Image via WikipediaIt's about 10:45 am on a day that used to make me feel like I was about to go to war with the devil's army on a football field- the 1st Saturday in September or there abouts marks the day most years "The Crimson Nation" gets together world-wide and celebrates the greatest game ever thought of that is as close to war as most of us want to get and not actually have to be at war!
I remember these days and the rest of the fall in such a more glorious and magnificant way than those of you that may not appreciate the atmosphere like those of us that just love the way the game is played out like a battle between two old time adversaries on a field of their chose at a time of their own choosing in an organized battle that ends with a victor leaving the field of battle walking past the throngs of either their followers as they chant to the tune of that warriors songs and battle crys or in defeat banged, bruised and filthy with a little blood thrown in just to make the idea of having just won or lost a war a little more realistic.
Walking out on the field to your throngs of supporters or to that of your adversary I have never experienced but I have experienced walking through the portal to see the bright sunlight on the colors and the distractions all around of the people massed in that arena to support or to hope for your army's defeat on your home field.
I've experienced being on foreign soil in a neutral location as your team celebrates with the throngs that have traveled from near and far as we all chant "It's great to be from Alabama" with such pride I felt as if I had just witnessed something special which if my experience in New Orleans on January 1st, 1993 is any indication of what it has felt to the other twelve groups of people that are proud members of "The Crimson Nations following" then surely the experience in Pasadena last January had to be just as thrilling for those able to be there on that glorious night!
I'm one of those that has never forgotten the losses few as they have fortunately been as I say that in a humble and honorable way because some of the opposing fans I've met have been the most gracious human human beings and others have been more like those LSU tiger fans that literally take over the whole stadium before the town as they chant "Geaux Tigers from the opposite corners of your end Zones!
Thank God they changed it up a little a put 'em all in one place now just in case but we have our "general Lee" now in T-town but those Oklahoma fans my hats off to you because when we didn't quite have the talent you had and you visited T-town a few years ago and saw the fire and determination in our Crimson eye's and were gracious and complementary to we fans that were sitting near you by saying in so many words how much fun it was to be with people that took the situation as serious and important in a life as those of us rooting our team on and you complimented our "pluck and grit" in so many words again the impression you made on my mind will always be a part of e personally will always be remembered!
One last thought of a funny tale told by none other than my dad that also is a true story!
In the early 70's as you of the football fan and of course some of you aren't football fans remeber that Bama and Notre Dame played a couple of classic matches . My parents of course went to 10 straight of Bama's post season ventures in neutral territory to take on foes from many places but one night in New Orleans I beleive it was aftr the Sugar Bowl as both were unwinding in their room.
My CPU is dead in the water I tell it later when I think of it again.
Love, Peace, Knowledge!
Sincerely,
Floyd C. Wooley
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