Pearl Harbor ... 9/11 ... UL-Monroe 21, Alabama 14 ...

SURE, he has.

Somebody brought the wrong goddamn Little Debbie snack cakes.

THAT was worse than 9/11, in Satan's eyes.

 

No, he would.

 

Can someone fill me in on the Saban/Little Debbie's reference?

 

And he is a good friend of....BILL BELICHICK!!!!!!

 

There was a story a year or so ago (jeez, mighta been a BLOG) which went into loving detail about Satan going on tilt on some lowly office assistant because she'd supplied a variety of LD cake other than Satan's heart's desire. It was hysterical.

 

Thanks, Mr. Hecht. Starman had made a similar reference last week, and I figured it was a Michigan State story.

 

Did anyone at the press conference actually speak up and challenge Saban on his words?

Not that it matters, but I think there's a big difference between what Saban said and what he actually meant.

 

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Great moments in oratory history.

 

It was. Saban periodically went berzerko on grad assistants who came back from the grocery store with the wrong variety of LD cakes (either Saban loves the ones with colored sprinkles on top, or hates them with a blinding hatred, I forgot). In any case the offending cakes usually went flying against the conference room wall or ceiling, usually followed by assembling the entire staff (sometimes the players) for a 15-20 minute diatribe/ lecture on the importance of attention to detail and how coming back from the store with the wrong variety of Little Debbie cakes just goes to show how attention to detail has just completely gone to hell these days, etc etc. Now most coaches would probably rather spend those 15-20 minutes with the entire staff and/or team on actually preparing game plans for their next game, but what the hell do they know, do they have a $40 million contract??

As far as overreacting to disastrous losses, you'd think he'd have had enough practice with them by now -- he had about 25 of them with the Dolphins, he piled up a few of them at LSU (even getting romped by UF during his half-NC season), and at Michigan State, his teams had an absolute minimum of two fold-up, lie-down, bend-over-and-take-it collapsing losses per season.

Prime example: in 1999, he started the season 7-0 and was ranked in the top 10 in the country. He lost the next two games by a combined score of 92-38.

(Although, to be fair, most of his time during those two weeks was consumed by furiously trolling for other jobs, so he couldn't seriously be expected to spend much time coaching the team he was already getting paid $500,000 to coach, now could he??)

 

daemon, Saban doesn't belong in the same post, sentence or story with John Belushi. On the flip side, it's probably even more of a disgrace to the memory of Belushi to be linked with Saban in any way.

And it's extremely telling about someone's ego and their level of self importance when they even would think of a comparison linking them to 9-11/Pearl Harbor.

 

Easy, you go find the old veteran they honored during the La-Monroe pregame and ask him what he thought of the statement.

For those who don't know, each home game Alabama has a ceremony honoring some retired military type with a list of acomplishments longer than I-59. This week, it was some guy who was so shaken by Pearl Harbor that he falisifed enlistment papers in order to join the Marines at 14, went AWOL when aside to stateside duty because he felt like he needed to be at the front, somehow managed to get attached to a unit in the Pacific Theater, then saved his buddies by jumping on two grenades and somehow survived himself, picking up a Congressional Medal of Honor for his trouble.

Go talk to that guy. And whatever writer or columnist picks up this idea, you're welcome. Run with it.

 

I'm just glad Pearl Harbor got us ready for World War II (or whatever). We wouldn't want to have been surprised.