Overwhelmed By A Crimson Flood

Our entire family was up two hours past my bedtime last night! Well, except for the dog; he slept as best he could. We watched LSU drown in a Crimson Flood! The Alabama Crimson Tide football team completely dominated LSU's football team. There are some clowns out there like that Wetzel guy on Yahoo and Gundy from Oklahoma State that just don't get the whole dominate defense thing. Wetzel called the game a dud and Gundy thinks he could score 35 points on LSU. There is nothing boring about watching a great defense crush the opposing offense and Gundy has never seen a real defense. His offense would look a lot like LSU's did if he played Alabama or LSU. Anyone can go back through college football history and see that a dominate defense will shut down a really good offense almost without fail. Bear Bryant knew what he was talking about when he'd say "you win championships with defense". But a lot of folks think if the final score of a football game isn't 67 to 56 that the game is boring – what a joke!

Alabama fans are thrilled that their football team has won another National Championship. Nick Saban is a master at teaching college players how to compete and win football games and we are grateful to have him as coach of Bama's team. Give him a month or more to prepare his team and he's going to beat you. There are a host of hypocrites that say they hate him who would love him if he happened to be coach of their favorite team. There are those people, even some high profile people, who gave Saban down the road about decisions he made as if they had never changed their mind about anything. Alabama fans are just happy that Mal Moore was able to persuade him to come to Alabama.

So in a world that often has far too many heartaches and problems to throw at us each day, Alabama Crimson Tide fans have another National Championship to relish in for the next several months. Then come September we can start working on another! A lot of other school's fans ridicule Bama fan's about our expectation of competing for a National Championship every year. The fact is, no team accidentally wins championships – if you don't have an expectation to win and work toward that end, you can bet you're sure not going to win a championship in anything. Roll Tide, Roll!      (January 10, 2012)