Folks, we're not out of the woods yet. It may seem like the Football Gods have lined up everything in our favor, but they work in mysterious ways, are notoriously cruel, and we're actively jinxing ourselves today (thanks kleph). So to give thanks for an Iron Bowl victory, we have more Nickelback:

And to ask for their favor this weekend while we sit idle, we offer our embarrassing admissions in the comments below. Also, Laura Vandervoort...

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Folks, the Football Gods work in mysterious ways. After losing to LSU we all thought our season was effectively over (THEM BAMMERS AIN'T NEVER HAPPY THEY'D A WON 12 GAMES AND GONE TO A BCS BOWL AND STILL THOUGHT THIS SEASON WAS A BAD ONE PAAAAAWWWWWWLLLLLL!!!!1), yet here we are, sitting at #2 in the BCS with pretty much everything having gone our way to secure our ticket to the National Championship Game. We still need some help, though. First, we've got to get by Auburn. Second, Oklahoma beating Oklahoma State would really help us avoid any "SEC fatigue" from the human voters who might decide to jump them ahead of us to avoid a rematch. Third, ditto for Virginia Tech. If they can win the ACC title game in spectacular fashion and be a 1 loss BCS conference champion they would give the human voters another opportunity to avoid a rematch. That last one's a long shot, but crazier things have happened. So with all that in mind, we sacrifice for you once again, Football Gods:

Chime in with your own sacrifices in the comments below. Roll Tide.

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Truth be told I was really tempted to continue with a Pedro Cerrano attitude of "%&*$ the Football Gods," if only to avoid anymore Nickelback, but they were good to us over the weekend by bringing down Stanford and Boise so like it or not we still need their help. Thus, Nickelback:

Listen, sacrifice your hearing, and sacrifice your dignity before the Football Gods once again. We may not need much help against Georgia Southern, but we do still need a lot of help around the country. On to the pleasantness...

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We pissed off now, Football Gods. Look, we good to you. We stick up for you. Bring you sweethearts, poop ourselves and listen to Nickelback, and share our greatest shames for you. And we lose to man who eat grass on TV and clap like idiot? If you no help us now? I say, %^&# you Football Gods. We do it ourselves.

With ESPN's College GameDay in town for the Alabama vs. LSU game last week, we pulled some strings and got media access to the World Wide Leader's three-day media shindig on the Walk of Champions. Instead of doing the boring regular journalist thing, we decided to imbed Birmingham's living legend of the Squat Rack, Rick Muscles, amid the mayhem. Here is his report of what went down the day before the game.

So here's the story. After a grueling 3 hour work day last Friday, I hit the road to Tuscaloosa. Made a beeline for Bryant Denny and camped out with the other Bama fans and took in the GameDay atmosphere.

I immediately checked in with Keri Potts, she's the GameDay media coordinator. Her job is to be nice to the media and be totally mean to the fans. She will tear into your ass like Nick Saban on AJ McCarron in 2010 if you ask for Desmond Howard's autograph. This is useful because Des can't be a jerk but if he signs autographs all day then nothing will get done. After check in I received my Golden Ticket -- the backstage pass to College GameDay.

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ed. - WARNING: The admissions contained in the comments are not for the faint of heart and/or easily offended. Bravo bros and ladybros. Bravo.

Eight wins, eight Nickelback songs.  This is our season folks, and if you don't listen to all eight in one sitting, then you're not doing your part.  Listen.  Listen to them all.  Your sense of hearing (and temporarily taste, because Nickelback is so bad in certain doses it will cause you to be unable to taste anything but hatred for at roughly 72 hours #LittleKnownFact) is a small price to pay for a win over LSU.  DO IT FOR THE TEAM.

Now if you're not too busy cleaning up the blood that just shot from your ears (#Metal\m/), please enjoy your weekly visit from Ms. Vandervoort after the jump.

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Seven wins, seven Nickelback songs, and this week's offering comes complete with a disturbingly violent theme involving Chad Kroeger apparently dating a stripper and hanging out at the club to beat up anyone that tries to hit on her while she "works." Nickelback is for the children!

Now that that's out of the way...

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This week's Nickelback selection comes with a bonus embarrassing admission folks.  The video clip below is not the official music video (though it would be hilarious if they really did just release a video that was nothing but the lyrics over a purple background), but that's the one I pulled up and listened to as my sacrifice to the Football Gods last night.  I got a good laugh from the "Chad Kroeger is totally sitting on a stool because this is a power ballad, but because he's a rocker through and through he's not really sitting on it so much as leaning off the edge because rockers don't sit, they rock", but the "plot" of the video...well, it got a little dusty in here.  Spoiler alert (like you care if I ruin a Nickelback video for you...), it's about a firefighter leaving his wife/girlfriend at home to go fight a forest fire and she's watching the news on the TV and its implied that he was killed and she's all in tears and his fellow firefighters pull up to the house to give her the news, and I was genuinely sitting here in front of the computer all "#$%^ YOU NICKELBACK WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME?!?!" and then the husband/boyfriend steps out from behind him and there's a big tearful reunion and then I was all "#$%^ YOU NICKELBACK WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME?!?!"  So yeah, Nickelback, in a way, moved me to tears and then Nickelback made me hate them all the more for being horrible people that screw with your emotions.

Six wins, six Nickelback songs.

So. On to the pleasant part of the post...

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