Alabama Crimson Tide football

Big Al is the mascot of the University of Alabama (UA) Crimson Tide, in Tuscaloosa, AL. Big Al is an elephant, they say in 1930 when UA’s first football team was entering the stadium a fan yelled “hold your horses, the elephants are coming” and has stuck with them ever since. UA went on to win the Championship that year. In 1980 there was a vote on campus and Big Al stayed the mascot and received the name “Big Al”. That same year the mascot was first brought out on to the field as an elephant…

Touchdown, The Alabama Crimson Tide has won the National championship! On January 11, 2016 the Clemson Tigers were defeated by Alabama for the National championship title. Seven players out of the junior and senior class were drafted into the NFL. That is pretty impressive, but all of this talent must come with a price. Winning a national championship is not something that just happens overnight. There are multiple sacrifices that need to be made while committed to a sports team, and one of…

Knute Rockne Changes College Football and Makes Notre Dame Famous On a cold spring day in 1888, the legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne was born to a humble, Norwegian wagon builder (Oriard). The family immigrated to America five years later in search of greater economic opportunities (Carter). In high school, Knute briefly played football and ran track before dropping out (Carter). He worked as a postal clerk for a few years before finally taking an entrance exam for Notre Dame and…

awhile, but I had yet to go to a game. It is not that I did not want to, but at 16, I was just too young and was not old enough in my parents minds to drive to Tuscaloosa alone, at night. It would be almost three years later until I got to see the Crimson Tide…

“Is it fair that coach Nick Saban of the University of Alabama recently signed a $55.2 million contract, but Tyrone Prothro, the Crimson Tide wide receiver celebrated for making “The Catch” in 2005, fractured both bones in his lower leg in his next game? Saban is wealthy and Protho is in debt and out of football” (Karaim 14). It is hard to understand how this player should suffer from insufficient funds after playing a big role on the football team. The opposite side has their own opinion about…

Terence arrived in a football jersey and jeans. “I said pajama party!” Sally raised her voice. “ Ohhh… I thought you said Alabama party, so I wore my Alabama Crimson Tide jersey,” Terence laughed and saw that Sally was not and stopped laughing. Sally grabbed Terence’s shirt and yanked him inside. It was Monday morning and Mondays are Terence’s…

Beyond this mostly factual depiction of the past is something far more powerful. Cinema. The modern movie screen is a medium that recreates all sorts of era’s, landscapes and scenarios, from the daily life of an ant, to the farthest reaches of the universe. In Robert Zemeckis’s Forrest Gump, we are given a look into America during a time of radical change. Through the eyes of a simpleton, Forrest Gump, Zemeckis guides us through the social and political goings on of the 1960’s. Within his…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…