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Where did Alabama’s “Crimson Tide” come from?

Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:33 pm
Posted by GoDeepCoach
Bossier
Member since Sep 2010
814 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:33 pm
What does it mean? A rising ocean tide that’s red? Someone explain “Crimson Tide”.
Posted by secuniversity
Member since May 2015
5678 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:37 pm to
Here is where you can find a great, detailed breakdown of the multi-faceted meaning.

LINK
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
64871 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:40 pm to
Alabama was playing a football game on a rain-swept field. The two teams were churning up mud which in those parts was red clay. An Alabama sportswriter used the phrase "crimson tide" to describe the nature of the field and the nickname stuck.

Posted by SidewalkTiger
Midwest, USA
Member since Dec 2019
52125 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:40 pm to
It was that part of the month when a celebration would ensue and a Bammer could rest easy knowing he wouldn't be a deddy/uncle.

That's why the fans implore "Roll Tide!"
Posted by 19
Flux Capacitor, Fluxing
Member since Nov 2007
33139 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:42 pm to
Douche was taken, I assume.
Posted by Rex Feral
Member since Jan 2014
11211 posts
Posted on 6/29/20 at 10:07 pm to
Dear google.
Posted by PokeyTiger
New Iberia
Member since Apr 2020
1968 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 12:52 am to
NCAA was established in 1906.

Alabama, Auburn and LSU played in the
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Assn before the SEC.

In 1907 Gumps played ball in Birmingham on a flat improperly sloped poorly drained field at the “Fairgrounds” with a red clay base —

Too fkn Stupid or cheap to build a properly sloped football field with sand base, the red clay soup was noted by a Gump writer who noted the Crimson Tide when games saw any significant rain

Be proud of a long history of Gump stupidity Embrace your fkn idiocy. They now import white sand to build your base for football fields and require a slope %.

Later games would be played in Mobile on better fields — My Grandpa Pat Ryan told me of the notoriously shitty Gump FB field as he played on 1908 LSU National Championship team.

Even imbeciles know you put a CROWN on a FB field and proper slope to allow for drainage —

Draw your own conclusions!
Posted by scionofadrunk
Williamson County, TN
Member since Mar 2020
1961 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 12:54 am to
quote:

PokeyTiger

Am I the only user otb who never reads a single word of this user's posts
Posted by Auburn80
Backwater, TN
Member since Nov 2017
7449 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 8:21 am to
quote:

While no particular cause of red tides has been found, many different factors can contribute to their presence. These factors can include water pollution, which originates from sources such as human sewage and agricultural runoff.


Sounds right.
Posted by jb4
Member since Apr 2013
12629 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 9:39 am to
So crimson tide is literally crap
Posted by CBP3110
Member since Aug 2012
6464 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 11:20 am to
Your moms vagina
Posted by thatthang
Member since Jan 2012
6753 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 11:58 am to
Why not just use google?
Posted by Sancho Panza
La Habaña, Cuba
Member since Sep 2014
8161 posts
Posted on 6/30/20 at 12:19 pm to
A bloody shite flushed ‘round th’ bowl, down th’ hole, Roll, Turd, Roll.
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