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What made you become a Bama fan?

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Hey TRU!!!!!

I too was born in New York and while we moved to Alabama when I was 2 (1964) I was raised in Pin Stripes and Crimson & White. It's interesting in that I don't have any recollection of knowing anything but THE YANKEES & THE ALABAMA CRIMSON TIDE!!! My parents I suppose being raised themselves in the Bronx and always being winners, quickly adopted the only REAL winner in Alabama and that was The Tide and therefore, we were Alabama fans. It didn't hurt that Joe "Willie" Namath played for Bama and then the very year we moved to Alabama he was drafted by Weeb & Co and led the Jets to a Super Bowl...however, frankly my father grew up a Giants fan and not a Jets fan, but we did follow the Jets due to Namath.

By the way, TRU, I was born on Long Island (Baldwin, Nassau County) to be exact in LIJ!
 
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I've lived all over the Eastern United States, but I've spent a lot of time in Oak Ridge, TN (just West of Knoxville). I picked it up after my father, who went to Cornell (Ithaca, NY), but became a closet Alabama fan from watching SEC football. I took a liking to them as well. I remember all my friends who were UT fans who would just get ill everytime Bama would hang another loss onto the long streak we had going at the time. I also remember watching Alabama crushing an arrogant Maimi team back in 1992.

Then it came time to decide where I would go to college. All I knew was that I wasn't going to UT. I considered and got accepted to UA, UK, and GT. I got three different partial scholarships to go to UA, and that sealed the deal. It was, by far, my favorite visit even before that came to pass. The rest is history.
 
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In 1987 I Was Born And Have Been A Fan Since Then And In 2002 I Made Alabama Football Not Just Something I Say "I Am An Alabama Fan" But I Changed And Became A True Fan And Now I Live Like An Alabama Fan!

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My Dad is a big Alabama fan. He and I were both born and raised in Alabama and my family has always pulled for the Tide. He grew up during the time that Bear was winning championships in the 60's and Alabama was always a national title contender. I was born in 77 and of course Bama won the Championship in both 78 and 79. As a child, my father always watched Alabama football on Saturday and some how, some way, Alabama seemed to always find a way to win. He used to record the games on my family's first VCR in the early 1980's and pause it to teach me the names of each position. The first big game I remember vividly is the 1985 Bama/Auburn game where Bama won by a last second field goal. My parents both were jumping up and down in the living room in celebration. I don't ever remember saying, "I think I'll be an Alabama fan." It just happened. I've always been a Bama fan and always will be.
 
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As a kid growing up in Alabama I enjoyed Bama football but did not realize how much of a Bama fan I was until we lost the punt bama punt game. After that my teams were Alabama and whoever was playing AU.
(side note- the only game that has hurt as bad as the punt game was the 71 Sugar Bowl)
 
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bamabound2006 said:
In 1987 I Was Born And Have Been A Fan Since Then And In 2002 I Made Alabama Football Not Just Something I Say "I Am An Alabama Fan" But I Changed And Became A True Fan And Now I Live Like An Alabama Fan!

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Hey bamabound2006...when will you start at the Capstone?
 
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Reading about and hearing of the exploits of Harry Gilmer did it for me as well as just about every other kid in my neighborhood in Mobile. If there had been any doubt though, the clincher was the 53 Orange Bowl when BAMA trounced Syracuse 61-6. One of our neighbors bought a TV set and half the neighborhood watched it on his new TV. It was the first football game, college or pro that I ever saw on TV.

On top of that, the first college footbal game I ever saw was Coach Bryant's debut in Ladd Stadium against LSU, who would go on to win the NC. A friend of my Dad's, Jack Taylor, who started the Fact-O-Bake auto painting chain gave me two tickets on about the 45 yard line. Even though BAMA lost 13-3, (We led 3-0 at halftime) you could tell from the intensity and the leather popping that BAMA was on it's way back to being BAMA again. :)
 
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my father was a big alabama fan and listened to them every saturday. when i was 7 they played ga tech in atlanta we were down 15-0 at halftime and won 16-15 it ranks as my first recollection and have been with thewm every saturday since either in a stadium listening to them or watching them on tv
 
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I grew up in Mississippi and come to love Alabama. My dad watched college football every saturday and Alabama was usually on. I just started to get used to watching them. The earliest memory I have is some of the first games of the Gene Stallings era, before that I was 6 or 7 and football was the least of my worries Since I was born in 1982, I really only became aware of things outside the home about the time Stallings was coaching. My love began there and it hasn't stop since. I have loved every moment of it. I remember staying up late to celebrate the 1992 National Championship when I was 10.
 
