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Posted on 01/05/2013 11:01:54 AM PST by Hoodat
I live in Memphis Tennessee. My parents are buried at Rose HIlls. Last time I was there was three years ago.
When Alabama and Notre Dame meet on January 7 for college football’s BCS championship, they will not be subjected to questions about race, religion, and region, like they were for much of the last century.
And today, any discussion about race, religion, and region concerning Alabama and Notre Dame is more positive in nature. Black football players are largely responsible for the SEC’s dominance. Notre Dame does not face the anti-Catholic bigotry it did the last century, and the face of the program, linebacker Manti Te’o, is a Mormon.
The country is more racially and religiously integrated, and the South is far less marginalized. And this is in part because of the influence Alabama and Notre Dame football has had on the nation's culture.
Consider how legendary Alabama football coach Bear Bryant and his Crimson Tide may have done as much to integrate the South as any civil rights leader by playing -- and losing -- a football game against USC in 1970 in Birmingham, Alabama.
My parents are also buried at Rose Hills. I live in North Orange County, not far from Whittier.
They beat Alabama and humiliated Oklahoma.
You have a 50% chance of being correct.
True, but they still lost to Florida and LSU, and didn’t have to play the SEC East champ. Oklahoma was their bowl game, so you can’t use that game to say they should be in the BCS Bowl game.
You’re 100% correct. :)
I wonder if Alabama loses, will some of their fans head up to South Bend and poison the trees?
ANYBODY playing Notre Dame is my #2 team. ANYBODY!
Alabama barely beat LSU and the Aggies beat Alabama. Texas A&M lost by three to Florida while Alabama beat Florida Atlantic. Why would a BCS championship team schedule a Sun Belt cellar dweller anyhow?
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