What's Your Crimson Tide Gameday Superstition?

I don’t believe in luck but before every Bama game I have 3 regular Krystal Hamburgers. And this is the only time I eat Krystals. And, it has to be 3, not 2, not 4.

I also wear the same shirt to each game- pants can change depending on weather. I wear the same hat (baseball type cap)to each game. Each year I get a new hat, but the shirt may or may not be new year to year. This year I’m wearing last years shirt which was new last year. Oh yeah, if we were to lose two games in a row (see the end of 2008) then on the 3rd game I’m going with a different hat—actually it could be an old hat which I “retired” for that 3rd game. Once the bad streak is broken then I may go back to the hat that had lost two games. And, the hat I’m wearing to the games in any given year I only wear that hat to the games and then after that year I wear it other times.

I also have recently gotten into a routine of eating at Mugshots on the night before games in T-Town that I actually attend.

 
But, I don’t beleive in luck.

depending on weather, I will either wear the sweatshirt I bought on Bourbon St. in 92(out of a U-Haul)..or the T-shirt that used to bear the signature of Mean Gene Stallings(always use a Sharpie) which, was also bought out of a U-Haul in NOLA. The hat, always baseball-style, has not been washed in 24-straight, regular season games..I see no reason to break that trend. The beer…either 16 oz Bud in the can or Red Stripe in the bottle. Food…Dreamland or Full Moon…sometimes, the smoker out back.

LOL on a fanpost….Damn freakin half ASS AT&T smart phone….it doesnt let you read the side thing for fanpost…I must be psychic or psycho…freakin weird…
My main thing is not moving if Bama scores….no matter what…unless we score back to back, then the freeze is off. I’ve done the shirt thing too….but the standing in place is my contribution to the “Blackout”…30 people at the party will sign swore affadavits to this effect….stayed there til half time and we were 31 pts up, sat down, and Georgia come roaring back til I stood over in the corner again, we put the game away..

worn until a loss. Not sure whether to continue on with last year’s undefeated shirt, though.

….I found the art for that one while cleaning out a shitload of stuff from the 80s and it is AWESOME. I wear mine all the time.

I have seen a couple that have come from some fans, customers that do their own art and want it on a tshirt for their company, and I gotta tell ya, some are hideous and shouldnt see the light of day. If he will let me scan the art, I’ll send it your way.

…ever wear Bama gear on gameday.

First off, I place a bet on our opponent prior to our game. I started doing this because, being a gambler, I’d have runs of absolutely dreadful luck with point spreads and the over/under and I’d literally say, “The opposite of what I bet always seems to happen. It’s like some malevolent force is just F’ing with me, man.” Obviously that was an exaggeration, but sometimes it feels that way.

Anyway, I decided that if my luck were that bad I would put it to good use. Now, I bet our opponents with the spread (never the money line). For bigger games I’ll bet bigger sums. I figure I will pay the cost for us to be the boss.

I also wear my Bama slippers, the same crimson Bama shirt, and a pair of team issued Bama shorts. I don’t watch the game with anyone as I find most of the people around me are complete haters and will root against Bama just to piss me off. I don’t care that they don’t like Bama, but the fact that they’re doing it just to piss me off, pisses me off, so I watch the game’s alone to avoid problems.

Now that my wife is not practicing on Saturday’s she can watch the game with me. I’ll make an exception for her (and I would make an exception for most of y’all since you’ll root for the good guys).

Oh, and her father is banned from the house because he is unlucky and he is a distraction. Though he doesn’t follow football, he made two mistakes. First, he scheduled a last minute marriage announcement dinner (whatever you call it) the day of the Iron Bowl a few years back and I had to sit there gritting my teeth, wondering whether or not I’d made a good decision to marry the daughter of a man who’d do such a thing. I had to watch the loss on my DVR and that didn’t lessen the sting one bit.

Secondly, he made the mistake of calling me to talk about Utah beating Alabama (he lived in Utah at the time) because all his neighbors had rubbed the loss in to him after he’d told them his son-in-law was a graduate. Being unaware of football fan’s desire to talk trash, he made a habit of announcing that I was a Bama graduate to everyone which forced me to endure earfuls of shit in Utah. I gritted my teeth and nodded my head. The fact that he was completely clueless about why any of this would piss me off, pissed me off even more.

Anyway, for these offenses he is banned on Saturdays.

To top it off, I cook something good or eat some good pizza.

luck..I do the exact opposite for every game…differnet shirt, different pants, hat etc. I don’t even sit in the same spot…Beer must be different as well….

I think it might win the internet.

