Monday - January 02, 2006
Memories
January 1, 1968
DALLAS, Texas—Alabama lost to Texas A&M by a score of 20-16 in the Cotton Bowl. Yours truly, the Skipper, was in his first year at the University of Alabama and was a member of the Million Dollar Band. In fact, he sat first-chair baritone in his freshman year and thereafter as he was majoring in music. Two additional degrees came from Troy State University in later years, both in Computer Science.
That was a memorable game and I remember it well, not just because it was my first college bowl game to attend but also to perform in front of a national TV audience in the halftime show. It was Kenny Stabler’s last year as quarterback at Alabama, which pretty well dates my tired old butt.
The fact that Texas A&M was coached by Gene Stallings seems ironic in light of the fact that he later came to Alabama and took the Crimson Tide to a national championship in 1992. And then there are the memories of Bear Bryant. I watched the man coach through some tough years from a close vantage point as the band was always there, win or lose, home or away.
Today, Alabama returned to the Cotton Bowl playing Texas Tech and I’ve just finished watching the game. I’m a nervous wreck. The whole game came down to five seconds left with the score tied 10-10. I sat there biting my nails, heart pounding as one of the ugliest field goals ever kicked managed to clear the goal post by mere inches. Alabama won 13-10. The Tide is rising.
I also got to see my Million Dollar Band perform at halftime. It was a beautiful sight to see the new kids doing their thing and upholding the tradition. I couldn’t help but wonder though how many of the 350+ band members were as drunk and hungover as we were on that freezing cold winter day back in 1968. It didn’t matter. We still played beautiful music. And so did they today. Roll Tide!
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Permalink • Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Nobody has ever accused the NFL owners of being compassionate or caring. In fact, the owners operate one of only a few businesses in the country where employees can be drafted and forced to perform at their whim wherever they wish and aforementioned employees are encouraged to take performance enhancing drugs before being finally fired when they are no longer useful.
Yesterday, two owners proved just how down and dirty they can get. Minnesota Vikings owner Zygi Wilf fired coach Mike Tice only minutes after the Vikings soundly defeated the Chicago Bears 34-10 in the final game of the season. In fact, Wilf fired Tice in the locker room immediately after the game. The Vikings players were too stunned and embaressed to comment. In a similar vein, the St. Louis Rams fired coach Mike Martz, who has been hospitalized with a bacterial infection of the heart for the last ten weeks. Out of the hospital and into the unemployment line.
Tough love, baby. Tough love.
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Permalink • Tuesday - December 27, 2005
Turn Out The Lights
I don’t know about you but I have fond memories of Monday Night Football over the years. I haven’t watched it as much in recent years as I did during the 70’s and 80’s. I can hardly believe the weekly football event has been on the air for 36 years. Next year the show will move to ESPN but it won’t be the same for me. Then again, it hasn’t been the same for quite some time. I miss Howard Cosell and his ridiculous toupee ...
December 27, 2005
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP)
Al Michaels turned to Frank Gifford, patted his former broadcast partner on the shoulder and said simply: “I can’t thank you enough.” Football fans feel the same way about “Monday Night Football.” After 36 years on ABC, the television phenomenon concluded its network run with New England’s 31-21 win over the New York Jets, a lackluster game that didn’t come close to epitomizing the special place “Monday Night Football” has held in the American cultural landscape.
There were still plenty of great highlights, just not from players in helmets and pads. Instead, they featured characters in yellow blazers and outdated hairdos, cracking wise into ancient microphones and chomping cigars. The 555th broadcast opened with—who else?—the most recognizable voice in “Monday Night Football” history: Howard Cosell.
And it ended with his longtime foil, country boy Don Meredith, singing his trademark line “Turn out the lights, the party’s over ... .” By the time the song moseyed to a conclusion—ending a final montage more than three decades in the making—Hank Williams Jr. was carrying the tune, with a slight lyric change for the last line: “Mondays will never be the same again.”
Not for ABC, anyway. The series switches networks next season, when ESPN begins an eight-year deal in which it will pay $1.1 billion per year for Monday night rights. “They can take football away from ABC on Monday night,” announcer John Madden said after the game ended, “but they can’t take away the memories.”
