Posted on 01/11/2016 9:45:56 AM PST by C19fan
The state of Alabama doesn’t have an NFL team, an NBA team, or an MLB team, but in one sport, at least, it’s number one with a vengeance. Alabama is the college football capital of the United States.
Since head coach Nick Saban took over at the University of Alabama in 2008, the Crimson Tide has won three national championships while cross-state archrival Auburn has one. And on Monday night, No. 2-ranked Bama goes for its fourth crown in seven years against No. 1-ranked Clemson in the College Football Championship Game in Glendale, Arizona.
You might argue that some other schools in some other states have followings more fanatical than Alabama’s, but you’d be wrong.
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Roll Tide!
FWIW, I have a cousin in Alabama. One of his daughter went to Auburn; the other to Univ. of Alabama.
I get that. I have friends who have kids that went to Texas and the other to A&M.
Birmingham used to have a pro football team.
Hopefully the ratings for the championship game tonight will be far better than Obama’s State of the Onion* speech.
(*It will make you cry.)
Pulling for Clemson but I’m realistic. The important thing is that is should be a good game.
UA hired Saban on 1/3/07.
And, he makes $7.5 million a year now.
- Roll Tide -
This year, the aircraft manufacturing facility in Mobile will begin exporting between 40-50 passenger planes a year.
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