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…I head to the kitchen to pee. When we won the title in ‘92, I used to get drunk and pee in a cup next to my bed so I wouldn’t have to get up and walk to the bathroom, so that’s what I do now on game days. Here’s the kicker: you can’t pour out the pee until after the game. My wife won’t let me leave the cups in the kitchen or our bedroom or anywhere else she can see them, so I put ‘em in a storage cabinet in the back of the house that I’m usually the only one to utilize. One year, my brother’s family stayed at our house, and for some reason my 13-year-old niece decided she needed to open that cabinet, and she found my half-day’s worth of pee in about five styrofoam cups. I had to give her $30 just to keep her trap shut so my wife wouldn’t shut down my game day ritual.

I also watch old tapes of Murder, She Wrote. It’s just a really good show, and it gets me in the proper mood to watch men hit each other.

I only eat Chinese food or Golden Grahams, ‘cause I believe that’s what Coach Bryant would’ve wanted. A lot of people don’t know how much he loved Chinese food.

I wear whatever clothes I happen to see first when I get up in the morning. During the LSU game last year, I ended up wearing my wife’s bathrobe. After Julio’s TD, I announced that I would wear it for every game until we lost. Should I keep wearing it this season? I think yes. RTR.

I started this last year, so clearly I made the difference in our season.

Its a crimson hoodie with a nice embrodiered A with an elephant charging forward. Bot it here in So OH for like $10.

My wife, son or duaghter can not watch the game with me. This is less about ritual and luck and more about self-preservation. They simply do not understand my singular fixation with every play of a game. Also, I rant, yell at the tv, bitch about the announcers, gripe about incessant replays and far too many commericals.

In other words, you dont want to be near me during a Bama game.

was started. It has shown my other half that I am not the craziest and most superstitious Alabama fan by far! That being said, I do have a few things that I do for each game.

On Saturdays, I wake up around 9:00 a.m., turn on the TV and surf around CBS, ESPN and GamePlan to see what is going on so far. In between doing that, I get a shower, brush the teeth and get dressed. Like most of you, I wear the same shirt every Saturday. It is not the same shirt every year, it is just whichever shirt “speaks” to me on the day of the first game. I have enough Alabama shirts that I could wear one everyday for about 3 weeks and not wear the same one twice. And I have a TON of new shirts, so I may throw them in a pile, cover my eyes, reach in and pick one out this year. Last year, I wore the same shirt for every game except when I came home for the homecoming game and when I went to the NCG. I wore the same shirt to both those games and obviously it worked.

Whatever my favorite place to eat is each season, that is what I eat every game. Two years ago it was a local sandwich shop called Capriottis. They have a sandwich called The Bobbie. It is Thanksgiving dinner on a bun and is so awesome!. Last year it was Pizza Hut’s Meaty Marinara. This year I have decided on Firehouse Subs. The only exception to this is 11:30 a.m. games. Living in Vegas, that means they are on here at 9:30 for me, so on those days, it is either Corn Pops cereal or a bowl of grits with toast and a glass of milk, which hasn’t changed in years. I use one of my red plates and a red cup to eat/drink from. No one in the house is EVER allowed to eat on an orange or blue plate on a football Saturday. This becomes a taunt to me from my boys. They will go get one of the “bad” plates and act like they are going to eat off of it just to get me riled.

When it is time to settle in to watch the game I have a certain spot on our couch where I sit and everyone knows that it is my spot. My other half has to sit on the other end of the coach from me. He did this for everygame last year and was at both games I went to as well, so he will HAVE to do that again this year. I get my Alabama throw blanket out, have the remotes right next to me, a drink on the side table to my left and my cell phone and the house phone next to me. My mom and I call each other (whoever gets through first) after every TD or really big play. We don’t answer the phone with “hello” we answer with ROLL TIDE and whole lot of screaming!

If the game starts to go south a little, I with grab a pillow and do “the rock” like Leo Mazzone. If that doesn’t work, I will stand up, move closer to the tv and pace. And praying is always a must in clutch situations. I yell at the refs, the players and the announcers. The house rumbles when we score from my screaming and I scared one of my sons’ friends half to death screaming one year. He was afraid to come back in the house until after the game was over. My cats stay hidden for the entire game once I scream my first scream. They will both take off upstairs and will not venture out until I have gone a good hour without screaming. After the game is over, I usually take a short nap to recover my strength!

she’s an alabama alum

What in the world possessed her to buy them in the first place?! I refuse to wear my hubby’s Chicago Bears stuff because it is orange and blue and I wouldn’t even wear things from Wallace State in Hanceville when I went there because their colors are orange and blue! I had a top about a year ago that I loved. It had peach flowers on it and some blue accents on it. When it was washed a few times, the “peach” color that was in it changed to a slight orange, so then it was orange and blue. I threw it away when I noticed the color change!