re: Rate Your Sports Fandom on a Scale of 0-10

Alabama football, a 10. I'm not a loon like a small minority of our fanbase (the tree-killing, baby-signing, mushroom-stamping portion), but then those people can't be rated on the same scale as the rest of us. As Nigel Tufnel would say, "These go to eleven."

Alabama basketball, a 3. Basketball in general does nothing for me, and also Alabama sucks at it. I used to follow it fairly closely several years ago. Maybe Johnson can revitalize my interest.

Liverpool, a 5. I didn't grow up with it so it isn't in the blood the same way as Alabama is, but I do enjoy watching the matches and hope to make it over to see a game at Anfield some day.

USMNT, a 2 unless we're talking World Cup, when it would be an 8 or 9. I think soccer in this country is hurt by the fact that we play in CONCACAF and so a lot of our meaningful international matches are against countries that we in no way consider our peers.