congrats, packers!

This is what I wore to watch the Super Bowl...

I didn't really care who won and since both teams sport this color, I figured I couldn't go wrong!!!

Congrats to the Green Bay fans out there!

Celebrate with safety!

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

I have no complaints regarding my weekend,

and I'm wishing the same for you!

peace&love

bailyjordan

i love to hear that roll tide roll...

Everyone should be pretty, or very, aware that I love my Alabama football.  It isn't something that I grew up knowing at an early age but it is something that chronicles a new love and respect that I have for the sport.

When I started out blogging, it was on a different site that was created by me to extend my sports column which ran for two years in my high school's newspaper publication.  It was devoted to my devotion to sports.  And my devotion to sports is an undying thing. I was born in the Tar Heel state, where the shine of the hardwood is a beautiful thing and the squeaking of rubber-souls is almost as sweet of a sound as swoosh.  My devotion to sports was born in basketball but has developed into a passionate, burning love for the game of football.  It was not too long after moving to Alabama that I realized how infatuated with tradition-rich football I was! 

That's why today was a good day.  I sat on a couch with one of my best friends, Emily McGee, and spectated ALL day long.  We were spectators of a game that we both have a strong connection with.  That's because we both went to a school that lives and breathes and will die for all things football.  We have lived in a city that comes to life in the Fall and goes into hibernation during the Spring, when our town's people are glued to BamaOnline and Rivals.com hoping to get a glimpse of what to expect from this town's one true love: the Crimson Tide. 

We left only to pick up a few things from the grocery store and to pick up a take-out order to keep us fed during this football packed Saturday.  Today there were no frills; just a couple of twenty-something year old girls who looked a lot like 45-year old beer-gutted men today with a Bud Light in our hands and our asses imprinted on the couch.  It just humors me that even when the Crimson Tide play in an entirely different state, the team's faithful still let college football be what our world revolves around.  And with the end result being a W, I can't seem to find a better way to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon.  Well, an afternoon in the crazy student section at Bryant-Denny Stadium would be nice, but I've got that to look forward to next week.

But I love the days like today when I am reminded just how passionate and on-fire I am for the crimson-clad boys.  The game against Arkansas in Fayetteville was a high-intensity, edge of your seat type game and I think it would have made for a less successful day if I were standing on the metal bleachers in Bryant-Denny.  Not that I would have any less faith in my schoolmates to secure the 28th straight regular-season win, but the anxiety and near-fatal panic attacks I suffered in the comfort of my own home would have not mixed well with the whiskey-lit and rip roarin' drunk fans that pack themselves in like sardines to every home game.  The back and forth lead, the gloom of doubt, and the hard-to-understand play-calling were all handled much calmer than if I were in my home-game element.  I laugh when I think of the close calls I've witnessed in person. 

Plus, I got to watch more football and keep my ass permanently imprinted on the couch.  The love isn't just for Alabama when the quad is covered in crimson and the speakers jam out 'Sweet Home Alabama.' 

The love for football runs deep here in the Deep South and the faith that I have in the Crimson Tide continues to grow.  Even on the Saturdays that I shake no shaker, I drink no Yellow Hammer, and I scarf down no 'Denny Dogs.'  Maybe that's why I love this program so much. 

And, then again, maybe it's because we are the number one team in the nation.  Or because we are SO good, even when we play REALLY bad.  Whatever it is, it's earned my lifetime commitment as a Bama fan.  Now who's with me?!?!

peace and love

ROLL TIDE

baily 

football love, tils that wonderful time of year

Click here and read this post from CapstoneReport.com

I was going to blog about Saban's encouragement to my student body to N O T "boo" Penn State, but I read this and this is perfectly put.  Absolutely, 100% correct-o! 

I dig it, so click the link and read.

* I must make it known, however, that I do N O T oppose the idea of a little RAMMER JAMMER jig at the end of the game.  I get it, whatever Steve Sloan, we won't do it at the beginning of the game but no way I'm keeping my mouth shut if I am going to beat Jo-Pa's butt in a modern-day version of a completely tradition-soaked and honor-drenched game of football!  I don't care how old the man is. A rivalry so polished with excellence and perfectness?  Hell no.

I think the Bear would want us to sing it louder than ever.  Which, I guess it will be - with the stadium expansion and such emotion going into a game so decorated by the national media and entertained by so many Gameday commercials starring Saban.  Who knows how many the expansion has allowed for the Million Dollar Band and it's fleet.  It's about the dang Trillion Dollar thing.

But cheers to being recognized as a class-act university, and hopefully we can be true to that tomorrow! I'm really not ready to experience a Tuscaloosa loss.  I haven't lost a football game in Tuscaloosa in a really really really really really long time.  I'm hoping we can keep that glorious no. 1 beside our name for a little longer... or much longer.  I'll take the latter!

pandl
b

this just in

i literally just shrieked and squealed with such excitement that millie's pissed off at me now for waking her up from her nap beauty-sleep. 

she is now lounging on the couch and watching 'harry potter' with E (the roomie). 

well, this is the first i've known about the pig loving magic & whimsy & wizards so much

I only buy her pig and elephant toys

Oh ya, speaking of elephants!

 (roll tide roll)

 i got a text message from a very excited boyfriend of mine (bama born/bama grad), telling me to read what he wrote to justin core (bama born/florida state grad) on his facebook wall.

i love how he (my bama boy) knew this would make my day

Chace Spears   Mr. Core, I was just listening to the Finebaum radio show and Tim Brando just gave his preseason prediction for the National Championship... Bama vs. FSU. I'd welcome the opportunity to get the Seminole's back for Bama's embarassing showing a few years ago in Jacksonville. Thought this would give you a glimmer of hope. Hope you and Megan are doing well!" 2 hours ago via facebook for iPhone 

you probably hate tim brando

right now, if:

• 
  
  you are a fan of boise state

people like tim brando are still not taking you seriously

and please don't damper another football season for me by whining continuously about the BCS for 14-weeks .

(Damn, you give a dog a bone, I reckon'...)

You just left the WAC for the Mountain-West and...

you have the smurf's turf,  an idahoschedule,

and absolutely NO football tradition w h a t s o e v e r.

sorry, dudes

or

• 
  
  you are a florida gator

because y'all absolutely can't stand for the tide or the noles to ever be good

because not only is your dynasty fading, but bama is back to being college football king and your neighbors in tallahassee are about to run that state once they get it all assembled...

you've dominated the sec, until B A M A stole it back (22 sec titles/and counting)

you dominated the S u N s H i N e  S t A t E until bobby finally stopped trying

but now jimbo fisher is running the show and it looks kinda familiar to you i bet.

it oughtta  since y'all turned things around like wham-bam-thankya-ma'am when Urbs got to town.

and you oughta know how fast nick saban and a.l.a.b.a.m.a snuck up on your butt & rained all over your overly-annoying tebow parade that NeveR would GO AWAY

now that he's gone and it's not sacrilegeous to say negative things about timmy-t anymore:

YOU DO ADMIT THAT THE SPECTACLE YOU ALL MADE OF HIM WAS ENTIRELY TOO MUCH, RIGHT?

i don't know how i ever made it the first 17 years of my life

without being a die-hard footballfan

but the second i said my first

 'roll tide'

i could feel it was a

code word

for this very special something of a college-place...

just hearing people talk about football in the fall makes me pumped up

 and to know that i have gotten to experience a lot of super cool things

that others have not is the

 best

part about this town

this place called titletown

peaceandlove

bai