Roll 'Bama Roll: An SB Nation Community

Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Sports blogs for fans, by fans.
Around SBN: Cal RB Jahvid Best Seriously Injured, Carted Off Field

Todd's Friday Embarrassing Admission...

...or, Todd Attempts to Curry Favor With the Football Gods by Admitting his Moral, Cultural, and Intellectual Flaws in a Very Public Manner.

Obviously this is a big game, so obviously I need a big time admission, and I can think of none better, so here goes.  I often tell people the Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" was the first album (well, cassette, anyway) that I ever spent my own money on.  While that is technically true, it is not entirely true.  In fact, my first music purchase involved two albums, one of which was...

Wham-city-make-it-big_medium

And that's not even the entire admission, 'cause it gets even better. A month or so after I bought it, my mom's car got broken into and my Wham! tape was stolen, so I bought it again. That's right, I spent perfectly good yankee greenbacks TWICE on a Wham! album. So ridicule away or, better, leave your own admissions in the comments section below.

0 recs  |  Comment 73 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

More from Roll 'Bama Roll

Submit Your Questions for "Hey Todd!"

Dec 2008 by Todd - 38 comments

Comments

Display:

I. too

owned the Wham album as a young elementary/middle school aged boy. But mine was only to throw my parents off the trail of the burgeoning hard rock collection I was accumulating lol.

Alabama judges its team by national and SEC titles. Auburn judges its team by how many times it beats Alabama. You tell me who the dominant team in the state is.

by Nose Guard on Dec 5, 2008 10:09 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

Wow Todd, were going down this road

I know every word to every song on the original Backstreet Boys CD and have been known to listen to it in my office on days when you need a pick me up

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

by comer4tide on Dec 5, 2008 10:10 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

I too knew the words to every song on that CD

And specifically remember listening to it on repeat while during a school project once.

by TennesseeTide on Dec 5, 2008 11:52 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I

was a mother when the Backstreet Boys CD came out. I was going to lie and say I was in college, but my husband, the LSU fan, made me feel bad for lying and I thought it would be bad luck!!!! OMG, I bought the CD for my child at Christmas one year. That has got to be worth a punt return for a TD by Javy!

by TexasTideGirl on Dec 6, 2008 12:53 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Relax...

…by Frankie Goes to Hollywood was a favorite of mine when I was younger and less enlightened. I think I’ve mentioned before I owned Let’s Go All The Way by Sly Fox, and I used to listen to Tears for Fears religioulsy. Til Tuesday, too (and I still find Aimee Mann attractive).

I hope you find these admissions to be worthy. I fully expect to see these styles represented by UF fans in Atlanta this weekend, so that’s embarrassing enough for me.

by NiceLittleSaturday on Dec 5, 2008 10:10 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

I'm just gonna tell you right now...

That when Tears for Fear-Everybody Wants to Rule the World comes on the radio in the truck, the windows go up (for my reputation’s sake), but so does the radio volume and my singing. Until I come to a stop at a redlight, anyway. I (secretly) rock out to that song.

"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant

by TopDaddy on Dec 5, 2008 10:33 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Gayest one yet, Todd. Good work.

But, remember what you did before matters, but it doesn’t matter, a’ight?

by Stuck in the Plains on Dec 5, 2008 10:11 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

for some reason i thought...

that a gay sexual experience admission from you would have to suffice for the win tomorrow. I am disappointed.

by brandonh on Dec 5, 2008 10:23 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

He's had...

…Snow all year. What more do you want?

by NiceLittleSaturday on Dec 5, 2008 10:25 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

shes enough to make any man go gay

after being in bed with her

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

by comer4tide on Dec 5, 2008 12:32 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

sticking with the Wham! theme...

I had a phase during their popularity where I got my ears pierced. Needless to day, it didn’t go over well in S Alabama.

"That's the paradox of success. The moment you stop to enjoy it, you are in trouble. You have to keep moving forward. It's not what you have done that's important. It's where you are going."
— Alabama coach Nick Saban

by DJackson on Dec 5, 2008 10:26 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

God, this better get us a win...

When I was in undergrad, there was a group of seven of us who did everything together. There were three couples and then my best friend as the single outlier. One night, after a particularly drunken game of Risk, my girlfriend and her best friend started talking about how hot Anne Rice novels were…primarily because of cute dudes making out. More Southern Comfort, and more goading by all the girls, and the next thing I know, my best friend leaned in and smooched me…tried to slip the tongue and everything. They took a picture of it. Which I still have.

The object lesson was actually NOT what you think (e.g., don’t drink, don’t be taunted into an idea this awful, etc), it was actually one I carry with me to this day: Remember to shave everyday, because a dude’s face is damned scratchy, and the ladies will appreciate you for it.

crawling off in a hole to die now

"penis fish"…google that, and the candiru is the first thing that pops up

by Stuck in the Plains on Dec 5, 2008 10:34 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

BACK UP THE TRUCK, PACK EVERYTHING UP, WE'RE GOING HOME. CHAMPIONSHIP!

