I "Like" Coach Saban
by kleph on Jun 10, 2011 9:51 AM CDT
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PrintSo there I was, hanging out on the interwebs avoiding doing real work doing research for future RBR features. The long weekend means a lot of nothing out there but, as usual, there was a great gem of humor amidst the throngs of meh. From the Twitter feed of "the most interesting man in the world."
That earned a genuine LOL and retweet and then onward on my internet journeys. But after a few minutes it hit me, THIS MIGHT BE THE BEST IDEA IN THE WORLD. Seriously. If there is something you really appreciate how is it even remotely possible that this: 
is in any way sufficient to express how you feel? Don't be ridiculous.
And when it comes to Coach Saban, it's almost an insult to minimize my appreciation into a tiny pale blue simulacrum of one's upturned thumb. Not only has he turned around our beloved Crimson Tide football program and returned it to national prominence but he's done it the right way. The latter is particularly evident this off season as you look around and see the sheer chaos being caused by coaches who simply have no clue.
Thus a plan was born.
Now, the first issue was addressing the disturbing ambiguity in the tweet above. As great as the sentiment might be, I'm not about to mail anybody a digit separated from my or anyone else's person. (There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.)
Yet pictures, I have heard, can often express more than a thousand words.
To start, I took a moment to immortalize my thumb photographically in the proper setting. The result was as so:
Oh, that's positively resplendent. The next step was making my message slightly less creepy with a straightforward explanation of what I was hoping to accomplish.
That done, I had to prepare this glorious expression of my indebtedness to the Crimson Tide coaching staff the post. And it was handled thusly:
Lastly, I headed to my local US Post Office, procured the proper postage and sent this humble symbol of my gratefulness to the mail.
So, there. I've "liked" Coach Saban in a manner that is at least somewhat more commensurate with his standing and importance.
And I urge you all to do likewise. He and his staff get a heck of a lot of complaints and nonesense in the course of their hard work. It doesn't have to be a picture of your thumb, of course. Just a note saying "thank you" is the least they deserve for everything they've done for the team, the school and every one of us fans.
Here's the address:
Nick Saban
Head Football Coach
Department of Intercollegiate Athletics
The University of Alabama
Box 870323
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
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THIS is pure win!!
I love it… I hope to see a picture (someday) of everyone’s thumbs on one of the walls of the athletic dept!
Good stuff, Kleph!
Not only does it reek of win, it shows what happens when the creative mind has had enough of the torturous off-season… oh, have a rec, too!
"...because you've got your mind right, and that's the way we like it." Nick Saban
Rec'd for crafty, just-short-of-creepy-stalker Saban love.
"All I wanna do is drive around in my truck and drink Jack Daniels... and they just don't understand."- Kenny Stabler
seriously people
everyone that reads this blog needs to put one of these in the mail, PRONTO. let’s have a Monday deadline and share each of our ‘resplendent’ photos. it will be positively FABULOSO. anyway, what the hell have you got to do?
love it, kleph!
"You have to create 6 seconds of hell each play..."
Coach Nick Saban
Hey Coach,
What has two thumbs and thinks you’re doing a bang up job?
by Nick's Hat Band on Jun 10, 2011 11:04 AM CDT reply actions
Sigh.
I miss B-Mac.
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by Bubba Chang on Jun 10, 2011 11:48 AM CDT up reply actions
america
misses him………. :(
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. - Raoul Vaneigem
take this job and shove it - Johnny Paycheck
by tempebamafan on Jun 10, 2011 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions
you do realize...
that this “great idea” opens the door for photos of other body parts being sent to Coach Saban by rival team’s fans to express their sentiments as well.
signed,
Moons over Tuscy.
That door (mailbox) was already wide ajar! (and why he probably doesnt open his own mail)
by Alabama ManDance on Jun 10, 2011 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions
If you think the man hasn't seen more tits than the Moddy Brothers
You’re sadly mistaken my friend.
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." -Sir Francis Bacon
by Stuck in the Plains on Jun 10, 2011 5:11 PM CDT up reply actions
Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish. These []ing amateurs
I’ll grovel, as I do.
by dirt sandwich on Jun 10, 2011 2:46 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
it would have pained me greatly
if nobody got that.
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Can you please lower your voices?
This is a family restaurant.
"This is not the end... this is the beginning." -- Nick Saban
i got buddies who died face down in the muck
so you and i could enjoy this family restaurant!!!
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. - Raoul Vaneigem
take this job and shove it - Johnny Paycheck
by tempebamafan on Jun 10, 2011 6:17 PM CDT up reply actions
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jun 10, 2011 2:56 PM CDT reply actions
Best comment of the thread.
I guess, you were probably intending it to be.
Me: You just like that I have the body of a god
Her: ....This is good fried rice.
by thisisnotyou on Jun 10, 2011 5:20 PM CDT up reply actions
#Tweets4NLS
It's not what you've done but what you are doing that matters.
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by AlabamaJammer on Jun 10, 2011 9:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Dang it Kleph. Everytime you write something I have to look up words.
"The only way to improve relations with Auburn is to beat them a few times. " 5026's Mom
Consider it done... for those of us who don't have
photo printers, use snapfish. They’ll send the order to your local walgreens in about an hour for about 20 cents. I’ll have mine in the mail this afternoon.
GREAT idea Kleph!
"Have a goal. And to reach that goal you better have a plan. Have a plan that you believe in so strongly that you'll never compromise." 'Bear'
Since this seems vaguely like an open thread
what happen to the latest posts widget at the bottom of the SBnation page? I loved that thing.
"Be polite to everyone you meet, but be prepared to kill anyone"-tc16cav
by otisnixon'sparty on Jun 10, 2011 7:00 PM CDT reply actions
Wish I'd have thought of that....
That’s why “they” pay you the BIG BUCKS!!! Mine will be in the mail by Monday! RTR!!!
"The expectation level at the University of Alabama is high and it should be..What's wrong with people expecting excellence?" ...Coach Gene Stallings
Good idea! Any photo-shoppers here?
Make a photo of Bill Paxton’s “Game over, man!” rant from “Aliens” and dress him in orange, purple, whatever.
Charles Martel, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Raymond IV the Count of Toulouse, Godfrey of Bouillon, Baldwin of Boulogne, Henry II, Richard the Lionheart, St. Joan of Arc and Napoleon Bonaparte -- all of good stock.
The photo of the thumb's up photo sticking out of the envelope is kind fo creepy...
Sometimes, I just feel like the word “win” isn’t enough. We need better words.
Thirteen.
I don't think I ever knew that "gratefulness" was a word.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jun 12, 2011 8:36 AM CDT up reply actions
interesting you posted that...
the drummer for the grateful dead was bill kreutzmann. his father was a backup fullback on the 1940 stanford football team and his mother was the daughter of the coach, Clark Shaughnessy.
that stanford squad was renowned as “the wow boys” and their undefeated season is credited as introducing the T formation into modern football. shaugnessy himself had been pivotal to alabama football as the man who recommended the rose bowl choose the crimson tide in 1925 after his tulane squad turned down the game.
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by kleph on Jun 12, 2011 9:11 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Rec'd for the knowledge. As always.
'There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment,'- Nick Saban
Awesome...
…I was aware of Shaughnessy, but had never heard of Kreutzmann’s connection to him. Thanks.
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jun 12, 2011 11:10 PM CDT up reply actions
burned it pulling a cast iron pot out the oven.
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