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Bama Llama

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  1. Everyone he picked is doomed.
  2. This (video below) still resonates. This and “cynicism is not the answer either.” Light candles and quit wasting time cursing the darkness. Treat others the way you want to be treated and keep moving foward.
  3. Dead ringer for Zoolander
  4. And don’t any a yinz leave before the game clock is at 00:00 of the fourth quarter, by yiminy!
  5. Yeah and as a Bama fan I will remember until the day I die the right side linesman, with a clear view, raising his hands signaling the apparent game winning TD by Joe Namath in the 1965 Orange Bowl. My 13-yesr old ass cheered and danced all around the den. Then that prolapsed anus of a back judge, having no angle whatsoever on the play other than a monkey pile of linemen, comes barging in from ghe back line of the end zone waving it off. Texas wins 21-17. I accept it, as well as the Horns player running out of bounds in a Cotton Bowl, another Texas victory which I don’t like, but accept. As Bryant told Namath, “Boy, you need yo get your whole ASS acrosd the line and remove any doubt!” Take the 2009 and 2022 losses, bitches. I took the ones where you were up at 00:00 in the 4Q. Beat our asses if you can. You very well may. Stud QB, great WRs, tough D, wizard coach who knows the mind of Nick Saban. We’re weak at QB and iffy on O line. May there be no blown calls or injuries and may the team that plays hardest win the fuckin game. Period.
  6. My bad - it’s hell getting old. That was game one of 1983, not 1980. Going in Auburn was ranked #3 and Texas #5. Auburn was never in it. ScoQuarters 1 2 3 4 Score ------ -- -- -- -- ----- Texas........ 10 10 0 0 - 20 Record: (1-0) Auburn....... 0 0 0 7 - 7 Record: (0-1) Capn Mike had the last word after 1981. Fucking Auburn beat us in 1982 and 1983.
  7. Then you were one of the seemingly endless line of LHB members who so impressively marched into Jordan Hare Stadium. To you and all the others in white stetsons, string ties and burnt orange uniforms with white zigzags piped up the outside legs, I tip my crimson ball cap. Mike, a police captain and otherwise nice guy I knew in Tuscaloosa, nwas a glassy-eyed Auburn fan. He never missed a chance to remind me of the Punt, Bama, Punt! debacle in 1972. As of September, 1980 Bama had won every Auburn game since then. Mike was all keyed up for 1980 and had tickets to the Texas game on the Plains. Monday after the game he cane dragging in, whining, “Goddamn! The football team was bad enough but Texas had us beat before the kickoff! They started marching in, clanging those fucking cowbells, and they must have marched in for 30 minutes. Then they played “The Eyes of Texas” and everyone around me was looking around like “Sheee-yit! THAT was a mrach-in!” Texas controlled both LOS, the LHB won the music and showbiz game, and Texas won the day all around. As an old band geek and lifelong Bama fan, I enjoyed the shit out of it. Those fuckers can’t suffer enough.
  8. Praise be to you, RPM, sir, for awakening this memory. Ahh, yes! The incredible voice of Edward Everett Horton was part of the soundtrack of my misspent youth. His voice, the wonderful music of vintage WB cartoons, and reading cover to cover my cousin’s old paperback anthologies of MAD magazine. 1959 seemed to last forever, the way summertime would stretch out forever when you bolted from class, the echo of the last bell ringing in your ears.
  9. And . . . Annnd . . . Linked reference - he was the friendly, world wise bartender to Dudley Moore in “10” as the oh so luscious Bo Derek sliw danced with her new husband, the Flash Gordon guy Sam whatsisname only with dark hair in 10. I always liked that bar. And Bo. Did I mention Bo?
  10. He was in the opening scene of Amadeus - excellent creepy vibe.
  11. Why, that’s Norm Son-of-a-Gunderson! Artist of the famous duck stamp, husband of Sheriff Margie!
  12. Agree. It’s like refusing a gypsy. Payback willcome in some form or other. in or about 1971 when I was attempting to matriculate at the Institute, a memorable the MOB staged a memorable halftime show vs Houston at the Dome. Things were going along well enough as the MOB members began to morph into a muffin looking shape . . . Wait! What is it? Coukd it be? Yes! It is! Thd MOB formed a reasonably good lune drawing silhouette of thd Dome. The snarky MOB p.a. guy, sounding like a bad 50s documentary narrator, said these words: ”And now, ladies and gentlemen, the Marching Owl Band salutes Judge Roy Hofheinz and the fabulous Houston Astrodome, the WORLD’S! echo echo echo SMALLEST! echo echo echo INDOOR! echo echo echo STADIU - - - [silence for the rest of the show] Judge Hofheinz’s sky box was right next to the p.a. booth shere the MOB announcer was doing the show. When Hofheinz realized where fhe “salute” wS going, he jumped up and burst in to the MOB p.a. Booth and yanked the mic cord out of the wall. Ever courageous and showpeople to the end, the MOB finished their show. I don’t remember if Rice or UH won but does it even matter?
