Because you do things for love and marriage, I was one of the 92K+ sitting in the stands for the spoogefest of Nick Saban, or after watching him today -- coach Sawed Off.
It was one of the damnedest things I've ever seen.
99 percent of them wore Red or White or Bammer something (cept for I, resplendent in my Fraser's Pub staff shirt and Titleist Michigan hat.
They loved them some Sawed Off today. They game him a standing ovation (all but a handful) when he came on the field, they cheered when he left the field. They didn't boo when John Parker Wilson played like ****...
As for coach Sawed Off (who now goes in folklore with Loopy and the Dwarf), the whole time, he wore a gray blazer with dark pants. Never took the blazer off, even though it got quite warmly and sunny on the field (and I have the burn to prove it). He stood behind the backfield maybe 6-9 yards on every play -- with some kind of assistant or gopher steps from him. Every ****ing play, right there, looking all of a modern-day Napoleon -- short compared to the others and micromanaging along the way.
As for the crowd, that was odd too. They had the lower bowl open, then sent people up to the upper deck on the pressbox side. Then they opened the upper deck over the endzone, then the far side. And this was a no-bull**** attendance. I tend to doubt 92K, but 85 anyway simply because no one was crammed together; you had room to manuever, unlike a real game and trying to wedge your 18-inch-wide ass into a 14-inch-wide seat.
But there were a lot of ****ing people there, lovin them some coach Sawed Off. As for Bama? Good thing they have the usual SEC baby-soft non-conference schedule... theyz a lot of work to do.
And to my buddy in the press box: fk ns...