So why is it that you guys have a elephant as your mascot? I thought you were a tide? as in... water? so whats up with dumbo???
If you want to know...READ IT... The story of how Alabama became associated with the "Elephant" goes back to the days of Coach Wallace Wade and the 1930 season in which Coach Wade had assembled a great football team. Sports writer Everett Strupper of the Atlanta Journal witnessed the Alabama-Mississippi game in Tuscaloosa. On October 8, 1930 he gave this account of the game he saw four days earlier. "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." With that the "Red Elephants" were born referring to the Crimson Tide linemen. That 1930 team posted an overall 10-0 record, and shutout eight opponents allowing 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. An interesting note to this is that Coach Wade again started his second team in the Rose Bowl also. In early newspaper accounts of Alabama Football, the team was simply referred to as the "Varsity" or the "Crimson White" after the school colors. The first nickname to become popular and used by headline writers was the "Thin Red Line." The nickname was used until 1906. The name "Crimson Tide" is supposed to have first been used by Hugh Roberts, former sports writer for the Birmingham Age Herald. He used "Crimson Tide" in describing an Alabama-Auburn game played in Birmingham in 1907, the last football contest between the two schools until 1948 when the series was resumed. The game was played in a sea of mud and Auburn was a heavy favorite to win. But, evidently, the "Thin Red Line" played a great game in the red mud and held Auburn to a 6-6 tie, thus gaining the name "Crimson Tide." Zipp Newman, former sports editor of the Birmingham News, probably popularized the name more than any other writer. There you go....
Mike may as well be fed Elephant. I hear it taste like crap though. It has a bad odor just like Bama Fans. Have you ever noticed wherever Bama Fans are their are usually a bunch of flies. They attract them. Flies like the smell of crap.
Another thing is this: Do you Bama Flies know how to separate a paragraph. Do they teach English in the State of Alabama.
You're an LSU fan...I didn't really expect for you to grasp it but I thought i'd throw it out there anyway. Oh and about the flies....You're team's in Louisiana--Filth capitol of the world.
