Alabama should have won 16 Straight National Championships

[CajunCrimson]

That 2013 IB is still my weirdest reaction to a loss.

A younger me that had not ever experienced Bama having success nationally would not haven taken it well…lol

But by that point I had seen Bama win 4 NCs (1992, 2009, 2011, 2012) and had become pretty immune to the shock of AUs Pixie Dust Voodoo.

So as that final play happened I just sat there in disbelief.

My Dad was the same way… the living room was just dead silent except for my Mom asking us if it could really end that way (was the KR legal).

2016 I have mixed feelings about.

On one hand they cheated on the final play to beat us but on the other hand they near perfectly executed a gameplan to tire out our defense.

But yeah overall I don’t think about what could have been.

6 NC’s in 9 NCG appearances in a span of 13 seasons is unreal.

9 SECC’s in 10 SECCG appearances (9 Straight Wins) is unreal.

There’s never been a run like that and there won’t be another one.

The thing to me that hurt the most, was outside of QB, that was by far the most talented team we may have ever had up to that time.

2020 surpassed it.

 

[JDCrimson]

Our team played that play like they didnt know the rule and we didnt prepare in the timeout before the kick. The Kick 6 was a coaching failure not a player failure.

Ditto.

You have to remember that game was played on the 28th anniversary of Van Tiffin's kick. Thing after thing went wrong for us in that game, but here we were with a chance. Yes, I knew 57 yards was a longshot, but your name lives forever if it's good.

I leaped up from the couch when he kicked it because I thought he'd gotten enough of it (I assumed he would miss it and was just hoping it wasn't blocked like the 2012 UGA game for a TD). When I saw it was "no good," mentally I was preparing for overtime, sorta exhaled and because it was now dark, turned back around and felt the couch end so I didn't sit on the coffee table. All of a sudden I look up and the guy is racing down the field. I was trying to figure out what the hell happened.

Remember - it took them forever (it felt) to show the replay.
And I'll be honest: I didn't even know you could do that.

It felt like a hard kick in the groin and gut at the same time, more of shock and disbelief than anything else.

I've never had that reaction to any other game at any time. Nothing even close.

 

[Toddrn]

Why is that?

It downgrades the significance of winning one. IMHO.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Don’t feed the trolls….especially the ones so clumsy as to out themselves within 48 hours of joining.

 

[Tidewater]

Gotcha, I am new to the site so my apologies

Since anyone in theory can get an account, we have had Auburn, LSU, Tennessee fans come on here, posiing as Alabama fans and then write stuff showing they are not Alabama fans. It happens all the time.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Three things I'd get rid of - even ahead of world poverty, high crime, and injustice - are:
1) natty
2) the ship
3) the GOAT

Natty and ship sound like diminishing accomplishment to me, street slang, text message abbreviations, whatever. I never once heard a PLAYER or coach (or for that matter fans) say, "We just won the 'ship!"

I know I'm old but "the goat" (SWIDT?) used to be what was used to describe the guy who made the blunder that cost your team the game/the series/the championship:

Fred Merkle
Roy Riegels
Chris Weber
Bill Buckner (unfairly)
Steve Smith (Edmonton Oilers)
Don Denkinger
Lonnie Smith

I understand words change meanings but good Lord.

Now I see "Tom Brady is the GOAT" and my first instinct is, "No, Pete Carroll is for not giving the ball to Lynch." (Aside from which you CANNOT compare Brady's passing accomplishments with quarterbacks who played back when it was illegal to knock receivers down all over the field; none of the modern guys would have 4,000 yards passing in 14-game season with those rules. But some guy named Namath did.

I'm not instinctively anti-new stuff, but even calling something an NC doesn't sound as diminishing as "natty" or "ship."


ETA:
Before this goes sideways on Brady, I DO think the best argument can be made for him over anybody else, yes, mostly due to his winning the Super Bowl with Tampa after leaving New England. But again, championships are TEAM accomplishments, not individual ones. "How many rings you won" is far more relevant in a sport with fewer athletes on the field like basketball or hockey than it is in football.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Btw in regards to my earlier post about luck:

the Florida Gators only remained in contention in 2006 because they blocked a 48-yard game winning field goal attempt on the last play by South Carolina, their second blocked kick of that game (sound familiar? 2009 Tennessee?).

We all know Florida was a MUCH BETTER team than South Carolina was in 2006 - and that game was in the Swamp by the way.

But they only beat the Gamecocks by a score of 17-16.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

6 NC’s in 9 NCG appearances in a span of 13 seasons is unreal.

9 SECC’s in 10 SECCG appearances (9 Straight Wins) is unreal.

There’s never been a run like that and there won’t be another one.

That's the best summary.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Three things I'd get rid of - even ahead of world poverty, high crime, and injustice - are:
1) natty
2) the ship
3) the GOAT

Natty and ship sound like diminishing accomplishment to me, street slang, text message abbreviations, whatever. I never once heard a PLAYER or coach (or for that matter fans) say, "We just won the 'ship!"

I know I'm old but "the goat" (SWIDT?) used to be what was used to describe the guy who made the blunder that cost your team the game/the series/the championship:

Fred Merkle
Roy Riegels
Chris Weber
Bill Buckner (unfairly)
Steve Smith (Edmonton Oilers)
Don Denkinger
Lonnie Smith

I understand words change meanings but good Lord.

Now I see "Tom Brady is the GOAT" and my first instinct is, "No, Pete Carroll is for not giving the ball to Lynch." (Aside from which you CANNOT compare Brady's passing accomplishments with quarterbacks who played back when it was illegal to knock receivers down all over the field; none of the modern guys would have 4,000 yards passing in 14-game season with those rules. But some guy named Namath did.

I'm not instinctively anti-new stuff, but even calling something an NC doesn't sound as diminishing as "natty" or "ship."


ETA:
Before this goes sideways on Brady, I DO think the best argument can be made for him over anybody else, yes, mostly due to his winning the Super Bowl with Tampa after leaving New England. But again, championships are TEAM accomplishments, not individual ones. "How many rings you won" is far more relevant in a sport with fewer athletes on the field like basketball or hockey than it is in football.

Every time I hear or see Natty, I want to punch that person in the throat. I hated even writing it here.

Yes, GOAT to us older than 40, was very confusing the first time you heard it.

and you are going to upset the Brady fanboys because most think he did it all himself with less talent around him. He is offense and defense, he is coach and player, he is Donnie and he is Marie.