Roll Tide

If someone had told me a year ago that I would be watching the Alabama/Notre Dame game this year, I would have told them they were nuts. I have watched every Alabama game this season and have thoroughly enjoyed each one of them. The BCS championship game was thrilling. The comments on facebook were also thrilling. I lived in Alabama for a short time. I would say that was in my “second” life. I haven’t talked much about that time period. My first husband was an associate pastor in a church in Wetumpka, Alabama. Wetumpka is close to Montgomery. I can remember when we first moved there my daughter Christi was only 4 years old. She asked me one day why everyone there was named “Bubba.” I’ll have to write about those experiences in Alabama someday. Before moving there I always considered myself a southerner, but they considered us from the “north.” I loved Alabama and some of my friends here live in Bridgeport which is only 30 miles from me. I’ve learned that if you were born in Alabama, you’re always partial to Alabama and especially the “Crimson Tide.” It seems Alabama is in your blood. I still don’t know a lot about football—but I can tell when a touchdown is made. I can also tell when there is a good team spirit. Yes, you’re never too old to like something new. For me—football—but it has to be Alabama, Crimson Tide. DR 1/8/13