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Permalink • Sunday - November 06, 2005
Gut Check Time
Both Virginia Tech (#3) and UCLA (#7) fell by the wayside on Saturday. There are now only three undefeated teams left ....
USC currently ranked first in the BCS standings, has games left at California (6-2) on Nov. 12, and at home against Fresno State (7-1) on Nov. 19 and UCLA (8-1) on Dec. 3. USC appears to have the easiest schedule, except for having to face UCLA, who may now be out of the BCS bowl picture and would love nothing better than to spoil USC’s record and ruin their chances for a three-peat National Championship.
Texas second in the BCS, is home to Kansas on Nov. 12, at Texas A&M on Nov. 25 and then would play in the Big 12 title game on Dec. 3. Texas has two tough games in Kansas (5-4), who put a 40-15 thumping on Nebraska last week and are all fired up. The annual Battle For Texas is at A&M (5-4) this year and is always a toss-up, even when one team is playing badly, like A&M has been all year .... especially when one team is playing badly. Texas will then have to face Colorado (7-2) for the Big 12 title. The Longhorns have their work cut out for them.
Alabama fourth in the BCS and likely to move up next week, is home to LSU (#6) on Nov. 12, at Auburn (#17) on Nov. 19, and then would play in the SEC title game on Dec. 3. Bless their hearts, my boys in Crimson and White have the toughest road of all with LSU (7-1) coming to Tuscaloosa next week and then having to take on bitter, cross-state rival Auburn (7-2) in Auburn the following week (AUBURN SUCKS!). Alabama will then likely face Georgia (8-1) or Florida (7-2) in the SEC title game. If they make it through these three final games, there is nothing that can stop the Crimson Tide. Before they head down the final stretch, I’d like to pass this along to all the Tide players ....
-- Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant (1913-1983)
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Permalink • Tuesday - November 01, 2005
Sports Update
Hey, if Sports Illustrated can have a swimsuit issue, then BMEWS is entitled to have a Women’s Curling Cheescake issue. As the article below states, it is “very tasteful”. Yep, yum-yum ....
(CANADIAN PRESS)
Women’s curling is sure to receive a lot more exposure this year, thanks to a new international calendar that features nude and scantily clad female curlers. At left is Polish national team lead Kasia Selwand as seen in her photo from the new Curling calendar. The calendar is the brainchild of Ana Arce, a photographer who skipped the Andorran women’s team for three seasons before moving to Spain this year.
“I think it’s going to change the image of the sport which is not so nice,” Arce, who also poses in the calendar, told The Canadian Press. “I’ve been playing for eight years and there are so many beautiful girls playing and nobody knows it. “I doubt that anyone is going to be shocked and everybody’s going to enjoy that and like it.”
All proceeds will be split between the teams of the curlers who pose in the calendar, called the Ana Arce Team Sponsorship Calendar 2006. Arce contacted only women she knew personally through her years in curling, including two Canadians: Melanie Robillard of Ottawa and Lynsay Ryan of Kelowna, B.C., the daughter of two-time world champion skip and 2006 Olympic hopeful Pat Ryan.
Ryan, a 21-year-old student at Hamilton’s McMaster University, found herself in July posing in a see-through sarong in the forests of Fussen, Germany. “I sent him (her father) an e-mail,” Ryan said with a laugh. “I thought it might be better if he read about it and had time to think about it before he replied.”
Arce met Lynsay Ryan at a curling clinic in Germany and was surprised the Canadian agreed to be part of it. “I thought she was going to say no because being Canadian I know it’s more difficult,” she said. “I think things are different for European girls. “We are more open here — a little less shy I think. But she said yes and she just wanted to check the pictures and everything was okay.”
The 12 models represent curling teams from Denmark, Italy, Spain, England, Poland, Germany and Canada. “Some of the girls showed a little bit more, like breasts, because they wanted to,” Arce said of the black-and-white photos. “But it is very, very tasteful.”
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Permalink • Monday - October 31, 2005
Football Fatwa
According to the UK Guardian, a Fatwah has been issued regarding how MOOS-lims should enjoy the sport of football. Feel free to add your own “rules” to this blatant bulls**t ....
