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Why Did You Choose Bama?

the 70's, the Tide was Rolling, lead by CPB. top 5 in the country, on tv almost every saturday or lead on highlight shows and headlines in the paper.
i was a Jr. League and high school QB, glued on saturdays to the tv watching the Tide QB's (and oklahoma) option teams to death. trying to learn with every snap.
1979 i remember being the person in the room rooting for the Tide against psu. little did i know that 2 years later i'd get a letter and a couple phone calls about coming down to play for the Tide and for CPB.
like a stupid 18 y/o i didn't play anywhere but have been loyal to the Tide since. :blush:
 
I guess you could call me a Bama "lean" through the Harry Gilmer years. My dad was an Aubie, but he never could get me to commit. And then on 01/01/1953, after reading and hearing the entire month of December how this "Beast of the East" Syracuse was going to teach those little boys from Alabama how to play football, I sat down at a friends house to watch this massacre at the Orange Bowl on TV. It was a massacre alright, and when I left the friends house I was a Bama fan forever. The first five years were tough. Bama couldn't score, much less win. They were shut out SEVENTEEN times during my first five years. Consider that, in the fifty plus years since then, Bama has been shut out only eleven times. You think it's been bad the last ten. You don't know bad. And my dad was still trying to get me to switch to Auburn. Took me to 3 of their games in 1957, thinking that would do the trick. But the word was already on the street that Coach Bryant was coming, so I told him I would stay where I was at because Bama was going to be good again.
 
Bama Born, Bama Bread, When I Die I'll Be
Bama Dead !!! There are only 2 teams in
college football. Bama and all the teams
that wish they were Bama !!!! I* was born
in Guntersville Alabama hospital in 1961 the
year Bryant won his first NC at Bama. I was
raised and marinated in the Bama experience
and have enjoyed 7 Bama NC's in my 47 years
on this earth. My family especially my cousins
were friends with the "Hannah" boys back in the
day. I think that Bama is also in my blood.........
Roll Tide Roll !!!!!:BigA::PDT_Aliboronz_14:
 
I am from Georgia, but my parents and all of my family are from Birmingham. Both parents went to Alabama, so I grew up a fan. I then went for my first two years, but had to transfer to UGA for HOPE Scholarship because out of state tuition is so high. People ask who I cheer for and I tell them Bama is engrained in me. If they had experienced it, they would understand. I think going to UGA made me an even bigger Tide fan.
 
Well, my dad chose Bama because his dad was a flaming Auby that was so obnoxious about Shug and his boys that dad rebelled against it. Dad said "Pop" would always talk about "next year" and how Au***n (curse word in my home) was going to win the NC and beat Bama. Dad said he realized quickly how "next year" never came and Bama would beat Au***n most years. Dad decided to be associated with winners and not losers. He chose Bama when he was twelve and got beat because of it. This is why he hates Au***n.

I chose Bama for a different reason. My dad was in the Army and we spent most of my formative years in Georgia. I loved hearing Mr. Munson call Georgia games. I liked Bama but fell in love with Georgia. Then my dad got out of the Army and we moved to Birmingham. I heard less of Georgia. When i got old enough for college I really wanted to go to Georgia but I did not want my parents to have to pay out of state fees so I went to Bama.

I was in the band and the first time I marched a pre-game show at Legion Field something happened that changed me forever. It was Saturday September 03, 1994. This was the first Bama Game I had ever attended. We (the 365 members of the MDB) marched on to the field and hit the first notes of "Yeah Alabama". The crowd screamed so loud that I could not hear myself or any other band members. I got goose bumps and my heart started to race. This is the way I feel every time I watch a Bama football game. I chose Bama because she made me fall in love with her the first moment I truly saw her. Trust me, the first note of "Yeah Alabama" in a MDB members life is seeing the woman that you love and realizing that she is the one. I love Bama not just because I graduated, but because we as Bama fans share something special that cannot be duplicated by any other school. We have real Tradition. Like my dad said - I wanted to associated with winners not losers.
 
MDB98 said:
Well, my dad chose Bama because his dad was a flaming Auby that was so obnoxious about Shug and his boys that dad rebelled against it. Dad said "Pop" would always talk about "next year" and how Au***n (curse word in my home) was going to win the NC and beat Bama. Dad said he realized quickly how "next year" never came and Bama would beat Au***n most years. Dad decided to be associated with winners and not losers. He chose Bama when he was twelve and got beat because of it. This is why he hates Au***n.

I chose Bama for a different reason. My dad was in the Army and we spent most of my formative years in Georgia. I loved hearing Mr. Munson call Georgia games. I liked Bama but fell in love with Georgia. Then my dad got out of the Army and we moved to Birmingham. I heard less of Georgia. When i got old enough for college I really wanted to go to Georgia but I did not want my parents to have to pay out of state fees so I went to Bama.

I was in the band and the first time I marched a pre-game show at Legion Field something happened that changed me forever. It was Saturday September 03, 1994. This was the first Bama Game I had ever attended. We (the 365 members of the MDB) marched on to the field and hit the first notes of "Yeah Alabama". The crowd screamed so loud that I could not hear myself or any other band members. I got goose bumps and my heart started to race. This is the way I feel every time I watch a Bama football game. I chose Bama because she made me fall in love with her the first moment I truly saw her. Trust me, the first note of "Yeah Alabama" in a MDB members life is seeing the woman that you love and realizing that she is the one. I love Bama not just because I graduated, but because we as Bama fans share something special that cannot be duplicated by any other school. We have real Tradition. Like my dad said - I wanted to associated with winners not losers.
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From one MDB alumnus to another, that'd be "Yea Alabama". :)
 
I'm 65 years old, and I can remember when I was in high school in 1958, all the talk was about Auburn, who had just won their one and only NC in 1957, and Coach Bryant had just come to Bama. Most of my teammates on the football team were Auburn fans, but my coach was a Bama fan, I think. I really didn't know much about either one at 16 years old, but for some reason, I decided at that moment that I would be a Crimson Tide fan for the rest of my life. And as Bear used to say on his show "believe you me", It has been a great ride. All the memories I have of the glory days during Coach Bryant's tenure at Alabama, and even after that, when things weren't so great; right up until the present moment, I've never once regretted being a Crimson Tide Supporter, and I never will till the day I die!!!
 
p'colabamaman said:
I'm 65 years old, and I can remember when I was in high school in 1958, all the talk was about Auburn, who had just won their one and only NC in 1957, and Coach Bryant had just come to Bama. Most of my teammates on the football team were Auburn fans, but my coach was a Bama fan, I think. I really didn't know much about either one at 16 years old, but for some reason, I decided at that moment that I would be a Crimson Tide fan for the rest of my life. And as Bear used to say on his show "believe you me", It has been a great ride. All the memories I have of the glory days during Coach Bryant's tenure at Alabama, and even after that, when things weren't so great; right up until the present moment, I've never once regretted being a Crimson Tide Supporter, and I never will till the day I die!!!
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Well said.

I have never regretted being a Bama fan either.

And I never will.:)
 
Not sure if this has been said or not. But its a family tradition. All of my dad's side of the family is Bama fan's. So me, being a guy and all, had no choice in the matter. But I didnt' really follow football until about 4 years ago. But if anyone asked me, I would always say I'm an alabama fan...period. Now somehow my little brother got left out of the family tradition and grew up a boog fan. Maybe it was because he lived with my mom for so long (they are all auburn fans...)
 
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