Bama Game Thread: Official PreGame Thread - Bama vs. IU, 3:00 CST, ESPN, Streaming...

[Tideflyer]

Yeah, let's not do that...

Why not? It worked against Walnut Heights!

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

We need to pressure Mendoza all day.

 

[Slowpoke Catracho]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2006697343526019119

 

[Joefus]

RTR!! The field is tarped but it’s been raining non stop in La so I’m feeling pretty apprehensive about it. Gonna be a messy game I’m afraid

 

[bamaga]

It’s still raining and they are taking the tarp off the field? Why?

 

[92tide]

It’s still raining and they are taking the tarp off the field? Why?

probably because the rain is moving out now

 

[bamaga]

probably because the rain is moving out now

Occasional showers in the forecast over the next 2 hours, pull the tarp at 10AM local, that would allow all the rain to move through and still gives 3 hours before game time. I don’t know, I would do everything I could to keep the field in good shape. But I’m not a professional groundskeeper

 

[CajunCrimson]

It’s still raining and they are taking the tarp off the field? Why?

I'm guessing they have to let it "breathe" so to speak. It should have normal drainage -- and most of the heavy rain is done.

 

[92tide]

Occasional showers in the forecast over the next 2 hours, pull the tarp at 10AM local, that would allow all the rain to move through and still gives 3 hours before game time. I don’t know, I would do everything I could to keep the field in good shape. But I’m not a professional groundskeeper

i would guess it's quite a long, involved process getting the tarps off and stored, and the field ready for walk throughs/warm ups, so i imagine that is part of the equation as well

 

[BamaFanInTally]

maybe he got into michael irvin's stash

I guess he found Irvin’s booger sugar.

 

[Bazza]

ON THIS DATE IN 1964: Bear Bryant said later that the only thing that could have messed up his eighth ranked Alabama team’s chances in the 1964 Sugar Bowl against 6th ranked Ole Miss in New Orleans would have been if it were to snow.

Well, much to his chagrin, it did snow the night before the January 1st game in the Crescent City. It snowed an amazing 4 ½ inches. Snow was covering the field at Tulane Stadium (site of the game before the Superdome was built) on the morning of January 1, 1964.

The “New Year’s Eve Snow” in the Deep South also dumped an incredible 19.2 inches at Muscle Shoals (still a record for the state of Alabama), 17.1 inches of snow on Huntsville.Much of Northwest Alabama was buried under 15-17 inches of snow. Roofs and awnings collapsed under the weight of the snow. The snow paralyzed much of the area for up to three days, closing schools and businesses.

Mobile picked up two inches. Birmingham picked up 8.40 inches of snow, the fifth biggest snowstorm in the city’s history.

FYI Alabama won the game by a 12-7 margin.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2006693710474449154

 

[Bazza]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2006469047182061990

 

[tmv85]

Good morning, Happy New Year, and ROLL
TIDE!!

 

[russtang]

Bring in the Helos

 

[Cruiser]

Reading that Kevin Riley is back; 100%

 

[Cruiser]

Does anybody; other than Coach Saban, pick us on GameDay??

Shocker; Desmond picks Bama, Roll Tide!!

 

[squib]

Roll Tide from West Texas and a sea of Red Raider flags out on my morning walk. Wife wearing a TTU hoodie got several Guns Up.

 

[bamaga]

Nick and Desmond picked Bama, Pat picked IU.

 

[Maudiemae]

Roll Tide Roll!!!

 

[bamaga]

Reading that Kevin Riley is back; 100%

What? Wow!