"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant

by TopDaddy on Dec 5, 2008 10:36 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

THAT

should get us our 13th AND 14th national titles.

Alabama judges its team by national and SEC titles. Auburn judges its team by how many times it beats Alabama. You tell me who the dominant team in the state is.

by Nose Guard on Dec 5, 2008 4:37 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

And I was having reservations about telling

everyone that I’ve thrice had a mullet, the last one being in ’91, but NOTHING surpasses a little homosexual experience (in this realm of conversation, anyway…

"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant

by TopDaddy on Dec 5, 2008 10:39 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Once is a mistake

Twice is an oversight
Thrice is a trend.

"penis fish"…google that, and the candiru is the first thing that pops up

by Stuck in the Plains on Dec 5, 2008 10:39 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Well, my grandfather

Kept paying me to cut it off, so you can look at it as a sort of investment. Maybe he was on to something with the whole “it makes you look like a girl” comments he used to throw around.

"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant

by TopDaddy on Dec 5, 2008 1:22 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Really, the most embarrassing thing about this admission

is the fact that the thing you took away from this was to shave every day. Honestly, this should be good for not just the SECG and the NC game, but for the next 2 years I expect Bama to win every game by about 35.

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Bear Bryant

by NJBammer on Dec 5, 2008 10:45 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

well, if it scarred me enough

to remember to shave every day, you can pretty much classify it as HORRIFIC.

"penis fish"…google that, and the candiru is the first thing that pops up

by Stuck in the Plains on Dec 5, 2008 10:47 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

WOW!

Thanks now I don’t have to leave an admission. That one should cover us until…..idon’t know forever.

Auburn fans are like slinkys... not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

by IHC800 on Dec 5, 2008 11:09 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

GOD!!!

And i thought me admitting i had a small penis would get us the win :)

When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.

by bammer on Dec 5, 2008 11:13 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

That oughtta do it..

Everyone else save their’s for the NC game! Wow.

(btw, Todd, even though I don’t know you personally, don’t you still pretty much buy those kinds of albums to this day? I’m referring to your Britney, Madonna and Lord knows what else. Frankly, coming from you, the Wham admission was not really a shocker)

by yellowhammer on Dec 5, 2008 12:21 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I will stand by...

….Madonna purchases any day of the week (at least up to Bedtime Stories), but there’s no excuse for Wham! no matter how young I might have been.

by Todd on Dec 5, 2008 1:41 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

wow

im not impressed with your performance

by troy145 on Dec 5, 2008 12:41 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I'm going to go ahead...

…and say this before this has a chance to get out of hand.

This thread has the potential to go downhill fast. Let’s keep it on the up & up. Remember the terms of service before you post.

by Nico2.0 on Dec 5, 2008 10:48 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

OK, here's my admission

And it had better pay off.

When I was young (VERY YOUNG!) my best friend was a Auburn fan. He invited me to go to an Auburn game with him. I almost wasn’t allowed to go and I got terribly upset about it, so my mother finally relented and let me go, where I cheered the Tigers.

Yes, I will confess it once more so we can be guarenteed a win Saturday: I once got upset at the idea of missing an Auburn game, and actually cheered them on when I ended up going.

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Bear Bryant

by NJBammer on Dec 5, 2008 11:02 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

Similar to Todd...

…my first purchased album was The Sign by Ace of Base. I got in on cassette and I cried when my little brother (a three year old at the time), ripped out the tape and tried to eat it.

by Bama philosophe on Dec 5, 2008 11:24 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

I actually asked my older brother for that...

He made fun of me, and I couldn’t figure out why. They were so cool, right?

"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant

by TopDaddy on Dec 5, 2008 1:27 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I did that

but I was 20 at the time lol

Alabama judges its team by national and SEC titles. Auburn judges its team by how many times it beats Alabama. You tell me who the dominant team in the state is.

by Nose Guard on Dec 5, 2008 4:38 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

How 'bout one from more recent days...

I was recently in an airport, traveling with my small dog in a carrier that looked like just another carry-on luggage bag. Many people that day did not even realize I had a dog in the bag. I had to stop to take a wizz, and of course carried the dog (in the carrier) and my laptop bag into a stall. Not thinking at all about where I was, or how this would sound, AND with another guy sitting in the next stall over, I looked into the carrier and said to the dog, “How you doing in there little buddy?” I have wondered for weeks now what that guy thought I was talking to!!!

I bleed crimson and white...I puke Vol puke orange. RTR

by SugarBowl93 on Dec 5, 2008 11:29 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

To continue the above thread...

