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Your RBR Word of the Day: oneiric

oneiric \oh-NY-rik\, adjective:

Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of dreams; dreamy.

Sadly, Matt Caddell's one oneiric moment at Alabama is an often overlooked footnote after the latter half collapse in '07.

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this was the 1st...

Alabama game I ever attended. What a game it was. Bama was up early if I remember correctly and then Jones and McFadden started bringing Arky back and then the final catch in the endzone. I’ll always remember this game.

by RammerJammer23 on Jun 8, 2009 8:15 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

By "up early"...

you were referring to the 21-0 lead Bama had in the 1st quarter…

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

by TopDaddy on Jun 8, 2009 9:29 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Something to be said

For the team coming from behind in the 4th quarter, and in general changing a mindset from dread to optimism of the second half. It had been a long time before that play since there was anything to look forward to about the second half of an Alabama football game.

by Bobby Briggs on Jun 8, 2009 8:30 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

That

was a eurphoric experience. I had the good fortune of being on the 2nd row on the 35 yrd line behind the Bama bench. This was also my first night game. That was Saban’s first SEC home game at Bama and I remember wanting to be there for the historical significance of that. There were so many big plays in that game. I remember when Arky was starting to come back, Dmack was wearing us down late. After Caddell caught that pass, I doubted for several seconds afterwards that it would stand. Maybe I had been conditioned to be pesimistic after just coming off the Shula years. I kept looking up at the score board just make sure the play counted. I didn’t fully believe it did until we kicked the PAT. I remember thinking to myself, “THERE, now they can’t take it away from us.” I still held out on being confortable in the victory until time expired. As we all exited BDS, everyone was on cloud nine. I walked out of there screeming “ROLL TIDE” so many times I lost my voice. It felt like we won the national championship. After dealing with, and expecting to be let down in the previous years of watching Alabama football, it was nice not to be, for once. Now only a year later, we expect to win. Not something I’ve personally experienced since Stallings (which seems like a lifetime ago since I was a child then).

"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken

by Bens4vcobra on Jun 8, 2009 8:43 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

conditioned to be pessimistic

… yeah, that is the perfect way to word it… I had grown to feel the exact same way! big touchdown play… flag… oh… it’s coming back.

so easy... even an Auburn fan can do it!

by K. brevis on Jun 8, 2009 2:01 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I've been to many games in BDS

This game had a different feel to it from the very beginning. Very electric. Right after this catch, it was the loudest I have ever heard BDS be. Very memorable.

"What happened yesterday is history. What happens tomorrow is a mystery. What we do today makes a difference - the precious present moment." -Nick Saban

by HarveyBirdmanAAL on Jun 8, 2009 9:17 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

what a raucous!!

so easy... even an Auburn fan can do it!

by K. brevis on Jun 8, 2009 2:09 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Wake up the Echos!

What the hell is that fool babbling about. I’m glad i was at this game on not trying to watch it on tv.

I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk.

by That Other Dave on Jun 8, 2009 3:27 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Matt Caddell...

…had a couple of oneiric moments in his final game vs. Colorado as well, though not as grand as this catch against those Nutty old Hogs.

by NiceLittleSaturday on Jun 8, 2009 3:36 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I remember....

…hugging complete strangers after that catch. Euphoric.

by Nico2.0 on Jun 8, 2009 4:49 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

As was I...

I was on a cruise in the middle of the Gulf when I saw it. Didn’t know there was another Bama fan at the bar til that catch (it was loud, so minor reactions could not have been heard or noticed from afar). When it happened, I jumped up and started screaming very schoolgirlishly, all the while noticing a man across the bar carrying the stature of Paul Bunyan screaming louder than me. We noticed each other in the midst of about 40 other people who could have given a crap less about the game, and just began running toward each other. The Bama spirit (with assistance from Jack Daniels) brought us together with a full arm embrace reminiscent of long lost sisters uniting for the first time. It was truely magical, and weird after about 10 seconds…

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

by TopDaddy on Jun 8, 2009 9:38 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yep

same here.

"A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -H. L. Mencken

by Bens4vcobra on Jun 9, 2009 8:56 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I was at the game...

By the time Caddell had caught the pass, I had had multiple heart attacks during the game. Like the poster had previously mentioned, when Arkansas took the lead, I did not think we would come back, as the Shula years had conditioned me to think that way. The entire GW-drive, I kept thinking, “Ok, so when are we going to fall apart, because it should’ve happened by now.” I was speechless after the catch, and I was giving high fives to everyone around me, hugging everyone.

by CaliforniaTide on Jun 9, 2009 10:30 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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