Why thank you De.
Devonna Snuggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Devonna Snuggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Welcome to the list!
Devonna
----- Original Message -----
From: tim ammons
To: RollTideFan-The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [RollTideFan] If ewe haven't seen it..
you got it sugar!
Devonna Snuggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
me thinks he is on the RTF Message Board :) If so, he lives in Dothan,
right?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Todd"
To: "RollTideFan-The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List"
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [RollTideFan] If ewe haven't seen it..
> Damn, Tim!
>
> Welcome to RTF!
>
> Where are you from and how did you get here?
>
> Slef E.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tim ammons"
> To: "RollTideFan-The University of Alabama Athletics Discussion List"
>
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [RollTideFan] If ewe haven't seen it..
>
>
> > Damn!
> > Started out with goose bumps and now im in tears.
> > That was beautiful.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > forwarded message:
> >
> > Greetings Bama Fans!
> > It's UT Week in TitleTown ladies and gentlemen.
> >
> > You know the best thing about Daniel Moore paintings?
> > Even though they do a beautiful job capturing the
> > moments most associated with the game they represent,
> > they also evoke memories of the moments leading up to
> > these plays that were often as big (if not bigger)
> > than the actual game winning plays themselves.
> > There's no 'Goal Line Stand' if Don McNeal doesn't
> > appear from nowhere to stop Penn State receiver Scott
> > Fitzkee at the one two plays earlier.
> > There's no 'Kick' from Van Tiffin if Greg Richardson
> > doesn't drag the Auburn defensive back halfway across
> > the field in an effort to get out of bounds to stop
> > the clock.
> > There's no 'Block' by Thomas Rayam in Happy Valley if
> > Tide defenders don't stop Blair Thomas inches short of
> > the goal line moments before.
> >
> > The funny thing about plays like these is that when
> > they happen, when you're there in the stands and you
> > see them, or when you're at home watching the game on
> > television, they seem so large, so defining, that
> > you're sure you'll be singing the praises of the men
> > responsible for years to come. But those thoughts are
> > brief. They get caught up in the wave of emotion that
> > follows when the field goal is good, or blocked, or
> > the touchdown scored, or the end zone protected. It's
> > the kicker or quarterback that gets carried off the
> > field, and rightfully so, but it's the guy that made
> > the touchdown saving tackle, or the key block to open
> > up the hole, that makes Alabama football so damn
> > wonderful.
> >
> > So damn wonderful.
> >
> > Football is a team sport. It is a drama that is played
> > out over the course of an hour, but it's made up of
> > quick moments that turn goats to heroes.
> > It's moments like these that etch the names of Alabama
> > football players in the aura and tradition that makes
> > this program so special.
> >
> > I bring all this up because I was thinking about Stacy
> > Harrison earlier today.
> >
> > Do you remember Stacy Harrison?
> > He played defensive back at the Capstone in the early
> > 90s. Wore #1. He was a solid performer. Not that big.
> > Not that fast. At the beginning of the 1990 season he
> > had taken his share of heat, just like every other
> > player that wore Crimson and White. Bama had a new
> > coach and had lost three games (by a total of eight
> > points). The games they'd won were not that impressive
> > (victories over Vanderbilt never are). The offense was
> > too conservative, the defense couldn't stop anybody.
> > In fact, they couldn't even stop a high school team
> > (insert Lee Corso reference here). Alabama was
> > expected to roll right over and die against a superior
> > team from Knoxville that year. The coach would be run
> > out of town, Bama would suffer a losing season. All
> > hope was lost.
> >
> > Somebody forgot to tell Stacy Harrison.
> > With :48 seconds left in a 6-6 ballgame Tennessee
> > lined up for what would be a game winning field goal.
> >
> > Bama had blown yet another game.
> > Somebody forgot to tell Stacy Harrison.
> > Somebody forgot to block Stacy Harrison.
> >
> > The painting shows Phillip Doyle booting the game
> > winning field goal, but if you look closely, standing
> > on the sidelines you see #1, and you remember. You
> > remember that winning big games in big settings is
> > about big time players stepping up and making big time
> > plays. It's about never letting down, never taking a
> > play off. It's about holding the block for one second
> > longer than you usually do or laying out for that pass
> > that's usually out of reach. It's about patience and
> > pride and determination. It's about wrapping up. It's
> > about staying focused. It's about respect.
> >
> > And it's about guys that fight hard enough, stay with
> > it long enough, and believe in themselves and the guys
> > around them enough that they find themselves in the
> > right position, at the right time, to make the tackle,
> > or get out of bounds, or block the kick.
> > "I was determined to block that field goal. There was
> > no way I was going to let Alabama lose."
> > No way.
> > No way.
> >
> > All Alabama did after that game (a game that was
> > supposed to mark the end of life as we know it) was
> > win 35 of their next 39 ballgames.
> > This is the Third Saturday in October. That means
> > something folks. It meant something to our
> > grandfathers. It meant something to our fathers. It's
> > sacred. It's pure. It's beautiful. It's Crimson and
> > Orange. It's Bryant and Neyland. It's Alabama and
> > Tennessee.
> >
> > And I love it.
> > I love it.
> > I love it so much I can't stand to think about it
> > because all I want to do is get up, hand in my
> > resignation, fill up the gas tank, put on my 'Nothing
> > Sucks Like A Big Orange' t-shirt and make that
> > wonderful drive down the road to the most beautiful
> > campus in the land, walk to the Quad and yell at the
> > top of my lungs: I HATE TENNESSEE!
> > And I'm going to die if it doesn't hurry up and get
> > here.
> >
> > This is a chance to make things right. It's a chance
> > for some guy in a Crimson jersey to put disappointing
> > seasons and losses behind him and do something.
> > It's why I'm sitting here thinking of Stacy Harrison.
> > It's a chance to become part of Alabama lore.
> > We need to let Tennessee know what it means to play
> > Alabama.
> >
> > It's about tradition.
> > It's about memories.
> > And it's about the future.
> > I can't wait.
> > I can't freakin' WAIT!
> >
> > In case your not fired up enough already I offer the
> > following example of what it means when Alabama plays
> > Tennessee. It's a quote from Tennessee lineman Bull
> > Bayer about Bama All-American Bully Van de Graaf who
> > lined up opposite him in the 1913 Bama-UT game: "His
> > ear had a real nasty cut and it was dangling from his
> > head, bleeding badly. He grabbed his own ear and tried
> > to yank it from his head. His teammates stopped him
> > and the managers bandaged him. Man was that guy a
> > tough one. He wanted to tear off his own ear so he
> > could keep playing."
> >
> > Oh My God! Somebody call a doctor! I'm about to have a
> > stroke!
> >
> > I'll meet you on the Quad in two hours.
> >
> > I HATE TENNESSEE. YOU SHOULD TOO.
> >
> > ROLL DAMN TIDE!
> >
> >
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