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Favorite Bama Memories

BamaNBossier said:
Standing in line in Birmingham to get seats in the North end zone in the 60's, then going with my Mom and Dad to see Alabama play, those were special days for them and me. Saw some great teams and players. A very special memory was knowing my parents got to go to the 66' Sugar Bowl at Tulane stadium, They had a special train from Birmingham to New Orleans, The train station was almost next to the stadium and you stayed in sleeper cars, I think back on that and what a great time they had. This is the time of year that those and many more memories are remembered.
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When I was about nine in the early 60's I remember getting up on Saturday mornings and I swear there was a magic in the air.
Very hard to explain.
All we had was radio to listen to Bama football. Very few TV games at that time.
But you'd walk outside and you could almost hear the crowd. And you knew something very special was about to happen.
Then you'd turn on Forney...and bite your nails...and sit on the edge of your seat..and go crazy.
More times than not. Many more times. Bama would win and the world was a perfect place, if only for a day.
My first Bama game to attend was Bama-Clemson in 66. Stabler at QB....Homan, Perkins etc.
11-0 team. Bama won 26-0.
Still the best Bama team of all time in my opinion. At least for their era.
After seeing a game...I could picture every play happening there after...listening to that radio on a Saturday night.
It was an incredible time to be a kid. Paul Bryant pretty much ruled the world.
I grew up working my butt off hoping to play for him, like every other kid in the state did.
Unfortunately God made me 5'7 160 and that big dream didn't work out.
But those days are still an incredible memory.

sippi
 
The '05 UT game sticks out for me... I drove all night from San Antonio. I told my aunt that I would come to another game if we lost that one because we had lost the 5 previous games that I had attended. Man what a game... 2nd is going to the '06 Cotton Bowl with my dad. It was my 1st bowl game and we sat right in the middle of all of the TTU fans. We had tortillas thrown at us before the game... Then KB catching the long hitch pass and Money drilling the slider just inside the upright... I remember being one of only about 15 bama fans in my area screaming rammer jammer after that game. It was like those '05 seniors deserved something like that to happen. They had been through so much...
 
Alasippi said:
When I was about nine in the early 60's I remember getting up on Saturday mornings and I swear there was a magic in the air.
Very hard to explain.
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After seeing a game...I could picture every play happening there after...listening to that radio on a Saturday night.
I grew up working my butt off hoping to play for him, like every other kid in the state did.
Unfortunately God made me 5'7 160 and that big dream didn't work out.
But those days are still an incredible memory.
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I hear you, Sippi. I just a couple of years behind you, & thus recall that incredible magic. I shared the dream of playing for Coach Bryant, even though I grew up in NW FL. I came closer than you size-wise, in that I grew all the way up to 5'9"...*sigh*

My fave memories:
1. Sugar Bowl v. Notre Dame in 73.
Bama lost, but that was (a) the first Bama game I ever saw in person--I was 14--and (b) the one & only game I got to attend with my Dad, who died late the next year before I went to the Capstone a few years later.

2. 93 Sugar Bowl v. Miami
Attended w/ my pa-in-law. He was almost as excited as I about how that game turned out.

3. The Goal Line Stand Sugar Bowl in 79.
Watching at my aunt's house in NW FL. Much hootin & hollerin by me & various relatives.

4. Multiple Iron Bowls @ Legion Field in the 80s, beginning with Coach Bryant's last 3. Electric environments for all, with the stadium split roughly half us & half bad guys.

5. Penn State game in BDS when Bama's D refused to allow the PSU O to do, well anything. Final score: 6-0 us. Perhaps the last of the old-school defensive battles.

6. Many games attended with mrs. exiled when we were young students @ Bama before--and after--we were married.

7. Iron Bowl in BDS 2006.
I know, I know...But it was exiled, jr.'s 1st Iron Bowl ever. He drove over from Oxford & met me there. Almost as much fun as my first game with my Dad.

8. LSU in BDS a few years ago--the Rohan Davie show
Agan, I know. He threw for 500+ yards on us. But that was the first game I went to with just exiled, jr. We had a blast, despite the outcome.

My next one on the list will be the next time mrs. exiled gets to go to a game with me in BDS. Reason? That will be her first game since the stadium expanded. I can't wait!

Roll Tide!!
 
AFTide said:
The '05 UT game sticks out for me... I drove all night from San Antonio. I told my aunt that I would come to another game if we lost that one because we had lost the 5 previous games that I had attended. Man what a game...
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Incredible...

That's actually my favorite 'Bama moment as well because it was the first Alabama game I had ever attended in person.

I've lived in Aubarn my entire life, and I'm currently 21 years old. I've been to more Aubarn games than I can stand, but I've been a Tide fan since birth and will forever bleed crimson.

A friend of mine, who is also an avid Alabama fan, met a girl who was attending UA at that time, and he brought the subject up of her getting us tickets for a game around the time that we had defeated Arkansas. So we decided to go to the Tennessee game seeing how I've heard they're originally our biggest rival, and we figured it would be a big game on a big weekend.

Neither one of us had ever been to Tuscaloosa, so needless to say we've never been to a 'Bama game either. She ended up hooking us up with two converted student tickets, and we left at 6:00am that morning.

