OATMEAL PIES=RAGE FUEL

Ivan Maisel gets the Barbara Walters shot at Nick Saban in a piece producing two shining details worth framing on the wall of "things we will wear into the ground through comic repetition this year. "
One: Saban hates your gangsta huggies.
On the practice field in the early days of spring practice, the Saban you don't know decided he had had enough of his players wearing their pants too far below their waist...
"He pulled his pants down," Caldwell said, "and said, 'This is how some of you guys look. You're showing your ass. And I'm going to be the only a--hole showing around here.'"
Proof positive there's a Patton DVD somewhere floating around the Saban household, most likely sandwiched between musty copies of the original Walking Tall and Snap, Pop, OH MY GOD WHY?: Quarterbacks in Pain, Vol 12.
The other grand tidbit here: Saban's rage fuel, allowing him to work those famous 20 hour days and still reduce underlings to tears with ease, is readily available at your local gas station or downmarket grocery store:

The Saban you don't know may have a Manhattan income, but his tastes remain rooted in his native West Virginia. Given his druthers, Saban would be watching practice video, a cup of coffee on the table and Red Man Golden tucked in his cheek. Toss a package of Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies (the original size, not the big ones) next to the coffee and you may not hear from Saban for hours.
Them's some druthers right there. Saban's snack tastes run roughly parallel to Britney Spears, something we wouldn't have predicted given a decade's worth of guesses. In our darkest moments as a fan--say, when the 2009 team is pounding the hell out of Florida's quarterback in the SEC championship game--we'll just go to a happy place where Nick Saban is yelling at his players, waddling around a practice field with his pants around his ankles and an oatmeal cream pie in his hand. Laughing makes the sad fly away at times like that.
That visual could be handy for SEC fans over the next few years, actually.
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Amazing!
I love you guys.
But not in that way.
by 'BoroHusker on Aug 20, 2007 10:14 AM EDT reply actions
something something time for this shit something
by Jerkwheat on Aug 20, 2007 10:14 AM EDT reply actions
Orson I could tell you many a story from my student reporter days of bringing Saban his weekly tribute of Little Debbies at the annual Wednesday post-practice press conference…
by Billy in Baton Rouge on Aug 20, 2007 10:19 AM EDT reply actions
Orson, Great meeting you on Friday at The Ted. Sorry, I couldn’t make it out to Decatur.
As for Saban, hopefully with the money he got from Bama, he’ll upgrade to Tastycakes or Drake’s.
by UkraineNotWeak on Aug 20, 2007 10:27 AM EDT reply actions
Saban= watches game film while eating free Little Debbies …
Miles = bashes the PAC 10 while thinking about Little Hayley and the cost of Thin Mints and Tagalongs…
Who would rather have leading your program????
by Sabanite on Aug 20, 2007 10:31 AM EDT reply actions
A Double Decker Moonpie would totally cave in Little Debbie’s little face. Small pie for a small fry. I curl my pinkie at you, Saban.
by Allahver Fist on Aug 20, 2007 10:31 AM EDT reply actions
now if someone with photoshop would just grant us the privelege of seeing a picture of Saban with his Levi’s lowered and his Lil Debbie in hand I for one would have it framed and mounted next to my monitor (don’t forget the shadow of Red Man Golden in his back pocket)
by Futbawl Fan on Aug 20, 2007 10:32 AM EDT reply actions
I think this is the first oatmeal related post that does not involve Joe Tiller.
by irishoutsider on Aug 20, 2007 10:33 AM EDT reply actions
correction
Who would YOU rather have leading your program???
by Sabanite on Aug 20, 2007 10:33 AM EDT reply actions
Urban Meyer. His favorite snack food is nothingness topped with victory.
by Orson Swindle on Aug 20, 2007 10:37 AM EDT reply actions
Jimmy Clausen cited for alcohol misdemeanor
“Police said the 23-year-old entered the store and bought two 1.75-liter bottles of vodka, a 200-milliliter bottle of whiskey, and case containing 30 cans of beer.”
Wow… that’s a lot of booze.
by Cincy on Aug 20, 2007 10:40 AM EDT reply actions
Another example of the complete lack of professionalism/fact checking done by this blog. The quote explicitly states that Saban prefers the original size Oatmeal Cream Pies but the image shows the newer jumbo “vend size” pies. Get your shit straight!
by Sam on Aug 20, 2007 10:40 AM EDT reply actions
O hai
I upgraded ur alreddy unreelistik expektashuns
kthxbai
by BovineKid on Aug 20, 2007 10:42 AM EDT reply actions
“I don’t have time for this shit”
“I’m going to be the only asshole showing around here”
Thus began a new book of quotations from our dear Coach Saban. We await breathlessly for him to say something about “…left Baton Rouge to escape the smell of corndogs and open bourbon containers” or some other inflammatory reparte about Tennessee, Auburn, Florida, etc
by Futbawl Fan on Aug 20, 2007 10:43 AM EDT reply actions
Were Saban serious about being Alabamian, he’d ditch Little Debbie and stray with Moon Pies.
by seventyeight on Aug 20, 2007 10:48 AM EDT reply actions
#3, Billy:
And I hear he likes snack cakes and oatmeal creme pies, too.
by Big Ten Joe on Aug 20, 2007 10:49 AM EDT reply actions
“I’m going to be the only a–hole showing around here.”
