Crimson Red Sports

So y'all know I live in Texas.  Today I took my oldest to an orthodontist to get his teeth looked at and the orthodontist had a Sugar Bowl plaque & pics of an Alabama/Notre Dame game.  He came in and saw my Alabama shirt and we started talking football.  He played under Dan Devine.  He said that he played in the game when AL and ND were 1&2 and Notre Dame won.  I asked if it was intimidating to go against the Bear.  He told me he got to meet him  :o He said that even though his family would never wear Alabama clothes they pulled for Alabama a lot because it was the only place "down south" that wouldn't call the Notre Dame players slurs and throw empty whiskey bottles at them.  He said the people at Bama were so hospitable and playing at BDS was an amazing experience.  Felt proud to be a Bama fan and I wanted to share.   Y'all keep this in mind the next time we hear something about tree killers and tea baggers.

I watched that game with a girl that I was dating and her parents. Parents loved me before the game. Afterwards, not so much.

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It was before my time but it sounds like a heartbreaker.  Is it bad that I was more impressed that he met Bear Bryant than that he was the president of some dental society  :lol:

When did ND play at Bryant Denny?  :dunno:

must have been legion field - looked it up and it was a 0-7 loss.  When he said "down there in Alabama" and talking about how great it was I wasn't thinking Legion Field.  That place is not known for awesome facilities but maybe back in the day it was? 

Before my time, though.

Can you imagine if he saw BDS now???

cool on the close encounter of the BAMA kind   8)

I bet some folks like me feel old now though ...  :lol:

Hey don't feel old. 

One of my husband's uncles tells me I cannot be an Alabama fan if I don't know who Leroy Jones is or something like that.  I am not good with things I didn't live through.  I sucked at history in school and I'm visual so there is no way I can keep things straight from before the time I was born.  I have 3 boys between the ages of 5 and 8- I'm doing good to remember what happened this morning. 

Not as much conversation but my wife and I were in Boquete, Panama last week on vacation.  We were walking down a side street, I had my Alabama football t-shirt on and, from inside a tour guide office we hear ROLL TIDE.  Guy was a gringo from VA but had watched the NCG and wanted to talk American football with some BAMA fans.  My wife told him about a couple of her encounters with the Bear and he talked about what an idiot Les Miles is.  We were a long way from home but it is a small world!

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oh' man .. I choked on my cracker   :o   :lol:

I'm good now   :clap:

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Didn't Jim Croce sing a song about him and Superman?  :dunno:

Hey think about this. Chris Jackson and his partner whoever at that time. When they first started putting the score in the box on TV. Here comeeeeeeee the Tigersss. Whoaaaaa Nellieeeeeeeee here comes thew Tide headed by Paul Bear Bryant. This looks like a barn burner tonight. Gosh that brings back memories. For those of you who missed it, I am sad but it was chill bump raising especially with Auburn or Tennessee. The announcer Chris Jackson loved covering Alabama Football! RTR!

Ricky ... errr Keith ... it's Keith  :-[

Preacher, I know you meant Keith Jackson and you're right, he was the greatest.

Leroy Jones .... Chris Jackson  .... next ?      :lol:

I almost died eating a cheese cracker on this thread ... ya'll need to stop it !!!!

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btw ... ???
what is good to use for getting orange pieces of wet cracker out of a keyboard ?

I do remember Keith Jackson but not Leroy Jordan.  Did y'all all live through this the first go round?

I always think Verne is like a poor man's Keith Jackson.  "OH, MY"

XBAMA- If you want another laugh, the same uncle-in-law who told me about the Leroy fellow also told me no way Alabama beats LSU in the B-S-C championship.  I was thinking "well no way...LSU is the most BSC fanbase out there."

just stick it in the dishwasher.  HTH  :P

You can't make this stuff up, can you X?  :lol:

He's probably confusing him with the Auburn coach, Shug Jones.

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NO YOU CAN'T ! 

I need a good laugh , thanks ya'll ...

BSC   :clap:   too funny ! 

Keith/Chris Jackson was my favorite , I miss him calling our games  :(
Leroy Jordan/Jones too ...

now I got that song stuck in head ... big bad Leroy Brown Jones Jordan

ND played at Legion field in Oct 1980 and won 7-0 after Bama QB Don Jacobs fumbled ball inside Bama's 5 yard on the second play after Alabama had stopped ND inside 5 yardline for 4 times.

