M-Borg vs. THE Flavortown U Thread, Orig. by Buckeye Paul, absconded w/by talent.

[UMStan White]

Great Strangelove!

[Paul L]

That was better than Rudy, Hoosiers and Air Bud, all rolled into one.

Brilliant!

[froot loops]

Anything is better than Rudy.

[Mike]

Anything is better than Rudy.

On this, we agree.

[AlabamAlum]

Even better than the legend of Bryant's last game?

[AlabamAlum]

It was a blustery and frozen night as I entered the dank, austere surroundings of the Liberty Bowl on the late December night of 1982. Slow barges lumbered down the Mighty River. Blues bands played as if they were heralding in a fresh lamb to the slaughter.

The Mighty Fighting Illini were big. They were strong. They were mean. The wounded and much-beleaguered Crimson Tide team formed a thin red line as they shielded themselves from the cold and valiantly headed onto the tundra that night.

The rifle-armed All-American, Tony Eason, set his angular jaw against the gale-like, frozen winds on that dark Memphis night. Like a gridiron Baryshnikov, Eason’s 6’4” frame danced nimbly through the pregame warm-ups as he focused his mind on the task at hand: Embarrassing – no humiliating – the great, but terminally ill Paul Bryant and his rag-tag band of undersized and injured players...

Head Coach of the Mighty Fighting Illini, Mike White, knew a pro career lay ahead of him. He chuckled slightly as he perused the gameplan and thought to himself, “This is Bryant’s last game. I’ll make him wish he’d quit sooner.”

The ailing Bryant grimaced as he slowly emerged from the tunnel. Heart disease was killing him and he knew his doctors had warned him about coaching this game, especially considering the extremely harsh weather. He struggled to keep from letting his family – the players – see him in such mind-searing pain as he covertly placed a nitroglycerin tablet under his tongue. He never wanted this game to be about him. He simply wanted the players to hold their heads high and compete honorably for the University, their families, and most importantly, themselves. “Make your mamas proud," he grumbled, as the last of the players and trainers ran from the tunnel.

Somehow, Alabama had managed to keep the game close through most of the game; however, Eason was driving his team for what should have been the winning score. But Alabama's defense came through ... one last time for Bryant. Afterward, the young Illinois coach said that he had never seen a team hit as hard as Alabama that day. Bama was outgunned and out-manned, but they played with incredible heart and won the game for Bear on desire and grit alone.

That fateful Liberty Bowl was played on December 29, 1982. Less than one month later Bryant would die of heart disease. Coincidentally, less than one month after that, his beloved wife of 59 years, Mary Harmon Bryant, would die, too.

From the time Bryant first prowled the sidelines at the University of Alabama in 1958, until the day he died in 1983, no other team in the Nation won as many games, had as high of a winning percentage, or as many championships. No one was really even close.

[iam416]

Blake Sims makes Tony Eason look like Devin Gardner.

[lineygoblue]

Talent ... stop smoking that stuff, man ...

The Ohio Bar Association would likely take a dim view of your use of the wacky weed ...

[AlabamAlum]

Blake Sims makes Tony Eason look like Devin Gardner.

Blake Sims is a RB who we taught to throw a pass. It's really a shame how bad we'll lose.

BTW, did you hear the Bosa quote on Saban offering him a scholly before Joey had even gotten to HS? It was something like, "It's like Saban can see into the future" or some such.

[iam416]

Yeah, Bosa clearly misspoke. It's not "like" Saban can see into the future; it IS that Saban is omnipotent, all-knowing and all-seeing. But, I believe Bosa spoke with enough respect to at least emerge from the game merely battered but still able to play football after some minor surgery and, more importantly, breathe oxygen unassisted.

Blake Sims is a QB with RB skills, as if Dan Marino could tote the rock like Bo Jackson.

[entropy]

Saban 666
85 Bears 3

[iam416]

You assuming The Nick plays the scout team for the last quarter and a half?

[whodean]

The OHIO BULL$HIT THREAD - They like them Grown & Sexy!-

I will save my analysis of this game for pregame but oLIEo Will not find much success on the ground against Bama's D-line

[UMStan White]

Time to change your tagline Talent

[lineygoblue]

Saban has nearly a month to prepare for a team who is using its 3rd string QB.

If he can't find a way to win that game, he needs to send some of his money to Jim Harbaugh.