What about the other 50,000 or so that show up at Bryant-Denny every Saturday?
by Digital Headbutt on Aug 20, 2007 10:49 AM EDT reply actions
Little Debby doesn’t make small talk in the halls.
by Stephen on Aug 20, 2007 10:57 AM EDT reply actions
SIAP
All-SEC CB Simeon Castille was arrested over the weekend.
http://3rdsaturdayinblogtober.wordpress.com/2007/08/19/tides-castille-arrested/
by Spittoon on Aug 20, 2007 10:59 AM EDT reply actions
it’s 93,000 you dumbass… assholes with NC’s are fine… HOO-RAY for HERBAN!!!
by Burt77 on Aug 20, 2007 11:00 AM EDT reply actions
I was hoping that the other 43,000 were innocents.
by Digital Headbutt on Aug 20, 2007 11:06 AM EDT reply actions
Now we know why Saban is such an ass. Sugar crash. That makes me cranky, too.
by HFS on Aug 20, 2007 11:11 AM EDT reply actions
This sounds just like Saban, if by enjoying snacking on “Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pies” you mean he enjoys snacking on “the souls of those around him.”
Lucky for him, I think that the souls of the citizens of Alabama are actually made by Little Debbie. So he’s got that going for him, which is nice.
by RaginCajunRebel on Aug 20, 2007 11:12 AM EDT reply actions
So which student section will be the first to throw Little Debbies on the field when Bama visits…won’t be Vandy (apathy) so either Free Shoes U or Ole Miss…although the Orgeron might devour them in the air before the Little Debbies hit the turf….
by Sabanite on Aug 20, 2007 11:16 AM EDT reply actions
#27
Do computers burn?
Anywho. I’m disappointed Saban is not a Skoal man.
But, the real reason he eats Oatmeal Creme Pies? Little Debbie’s cure mouth cancer.
…Also, I’m impatiently waiting for the first inappropriate “creampie” reference. Now you people are starting to disappoint me.
by Rival on Aug 20, 2007 11:26 AM EDT reply actions
#13
You seem to be a little too familiar with the Little Debbie’s Box….
by JohnnySkids on Aug 20, 2007 11:34 AM EDT reply actions
Hey! You don’t think there’s any way I can get that quarter from underneath a’ your… pointy boot, do ya? All I want is just one more oatmeal pie.
Owwweeeee! Little Debbie, Little Debbie. I’m a’ comin’ on home, baby.
by Mr. Wrong on Aug 20, 2007 11:39 AM EDT reply actions
#29
Nich Saban’s tears cure cancer. But alas… he never cries.
On the Fulmer cup front, Notre Dame’s savior QB cited for alcohol possession
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/specials/preview/2007/08/20/bc.fbc.clausencited.ap/index.html
by maomatt on Aug 20, 2007 11:49 AM EDT reply actions
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If FSU’s fans are anything like their QB’s, any snack cakes thrown will just end up in the hands of Bama defenders.
by PW on Aug 20, 2007 11:53 AM EDT reply actions
Or this one….
On the practice field in the early days of spring practice, the Fulmer you don’t know decided he had had enough of his players wearing their pants too far below their waist.
"He pulled his pants down," Caldwell said, "and said, ‘This is how some of you guys look. You’re a bunch of pussies. And I’m going to be the only pussy showing around here.’"
by JohnInHuntsville on Aug 20, 2007 11:55 AM EDT reply actions
I thought he was fueled by the hopes ad reams of the fans of programs he has eviscerated. That and he eats those kids you can sponsor for 1.25 a day.
by Scalz1 on Aug 20, 2007 11:56 AM EDT reply actions
Re: Clausen
Clearly a case of religious persecution. The Savior merely touches any beverage and it turns to alcohol. How can that be his fault?
And, if family history is an indicator of Little Clausen’s behavior, I’m sure he proclaimed that he could carry all that booze with one hand tied (cuffed?) behind his back.
by Rival on Aug 20, 2007 12:02 PM EDT reply actions
#30
thats honestly the filthiest thing I’ve read in my life…
by Little Debbie's Father on Aug 20, 2007 12:06 PM EDT reply actions
- 8: “I think this is the first oatmeal related post that does not involve Joe Tiller.”
Or Chan Gailey. Or Bobby Bowden. Or Grampa Abe Simpson, careful reader of “Oatmeal Enthusiast.”
by Oren Incandenza on Aug 20, 2007 12:10 PM EDT reply actions
Cocktails for 28, 31 (kudos on the Southern Culture on the Skids, make it a double for the secondary Alabama entendre in the band name.)
