IT'S LIKE CONCORD AND LEXINGTON IN PEARL HARBOR ON SEPTEMBER 11TH!
Nick Saban, coach of the Alabama "Crimson Tide", coming off a loss to the lowly Louisiana-Monroe "Pacifistic Amish", told his team they needed to be able to rebound from this "catastrophic event".
My favorite part is "kind of got us ready for World War II, or whatever". Yeah, whatever. You'd think he wasn't born in 1951 or something. At least he's pushing the student in student-athletics "or whatever".
Now, according to a school spokesperson Saban wasn't trying to say Alabama being 6-5 was the same thing as a surprise military attack or the largest terrorist attack on American soil. Trust me, if you've ever met a Southern football fan, they won't think it's the same thing. They'll think it was worse.
The point, instead, is that the team needs to rebound from adversity and hardship, much like American has. Maybe, instead of citing 9-11 and Pearl Harbor "or whatever", as an example of adversity or hardship he could have cited... oh, I don't know, the overtime loss to Georgia, the loss to Florida State, or the loss to conference rivals Mississippi State, who got one of only 3 conference wins against Alabama by a score of 17-12. Maybe cite earlier this month when you gave up two touchdowns in 83 seconds to lose to former Saban coached LSU. Maybe those would have been better examples of recent adversity and hardship.
Not that Nick Saban doesn't know a thing or two about sneak attacks, "or whatever".
Changes in history usually occur after some kind of catastrophic event. It may be 9-11, which sort of changed the spirit of America relative to catastrophic events. Pearl Harbor kind of got us ready for World War II, or whatever, and that was a catastrophic event.
My favorite part is "kind of got us ready for World War II, or whatever". Yeah, whatever. You'd think he wasn't born in 1951 or something. At least he's pushing the student in student-athletics "or whatever".
Now, according to a school spokesperson Saban wasn't trying to say Alabama being 6-5 was the same thing as a surprise military attack or the largest terrorist attack on American soil. Trust me, if you've ever met a Southern football fan, they won't think it's the same thing. They'll think it was worse.
The point, instead, is that the team needs to rebound from adversity and hardship, much like American has. Maybe, instead of citing 9-11 and Pearl Harbor "or whatever", as an example of adversity or hardship he could have cited... oh, I don't know, the overtime loss to Georgia, the loss to Florida State, or the loss to conference rivals Mississippi State, who got one of only 3 conference wins against Alabama by a score of 17-12. Maybe cite earlier this month when you gave up two touchdowns in 83 seconds to lose to former Saban coached LSU. Maybe those would have been better examples of recent adversity and hardship.
Not that Nick Saban doesn't know a thing or two about sneak attacks, "or whatever".
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