Yeah, they beat us 4 of 5 (1996-2000). We blew the 1996 game, but they beat us straight up the other 3 wins. We had to claw like a tiger to win the 1999 game, although it should have bee a breeze.
Sorry, man.
And you did it just out of frustration with DFAR...Ok, I need to unburden my soul, and I've learned from actors and musicians that publicly is the best way to do this. Alabama didn't ruin college football; I did. I was just feeling jerky the other day and felt like breaking something. So, I ruined college football.
'Bama became my second favorite team when I moved here. When I took the job I was told that you can't root for Auburn and Alabama--you have to choose. I graduated from Cal and was a Cal season ticket holder for 38 years so you know. The last time Cal had a two loss season was 2004 when Aaron Rodgers was quarterback. Lost to USC on a dropped pass in the end zone on the last play of the game (the pass was off target but catchable.
Funny, but with all our wins, I remember the ones we were robbed of, like a one hop TD in the EZ vs. ARK in Bryant Denny. And many more...
The mind is like that...we remember the losses much more than the wins...in all of life!!
I thought Willie Nelson put this in a song -- Reasons to Quit...the last line...but the reasons to quit never out number the reasons why...Why is it the highs are never as high as the lows are low?
Porkchop Womack was a massive OL for them during those years. JJ Johnson destroyed our defense 2 years in a row. He was a good RB for them.
FIFY.
Amen to that. Kentucky stormed the field when they beat a 4-7 Alabama team in 1997.Nobody seemed to have sympathy for us during those awful probation-filled years we had
Not sure I can go along with the next-to-last sentence, but the rest is pure poetry!
I remember the good ole days...and the not so good old days...I'm just enjoying this run ever aware that it will end one day. Other SEC teams -- I could care less. I grew up as a young boy (pre-9) in Louisiana and was an LSU fan in the late 1950's. However, after EO's charade last year, I couldn't care less what happens to them.As some have alluded above, the 'dark decade' of Bama football allowed many fans of other SEC teams to show their true colors. The pure hatred displayed - random tennessee fans literally making sneering comments to me walking down the street in the middle of June, for example - caused a 180° turn in my mind regarding the SEC. I used to support other SEC teams when they playedOOC games, etc., but now I want nothing more than for Bama to dominate and for every other team to have embarrassing losses. I've never been one to talk smack - especially in person - and I still don't. But I do laugh maniacally internally...
Things like this happened when I first moved up there which causes me to hate Tennessee even more.As some have alluded above, the 'dark decade' of Bama football allowed many fans of other SEC teams to show their true colors. The pure hatred displayed - random tennessee fans literally making sneering comments to me walking down the street in the middle of June, for example - caused a 180° turn in my mind regarding the SEC. I used to support other SEC teams when they playedOOC games, etc., but now I want nothing more than for Bama to dominate and for every other team to have embarrassing losses. I've never been one to talk smack - especially in person - and I still don't. But I do laugh maniacally internally...
I love the fact that you are comparing Michigan to Mississippi State.
Yeah, I was kinda hoping one of the resident Ohio State fans would have that implied comparison.
