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Your first Bama Game

My first Bama game was in 1969 at Legion Field vs. Tennessee. All my memories of that day are great except for the game itself. The Tide was squeezed by the Big Orange that day.


I was also in Legion Field in 1971,75,77,79, and other times when it was the Big Orange that got squeezed!!!!
 
My first live-in-stadium game was the legendary Sugar Bowl v. notre durn. 24-23 Irish I believe. Was it 73? (I'm getting old & forget some of these details). I was about 13 years old.

But I got to shake hands with Coach Bryant then, so that was worth it.

First game as a student: Bama v. FL, 1979 in the swamp. Total domination by the Tide. I think the score was 40-0, but it really wasn't that close. :p I was a UF student at the time, but was staying true to my raising & pulling for the Tide.

First game as a post-enlightenment student (meaning, Bama student): the Bama UK game mentioned earlier in this thread. I was now able to cheer openly, instead of having to cheer secretly when I was a young gaytor.
 
I was a Notre Dame fan for most of my life but enrolled at the Capstone in 1971. Some friends and I listened to the USC-BAMA at a friend's sister's house and drank too many PBRs during that excrutiatingly tense game. I ended up in the fountain in front of Adminstration Building with several hundred of my closest friends celebrating the wishbone inspired surprise victory. My Irish loyalties mysteriously disappeared in that dark water never to return. I still think that Johnny Musso is one of the five greatest humans to have ever graced this earth.
 
My first game was homecoming in '89 with my sister, who was a UA student at the time. I don't remember much about the game, go figure, but it was HOT. My next one wasn't much better because it was the 1990 So. Miss game. I started 1-1, but it's improved since then.
 
i believe it was 93' at legion field, i was 15 at the time and we "stole" some seats closer to the field when some people left because they thought the game was over. i just remember looking back up into the stands and seeing a cloud of beer cups. i've never been happier with a tie.
 
Tidetwin said:
I was a Notre Dame fan for most of my life but enrolled at the Capstone in 1971. Some friends and I listened to the USC-BAMA at a friend's sister's house and drank too many PBRs during that excrutiatingly tense game. I ended up in the fountain in front of Adminstration Building with several hundred of my closest friends celebrating the wishbone inspired surprise victory. My Irish loyalties mysteriously disappeared in that dark water never to return. I still think that Johnny Musso is one of the five greatest humans to have ever graced this earth.
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My buddie and I went out with many other students to meet the team at the airport when they flow back in to Ttown. Wonderful game, wonderful night.

:biga2:
 
I'm feeling very old all of a sudden! There are only a few of us on the board who had the pleasure of living through Bama's GREATEST ERA!!! I'm really sorry that everyone hasn't gotten to experience what it is like to take winning for granted! There were only two teams that gave me any type of discomfort when we played them during the 60's and all of the 70's and they were Penn State & Notre Dame! Penn State simply because they were good and the Irish because they were good and LUCKY! Sure we lost other games, but going into almost every game we not only felt that we could win, we were very confident we would win!

As has been said, Winning is a habit as is losing! Once you've got the habit of winning, and you've done it as often as Bama did during that time, you felt almost invincible!
 
My first time was a dandy, 1992 UA vs. ut in neyland stadium. P.S. being a student at ut at the time I got to anger some ut fans in the student section. It was wonderful.
 
cbi1972 said:
Do you remember Mark and Brian's "My Girl" parody "My Bo" on the radio Monday morning after the game?
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"I guess you'd say
That Bo Jackson ran the wrong way"

"But I didn't!"

"But he didn't...........cause he's Bo Jackson"

I loved that song.

My first live game was 1986 Southern Miss. 31-17 Bama. We got down 7-0 early when a linebacker picked off a Shula pass and took it to the house, but it was pretty much over by the time the 4th quarter started.

I remember listening to Michigan/Notre Dame on the radio on the way home. Michigan beat the Irish 20-19 when Notre Dame missed a field goal on the last play. The next week, Notre Dame, who had not been ranked before the season, was ranked 20th at 0-1. Someone made the point that all they had to do to win the national title was go 0-11.
 
1998 Iron Bowl...My brother and I drove down from Memphis with just enough $ for gas and fast food. We were down 17-0 early but ended up winning 31-17. SA had a great game. My brother passed away last year so it makes it that much more special to me.
 
1980 Homecoming game -- Bama vs. Southern Miss. The Eagles had a pretty good team and were touting their "Nasty Bunch" defense. They took a 7-0 lead, and then it was all Tide the rest of the day -- final score 42-7 in Bama's favor.

The game is significant because, believe it or not, that's the last time Bama was ranked #1 during the regular season. The very next week, the Tide lost to Mississippi State by a score of 6-3 in Jackson, and we have not be ranked #1 during the regular season since then. No one could imagine that it would be nearly 26 years (and counting) that Bama has failed to crack the #1 spot during the regular season -- at that point we were coming off back-to-back national titles in 78 and 79, and we had just dominated the polls for most of the prior 10 years.
 
I grew up a bama fan in Arab, Al. Now I live in a suburb of OKC. My first game was the '02 bama @ OU game. An instant classic. Then made the trip back to T-Town for the '03. Instant classic again. My wife was with me on both accounts and she could not believe the energy in the air.
 
My first Bama game was the Independence Bowl in 2001...1st game @ BDS was the OU game in 2003 my freshman year at UA
 
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