Next game at Legion field was in September 1986. ND's QB Steve Beuerlin sacked by Alabama linebacker ( Bisquit ) Cornelius Bennett, Danile Moore painted the picture named "The Sack"! Should have been a fumble. Beuerlin shoulder was injured and didn't play in rest of game. Bama won like 26-16.

The 1973 Sugar bowl is when they played ranked 1 and 2. Alabama had ND backed up to their own endzone  with only 3 minutes or so and leading the game by 1 point . It was 3rd and long, like 3rd and 18. The ND QB threw from out of his own endzone and a player that hadn't caught a pass all year long for ND caught it and made the first down. Then they ran out the clock.

thanks for the history- I took a picture of his sugar bowl plaque (creeper alert). 

Leroy Jordan was before my time, but he is legendary.

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I think everybody owes Old Tider a bunch of e-creds on that one.

 :lol:  Who's that basketball guy, Michael Jones?

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Leaving a Legion Field game in the late 70s, out of nowhere a ND fan was making a real ass of himself. I forget who we beat that day but it wasn't ND. The post game crush was pressing out a field level portal to the street. As if on cue, a Bama fan throttled the Irish fan. Beat him to his knees. The crowd continued to push, stepping over the badly beaten loud mouth idiot(LOL). My foot hit something beneath,--which turned out to be a brand new Notre Dame hat. RTR

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#+  This will offset the one I booed off you yesterday. BTW, I've never booed someone before and it wasn't without great sadness.

I was devastated by that defeat more than any I can remember. I was in Colorado at the time and after the game stomped through the snow to recover in the IHOP with about 24 pancakes.

???  Well, thanks.  :dunno:

Two of my favorite places to go in Alabama; Lake Martin and Lake Jones.

Alright everybody, let's stop piling on MLB. At least she didn't confuse LeRoy with one of our great QBs, Joe Nathan.

Let's not forget about Orlando McClain either.  He was a favorite of that Verne guy that replaced Chris Jackson.

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"A HAHAHAHAHA. Look at Greg Richardson's legs!"

Or was it Orlando McCain?  Didn't he run for president or something?

Maybe in some band with Dawn?

Hey XBAMA you are so right I blew it on this one. I half the name right though. lol, RTR!

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Lee Roy, not LeRoy

Ricky , looks like we all messed it up   :lol:

my excuse ... I was laughing so hard I was lucky I could type   :dunno:

X, you got me spewing stuff, now. Please add a comma, PLEASE!

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ok 2 ... I'm out...  :o  way out ....    :wall:

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it's a good one but this thread is killing me  :lol:

sorry Ricky ... no ghey intended ...  :wall: :-[

one little "i" and one little "t" makes a word of difference don't "it" ?   :-[

it all started with Supercoach and his ----->  :lol: + the quote    :clap:

Bwahaaaahaaahaaaa!!!!!  :lol:

I'm not completely sure, but I think we lost this thread along the way somewhere.  :-\

You gotta be quick on the read sometimes, CB. Post modification can be a face saver for some.  :lol:

 :eyeroll: oh my gosh- it's just the start of the offseason and already we've devolved into THIS :pity smilie:

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Well, evidently X nearly died choking on a cracker today and had to apologize to ricky about there being no ghey intended. And this all came from MLB talking football with someone she met. Then football players started getting misnamed. This one may need to be enshrined in the Bryant Museum.

 :lol: I pm'd X about the exact same thing.

trying to sum it neatly ....

this thread was CRS's version of Americas Funniest Home Videos ?     :dunno:

Just need this guy to make that true:
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 #+ To all contributors in this thread.

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To and contirbutors!

PS:

Please start another thread!

Think people!

Lee Willie is the only person in this thread with dignity fully intact (even though I am a'ight because I wasn't even born then...).

We are gonna have to find something better to talk about til football starts back.  Anybody wanna go down to Auburn and deface something?

I KID, I KID!!!

I could ease over there with a pack of cheese crackers and reek havoc something (no trees please)
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Sure, it's all fun and games....

then someone gets booed.   :(



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No boos on this thread!  #+

It was just mildly amusing anyway.