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Monday, November 23, 2009 [new posts at the top]
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**** Current forecast for Friday: Sunny and cold, high of 49. – [JDH – 10:50 a.m.]
*** Oh… yes. Oh… this makes me so very happy…
From Bitter’s blog:
Chizik pulled out some old footage to try to get the team pumped for the game. “He came in our team meeting and showed us some film, a clip from 1989, something like that, the first time Alabama came and played,” running back Ben Tate said. “He showed clips from that. It was just nice to see that with them winning and everything like that. I think Alabama was undefeated and No. 1 team in the country that year and something like that. Just seeing that whole emotion and seeing coach (Pat) Dye giving that speech after they won, it was pretty exciting.“
– [JDH – 8:o3 a.m.]
*** So there’s this thing I just wrote about finding a profile (from the Nov. 30, 1989 edition of The Birmingham News, part of the paper’s buildup to that year’s historic Iron Bowl) on the girl actually named WarEagle, the girl I thought about after a random Twitter search last May led me to a girl who had pretended to be named “War Eagle.”
Alabama fans brag on their houndstoothed army of Bryant namesakes, but the Bear was, technically a person. As I wrote then, with the feminized semi-exception of Tyde (brother of named-after-him-befor-he-had-even-coached-a-game Saban) Witt, I thought Tiger and WarEagle White’s parents were in a league of child-naming-devotion all their own.
Because one Bama dad wanted free tickets, I may have been wrong.
From the December 1, 1989 (yes, very next day – note shirt: it doesn’t matter where they play) edition of The Birmingham News:
For more content celebrating the 20th anniversary of Bama’s first visit to the Plains, visit The War Eagle Reader’s 20 Years collection.
– [JDH – 7:45 a.m.]
Interesting, and somewhat typical, that the White family who selected their daughter’s MIDDLE names to reflect the university where the parents met, WHILE ATTENDING that university are the Auburn people and the Colvert family who selected their son’s First & Middle name to reflect their ‘love’ of a football team at a university they NEVER ATTENDED are the Alabama people.
Make’s you go hmmmmm
So typical. I hope their second child (if they had one) is named Bear Bryant.
“Sir, you do know his actual first name is Paul, right, and not Bear?”
This reminds me of a Foxworthy joke: you might be a redneck if you name your son Dale Jr. and your name isn’t Dale. Row Tahd.
“Crimson Tide Colvert” doesn’t show up in Facebook. Or on Google.
I saw a hat just like the one Darryl is sporting in that phote while in the JetPep/DairyQueen at the Cullman exit on I65 last week.
I guess quality never goes out of style.