Words could not have explained the excitement that was pumping through my veins and coming out of Prattville on 82 West, there was a convoy of 'Bama fans for as far as you could see.

As we rolled into T-Town, I could sense this was something special and I was absolutely amazed at how much bigger and nicer Tuscaloosa was than this rathole I live in. Everything about my experience was breathtaking from tailgating, to the Quad, to the strip, etc. etc. Then came gametime and again, I can't explain in words what it was like.

Parading the streets having total strangers coming up to you screaming "Roll Tide" to the high heavens, and slapping you high five was AWESOME! The camaraderie was amazing and I had never seen ANYTHING like that amongst any sort of fans EVER!

After the game, I met Nick Walker's dad at the McDonalds on McFarland as we were leaving. Then, what stood out the most of that experience there, other than meeting some really hot UT chick (lol), was telling this middle-aged gentleman that this was our first game and he said (not verbatim, but close enough), "This is something you'll remember forever. I've 2-3 games a year since I was a young boy, and I've never been to a game that was as intense as this one. I would've loved for this game to have been my first."

From that point on, there was a new love in my life and since then, I've been to 6 games and I still can't get enough. I love EVERYTHING about the University of Alabama and I look forward to being able to tell more genuine stories in the near future.

I've been around this great country to California, Arizona, Iowa, Washington DC, Atlanta, nearly every major city in Florida, and I can honestly say none tops T-Town on gameday. I always praised California, but after my first 'Bama game, it ranks second on my all-time experience list, behind none other than Tuscaloosa, Alabama!

Roll Tide Roll!!!
 
Took my son to his first Bama game last year. As we were sitting there waiting for the festivities to begin, I heard him say something, and upon listening more closely I realized he was singing "Yea! Alabama!" He even got the "Bama's pluck and grit have writ her name in crimson flame" part right, which is a tongue twister for me.

The Catch

Lamar Thomas, Meet George Teague

Bear's 315 vs Auburn

This year's comeback against Arkansas. My son woke up late that night and came down to watch the completion of that game and we had a great time with it.
 
There are so many...:)

Just list a few:

1962 National Championship season
Goal Line Stand vs Penn State
Pro's catch
1993 Sugar Bowl
Meeting Coach Bryant
Beating Auburn in Coach Stallings first year
Bama/Auburn both undefeated game (Bama slaughtered them)
Bama coming back when down 21-0 against Ole Miss in Jackson
Watching all the great players play against Alabama (too many to name)
Coming into the bowls #4, beating Nebraska to win the NC.
Start of wishbone against SoCal
 
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Very good thread! So enjoyable to read about the first games and taking kids to the games. Brings back memories and makes me smile.

The love of Alabama football is like nothing else - win or lose, we just keep coming back for more.

:BigA:
 
Too many to mention, but here are a couple...

Sitting in the family car with the radio on and hearing John Forney announce that Bama was lined up in a wishbone against Southern Cal. I think we had to jump off the car to go to church the next morning - dad wasn't happy.

Watching The Kick in the living room of an Auburn fan. He just got up and left the room.

Getting a section of Joe LaBue's jersey in the mail - way back when. I have no idea where it is now, but I wish I still had it.
 
I'm only 22, so most of the 'great' bama memories were before my time. but mine are:
1. My first game, the 06 Hawaii game (which happened to be my aubie girlfriends first bama game, and i got black mail pictures of her in crimson and houndstooth :biggrin2:)

2. Taking my dad to his first live and in person bama game ever, 06 ole miss, and then his second one 06 FIU

3. Last, but certainly not least, 07 UT. That was the first major SEC game i've been to, and I paid a pretty shiny penny to see it, but man it was worth it. The student section is crazy!!! (lots of hot girls there to!)
 
My favorite memory is beating Notre Dame in 1986. I'm the elitist Alabama fan that thinks we should beat Auburn and Tennessee every year as a matter of business. That was our first win ever against Notre Dame. That will only be topped when we finally beat Texas. I've had that one rubbed in my face enough already by obnoxious Longhorn fans.
 
I hate fat phil said:
I got to take my popa to the UT game this year as payback for the 100s of games he has taken me to.
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That's pretty priceless. My Dad took me to many games.
Thank goodness I got to repay him by taking him to the Sugar Bowl in 92.
On the way to New Orleans I was intense. He was talking about putting new gutters on the house...lol
But after the game as all the Bama fans were exiting down the portals yellin "Roolll Tide"
I wrapped my right arm inside his left arm and we proudly walked out together.
In his always understated way he simply said.."That was a pretty good game...a pretty good game".
Incredible..

sippi
 
THE BAMA IRISHMAN said:
Oct 20, 1973 Birmingham AL, Leigon Field. Wayne Wheeler catching an 80 yard strike down the middle. The Vols were on their heels the rest of the way. BAMA 42 ut 21 as it should be. My favorite memory. It was my first BAMA vs UT game :BigA:

:p_arrow::BigA::biga2::BigA:
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You forgot to mention that it was the first play from scrimmage. I watched that from my dorm's TV room in Tuscaloosa. (I was a freshman and didn't have a car to get to Birmingham.)
 
Beating Fla at home in 99? My dad passed away before the championship game but we both lived in Gainesville then and he LOVED seeing us beat them in G'ville. He was to sick to attend the game but we watched every second on tv!

Clay
 
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