  13. Last line of Yea, Alabama!”: ”You’re Dixie’s football pride, Crimson Tide!” Rascist enough? I still want to know if LHB is coming, full horde or traveling 100 or what.
  14. This time last year my people were clutching pearls and whining because the MDB (admin dinks) took a pass on the game, unhappy with not being on field level. Those decisions were made by eedjit bean counters. Someone tell me what the Texas band is doing, i.e., numbers traveling, size of giant drum traveling, other details and whatnot. Game night is less than a month away, motherfuckers! Here’s to another slobber knocking, this time out in our okry patch (credit DKR). No injuries and no bad no calls this time. Also send pics of this years chaps babes. Any pics.
  15. (Billy Crystal old guy voice with the constant lip smacking and phlegmy cough): I’ll be 72 in a week. Apple fritter? Ya wanna talk apple fritter? When we were first married living in Houston we used to go to Moeller’s Bakery in the Village by Rice. Best fuckin apple fritters! Petit fours were next best. Gang of sweet fat pink faced Pennsyvania Dutch ladies behind the counters. When you get old the short term memory starts to go but the old stuff - ahh, some of it you can almost taste!
  16. This thread should be ashamed for not mentioning Steve Buscemi yet. Blood has been shed, Jerry. So, you got Jose Feliciano here. Not exactly chopped liver, huh? Fargo / Ghost World / Con Air / just scratch the surface.
  17. Watched the Little Richard biopic last night. Excellent vintage images and sounds, well edited. His big mistake was breaking his original contract to go to the seminary. He kissed a zillion dollars of royalties goodbye. Shit ain’t fair but there it is. Still and all he was an absolute icon and lived to be 88. Well worth the watch.
  18. This Bama fan thought GP did a damn good job getting the Horns D ready to and they did disrupt our offense play in play out. Some iffy/shitty calls and a gut check drive by B Young were the wafer-thin margin. SEC refs should be a slight improvement on 9/9 but don’t count on it. Bama QB situation is not good. All off season to prepare. Advantage to GP and the Horns when Bama has the ball.
  19. True dat but the wait will be in proportion to the time of morning. If you’re up early, it’s worth a try. City Cafe is excellent, and many more tables.
  20. One more word about a damn good breakfast. This morning in AL.com, The Waysider was named #1 in Alabama for breakfast. Here's the squib: 1. The Historic Waysider, Tuscaloosa 1512 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa; www.facebook.com/TheWaysider. You don’t have to be a fan of the Crimson Tide to appreciate breakfast at The Historic Waysider Restaurant, but it doesn’t hurt. Even the exterior of the cozy, 52-seat café on Tuscaloosa’s Greensboro Avenue is painted what owner Linda Smelley affectionately calls “Mal Moore red,” a reference to the late Alabama player, coach and athletics director who ate at the Waysider so often that Smelley sometimes put him to work as a greeter. A T-Town tradition for more than 70 years, the Waysider is also home to one of the heartiest breakfasts in the South, with steak and eggs, country ham and red-eye gravy, bottomless cups of coffee, and, on game-day weekends, elephant-shaped pancakes for the kids. Order this: Most orders come with the Waysider’s famous made-from-scratch buttermilk biscuits, but they’re so addictive, that you may need to get an extra serving for the table.
  21. Here is where the animated gif of the monster from Young Frankenstein cutting his eyes at the camera, slowly extending his tongue and moaning “Mmeuuuungh” goes.
  22. For anyone into consumption of food before noon, Rama Jama’s at the SW corner of BDS, is pretty good but the best breakfast spot is the Waysider on Greensboro Ave at 15th St for a good Southern meal.
  23. I looked it up. 1980 at Aggieland. Final Rice 10 - A&M 6. Trailing at half, no first downs in 2d half. Rice found a way to win. I think Emory Bellard was A&M coach. Can’t remember Owls coach. Classic snagging victory from jaws of defeat game.
  24. Rice beat the Aggies in or about ‘77 AT College Station after trailing at the half WITHOUT making a single first down in the second half. AND the human dressed as an Owl jenked all the Aggie fans during pregame, strolling all around Kyle Field, bending over every 20 yards or so, bending over and flipping up his tail feathers to show this delightful message sewed to the ass of his shorts, in block aggie logo font: EATME The Owl was showered with cups and ice but he strutted proudly, all the way!
  25. Listening to Flags on the Bayou by octogenarian James Lee Burke with an ensemble cast of narrators. So far, excellent. Live me some Burke.
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