;haaaaaaaaahahahahaha....... fer shure, stella, I will glance and then some..... I do love the name Crimson Tide.... My problem is not being able to focus long enough to sit through an entire football game..... I get big ants in my pants.... itchy feet,,,,,, wandering eyeballs,,,,, tappin' fingers..... Is it possible that I have adult attention whatever it's called?? I'm the sort of person that MUST be doing two - ten things at the same time or I go boinkers.....boink boink boink.... right now I am listening to two radio stations, tappin' this email,,,,and petting one cat with my foot......I'm a mess!! paulette in sw fla usa.... Crimson Tide.... Oh yeah.... xoxoxoxoxo -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: busmar1852@webtv.net (Stella Roper) > Paulette it's never too late, I became a fan, when I started dating my > husband who was a senior at the University of A;..as I had enjoyed > highschool sports before that. ...Crimson is the school color, and I > will look it up and tell you later but I think they got the name "Tide" > from a write up long time ago, maybe after they beat somebody in the > Rose Bowl, or somewhere,.a headline that said something like this.'The > University of Alabama football team rolled over the ....(whomever it > was)...like a Tidal Wave yesterday'.The name stuck...'The Tide" .Paul > 'Bear' Bryant (from Texas) was a famous coach here that won back to back > national championships.He won the name of the winninist coach in > history My son and I attended the game, in Memphis when he won number > 315 to put him over....He had to retire due to health, then died in > 1980. Gene Stallings (also from Texas A and M) was coach later, who won > national championship.Also back in early part of century,Alabama won > championships.We get a bowl game every year. We beat the number one team > in the nation, Florida, in the superbowl game, ,to win one of those > national championships' ). We also have Crimson Tide men's baseball, a > basketball team that just about every year has playoffs in tournament, > for national championships..also soccer team, women's two ball teams, > the basket ball being really a winning team, plus Women's Gymnastics, > under coach Sara Patterson that is known nationally.we also have all the > teams at UAB...(University of Alabama Campus at Birmingham) too, who > are up and coming. That's a brief run down. Now, you will at least > glance at the sports page...won't you? To see ALABAMA CRMSON TIDE > S. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message