re: What year did you REALLY start following your team?

Traveled there quite a few times in 1999. 2000 really started following.

I'm 21. First play I really remember was the Hobnail Boot in 2001(10 years old). Have pretty solid memories from 2002 on.

1983. I was born in 1975. Walter Lewis was my first memory of an Alabama player. After the incredible upsets of Auburn Bo Jackson's Jr and Sr year i was hooked. No way We should of beaten AU in 84 and 85.

1979. Year I enrolled at Auburn.

I grew up in Auburn - my mom and both her parents worked for the university - so Auburn football was a part of my life from birth.

2005 was the beginning of my obsession, though. My dad took me to the UGA game that year in Athens. Cox to Aromashodu on 4th down to set up the game winning field goal

I watched just about every game from then until my junior year of high school, but it was after the "Rain Game" against WVU I told myself I was going to be in the stadium for every single game I could to make sure I didn't miss anything like that again.

My mom gets 6-8 season tickets a year, but before that I was content watching them on the couch.

Now, I'm in the marching band and don't have a choice but to go to every game

For my letter in 2004 but was a fan living in TN since 1996 SEC title blowout by UF

I grew up about 30 miles from Lexington, and have been a UK fan since I was about 8 years old. No one in my family liked sports at all, including my dad and older brother, so it took me a while to get there.

About to turn 12, in 1980 when my brother turned me on to this freshman phenom named Herschel Walker. I was hooked on football ever since. I asked my brother who was our school in Louisiana and did we have our own Herschel Walker.

I've been searching for him ever since.

Thought I found him in Cecil Collins but he fricked up that dream. Keeping fingers crossed that Leonard Fournette could possibly rule the SEC for the Tigers the way Herschel did, but his recruitment is not a given, much less achieving legendary SEC status.

1979. I was very young but if they were on tv, I wouldn't miss it for anything.