1. International terminology that heretics use, such as “foul,” “penalty”, “corner,” “goal”, “out” and others, should be abandoned and not said. Whoever says them should be punished and ejected from the game.
2. Do not call “foul” and stop the game if someone falls and sprains a hand or foot or the ball touches his hand, and do not give a yellow or red card to whoever was responsible for the injury or tackle. Instead, it should be adjudicated according to Sharia rulings concerning broken bones and injuries.
3. Do not follow the heretics, the Jews, the Christians and especially evil America regarding the number of players. Do not play with 11 people. Add to this number or decrease it.
4. Play in your regular clothes or your pyjamas or something like that, but not coloured shorts and numbered T-shirts, because shorts and T-shirts are not Muslim clothing. Rather, they are heretical and western clothing, so beware of imitating their fashion.
5. If you have fulfilled these conditions and intend to play soccer, play to strengthen the body in order better to struggle in the way of God on high and to prepare the body for when it is called to jihad. Soccer is not for passing time or the thrill of so-called victory.
6. Do not play in two halves. Rather, play in one half or three halves in order to completely differentiate yourselves from the heretics, the corrupted and the disobedient.
7. If neither of you beats the other, or “wins”, as it is called, and neither puts the leather between the posts, do not add extra time or penalties. Instead leave the field, because winning with extra time and penalty kicks is the pinnacle of imitating heretics and international rules.
8. Young crowds should not gather to watch when you play because if you are there for the sake of sports and strengthening your bodies as you claimed, why would people watch you? You should make them join your physical fitness and jihad preparation, or you should say: “Go proselytise and seek out morally reprehensible acts in the markets and the press and leave us to our physical fitness.”
9. You should spit in the face of whoever puts the ball between the posts or uprights and then runs in order to get his friends to follow him and hug him like players in America or France do, and you should punish him, for what is the relationship between celebrating, hugging and kissing and the sports that you are practising?
10. You should use two posts instead of three pieces of wood or steel that you erect in order to put the ball between them, meaning that you should remove the crossbar in order not to imitate the heretics and in order to be entirely distinct from the soccer system’s despotic international rules.
11. Do not do what is called “substitution,” that is, taking the place of someone who has fallen, because this is a practice of the heretics in America and elsewhere.
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Permalink • Thursday - October 27, 2005
Sweep!
After 88 years, another curse is finally over. The Chicago White Sox won the World Series last night in a four-game sweep over the Houston Astros. There is now only one curse left to be lifted in Major League Baseball and it’s on the north side of Chicago ...
HOUSTON (MLB)
This victory belonged to the entire city of Chicago and a nation of euphoric White Sox fans. Sure, the White Sox 1-0 whitewashing of Houston on Wednesday completed the 19th four-game sweep in World Series history and gave the franchise its first title since 1917. And team chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and vice chairman Eddie Einhorn were able to hoist the championship trophy for the first time in their 25-year ownership reign.
But Wednesday’s effort had far greater ramifications than simply what was played out on the baseball field. It was a victory for the grandparents and great grandparents, who first came into the world when manager Pants Rowland led a group of players named Buck, Swede, Chick, Happy, Red, Nemo and “Shoeless Joe” to the White Sox last World Series title some nine decades ago. It was for the parents who took their kids to Comiskey Park, old and new, U.S. Cellular Field, and heck, even Wrigley Field, hoping against hope that one day they could talk about that special championship season in Chicago.
The win even was for the kids, who have no idea what baseball misery is really all about, having waited only four, five or six years, in some instances, to watch one of their baseball teams celebrate greatness. And this just in for the doubters, the skeptics who didn’t believe the White Sox would get to the playoffs, let alone advance. Ozzie Guillen’s crew is pretty darn good. As postseason success goes, they are almost unparalleled. With Wednesday’s win, the White Sox finished the 2005 playoffs at 11-1. This mark ties the South Siders with the 1999 Yankees for the second-best postseason winning percentage of all time. They only trail the 1976 Reds (7-0).
