BIG OL' STORM: ODE TO RONNIE BROWN

Damn, that gets me goin’. Only 4 months and 22 days til the start of the season, but who’s countin’. (I think in fairness to the Gators, you need to throw up a video of that ridiculous decleating sack Mike Peterson put on whoever the chump Bama QB was at the time…I’m thinking it was the omnipresent Lake Butler native Andrew Zow)

-6 Degrees of Bowden

There’s always the Joey Kent Nut Circumcision in Peyton’s senior year….way to hang your best receiver out to dry. Now, go lose when it counts again.

I don’t know if I speak for all of us, but even as a Bama fan I’ll take my hat off to Ronnie Brown. That sumbitch was tough. He and Cadillac are probably the only two AU players besides Bo Jackson that we’ll grudgingly acknowledge as legit football heros.

Where’s the Jamal Lewis Freshman year video? (Before he was setting up coke deals) Or the Travis Stephens highlight reel against Florida in 2001?

Good stuff with that Ronnie Brown video but my favorite of the day is still the Mike Hart video on Brian’s site.

I had to watch that video about 5 times (increasing the grand total of Hart broken tackles to about 4,000) to get the full wave of nostalgia for just how untalented the defenses were, even at the state championship level, in my home state of New York.

PS – Every time the Bama video is played, a NC trophy magically materializes in Tuscaloosa. What are they up to now, 75?

Dude was definitely a man. You don’t get enough of stuff like that ever.

Man what we need a video of is that epic Fourth Down deep ball in Knoxville in 95-96 that was truly the epitome of Steve “The Greatest Football Coach of My Lifetime” Spurrier.

Actually, belay that request. What I want is a video of Peyton Mannings chokes over the years, I mean I hate to bring it up but can anyone think of another athelete who has so consistently choked (at every level) in big games. It’s like he’s the anti-Montana, I mean noones always successful in the clutch but Manning’s uncannily bad, plus he has that extra; “be sure to throw your teamates under the bus” level that just adds to his msytique.

I would like to submit this video as the Alabama “Braveheart” video. Much more epic in scope, drama, length and music.

It delves back into the Namath days and even into the black and white era. However, for all the younger kids, there’s plenty of footage from modern times of the Tide skeeting all over Tennessee, Auburn, Florida, Miami, Notre Dame, Penn State, etc.

Two more things:

1) To echo Todd…eventhough that SOB gave us fits, my hat’s off to him. A fine player that even his foes must admire.

2) One reason I love that Van Tiffin kick so much is that it not only beat Auburn, but would’ve been good from 60+.

You may color me confused by the Notre Dame video. For one thing, it was created by an ND fan apparently in celebration of a loss. I was pretty sure once you attained the status ND likes to pretend it has, you didn’t celebrate “good tries.” I doubt you’ll find any OSU fans who have put together a tribute to last year’s “good effort” against Texas.

Also, in that video Notre Dame appeared to be playing some sort of defense at several points during that video. I watched them in person at the Fiesta Bowl and don’t recall seeing anything of the sort.

Bizarre.

I do not what is worse:

a) Having to wait until forever for the college football season to start, or

b) Having the MLB season start and going on forever with what seems like thousands of meaningless baseball games that hog up sports news.

Right now, I am finding the baseball being more brutal.

You need to make sure Boi from Troy sees the Bama clip, especially the one where the Tide stops LSU at the goal line. That was one of the ‘swift knee in the testicles so hard you feel a hairy lump on your throat ’ moments for me. Why do the Trojans need to see it? Because the idiot who screwed the pooch on that play (for LSU) was wunderkid Josh Booty, even after being retreaded after several years playing baseball. Yes, the older brother of John David, residing in LA now, and of the same lineage as Brock Berlin (yes, that Brock Berlin) and even Brent Rawls, who couldn’t stayy off the Specialized High Intensity Training List of Bob Stoops.

Southern-

I was at that Bama-LSU game. I still remember, LSU should have gotten one more play. I believe it was either Marvin Constant or Canary Knight that permanently injured themselves on the play. He couldn’t get off the field, so LSU should have had another play. But you are right, Booty, in true wannabe hero fashion, tried to score himself, when he had a receiver open in the end zone. Thank God that game was in Tuscaloosa.

Hi BamBam.

Yes, if that was in Tiger Stadium there would have been another couple of seconds on the clock. That play sealed the fate of Gerry Dinardo, and permanently scarred the psyche of LSU fans with regards to the football factory known as Evangel Christian. Now that ‘Reverend’ Booty is no longer there, the program did drop off, and Dennis Dunn is now at the college level (Louisiana College, D-III).

But that eroded all good will that Josh had, and then some.