re: The Tuscaloosa Tornado

I hate it every time we replay it on our long form programming. It makes me hurt. My wife is a UA alumn and her sister was still in school at the time there and I had to work 17 hours straight covering the outbreak not being able to answer questions fast enough to my bride or to my father in law.
Many people hold STRONG emotions in sports, I did too. But that week put everything in perspective for me. Seeing the devastation in person shortly thereafter after being subjected to nonstop live video coming in as it happened, already knowing the stories behind certain locations, hurt.
I hate seeing it air every 3 weeks but I realize that if we cancelled every showing of an emotional tragedy we'd have to cancel every season of 'Why planes crash' and every show about joplin, Moore, ok ,Tuscaloosa and every mention of that night that spanned from Mississippi to Birmingham to north Georgia to Tennessee that suffered devestation that insane night. However, thats what people watch these days.
All that to say, my heart will always be with those who lived (and died) through those terrible hours a few years ago.