…of embarrassing music admissions (as opposed to personal grooming admissions, which will have to wait for a potential NCG) I could sing every word of Ice-Ice-Baby in Jr. High. The kicker is that with a little help I could STILL do the entire song. Oh, and I owned every Fat Boys album and LOVED Disorderlies.

by Bubba Chang on Dec 5, 2008 11:30 AM CST reply actions   1 recs

my first album

was a cassette tape of micheal jackson’s BAD. i was like 5 years old and thought i was a complete bad ass for having it, so bad in fact, that i carried it around with me. i didn’t have a walkman or anything, i just carried around the tape for a few months on the chance that one of my friends might ask about it, or that i’d get a chance to pop it into a stereo so everyone could hear just how “bad” it was…. years later, i was totally pumped for “Dangerous” even had the album poster before it was released, then MJ got busted for being a cho-mo, and i had to stop talking openly about micheal jackson and how great dangerous was. i still got the album and rocked it, but totaly in secrecy. basicly, i was in the closet about my micheal jackson fandom……

thank god i got older, then it was okay to say stuff like “well you know "thriller” and “off the wall” were just amazing albums musically, quincy jones’s production was pure f-in genius" but secretly, i still like the album “bad” (stephen colbert did “the girl is mine” with john legend a few months ago on his show. i was ecstatic!) and honestly, most of the tunes on “Dangerous” are pretty rockin to.

by tempebamafan on Dec 5, 2008 11:38 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

mistaken identity

I had a date with a guy, back during my single days, who had a very unusual looking car to me. It was gold and kind of low slung and looked foreign and appeaared to be a convertible with the top up. After assessing the situation, I told him that I like his Camenghia. He laughed and thought I was joking. It was a Jag, not a Carmenghia. Maybe that is subject for a Jeff Foxworthy joke.

marycontrary

by adeleswims on Dec 5, 2008 12:08 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

My first album was "Beautiful Letdown"

which was and IS an amazing album. so you guys make me feel good.

One time I was at a huge mall in orlando (millenia) and i had to make a doo doo. So i did. When i was done i continued shopping and noticed lots of people staring at me and smiling. “No problem,” i thought, “Im just super hawtness.” Later that day I realized i had about three feet of toilet paper hanging out of mis pantalones.

im not impressed with your performance

by troy145 on Dec 5, 2008 12:48 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Here goes mine…

This was back when I was in, about, third grade or so, I forget exactly, but it was somewhere around then…

Anyway, some of the yearbook editors came around to our class and started asking us questions. One of them walked up to me and asked me what my favorite song was, to which I immediately replied… "Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus!"

And, unfortunately, I’m pretty sure there is documented evidence of this reply published in the yearbook itself. Now, goddamnit, that better be good enough for SEC Championship #22.

by outsidethesidelines on Dec 5, 2008 1:11 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

coulda been worse

coulda been miley cyrus

im not impressed with your performance

by troy145 on Dec 5, 2008 1:19 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Achy Breaky Heart...

…should be enough for a win. That photo is definitely enough for a win.

by NiceLittleSaturday on Dec 5, 2008 3:27 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

You did NOT

say that!!!! If you are lying we’re doomed!

by TexasTideGirl on Dec 6, 2008 1:02 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I had a life-size poster of George Michael hanging beside my bed.

I am female, so that isn’t TOO awful, but the decorating it and taking pictures with it was! I put santa hats on him at Christmas and took pics with him. I put bunny ears on him at Easter and took pics with him. There is even a pic of me in my prom dress with him! I talked to him and said good night to him each night. It was a full-blown obsession! When he came out it was a dark day :(

by crimsongirl on Dec 5, 2008 1:46 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Yeah, I'll never forget the day...

Rosie came out. It was truely a day of sorrow. Had to trash my posters and lifesize cardboard cutouts. I really thought there was a future…

"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success" - Coach Bryant

by TopDaddy on Dec 5, 2008 2:16 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

w.....t......f.......

When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.

by bammer on Dec 5, 2008 2:34 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

funny stalker

I am posting 2 because I hate all that Gator chop stuff. When my daughter was a baby, I used to take her with me while jogging, in a baby jogger. I was jogging down the street and people in cars would drive by and point and laugh and I thought maybe they had never seen a baby jogger or something. After a few more cars did this, I looked behind me and there was a large pig, with an even larger porcine, corkscrew looking erection, jogging about 20 feet behind. Have you ever seen a pig’s you-know-what? It’s strange. I broke into a full run the remaining half mile to my house, grabbed my daughter out of the jogger and ran inside. When I looked out the window I realized that, luckily, neither me nor my daughter were the object of his lust—it was jogger itself. He had his way with that 3 wheeled thing. I power washed the jogger with all kinds of antibacterial stuff before using again.

marycontrary

by adeleswims on Dec 5, 2008 2:45 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

OK, now we have a winner

thank you for putting an image in my head that, in the immortal words of Dirk Diggler, makes me want to take my brain out and wash it.

