Dear Friends,I have to say something about the Alabama Football Team. I have told you before that I am a Tennessee fan and always will be, but...I do live in Alabama and have since high school. So, I do owe some aligence to one of the Alabama teams. I hope Alabama wins all their games except when they play Tennessee and I hope Auburn wins all their games except when they play Tennessee. It really doesn't matter to me who wins the Alabama-Auburn game, I just watch it.
But the National Championship is something totally different. I had to be for Alabama over Texas, even though my brother lives in Texas and my niece goes to the University of Texas. After all I am an Alabamian!
The fans here in Birmingham are fanatics. I heard one of the announcers before the game saying that even if the tickets were $3,000 each there would be Alabama fans who would pay the price. That is absolutely true. Just to give you an idea of how fanatical these fans are, the championship trophy was put on display at one of the local Wal-Marts and there were 6,000 people in line just to have an opportunity to stand next to it and have their picture taken. (They weren't allowed to touch it.) -- 6,000. Football, and particularily Alabama or Auburn football is sacred here.
Well all that said, I still am pretty proud of our Alabama players and especially Mark Ingram, the first Heisman trophy winner for the Crimson Tide. It's been a pretty magnificant year for them and for all these Alabama fans.
So this is my tribute to a group of guys who really played hard this year and showed that they deserved to win the National Championship.
ROLL TIDE ROLL !!!
Until next time...
Della