“We know about the 11-1 record, and we would have liked to go 11-0,” said White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski, drenched in champagne, but still able to flash a mischievous smile. “But we won enough games, and that’s all that matters.” “A lot of people doubted us in Spring Training,” added White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle, who started Game 2 of the World Series and saved Game 3. “Kenny [Williams, GM] and Ozzie obviously knew what they were doing, and it paid off.”
Chicago also won 16 of its final 17 games, dating back to Sept. 28 in Detroit. And they didn’t lose a road game during the entire postseason, covering six games. Simply put, it was utter domination—even if the final scores didn’t always support the description in theory.
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Permalink • Sunday - October 23, 2005
Double Pleasure
Both my teams won yesterday (The University of Alabama and whoever is playing Auburn). Roll Tide! Auburn Sucks!
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Permalink • Thursday - October 20, 2005
Cards Choke
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A dramatic National League Championship Series, a remarkable Cardinals season and beloved Busch Stadium all deserved better, but Roy Oswalt was all business and in no mood for sentiment.
Oswalt and the Astros beat St. Louis, 5-1, in Game 6 of the NLCS on Wednesday, stopping the Cardinals two wins short of their second consecutive NL pennant. The game was the last that will ever be played at Busch Stadium. The old ballpark will be replaced by a new one with the same name for next season.
It was an anticlimactic defeat, with Houston taking an early lead and St. Louis never mounting a serious threat against Oswalt or the Astros bullpen. Mark Mulder lasted only 4 2/3 innings, and Jason Marquis was touched for a pair of runs in relief.
Wednesday’s story, as was the case for much of the series for St. Louis, was an offense that just couldn’t put runs on the board. Oswalt deserves a great deal of credit for handcuffing the Cardinals over seven innings, but that took away little of the sting for the team that finished third in the National League in runs scored in the regular season. The Cardinals were held to four hits, three of them singles.
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Permalink • Monday - October 17, 2005
You Go, Grrrrl!
Everyone here should know Danica Patrick, our favorite Indy race car driver. If you don’t know why we like her, just take a peek at the picture below (more pics of Danica are available here). Not only is she gorgeous but the lady don’t take no crap off of other drivers and she is one helluva race car driver to boot!
Jacques Lazier (that’s a suspiciously French-sounding name) found that out at the Indy 400 recently. Danica punched him out after the race for driving like a maniac and crashing into her. You GO, Grrrrrl!
Their day ended in a crash, but the action between Danica Patrick and Jaques Lazier didn’t end on the on the track.
INDIANAPOLIS (ABC NEWS)
Their Toyota Indy 400 ended in a crash Sunday, but the action between Danica Patrick and Jaques Lazier didn’t end on the track. “So you’re telling me that Jaques is saying he got beat up by a girl?” Patrick told the Star through a Rahal Letterman Racing spokesperson.
Dr. Kevin Scheid was driving the rescue vehicle and told the two drivers to settle down. But he would not settle the punch/poke debate. “I’m not going to break that tie,” he told the Star, laughing.
Patrick, who came away from the crash with a sore left elbow, and Lazier, who was not injured, came together and both spun and slammed hard into the wall. Each blamed the other for the crash that set up the dramatic finish.
“That’s not the way I wanted to finish my season,” Patrick said. “I was on my radio all day about him. He was all over the track even when he was running by himself. No wonder he jumps around from team to team. Needless to say, I’m pretty frustrated.”
Lazier said Patrick was the one at fault for continually pinching his car down in the corners. “She didn’t want to give me any room,” Lazier said.
Running a pink paint scheme in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness didn’t change Target/Ganassi Racing’s luck because Lazier’s crash was unofficially the 28th of the season for the team. Steve Chassey, an insurance executive who raced Indy cars in the 1970s and ‘80s, estimated Ganassi’s crash damage tab for the season is higher than for the entire Champ Car World Series field.
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Permalink • Tuesday - October 11, 2005
Yankees Choke
It’s official. The NY Yankees choked on the big one again. Final score in Game 5: Angels-5 Yankees-3. Angels win the series, three games to two. So long, Yanks! (say hello to Vilmar on your way out)
In the American League, the Championship Series will be between the Los Angleles Angels and the Chicago White Sox (first game Tuesday night on FOX). In the National League, it’s going to be a knock-down, dragout fight between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Houston Astros (first game Wednesday night on FOX).