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Bear Bryant

by NJBammer on Dec 5, 2008 2:51 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

omg im crackin up over here

im not impressed with your performance

by troy145 on Dec 5, 2008 3:05 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

FTW

Excellent.

"penis fish"…google that, and the candiru is the first thing that pops up

by Stuck in the Plains on Dec 5, 2008 3:25 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Wow...

…the only pigs in my neighborhood are Auburn fans.

by NiceLittleSaturday on Dec 5, 2008 3:29 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

dont take your kids in a jogger

im not impressed with your performance

by troy145 on Dec 5, 2008 3:30 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I'll...

…pull ’em out quick if one follows me home.

by NiceLittleSaturday on Dec 5, 2008 3:45 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

thats what she said

When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.

by bammer on Dec 5, 2008 9:22 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

quick question..

WHERE THE HELL DO YOU LIVE!!!!

When you are an Alabama fan you have to hate Auburn, I hate Tennessee because i want to.

by bammer on Dec 5, 2008 3:31 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Seems to be a theme here

This admission, a reference to Dirk Diggler, one mod posting an album titled “Make it Big.” Another telling us to keep it “on the up and up.”

My embarrasing admission? I’m 35 years old and apparently still think like a 7th grader.

by Nick's Hat Band on Dec 5, 2008 5:48 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

if your 35 years old

and DONT think like 7th grader, your too boring to know

im not impressed with your performance

by troy145 on Dec 5, 2008 7:00 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I, too, am very much in touch with my inner juvenile

"penis fish"…google that, and the candiru is the first thing that pops up

by Stuck in the Plains on Dec 6, 2008 8:14 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

wow

so you have wild pigs roaming your neighborhood eh?

by tempebamafan on Dec 6, 2008 10:33 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah

My first tape I ever bought was “Pocket full of Kryptonite” by the Spin Doctors.

I bought it because I loved that song “Two Princes”

by MontyIII on Dec 5, 2008 3:18 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

thats not embarassing

thats good taste ;)

im not impressed with your performance

by troy145 on Dec 5, 2008 3:29 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

embarassing:

some one found my pr0n once

im not impressed with your performance

by troy145 on Dec 5, 2008 3:30 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

I usually just leave it out...

that will tell you what kind of girl you’re dating :)

"penis fish"…google that, and the candiru is the first thing that pops up

by Stuck in the Plains on Dec 6, 2008 1:21 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Sausage capital

At the time of the pig stalker, we lived in Elberta, which is in Baldwin County and is the German sausage capital of the south. Have any of you been the the Sausage Festival? So, maybe the pig was wise to jog and keep his weight down. We have since moved to the burgeoning metropolis of Daphne.

marycontrary

by adeleswims on Dec 6, 2008 8:23 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

Nope

but I do love me some Wolf Bay Lodge! I’m in Fairhope, btw.

by yellowhammer on Dec 6, 2008 2:00 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Okay...

…here comes my super girlie music admission at the 11th hour.

I have one or two songs by the following performers on my iPod:

Rihanna
Pussycat Dolls
Kylie Minogue
Shakira
Robin Thicke

by Nico2.0 on Dec 6, 2008 3:08 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

Welcome to the SB Nation blog covering the Alabama Crimson Tide.
Start posting about the Crimson Tide »

Join SB Nation and dive into communities focused on all your favorite teams.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recommended FanPosts

Small
byes, damn byes, and statistics
Miltonf-788904_small
The LSU Open Thread
Mt-rushmore_100pxl_small
Brandon Spikes eye gouge
Alabama_small_medium_small
A Reminder of What is Really Important
Nickcave_small
Bye Week Open Thread

Recent FanPosts

Teague_miami_small
LSU was robbed
Script_small
Bad calls against Alabama in the LSU game
Untitled-1_small
The Pass Sets up the Run
Miltonf-788904_small
Keenan Allen Committing?
Small
New gaming website launched by UA students
Roll_tide_small
Prediction Time
6d6e62df19542d3a_alabama_logo_a_small
SEC Conspiracy Theory
Roll_tide_baby22_small
The mindset of Bama's O-Line
Bkc_ala_dudley164x225_1__small
Basketball team beats Montevallo.  Rah.

+ New FanPost All FanPosts >


Managers

Large_hankwilliams_small Todd

Miltonf-788904_small outsidethesidelines

Nickcave_small Nico2.0

Authors

Kleph_logo_copy_small kleph

26935420b_small PeteHoliday

Official Partner of CBS Sports