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Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
Run to the store and pick up a copy of the new Sports Illustrated.
OH, girl give me a hint!!! Is it online???????????
Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
OMG!!!!! YEAH Whitey.
Thank you!!!!!!!
Thank you!!!!!!!
SoWal StaffAuthor
I thought it would make Wednesday a little better. 
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SoWal StaffAuthor
If you'd rather just read the article online:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/specials/preview/2007/08/21/saban0827/index.html
BTW- I don't know how to enter the link as "text." How would one do that?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/specials/preview/2007/08/21/saban0827/index.html
BTW- I don't know how to enter the link as "text." How would one do that?
Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
If you'd rather just read the article online:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/specials/preview/2007/08/21/saban0827/index.html
BTW- I don't know how to enter the link as "text." How would one do that?
I just finished reading the article....it was a great article. Everyone should read it. What are your thoughts?
P.s. You can can type the word "article" or whatever, then highlight that word and then click on the little "world" up there with the chain link. Then click in and paste the link in the blank box.
Meow
Darlene...I thought it was super great!!! 
Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
Here are some of the highlights of the article for me.
One LSU fan told Alabama fan Sammy Maze that Saban could be, well, a little difficult. "You know he's a son of a *****?" the LSU fan said.
"Well," Maze said, "he's our son of a ***** now."
"The journey itself is important, not just the destination. You have to follow direction. Discipline, off-season recruiting, conditioning, practice, more recruiting, player development, classroom development. I'm not interested in what should be, could be, was. I'm interested in what is, what we control. And when we lose -- and we will, one game, two, or more -- we have to have a trust that what we are doing will work, trust and belief in who we are. And you get where you're going, one mile marker at a time."
Saban has not promised them so much -- "I don't believe in predictions," he says -- but they believe. It may take two years, three, more, to be in the discussion again when people talk about the best teams in college football. But they know he will take them home.
They say college football is religion in the Deep South, but it's not. Only religion is religion. Anyone who has seen an old man rise from his baptism, his soul all on fire, knows as much, though it is easy to see how people might get confused. But if football were a faith anywhere, it would be here on the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Ala. And now has come a great revival.
The stadium strained with expectation. The people who could not find a seat stood on the ramps or squatted in the aisles, as if it were Auburn down there, or Tennessee, and when the crowd roared, the sound really did roll like thunder across the sky. A few blocks away 73-year-old Ken Fowler climbed to his second-story terrace so he could hear it better and stood in the sunlight as that lovely roar fell all around him. He believes in the goodness and rightness of the Crimson Tide the way people who handle snakes believe in the power of God, but in his long lifetime of unconditional love, of Rose Bowl trains, Bobby Marlow up the middle and the Goal Line Stand, he never heard anything like this. His Alabama was playing before the largest football crowd in state history, and playing only itself. "We had 92,000," he said, "for a scrimmage."
One LSU fan told Alabama fan Sammy Maze that Saban could be, well, a little difficult. "You know he's a son of a *****?" the LSU fan said.
"Well," Maze said, "he's our son of a ***** now."
"The journey itself is important, not just the destination. You have to follow direction. Discipline, off-season recruiting, conditioning, practice, more recruiting, player development, classroom development. I'm not interested in what should be, could be, was. I'm interested in what is, what we control. And when we lose -- and we will, one game, two, or more -- we have to have a trust that what we are doing will work, trust and belief in who we are. And you get where you're going, one mile marker at a time."
Saban has not promised them so much -- "I don't believe in predictions," he says -- but they believe. It may take two years, three, more, to be in the discussion again when people talk about the best teams in college football. But they know he will take them home.
They say college football is religion in the Deep South, but it's not. Only religion is religion. Anyone who has seen an old man rise from his baptism, his soul all on fire, knows as much, though it is easy to see how people might get confused. But if football were a faith anywhere, it would be here on the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Ala. And now has come a great revival.
The stadium strained with expectation. The people who could not find a seat stood on the ramps or squatted in the aisles, as if it were Auburn down there, or Tennessee, and when the crowd roared, the sound really did roll like thunder across the sky. A few blocks away 73-year-old Ken Fowler climbed to his second-story terrace so he could hear it better and stood in the sunlight as that lovely roar fell all around him. He believes in the goodness and rightness of the Crimson Tide the way people who handle snakes believe in the power of God, but in his long lifetime of unconditional love, of Rose Bowl trains, Bobby Marlow up the middle and the Goal Line Stand, he never heard anything like this. His Alabama was playing before the largest football crowd in state history, and playing only itself. "We had 92,000," he said, "for a scrimmage."
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Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
Darlene...I thought it was super great!!!
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I am so excited!!!!!!! Kick-off, t-minus 10 days!!!!!!SoWal StaffAuthor
Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
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Wishing luck to Bama this year... even though I don't give a toot about football!SoWal StaffAuthor
Thanks, Toots! I think it will be an exciting year. I mean, it CANT be worse than last year. 
KDW- Now we wait for the other people (Skunky and Kimmi) to share their 2 cents.
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KDW- Now we wait for the other people (Skunky and Kimmi) to share their 2 cents.:boxing:
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Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
Thank you Toots.
I like that you are honest. ;-)
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Yep, let the funn begin.
Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
Thanks, Toots! I think it will be an exciting year. I mean, it CANT be worse than last year.
Amen sista!!!!
Skunky
Bama nation, meet my friend, 'the curse of the SI cover':funn:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/2002/jinx/main/
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/2002/jinx/main/
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Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
Bama nation, meet my friend, 'the curse of the SI cover':funn:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/2002/jinx/main/
:roll: You are such a Debbie Downer skunky!!!!;-)
Skunky
:roll: You are such a Debbie Downer skunky!!!!;-)
Why? I didn't even point out that the Alabama program was being featured under the banner that reads 'high school preview'!
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Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
Why? I didn't even point out that the Alabama program was being featured under the banner that reads 'high school preview'!
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:roll: Are you sure you aren't a comedian instead of a Doctor?
Funnkalicious
Bama nation, meet my friend, 'the curse of the SI cover':funn:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/2002/jinx/main/
Didn't we learn this lesson once!
Meow
:roll: Are you sure you aren't a comedian instead of a Doctor?
... Dr. MoFo Funnybone!oh, and thank you for letting me play over here even though I have no allegiance!
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SoWal StaffAuthor
Bama nation, meet my friend, 'the curse of the SI cover':funn:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/2002/jinx/main/
We've been cursed since 2000. I don't think a cover of SI is going to make it worse. :roll:
Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
We've been cursed since 2000. I don't think a cover of SI is going to make it worse. :roll:
Oh, whitey, you are so right my friend.
Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
oh, and thank you for letting me play over here even though I have no allegiance!
No problem Miss Kitty, you are welcome wherever we are!!!!
superJfunn
what are we looking at?? the high school football preview
Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname
what are we looking at?? the high school football preview
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