm to Aubie83
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Something to do with the size of their players vs an opponent...they were so much bigger they looked like a wave going over the opposition...???
no that was the elephant, the crimson tide came from their socks of all things, during a rainy game an anouncer said the crimson line on their socks looked like a crimson wave washing over the opponent or something like that.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 12:58 pm to Volmanac
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WTF does tiger have to do with Louisiana.
actually the story behind the "Louisiana Tigers" is a pretty cool one...
The Tiger Rifles, one company in Confederate Maj. Roberdeau Wheat's battalion of Louisiana infantry, lent its name to that battalion, and shortly all the troops from Louisiana in Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia became known as Louisiana Tigers. The Tigers earned such a reputation on the battlefield for fearlessness and hard fighting that they were called upon time after time to turn around some desperate situation or to act as shock troops to break the enemy's line. The Tigers also deserved their other reputation- the unsavory one of thievery, drunkenness, and fighting while in camp.
The Tigers contained almost as many foreign-born soldiers as native Louisianans. At least 24 nationalities were represented in the Tigers' ranks, Ireland supplying the largest foreign component by far. The city of New Orleans supplied large numbers of the unsavory elements from its waterfront, and these "wharf rats" brought their drunkenness and criminal behavior with them into the army and were a constant problem for their leaders. The many French-speaking units that wore the brightly colored Zouave uniforms lent an exotic air to the Tigers' camps that contrasted sharply with the atmosphere among units from other Confederate states.
The Louisiana Tigers' reputation for fearless fighting on the battlefield was both deserved and well documented. At the 1st Battle of Manassas they anchored the left flank of the Southern army against heavt Northern opposition until Southern reinforcements could arrive. They marched with Gen. Stonewall Jackson in his brilliant Shenendoah Valley campaign of 1862, and were conspicious on most of the bloodstained battlefields of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. After watching some of the Tigers break through a stubborn federal line, a jubilant and grateful Gen. Jubal A. Early shouted, "Those damned Louisiana fellows may steal as much as they please now!"
This post was edited on 10/23/09 at 1:03 pm
Posted on 10/23/09 at 12:58 pm to Volmanac
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Volunteers, by the way, is one of the most awesome and applicable names in CFB.
Voluteer--something like a sucker...one who does work for free...
Posted on 10/23/09 at 1:00 pm to Volmanac
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WTF does tiger have to do with Louisiana
The Louisiana Tigers was the common nickname for certain infantry troops from the state of Louisiana in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Nice try.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 1:01 pm to Volmanac
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Volunteers, by the way, is one of the most awesome and applicable names in CFB.
Quite applicable with all the community service your thug players have to do.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 1:05 pm to THEBEARLIVES
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Quite applicable with all the community service your thug players have to do.
That's why they wear orange. They use it to hunt on Saturday morning, play football Saturday night, and for their release work program on Sunday for picking up trash on the side of the road.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 1:20 pm to oompaw
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The Tigers also deserved their other reputation- the unsavory one of thievery, drunkenness, and fighting while in camp.
Now it all makes sense.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 1:23 pm to Me Bite
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Can someone please explain to me how a "Tide" is associated with Alabama?
Here you go:
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Why 'Crimson Tide'? In early newspaper accounts of Alabama football, the team was simply listed as the "varsity" or the "Crimson White" after the school colors. The first nickname to become popular and used by headline writers was the "Thin Red Line." The nickname was used until 1906. The name "Crimson Tide" is supposed to have first been used by Hugh Roberts, former sports editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald. He used "Crimson Tide" in describing an Alabama-Auburn game played in Birmingham in 1907, the last football contest between the two schools until 1948 when the series was resumed. The game was played in a sea of mud and Auburn was a heavy favorite to win. But, evidently, the "Thin Red Line" played a great game in the red mud and held Auburn to a 6-6 tie, thus gaining the name "Crimson Tide." Zipp Newman, former sports editor of the Birmingham News, probably popularized the name more than any other writer.
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This post was edited on 10/23/09 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 10/23/09 at 2:38 pm to oompaw
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That's why they wear orange. They use it to hunt on Saturday morning, play football Saturday night, and for their release work program on Sunday for picking up trash on the side of the road.
This is as worn out as the "corn dog" saying.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 2:55 pm to volhound
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This is as worn out as the "corn dog" saying.
Yeah, but at least the Tennessee joke is applicable. The corndog thing is just stupid.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 3:07 pm to Crimsonpanther13
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Yeah, but at least the Tennessee joke is applicable. The corndog thing is just stupid.
Calling bullshite without proof.
Posted on 10/23/09 at 5:55 pm to volhound
Isn't that just a phrase to describe them as "ghey"?
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