| Favorite team: | Alabama  |
| Location: | Travelers Rest, SC |
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| Occupation: | Retired Educator |
| Number of Posts: | 136 |
| Registered on: | 7/9/2009 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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After several years of observing much more than speaking, this has become apparent:
Referees are the last shelter for losers. "Luck" plays a part in the majority of games. The rest are blowouts....
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re: If you think about it all of Bamas NCs under Saban are tainted
Posted by sctide on 2/12/17 at 2:21 pm
OP is tainted
OP doesn't realize what a football game is. Injuries are a "part."
(Doesn't Scarborough's injury get considered?
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re: "Why talk about something if it happened before your born?"
Posted by sctide on 7/7/16 at 9:05 pm
Programs do "die", but so do people. It doesn't mean that their accomplishments are not worth remembering or even learning from. ...
re: Spinoff: Most enjoyable win your team has ever wo
Posted by sctide on 7/7/16 at 1:51 pm
After watching Bama since 1945 it is hard to think of the most satisfying win, but I think the most disappointing play and loss for me was the 1973 Notre Dame pass from the end zone that iced the ND win in the Sugar Bowl....
re: Bill Battle, please retire.
Posted by sctide on 6/17/16 at 6:18 pm
From "CoachCrisp"
[quote]This one statement sums you up, pal. It's obvious that you have an ax to grind with Battle and Gaston. Suggestion: You can do nothing about the hire or anything to do with the AD at Alabama, so get over it....and yourself and DWI!![/quote]
The best summation of the OP th...
re: What is the first football game that you can remember?
Posted by sctide on 5/12/16 at 4:54 pm
I do remember Maury, but my "innocent" young mind was shielded from such goings on. Actually, there were stories and a number of them were evidently true.
I followed from afar for seasons '53 thru '60 while with the military. Also military in '52. Caught the Sugar Bowl following the 61 season. Fo...
re: What is the first football game that you can remember?
Posted by sctide on 5/11/16 at 6:00 pm
You arent really. (Though I have no idea how many years you have been around.) This will be my 71st year of Bama football, with a few out for Army time. Am a tv follower now, but season tickets from 1962 to 1999. Moved to So Car for grandkids.
I remember a few names from earlier in the 40's, but ...
re: What is the first football game that you can remember?
Posted by sctide on 5/11/16 at 4:27 pm
Alabama Tennessee in 1945 (age 12). Harry Gilmer the star. Don't remember the score but Bama won....
re: Who was your first favorite football player?
Posted by sctide on 4/1/16 at 3:26 pm
Harry Gilmer - Alabama left halfback in the Notre Dame Box formation - played QB for Detroit later...
re: Did Avery Johnson just pull a reverse Bear Bryant?
Posted by sctide on 3/16/16 at 12:34 pm
You failed to mention, because that would have failed your purpose in posting, that both Bryant and Butts sued the Saturday Evening Post. Bryant settled for 300,000, Butts was awarded just over three million, eventually getting 460,000. The magazine went out of business just a couple of years later....
re: Meet Bo Scarbrough
Posted by sctide on 1/15/16 at 4:21 pm
roadGator, I am a Bama grad, and an observer of Bama football since the Tennessee game of 1945. I am a fan, but as I understand today's definition of "homer," I don't believe I am. I don't talk trash, don't brag about games not played (or most that have been). I love the game, but wonder about folks...
re: After Alabama's Dynasty
Posted by sctide on 1/15/16 at 3:39 pm
I also watched those games as a teenager. The Army-ND games were great, but it was a completely different type of football. Don't think either one of those teams would compete with the better teams today. They were much smaller, and the game is much faster....
re: Alabama after saban
Posted by sctide on 11/26/15 at 9:24 am
(Translation of pbhog)
"worse" - worst
"grumps" - gumps, I think
"raned" = reined...
re: Why is Bama overlooking State?
Posted by sctide on 11/10/15 at 7:23 am
Given the OPs posts, it seems State is overlooking Bama....
re: Biggest busts your school has EVER had
Posted by sctide on 7/23/15 at 2:17 pm
Bama's biggest bust wasn't a player, but a coach, "Ears" Whitworth, mid 1950's.
1955 record 0 wins 10 losses (with Bart Starr at quarterback)
1956 - 2 7 1 tie (finished 10th in 12 team league (Ga Tech and Tulane were in at the time - Tulane and Kentucky were 11 and...
re: Why are you a fan of your particular team?
Posted by sctide on 6/2/15 at 9:56 pm
Two degrees from UA for me, two for my wife, two for my daughter and three for my son - too much money invested to cheer for anyone else....
re: What was the first game you ever attended as a fan?
Posted by sctide on 3/17/15 at 10:52 am
Thanks for the response. Sometimes we old "geezers" have to drop in to show we know what a computer is. :lol:
Appreciate the response from a fan of my second favorite team. I recall the first game Coach Bryant coached against LSU at Bama. LSU won. Don't recall the exact score, but Bama only came...
re: What was the first game you ever attended as a fan?
Posted by sctide on 3/17/15 at 10:29 am
Alabama-Tennessee - Legion Field - 1945 (age 12)...
re: My reason for believing Auburn can win
Posted by sctide on 11/25/13 at 3:52 pm
I started to read all four pages, but my senior citizen brain reminded me that the teams will not meet at the fifty-yard line and compare statistics. They will play the game, and the team that executes its assignments with the fewest errors and wins most of the "5-10 second wars" that make up the ga...
re: How many people on the Rant are 30 or older?
Posted by sctide on 9/5/13 at 8:49 pm
Remember the "Ears" Whitworth in the mid 50's?...
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