ALABAMA MANHANDLES TENNESSEE 29-9
8-0 ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I’ve been meaning to ask you, Joel: what does the elephant have to do with the phrase “Crimson Tide”? I can see how it could be too hard to visualize a “crimson tide” for it to be the only mascot, but I’m not sure I understand how the elephant is related to the concept.
The elephant in relation to Alabama reflects the slow movement by which that state pays attention to civil rights. Jon MacCain will win Alabama this year. But so too did native son George Wallace.
But I do like their chances of beating Auburn this year. President Obama just may bring them good luck finally.
Grim,
From the UA web site:
“The story of how Alabama became associated with the “elephant” goes back to the 1930 season when Coach Wallace Wade had assembled a great football team.
On October 8, 1930, sports writer Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal wrote a story of the Alabama-Mississippi game he had witnessed in Tuscaloosa four days earlier. Strupper wrote, “That Alabama team of 1930 is a typical Wade machine, powerful, big, tough, fast, aggressive, well-schooled in fundamentals, and the best blocking team for this early in the season that I have ever seen. When those big brutes hit you I mean you go down and stay down, often for an additional two minutes.
“Coach Wade started his second team that was plenty big and they went right to their knitting scoring a touchdown in the first quarter against one of the best fighting small lines that I have seen. For Ole Miss was truly battling the big boys for every inch of ground.
“At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, ‘Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,’ and out stamped this Alabama varsity.
“It was the first time that I had seen it and the size of the entire eleven nearly knocked me cold, men that I had seen play last year looking like they had nearly doubled in size.”
Strupper and other writers continued to refer to the Alabama linemen as “Red Elephants,” the color referring to the crimson jerseys.
The 1930 team posted an overall 10-0 record. It shut out eight opponents and allowed only 13 points all season while scoring 217. The “Red Elephants” rolled over Washington State 24-0 in the Rose Bowl and were declared National Champions.”
Black Avenger,
You truly are an idiot. The collective IQ of the world is decreased every time you try to communicate.
Black Avenger,
Perhaps the Blessed Obama, He of the Unmentionable Middle Name, shall bestow upon you the gift of spelling, i.e. it’s John McCain not “Jon MacCain”.
Thank you, Joel. I knew you’d be able to explain it.
My father and I were talking about it yesterday while listening to the Georgia game on the radio. Neither of us had any idea what the connection was.
I hope my Aubies burst their bubble next month. They have to be saving it up for something.
hey..! i think crimson tide iz ta best & wat does ta elephant have to do wit it anywayz!?
WE GONE BEAT AUBURN..! WE HAVE DONE GOOD THIS YEAR ALSOOO….!