World Series Prediction: The St. Louis Cardinals vs. the Chicago White Sox - the Cards will take the Sox in seven close games. Remember, you heard it here first.
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Permalink • Sunday - October 02, 2005
Take Me Out To The Ballgame
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Permalink • ARGH! Damn Yankees!
Dang it! Those rotten Yankees did it again! However, the BoSox aren’t out of it yet. They can still get in as the wild-card team in the playoffs. C’mon, Boston! Get your act together and show George Steinbrenner he can’t just keep buying World Series rings. In related news, the Cardinals capped their season yesterday with their 99th win of the season (best record in the MLB). Now it’s time for the Boys Of October to put on their game faces and get down ....
BOSTON (AP)
Not their best season. Not their smoothest. And certainly not the biggest title for a franchise that has 26 World Series championships in its illustrious past. Yet somewhere in the spray of champagne in the visitors’ clubhouse at Fenway Park on Saturday was the satisfaction that these Yankees came farther to win this AL East championship than any New York team since Bucky Dent popped one into the net here in 1978. “I can’t take my glasses off. I’m crying like a baby,” manager Joe Torre said on the field after New York beat Boston 8-4 to clinch the division for the eighth consecutive year.
“This was the best of all of them,” he added in the clubhouse. “The first is always memorable. But this has to be the most special because of everything that went on this year.” Randy Johnson won his sixth straight decision and the Yankees scorched Tim Wakefield for three homers - from Alex Rodriguez, Hideki Matsui and Gary Sheffield - to win for the 16th time in 20 games. Mariano Rivera finished up, gloving Johnny Damon’s high-chopper and throwing to first baseman Tino Martinez to set off a restrained on-field celebration.
Once inside the clubhouse, the Yankees sprayed champagne that dripped from the brims of the newest AL East Champion hats in their collection. For stalwarts like Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams, it is No. 9; for Robinson Cano, Aaron Small, Chien-Ming Wang and Shawn Chacon, it is a first. “I have been fortunate to be a part of this three times,” Johnson said of his time with the Mariners and Diamondbacks. “But you could see a lot of new kids in here that haven’t experienced this.” Mike Mussina taped up plastic in the clubhouse to protect the Yankees’ lockers; it’s his only responsibility in Boston since he won’t be needed in the regular season finale. Instead, he will pitch Game 1 of the playoffs on Tuesday against Cleveland or the Los Angeles Angels.
Through a quirk in baseball’s rules, the Yankees (95-66) won the division because of Cleveland’s loss to Chicago in the AL Central. The loss by the Indians (93-68) eliminated the possibility of a three-way tie - and an unprecedented two-game, three-team tiebreaker - and gave New York the East by virtue of their 10-8 record against Boston (94-67). Small watched in the clubhouse and relayed the Indians’ score to the dugout. “He wins 10 games and give you the final score, too,” Torre joked with one of his coaches. “How much better can it get?”
The Red Sox finished second in the division for the eighth straight year, but it’s not all bad news for them. Their magic number to clinch the AL wild-card berth is one, meaning the defending World Series champions can do no worse than a tie - news that got a medium-sized cheer when it was announced on the Fenway scoreboard. If Boston loses on Sunday and Cleveland wins, they will meet at Fenway Park on Monday to decide the AL’s last playoff berth. If Cleveland loses on Sunday, the Red Sox get the wild-card berth no matter what they do.
“It’s the most unique situation you will see,” Boston manager Terry Francona said. “What are the odds of us watching the Yankees celebrate and we’re coming into the clubhouse as excited as you can be about playing the game tomorrow.” Curt Schilling (7-8) is scheduled to go against Jaret Wright (5-4) on Sunday at Fenway. If the Red Sox have a one-game playoff against Cleveland, Matt Clement (13-6) would pitch on three days’ rest.
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Permalink • Roll Tide!