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I was born in 1962 and my Dad was stationed at Ft. Rucker and we lived in Ozark. We subsequently moved to Nashville and I got to go to my first BAMA game in 1971 vs. Vandy. It was the 2nd game that year, the 1st being against USC in Los Angeles. Anyway, I got to see Johnny Musso run wild from the left halfback position in the wishbone and go thru about 9 or 10 tear-away jerseys that night. What a sight! He would come off the field with a shredded jersey and they just kept putting another one on him and sending him back in to run the triple option to the right side. Johnny Musso and #22 are still my favorites! I still travel from San Diego 3-4 times each fall to see games. Addicted!
 
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The first college football game I ever saw: Bama vs Nebraska in the '65 or '66 Sugar Bowl. Bama won 31-6 or 34-7, can't remember. I was hooked on Crimson from then own.
 
BFANLC said:
I can remember I was about 12 and my sister , who is a Bama fan, told me about Bama. I asked her why did she like Bama and the coach. She said because Bama was the greatest college and because the Bear was the greatest coach ever and I took her word for it.The first game I can remember was the liberty bowl that Bama won and the team held Bear on their shoulders. The rest is as they say is history. All I can say is I'm sooooo glad she wasn't an au fan!
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That's a great story. The cream rises to the top no matter what. That Liberty bowl (Coach Bryant's last game) was one of the hardest hitting games I've ever seen.

TRU said:
Interesting question. The parallels to the Yankees of my formative years were clear. It was like settling into a much loved and well used easy chair. And so I became a Tide fan.
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I've never lived in New York, but I became a Yankees fan about the same time I became a BAMA fan (around 1964). Doubtless I love a winner. I am now married to a Yankees fan and watch every game the Yankees play that we can get on TV (which seems like a lot with MLB Extra Innings).

But I like to tell myself the reason I fell in love with BAMA initially was play selection. Some other teams could also block and tackle, run and catch, etc.
But somewhere in the third quarter, BAMA would catch them looking run, or catch them looking pass, or cheating to one side or the other. Whoever called the plays in the sixties REALLY knew what he was doing. Once those teams had a lead in the forth, they could generally keep it.

I've always thought that Coach Bryant called some of those plays.
 
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I was living in Mobile in 1968 and directly across the street lived a Davidson HS football player who was 10 years older than me and much the local gridiron star. However, he was a nice guy and took time to throw the football with us little, pint-sized 7 year old kids. I always thought it was great that a guy who had recruitors hanging on his every word and the football world at his feet, would take time to make some little kids feel special.

Richard Todd chose Bama and the Crimson Tide immediately became that 7 year old kid's favorite team. 37 seasons later nothing has ever changed those early childhood sentiments. RTR.
 
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When I came to that age as a kid in Alabama where you must choose sides, I looked at (1) my family's love for BAMA (2) the toothless imbeciles that root for Auburn. While I may have been an imbecile, I did have all of my teeth (save a few baby ones missing, but I had no brown ones), so the choice was clear!
 
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My parents were Bama fans, most all my friends were Bama fans, and I grew up wanting to go to college at Bama. It was one of the first lifelong dreams that I was able to fulfill. My grandparents took me to see my first game at the Grey Lady the day we played TCU and one of their players was paralyzed in the game. Talk about a mixing of emotions for a young kid.
 
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My love for the Tide comes from my grandfather on my mother's side. He went to all the Rose Bowls that Bama played in in the first half of the 1900's. Had a LA Times from the 1946 vs USC in the attic. GREAT READING, if you have to read anything from the "left coast"

My grandfather would sit in his store on Saturday's (very little football on TV at that time) and listen to the radio. If Bama was winning, he would have a straight face. If they were losing, he would frown. Very few times did I see a frown on his face.... ;)

Since he lived his entire life in Alabama (born 1902), he saw alot, and knew how much the Tide meant to the the state as a whole. My mother was an Alabama grad, my father, a Vandy grad. I applied to both, was accepted to both, but followed my heart and went to Bama (just could not stand to have to pull against Bama, but Vandy did have a winning record over Auburn... :biggrin:)

Many of my freinds thought I would never leave the state, because I would be unable to watch Bama football. Thank goodness for JP, CBS, ESPN, at al, and the internet.....

I am raising my boys right. My in-laws are big Gator fans. My oldest at three years old (and he did this himself), would say his address, but instead of saying "Florida", he would say "ROLL TIDE". I am so proud of him, and he drives my in-laws crazy (well, that and the fact that UF can't beat Bama...lol)
 
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As you can see, my screen name says I'm a Hog fan and that is true, however, I was stationed in Biloxi in 1967 and saw Alabama play Southern Miss in Mobile and then later that same year I drove over to Baton Rouge and watched Snake Stabler and Alabama beat LSU 7-0. I have always had the utmost respect for the Alabama program and absolutely loved the ledgendary Paul Bryant. Be easy on us in Fayetteville on September 23d........Roll Tide.
 
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That's just what happens on Magnolia St, Trussville Alabama
 
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