Comments on: Around the Bowl, Down the Hole, Roll, Tide, Roll

By: Music City Bloggers » Blog Archive » The Sports Media’s Saban Obsession

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:59:14 +0000

[...] Preston, being a good and respectable Tennessee fan, agrees with most analysts who have roundly criticized Saban’s comments. Personally, from the point of view of a highly biased Alabama fan, I don’t think it was that big of deal. Apparently, I am not the only one who holds this view. An unscientific poll on ESPN’s website revealed that, despite all of the media outcry over Saban’s remarks, most of the public agreed with me. Actually, I am quite glad that the Alabama coach thinks that losing to ULM is a “catastrophic event”. In fact, I hope he didn’t get a lick of sleep Saturday night. I hope he is so stressed out that he has to go on anti-depressants just to get through the day. [...]

By: Donna Locke

Donna Locke — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:51:09 +0000

I tell ya what, Preston, I grew up in such a genteel community that when we rolled a teacher’s yard, we knocked on her or his door afterward, invited her or him out to admire it, and then we kids cleaned it up the same night. I am not joking.

By: Preston Taylor Holmes

Preston Taylor Holmes — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:29:22 +0000

Donna, luckily for kids now-a-days, such an atrocity would result in the kids being charged with a hate crime – ESPECIALLY if they were white & hetero. I’m sorry to hear about your trauma.

By: Donna Locke

Donna Locke — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:15:59 +0000

This is somewhat irrelevant, but when I was in high school here in Tennessee, I made the mistake once (just once) of saying “Roll Tide!” as a joke on the school bus one day, and the next morning my family awoke to a freshly and heavily rolled yard with Tide detergent boxes scattered all over it. Then it rained.

By: Brian McMurphy

Brian McMurphy — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:39:27 +0000

On the other hand, The Titans’ defense was so anemic last night that it was kind of like all those starving kids in Africa. I was kind of hoping that it would be a rallying point and Keith Bulluck would swoop in and tackle some foreign aid for them.

But they just sat there. With all those flies circling their helmets.

But seriously, the best incentive for Alabama players to perform better is usually unmarked bills left in a P.O. Box.

By: Yiddish Steel

Yiddish Steel — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:21:25 +0000

Oh, hell yeah! I’m a mutha-f@##!&’ soldjah, man!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:09:14 +0000

Well you got to look at his DNA, his uncle was twice coach of the Buffalo Bills and look how far they went … Ah Nowhere

I didn’t have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn’t want to. But I didn’t think they’d pick one I didn’t like.
Bear Bryant