There was always a rumor, way back when, that someone bought the AU student section visors to throw at Spurrier during the Bowden era.
Decorum prevailed however, preventing OBC from clickclacking 90 on the Tigers.
by Kenny on Aug 20, 2007 12:14 PM EDT reply actions
#8, #39 Lou Holtz quoted Quaker when he left ND, saying it was “…the right thing to do.”
by MiseanAUfan on Aug 20, 2007 12:37 PM EDT reply actions
Part of the problem with the Clausen story is that most people still don’t understand the metric system, andthe other part is the assumption that all the booze is for one person.
Two half-gallons of vodka, a minature of whiskey and a 30-case of beer is a decent weekend’s worth for two or three healthy college kids. For a half-dozen on Saturday night, it’s about the same thing.
But we live in an era where six beers in six hours makes one a “binge drinker”… does anyone else remember when this used to be a free country, sort of?
by PJ from NU in SF on Aug 20, 2007 12:59 PM EDT reply actions
the only way it could be better is if it was RC Cola and a Moonpie
by mhentz on Aug 20, 2007 1:42 PM EDT reply actions
Re: Clausen
I get the case of beer. I understand the gallon of vodka. But WTF is up with the half-pint of whiskey? Lightweight.
by Mr. Wrong on Aug 20, 2007 2:05 PM EDT reply actions
Clausen is a pussy. I watched a high school game in which after a 15 yd run, he did a hook slide to avoid getting hit. Who the hell does he think he is….Marino? It’s HIGH SCHOOL for christ sake not the NFL…. put your head down and get the extra 3 the hard way.
by shovel pass on Aug 20, 2007 2:07 PM EDT reply actions
I’m a little embarrassed by the Simeon Castille class-C misdemeanor “dis-orderly conduct” charge.
You’d think they could make it stick, though.
by Boclive on Aug 20, 2007 2:20 PM EDT reply actions
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Sounds like he patterns his game after one Christopher Leak.
by PW on Aug 20, 2007 2:42 PM EDT reply actions
Sounds like these guys are going to be the next to put out a preseason poll.
by Bully Van De Graaff on Aug 20, 2007 3:35 PM EDT reply actions
As a resident of the state with the most archaic liquor laws east of Utah, I’m having a hard time getting past the “30-can case of beer”. Is there such a thing?
by jaybuzz on Aug 20, 2007 3:44 PM EDT reply actions
#38
I’m glad somebody noticed…I was beginning to think that the comment that took me 40 minutes of my “should be prepping for that goddamned team building Meeting/Fiasco,” was not as double entendre-ish as I thought. And as Little Debbie’s father, I must say I feel sorry for you. Anybody with a roll of quarters in their pocket can purchase half a dozen tasty treats from the Little Debbie’s Box. Hell my hound dog, Smokey’s Ghost, got into that box just this weekend and licked that creamy goodness right up. I just wish he hadn’t left the wrappers lying around. That kind of shit will get husbands shot, you know?
by JohnnySkids on Aug 20, 2007 3:56 PM EDT reply actions
Unless I’m mistaken, I saw that book (first picture of the article) in Barnes and Noble yesterday, just palette-swapped and with a subheading of “Alabama Head Coach”.
I guess writing another book is just another dump on the pile of shit for which Nick Saban has no time.
by Petie on Aug 20, 2007 4:04 PM EDT reply actions
The principal of Tuscaloosa County High held an assembly the first day of school. He said he had noticed all the guys wearing their pants so low, and he wanted to know why. So he researched the cultural origin and found out that this trend originated in Latin American countries as a way for gay men to signal other gay men they were open for, ummm, low-commitment sexual encounters. He told the students that if any male student wanted to date a guy that he’d be glad to play matchmaker for them, but there’d be no more wearing their pants around their knees.
True story.
by PeterPumpkinhead on Aug 20, 2007 5:10 PM EDT reply actions
#11
that sounds like a box of 30 ’SONES BABY, Keystones that is, 30 for 11 bucks, or so I heard
by Chris on Aug 20, 2007 5:26 PM EDT reply actions
What weak sauce. I know Kindergarten teachers that party harder than Clausen.
Who buys an airline bottle of whiskey at the liquor store? It’s an insult to whiskey. Airline bottles are for airplanes. Who would want to spend 3 hours trapped at 40000 feet with me fired up on hooch.
Real Man’s Package Store Shopping List(Serves 4 men or 1 UT football team): 1/2 gal Bourbon or Scotch(not Cognac or Canadian shit), 1/2 gal Tequila, 1 liter 151 Bacardi, 2×30 pack cheap beer, 1 carton Smokes, 1 box of Rubbers(if women will be present).
The above was consumed in 8.5 hours by four USAF Crew Chiefs with a little help from some friendly ASU coeds.
We had an almost full pack of smokes left the next morning.
by WarMachine on Aug 20, 2007 6:18 PM EDT reply actions
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Clausen does look like he has permanent bitter beer face.
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by PW on Aug 20, 2007 8:27 PM EDT reply actions

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