SPRING PRACTICE REPORTS: TOP SECRET SUPER ALABAMA REPORT

I see a scene from The Deer Hunter where the two free safeties play Russian Roulette for the starting position.

MAU! MAU! DIDI MAU!

Lilly Tomlin was Saban’s first to crack under his pressure. Told him to @# off.

She had it up to here!

 Here is the Youtube blurb:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSBbJ-x4t3Q&mode=related&search=

Saban the Merciless! Good one!

“Pathetic players. Hurling your bodies out into the field, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of football, anything at all, you would’ve hidden from it in terror.”

“It’s what they call tears. It’s a sign of their weakness.”

wow i feel honored thats my picture, indeed it is zero year!

John Parker Wilson: This Saban is a psycho!
Applewhite: This Saban is a psycho.
Saban: Who said that?
Applewhite: The fair-haired player.
Saban: Who are you?
John Parker Wilson: John Parker. Quarterback. Alabama Crimson Tide.
Andre Smith: Andre, your highness. Live and let live, that’s my motto.

I’ve never really seen him talk before. He can’t keep his eyes from darting around; he never seems to look at anyone — only up, down, over, over, up, up, down, over, etc….

Sketchy.

It’s called paranoia panhandler… he just “knows” that Fat Phil has his spied all over the place.

I love the everything-the-new-guy-does-is-just-what-we-need-because-the-old-guy-didn’t-do-it stage of a coaching change (i.e., the time between the hire and the first game). “See that sign right there, boy?! Wooo! That’s what I call dis’plin right there, boy. Shula let ’em eat them there sunflyyr seeds, made ’em soft, boy. Woooo!”

Ever notice that EVERY new coach has a better strength and conditioning program than the previous coach? Funny how that works.

when Shula came in I heard that the offensive lineman were spending a good portion of their off-field workout time doing yoga- I was then convinced the strength program was taking a step back from where it had been under Ben Pollard (Franchione’s strength coach)…nice generalization though HFS

Saban doesn’t look up down and over….It’s

Up,up, down,down,left,right,left,right, b, a, b, a, select, start.

Best comment ever, Hook’em.

More importantly about Shula coming in re: Pollard… Ben not only had a good strength program in, he was the only coach to tell Fran to kiss his ass that he was staying with the kids they convinced to hold the rope… and then Ben ended up being the first one Shula fired… the man just had serious judgement problems.

prothro will never play again thanks to another on of those “judgement problems”…he threw for the endzone on fourth down during a game that was already over, yet when numerous other games were on the line he lacked the guts to do anything but run darby or jimmy johns into the middle of the defensive line, a truly awful coach, right up there with the zooker

Shula was pretty awful, but the Prothro injury was not his fault. Starters play that deep into blowout games all the time…had he pulled the starters, he would get criticized for letting up on Florida…it was just a terrible situation. Don’t get me wrong though, Shula sucked.

Hookem, that was a great comment. CONTRA style.

Whoa, matt, dude… that word… haven’t you been here long enough to know not to use that word?

So does that mean Saban can now snap someone’s neck and pull the whole spine out?

What’s that sign say?

No bare feet.

What’s that sign say?

You, angie, pick up that blood.

Did anyone ever play Contra while drinking at CheapShots on the Strip in T-Town?

yeah J so ripped the picture of Coach Saban talking to the players (the second picture) off my flickr account. Just give me my props.

Capstone, never Contra. Only Super Mario Brothers. I hate that I missed Contra.

Anyone else notice how Saban drinks his water (0:26)?

As for the Cheap Shots thing (18, 20), I happened to be there Saturday, and one of the coeds with which I was seated had mentioned playing Nintendo there, I’ll have to ask her what it was.

Khmer Rouge reference! Yes!!

Yes, HWMNBN did hold his pinkie out just like he was sipping tea with Queen Elizabeth. Remember, he also loved the coordination of decor in one recruit’s house:

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=2778

Hmm. Now that I observe HWMNBN even more…

Holding pinkie out while drinking water from bottle…
Wearing Armani…
Knowledgeably speaking on interior decor….
(http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=2778)
Hair never out of place…

Are there points for any metrosexuality here, or is it just old fashioned gayness?

I was also in Cheap Shots Saturday…for a brief moment. No nintendo, though.

HUGE props for the pix rightly belong to Alex Tupelo, who was credited as “local Bama madman with a keen eye and a steady hand” in the e-mail sent to EDSBSHQ.

Must have been an editorial oversight (or one too many vodka tonics as Orson cut/paste the post together . . . same diff, really).

When I started grad school at Bama, I wandered into Cheap Shots one rather slow and blurry night to see people playing Super Mario. Over that semester, I tried my had at it once or twice, but to no joy.

I got no skills — my parents would never let me get an NES. Maybe that’s why I went out and got a PS2 in college.

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