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On Faith and Football

Sunday morning, I awoke to the soft light of dawn with a contented smile on my face—not because it was the second Sunday of Advent, not because the ground glistened with a lovely morning frost, not because the greatest guy in the world lay beside me—but because on Saturday night, Alabama won the SEC Championship game against Florida. It’s hard to describe the level of fanaticism to which we Bama fans are accustomed. I share a similar experience to that of Warren St. Joh... read more

Roll Tide!

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Having grown up in Alabama myself, I had to appreciate the following lines from Warren St. John’s hilarious book Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer (fellow college football fans will understand): “I grew up in Alabama-possibly the worst place on earth to acquire a healthy perspective on the importance of spectator sports. If you were a scientist hoping to isolate the fan gene, Alabama would make the perfect laboratory. People in Alabama have a general interest in almost all sports-the stat... read more

On Faith and Football

Roll Tide!

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