The Crimson Tide is back ... with a vengeance! After nearly a decade of coaching changes, probations, etc. Coach Mike Shula has my boys back on track as evidenced by an old fashioned butt-whuppin’ the Tide put on Forida yesterday. Alabama went into the game as a five-to-one underdog and spanked the #5 ranked Gators severely. Florida never saw the endzone and barely managed a single field goal the entire game. This is the first time since 1992 that the Gators haven’t been able to score at least one touchdown in a game. Needless to say, there was a lot of beer-drinkin’, potato chip crunchin’, and whoopin’ and hollerin’ in the Skipper’s cabin yesterday afternoon. I have just now recovered from the party and post-game celebration. My head hurts but I’m as happy as a pig in slop (apologies to Oink) ...
TUSCALOOSA (AP)
Alabama produced everything from long touchdown passes to a goal line stand in its biggest game in nearly 6 years. Then, the Crimson Tide players wondered why people seemed so surprised at their 31-3 rout of No. 5 Florida on Saturday. “This is exactly where we thought we’d be,’’ quarterback Brodie Croyle said. Few others were expecting such a dominant performance from No. 15 Alabama (5-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference), which proclaimed itself perhaps the league’s team to beat with the victory.
Croyle threw for three TDs, including an 87-yarder to Tyrone Prothro and a 65-yarder to Keith Brown, and the defense was even more impressive in shutting down Urban Meyer’s offense. A Meyer-coached team had never been held without a touchdown, and the Gators (4-1, 2-1) hadn’t been kept out of the end zone since 1992. “Tell him not to feel so bad, because he played a very good defense,’’ Tide defensive back Charlie Peprah said.
Alabama, which had lost its last five games against top-five teams at Bryant-Denny Stadium, got its biggest win since a 34-7 victory over Florida in the 1999 SEC championship game. Tide fans, who had been hungry for just such a victory, mostly remained in the stands well after the game’s conclusion, celebrating as the players lingered on the field.
“That’s all we talked about all week, that we could make history,’’ said Croyle, who was 15-for-18 for 286 yards. The Gators had the league’s top defense overall and against the pass, but left having failed to even slow down Croyle when it counted. Coming into the game, Croyle hadn’t completed a pass longer than 52 yards all season. “We are a man-coverage team and we were exposed,’’ Meyer said. “We lost a lot of one-on-one battles. They are a very fast team. They looked a lot faster than we did today.’’
Chris Leak, meanwhile, was harassed into a 5-of-16 performance in the first half and his first two interceptions of the season, leaving him three passes shy of Danny Wuerffel’s school record streak of 121 without a pick. It was the Gators’ worst defeat since losing 36-7 to LSU in 2002 and ended Meyer’s personal 20-game winning streak at Utah and Florida. “Our back was against the wall the whole game,’’ defensive end Jeremy Mincey said. “They took advantage of that. They’re a talented team but we could have and should have won.’’
There was one downer for Alabama on its best day under coach Mike Shula. Prothro was carted off the field with a splint on his lower left leg after landing awkwardly trying to catch a fourth-down pass in the end zone in the fourth quarter. Shula said the do-it-all receiver broke his leg in two places and was likely out for the season. “There were a lot of questions about how we could match up against a talented team,’’ Shula said. “Hopefully we answered some of those.’’
The Gators trailed 24-3 at halftime and couldn’t capitalize on Alabama’s one big mistake. Prothro fumbled away the punt after Alabama’s defense pinned Florida at its own 7 on the opening drive. After the Gators again failed to gain a yard before punting, Croyle hit Prothro in stride just across midfield for the long touchdown on the next play. It was just the beginning. Alabama’s defense set up another TD when Chris Harris intercepted a deflected pass and returned it 14 yards to Florida’s 2. The Tide added Croyle’s 65-yarder to Keith Brown midway through the second quarter on a slant pattern.
Prothro caught five passes for 134 yards and added a 15-yard touchdown in the third. Kenneth Darby rushed 15 times for 101 yards for the Tide. Croyle broke Alabama’s career record held by Andrew Zow and current coach Mike Shula’s career record of 35 touchdown passes with his 15-yarder to Prothro in the third quarter.
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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