Weddings and Alabama Football

because you certainly aren’t alone. I have selected jobs based on whether or not my work schedule would interfere with football season.

My wife and I were engaged in June 3 years ago. We were ready to get married that year, but due to football we delayed it until the following spring. No regrets at all.

Anyone recognize that date? Bama’s off date. I told my wife, I would only get married on a day that Bama and Auburn (some of my groomsmen attend AU, and I wouldn’t ask them to miss their shitshow game. And low and behold we both had Nov. 22 off. So I agreed to it then, on the condition, that all anniversaries are built around football.

because it is the Saturday of the Georgia State game.

of mine let his fiance talk him in to the bonheaded decision to get married during the fall. They thought they had it all figured out. They decided the date would be during an away game. Alabama vs Ole Miss in Jackson, MS – 1989.

Being the social reprobates most good fraternity boys are known to be, we all got drunk before the ceremony (or was it just a carryover from the night before?) and decided – “F this, I’m taking a radio with an ear bud into the church. I will NOT miss an Alabama game! Not for you and not for this girl you have allowed to talk you into such a foolish act.”

Well, down by 21 before we could even get seated we just started to get pissed. Then we noticed that everyone else in the church was doing the same as us – listening to the game and pretending to watch the ceremony. As Bama started the comeback and then proceeded to take the Rebels to the woodshed rumblings could be heard from the pews. High-fives were discreetly exchanged below pew leve (guess that makes the low-fives) as the Tide continued to rack up the points.

To this day, I cannot honestly say if they said “I do”, exchanged the obligatory kiss or what the reception was like. I am quite certain that poor girl’s wedding day was somehow ruined by that event.

Oh well, serves you right if you get married during football season in Alabama. They are just lucky anyone showed up at all.

with a football hating family, I couldn’t be as lucky. I did, however, have ways of knowing how Bama did against KU last year when I got hitched on October 3rd. And this year, just two days ago, my bro-in-law got married in Virigina Tech country. Talk about a depressed bunch of people. Anyway, the whole time, I was on my phone, watching the game via a cast my co-workers set up for me (I’m in the IT industry, you can acquire such things). I didn’t even realize the reception was over until the inlaws told me the bar was closing.

Fuck that.

…to all of the above.

Every time I’ve ever interviewed for a job I’ve explained that I make a pilgrimage each year to Alabama for a game. They laugh like I’m joking, but I always get the time off.

….let his wife talk him into getting married in September (it was the anniversary of their first date or something like that) and it fell on the Bama/Florida game in ’06. They were at least good enough to make it a morning wedding, and you should have seen that parking lot empty as soon as the reception was over so people could make it home in time to watch the game.

My old roomate is getting married on the bye week, and the bachelor party is in ttown for the ole miss game. As a certain head strength coach would say, YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH!

Wanted to get married on a Saturday in the fall. I told her it was completely out of the question, and I told her exactly why. Thankfully, I married a woman who, while she doesn’t personally like football, is respectful of my obsession. We got married in May instead. I’m amazed at how cool she was with it.

and we know it’s poop compared to SEC football in general much less the IB. A friend of mine was planning a wedding and I told her no way they should plan for the AC. It was no big deal there. They could not understand that if you plan a game in the fall in Alabama, no one would come!

got married on the thursday before the tennessee game last year. she knew i wouldnt be at her wedding if she had it on the saturday. good thing because i would have been pissed if i had missed that epic ending

It occurred Sept. 4th. My response?

Sorry, cant make it, already have plans…

…my mom passed 3 years ago, he is 78. They wanted to get married the first weekend in October, I told him, make it the 1st or the third, otherwise, don’t expect me there. They made it the 3rd.

Is a barner, so about 30 minutes after presenting the ring, we were arguing over AU bye week or UA bye week for the wedding date. Well, Oct 8 2005 had both teams off that day and both families couldn’t have been happier.

which was 5 days after we took down PSU for the NC. My brother actually went to the game in NO, but I stayed home and watched on TV just to get ready for the wedding.

I thought Jan. 6 was “safe” for an anniversery date as football ended on Jan. 1. Well lookie here, last year we played for the NC on Jan. 7 in Cal. Unfortunately for my wife of 31 years I only had 2 tickets to the game and I had promised the other one to our UA daughter. So, we weren’t together for our anniversery because of football for the 1st time in 31 years.

But…she was ok with that just as long as Bama won. (If we had lost it might have been a real long trip home knowing I missed the anniversery for a defeat.)

And by the way…I am an ordained minister and I do a lot of weddings…during the off season.

On game day. I had to get up at some unholy cow milking hour to get ready for a 9 a.m. ceremony.

Hopefully the tv schedule will allow us to see the game…. but if CBS gets it, I might be screwed.

have the reception area set up with a big screen and the game in HD. Open bar should also be mandatory in this situation, along with a BBQ grill. I don’t give a damn if the wedding cost $1500 or $25,000, some things you don’t F with.

was working at the 15th street diner for 8 years. I worked there that long because they are closed on Sat. I feel the same way I work my ass off. It’s away football games that I’m not to be bothered by. I’m off from all three jobs on those days. Working at Egans during Home games is ok because I’m in the center of the action and when a play is going on nobody gets anything.

no-one knows how long a wedding/marriage will last. Any questions ????

fall wedding wasn’t even an option. living in Az meant summer is not either, so spring or winter it was, we chose spring.

a friend invited me to her wedding back in november 2008. the iron bowl. i told her when she said the date that i wouldn’t be able to come. she still mailed us invitations, we bought her a gift and declined. she was pissed. now we dont talk anymore. as far as i’m concerned i did nothing wrong. i told her in like march when she was talking about potential dates that Saturdays in the fall were not good for me and that the iron bowl was the worst possible day of the entire year. yet she was still upset. sorry, but i’m not very sorry, just kinda…

I was going to get married next November but we moved it up. Biggest reason was college football. The fiance is a pretty big LSU fan, and neither of us wanted to miss the game so we moved it up to May.

dont go, and dont be sorry about it either. if they’re good friends, buy em a gift still, but dont go, you’ll be miserable and you’ll probably wind up hating them until they get divorced (people like this clearly dont have the right priorities, how can they manage a relationship if they cant manage a calendar?)

There were plenty of starving Penn Staters who were well-fed by Big Bad Wolves bbq two weeks ago. I was one of them. Football, providing basic staples since 1877.

is getting married the day of the Sakerlina game!

Why??!!! GYAAAAHHH!

One of my good friends is having a wedding this weekend. I’m getting my other buddies to cover for me and tell her that I left early to get started on the long drive home. This isn’t the first time I’ve pulled this tactic during the fall.

My brother and sister-in-law scheduled their wedding for 2:00 PM on the day of the Alabama-Tennessee game back in the 90s. I was best man. I told them that they better pray it got picked up as a night game (it did).

I went to another wedding that was scheduled at 1, I think, during an 11:30 Alabama-Vandy game. They had a television set up in the reception area playing the game and all the groomsmen and I stood around watching it up to the beginning of the ceremony, and then immediately afterward.

and about a week later my wife told me that the only dates available for the Cathederal were in April, June, or November. In about 4 seconds, my response was "April is too early and – " before I could finish, she said “November is football season – June it is” .

That’s my wife and we got married June 6, 2009