"Roll Bama Roll is 5-0 and Loving It."
by gorjus on Jan 19, 2010 11:47 AM CST
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It's September 28, 2008, around three in the morning, and we've just beaten the face off of Georgia in the "Blackout," and for the first time, I'm beginning to think this might be it. This might be real.
I'd joined RBR just a few months before, in May, when the anticipation for the new season had me jittering around the room. So it was three in the morning and I was scrolling through everything on the site on my iPhone, reading all the comments, laughing at all the snark, and for whatever reason hit that little button that says "bookmark."
My phone saved the header from that day as the name of the blog, and so every time I click to go to RBR on it, it says "Roll Bama Roll is 5-0 and Loving It." 2008 ended in the skids in New Orleans, with a brutal thrashing by a powerful Utah team, after a heartbreaking loss in Atlanta to the Gators. But I can't forget that feeling, that electric fuzz at the back of my neck that said in the middle of the night they can do this. It'll be just like when you were little, and when you were in high school. It'll be real. In 2008 I got to sing Rammer Jammer in Death Valley, and there's little better than that.
We're on top of the world right now, but as OTS would say, we must not squander such great heights. I don't want to just think back to one moment in the middle of the night when Alabama football made me feel alive; I want it to be a constant in a fluid world.
A big part of that feeling comes from reading RBR and cherishing the Yea Alabamas the staff faithfully puts out. Maybe I'm thinking about this because last night, as I'm falling asleep reading how Julio kept it alive in the LSU game, I reached over to my phone and tapped a few buttons. There it is, whenever I need that feeling of giddy expectation, whenever I start to worry: "Roll Bama Roll is 5-0 and Loving It."
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Man your celly cell-cell is getting a bit old ain't it?
Verizon has a new every two deal you should check on. That way you can dump the Razor for, say, a Blackberyy or something.
Your temper brings dishonor to my happy mooshu palace.
HA!
It’s a (now ancient) first gen iPhone 8GB. Haven’t found a hard reason to go 3G yet, because the thing still works (even if AT&T = terrible).
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world.
No doubt AT&T = crap....have you seen the map?
Your temper brings dishonor to my happy mooshu palace.
AT&T...
AT&T = no service in Dallas.
Yes, Dallas. Apparently it’s too much to ask for ANY cell service in one of the largest metro areas in the United States. All the crappy commercials with C-list celebrities don’t do anything to change that, either.
"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself." -- Milton Friedman
by outsidethesidelines on Jan 19, 2010 5:55 PM CST up reply actions
None at games
I get NO service at games. I mean, none. Not even at the Bama-State game, and there were “only” 60k there. Try Bryant Denny.
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world.
I usually get good service at games
and I have AT&T, but we experienced absolutely no service during halftime of the NCG. Everyone around us had the same issue and we all had different carriers. It was really weird and then all of a sudden, right before the teams came back onto the field, service started back up and texts started coming in.
by BamaGirlinDallas on Jan 20, 2010 11:57 AM CST up reply actions
I joined after the Utah debacle...
and until 2 weeks ago the Explorer “favorite” label said, “RollBamaRoll. Did You Say Utes?”
It pissed me off every time I saw it but it kept the fire burning!
Beat Auburn? CHECK. 12-0 regular season? CHECK. Beat the #1 Gators for the SECCG? CHECK. Ingram wins the Heisman? CHECK. Tide defeats the Longhorns for the BCS Championship? CHECK!
I joined
in Dec of 2006 (I think I have the year right) It was right after the Shula firing, in the middle of the RR he’s coming/he’s not coming and right before they got it right with the hiring of Coach Saban. Needless to say I’ve been addicted ever since, I can’t tell you how many times I check RBR a night and now I have a Blackberry so my addiction is even worse!!! This is the best Bama website EVER!!! Once you give it one hit you are hooked!!
If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, tide, roll!"
Bear Bryant
I only found you guys summer 09'ish.....
I’ve read blogs off and on for several years, but never joined to comment because a wise teacher once told me “Once you join an argument with an idiot, you’ve already lost.” And I saw how true that was. But when I stumbled on this page, I realized the genius to idiot ratio was totally in my favor. Now RBR is my crack cocaine. I have to have at least a hit a day.
"Only the strong survive , but the strong still get their [fannies] whipped." Coach Nick Saban
I check this site more than I care to admit
Most of my friends are not Bama fans since I don’t live there anymore. My husband went to Mississippi State and hates Alabama. Therefore, the only forum for my passion for Bama is this website. Thank you for making it so great!
by bamagirlinsocal on Jan 19, 2010 5:29 PM CST reply actions
I joined just as Saban arrived at the Capstone.
I was SugarBowl93 at the time, and in light of recent events you may have heard about, changed my name to RememberTheRoseBowl. I check the site multiple times daily, and I have every edition of Yea Alabama – including this past one that arrived today. I logged on to post a fanshot about how good the current edition is, but I see I have been beaten to the punch. However, as usual, it is an excellent read, and well worth the $22 bucks – to order it ($13), and then have it shipped to Puerto Rico where I live (another $9). Frankly, I’d pay $22 bucks plus shipping for it – as it is priced, it’s a steal. If you don’t have it, buy it. If you’ve bought it, read it. If you’ve read it, re-read it and wait with me for the next issue, coming, I assume, around July/August of this year. Great work, guys.
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Jan 19, 2010 5:51 PM CST reply actions
You live in Puerto Rico?
Always wanted to visit there.
RollBamaRoll.com - Also check out my music blog: Hear the World
Cool place
it has the exotic flare of the Caribbean combined with the Southeast CBS and Fox sports schedules, so no missed games. I’m enjoying it!
"Let's go be champions, boys!" - Greg McElroy
(Formerly SugarBowl93)
by RememberTheRoseBowl on Jan 20, 2010 2:17 PM CST up reply actions
That's awesome.
I’m still kicking myself for going to PR when I lived in Florida. You could get roundtrip tix for around $150 and I never did it.
RollBamaRoll.com - Also check out my music blog: Hear the World
I joined in August, 1994
You play fast, you play strong, you go out there and dominate the guy you play against, and make his ass quit! That's our trademark, that's our MO as a team, aight, that's what people know us as! - Nick Saban, 2008
Yea Alabama
Dittos on all the kudos for the site. It’s my homepage … on my WORK COMPUTER. ’Nuff said. But, I also love the Yea Alabama magazine because it can save them and hang them up in my Bama room. I am working from home today because my National Championship issue is supposted to arrive in the mail today. It will be coffee break time when it gets here!
Dr. BamaFrazier is IN!
Get it!
TONS to read in there. I’m still just looking through some of the plays. It’s a real “bookshelf” item—I keep it next to my ‘Bama books and game programs. You know how nobody says, a spine makes it real, but that’s totally true.
Next year, I’m going to pester the RBR guys to have a contest so a RBR reader can have a “guest slot” in the 2010 season mag. Can’t let Doug & Holly and those guys have all the fun!
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world.
Well...
…pantsfucious got in on the fun in ‘09 (Bryant’s Switch to the Wishbone was all him), but if any of y’all have good story ideas and want to run them by us, we’ll sure as hell listen. These things (sadly) don’t write themselves.
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