RollTide1987

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I tried to be open-minded and artsy for a night, and got served a plate of human shite for my troubles.

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There is nothing "artsy" about Crash at all. Even the film's writer/director, Paul Haggis, has gone on the record saying his film shouldn't have won the top prize that night.

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Are we talking about the SEC or national level because I’m under the impression it’s the latter.

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I'm talking about the SEC. They were without question the most feared program in the conference in those days and among the most feared programs in the country.

Yeah, I'm not sure what he's trying to prove other than the fact that he has a spreadsheet. Most people who were alive in the 90s will tell you that the Gators were the scariest program in the Southeastern Conference during that period. They kicked the arse of a lot of good teams in those years.

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3. I guess I'm just getting older and it doesn't consume me like it used to

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I used to think this had something to do with my apathy but then I realize I'm not even 40 yet and I've already lost interest in the sport I once loved. My Dad was still closely following recruiting in his late-50s/early-60s. However, the early signing period ruined what once was an unofficial holiday in Signing Day. After that he slowly began to lose interest.

We used to know the starting two-deep like the back of our hands. Now I probably couldn't even tell you a single projected starter on the defensive side of the football going into the season.

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The outlier is Japan. Would they have still attacked?

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Japan was only involved in China because of how they were treated by the European powers during the Paris Peace Conference. They were actually allied with the Entente during World War I and did their fair share to cripple Germany's overseas possessions in the Pacific in the opening months of the conflict.

They felt like they deserved a bigger piece of the pie than what they got. The same thing is true for Italy. Hence why they both fought against us in the Second World War after fighting alongside us in the First World War.

Now at $700 million globally.

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Right but if we are correcting history

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That's not what I'm doing. I'm simply saying that between the two, I would have voted for Saving Private Ryan over Shakespeare in Love. However, I'm not upset that Shakespeare won it considering it is a thoroughly entertaining film.

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If I remember correctly,Archduke Ferdinand would have been more sympathetic to the Serbian cause unlike his father, if they would have just let things play out

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This is correct. However, the Black Hand chose to mark Ferdinand for assassination for that very reason. The Serbs within that organization had no interest in seeing an Austria-Hungary with greater representation for Slavs. What they wanted was a Greater Yugoslavia comprised of all the Slavs in the Balkans.

This goes back a ways but Alabama's 17-0 loss in the second-to-last game of the season to Centre College in 1924 is without question one of the biggest head scratchers in program history. It was our only loss, we won the Southern Conference for the first time ever that season, and we wouldn't lose again until 1927.

Anyway you slice it this has been an incredible run for an R-rated film that is based on an ancient Greek poem. Christopher Nolan's name commands box office clout in a way I don't think we have seen since the days of Steven Spielberg's prime.

Much like the actual moment, the anniversary of Austria-Hungary declaring war on the Kingdom of Serbia came and went with little fanfare. By the end of July 1914, few people actually cared about the squabble between those two countries and were more concerned about a general European war, which was becoming more and more inevitable by the hour.

Five days earlier, in reaction to the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria had given to Serbia a list of demands that were so absurd that they were almost certainly designed to be rejected. Nevertheless, Serbia agreed unconditionally to all but one of them. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany is said to have stated: "A great moral victory for Vienna, but with it all pretense for war has disappeared."

That didn't stop Emperor Franz Joseph from declaring war on Serbia on July 28, 1914, calling the Serbian reply to the ultimatum "not good enough." Within hours, the Serbian capital of Belgrade was being shelled by Austro-Hungarian forces. By this time, however, what began as a localized conflict that looked to be limited to the Balkans, had spiraled into a full blown crisis.

The Imperial Russian Army had mobilized its forces and Germany was in the process of doing the same. Should Russia be drawn into the conflict, France - Russia's ally - would surely follow. The British Empire might also be drawn into the conflict as they, too, had an alliance with France and Russia. What would soon follow would be the greatest catastrophe to ever fall the continent of Europe.