came over from da board man!!!
been on there for a while,tryin to keep the proverbial shitpot stirred real well.
Jeff Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jeff Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Damn, Tim!
Welcome to RTF!
Where are you from and how did you get here?
Slef E.
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From: "tim ammons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "RollTideFan-The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List"
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Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: [RollTideFan] If ewe haven't seen it..
> Damn!
> Started out with goose bumps and now im in tears.
> That was beautiful.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> forwarded message:
>
> Greetings Bama Fans!
> It's UT Week in TitleTown ladies and gentlemen.
>
> You know the best thing about Daniel Moore paintings?
> Even though they do a beautiful job capturing the
> moments most associated with the game they represent,
> they also evoke memories of the moments leading up to
> these plays that were often as big (if not bigger)
> than the actual game winning plays themselves.
> There's no 'Goal Line Stand' if Don McNeal doesn't
> appear from nowhere to stop Penn State receiver Scott
> Fitzkee at the one two plays earlier.
> There's no 'Kick' from Van Tiffin if Greg Richardson
> doesn't drag the Auburn defensive back halfway across
> the field in an effort to get out of bounds to stop
> the clock.
> There's no 'Block' by Thomas Rayam in Happy Valley if
> Tide defenders don't stop Blair Thomas inches short of
> the goal line moments before.
>
> The funny thing about plays like these is that when
> they happen, when you're there in the stands and you
> see them, or when you're at home watching the game on
> television, they seem so large, so defining, that
> you're sure you'll be singing the praises of the men
> responsible for years to come. But those thoughts are
> brief. They get caught up in the wave of emotion that
> follows when the field goal is good, or blocked, or
> the touchdown scored, or the end zone protected. It's
> the kicker or quarterback that gets carried off the
> field, and rightfully so, but it's the guy that made
> the touchdown saving tackle, or the key block to open
> up the hole, that makes Alabama football so damn
> wonderful.
>
> So damn wonderful.
>
> Football is a team sport. It is a drama that is played
> out over the course of an hour, but it's made up of
> quick moments that turn goats to heroes.
> It's moments like these that etch the names of Alabama
> football players in the aura and tradition that makes
> this program so special.
>
> I bring all this up because I was thinking about Stacy
> Harrison earlier today.
>
> Do you remember Stacy Harrison?
> He played defensive back at the Capstone in the early
> 90s. Wore #1. He was a solid performer. Not that big.
> Not that fast. At the beginning of the 1990 season he
> had taken his share of heat, just like every other
> player that wore Crimson and White. Bama had a new
> coach and had lost three games (by a total of eight
> points). The games they'd won were not that impressive
> (victories over Vanderbilt never are). The offense was
> too conservative, the defense couldn't stop anybody.
> In fact, they couldn't even stop a high school team
> (insert Lee Corso reference here). Alabama was
> expected to roll right over and die against a superior
> team from Knoxville that year. The coach would be run
> out of town, Bama would suffer a losing season. All
> hope was lost.
>
> Somebody forgot to tell Stacy Harrison.
> With :48 seconds left in a 6-6 ballgame Tennessee
> lined up for what would be a game winning field goal.
>
> Bama had blown yet another game.
> Somebody forgot to tell Stacy Harrison.
> Somebody forgot to block Stacy Harrison.
>
> The painting shows Phillip Doyle booting the game
> winning field goal, but if you look closely, standing
> on the sidelines you see #1, and you remember. You
> remember that winning big games in big settings is
> about big time players stepping up and making big time
> plays. It's about never letting down, never taking a
> play off. It's about holding the block for one second
> longer than you usually do or laying out for that pass
> that's usually out of reach. It's about patience and
> pride and determination. It's about wrapping up. It's
> about staying focused. It's about respect.
>
> And it's about guys that fight hard enough, stay with
> it long enough, and believe in themselves and the guys
> around them enough that they find themselves in the
> right position, at the right time, to make the tackle,
> or get out of bounds, or block the kick.
> "I was determined to block that field goal. There was
> no way I was going to let Alabama lose."
> No way.
> No way.
>
> All Alabama did after that game (a game that was
> supposed to mark the end of life as we know it) was
> win 35 of their next 39 ballgames.
> This is the Third Saturday in October. That means
> something folks. It meant something to our
> grandfathers. It meant something to our fathers. It's
> sacred. It's pure. It's beautiful. It's Crimson and
> Orange. It's Bryant and Neyland. It's Alabama and
> Tennessee.
>
> And I love it.
> I love it.
> I love it so much I can't stand to think about it
> because all I want to do is get up, hand in my
> resignation, fill up the gas tank, put on my 'Nothing
> Sucks Like A Big Orange' t-shirt and make that
> wonderful drive down the road to the most beautiful
> campus in the land, walk to the Quad and yell at the
> top of my lungs: I HATE TENNESSEE!
> And I'm going to die if it doesn't hurry up and get
> here.
>
> This is a chance to make things right. It's a chance
> for some guy in a Crimson jersey to put disappointing
> seasons and losses behind him and do something.
> It's why I'm sitting here thinking of Stacy Harrison.
> It's a chance to become part of Alabama lore.
> We need to let Tennessee know what it means to play
> Alabama.
>
> It's about tradition.
> It's about memories.
> And it's about the future.
> I can't wait.
> I can't freakin' WAIT!
>
> In case your not fired up enough already I offer the
> following example of what it means when Alabama plays
> Tennessee. It's a quote from Tennessee lineman Bull
> Bayer about Bama All-American Bully Van de Graaf who
> lined up opposite him in the 1913 Bama-UT game: "His
> ear had a real nasty cut and it was dangling from his
> head, bleeding badly. He grabbed his own ear and tried
> to yank it from his head. His teammates stopped him
> and the managers bandaged him. Man was that guy a
> tough one. He wanted to tear off his own ear so he
> could keep playing."
>
> Oh My God! Somebody call a doctor! I'm about to have a
> stroke!
>
> I'll meet you on the Quad in two hours.
>
> I HATE TENNESSEE. YOU SHOULD TOO.
>
> ROLL DAMN TIDE!
>
>
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