Some of you are too young to remember him, but the late John Forney was Alabama’s play-by-play announcer on the radio for football games when Coach Bryant was here. He was fired by Ray Perkins in 1983 when he became coach, then he was re-hired in 1988. At the beginning of his first broadcast that season, Forney said, as only he could, “Now, before I was so rudely interrupted. . .”