Worst weather that Bama has played in

[selmaborntidefan]

I imagine this would be high in the running for the worst weather ever for a college game

1939 Texas Tech vs. Centenary football game - Wikipedia

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That was your senior class trip, right???

 

[selmaborntidefan]

But a lot of people I know saw 1992 SECCG was a miserable weather day and the 2000 USF game was the hottest one.

2003 USF???

Also, I was at that 2015 LSU game, and it was horrendous all day - until the game began. It wasn't great then, but at least I was under the awning.

 

[81usaf92]

2003 USF???

Also, I was at that 2015 LSU game, and it was horrendous all day - until the game began. It wasn't great then, but at least I was under the awning.

I don’t have your memory so if I mess up a Mike year please don’t hold it against me. I would have just said the USF game prior to this year but we have another memorable chapter in the series.

 

[2003TIDE]

That 2000 iron bowl was awful. Only time for a home game during as a student I left early. Boots and coat soaked through and couldn’t feel my toes halfway through the 3rd quarter.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I don’t have your memory so if I mess up a Mike year please don’t hold it against me. I would have just said the USF game prior to this year but we have another memorable chapter in the series.

Wasn't trying to be mean, I was thinking, "Wait, 2000 was like an aneurysm, did we play USF that year?"


That game was weird for me - first with me living on the West Coast. Weird to wake up to 9am football.

 

[TideEngineer08]

I don’t have your memory so if I mess up a Mike year please don’t hold it against me. I would have just said the USF game prior to this year but we have another memorable chapter in the series.

We played UCF in DuBose's last year, 2000, and lost. That was the year AFTER Dante Culpepper went pro... still lost to them.

We played USF in 2003, Shula's first year, first game of the season. Our last at Legion Field. It was HOT.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

We played UCF in DuBose's last year, 2000, and lost. That was the year AFTER Dante Culpepper went pro... still lost to them.

We played USF in 2003, Shula's first year, first game of the season. Our last at Legion Field. It was HOT.

Wasn't even thinking of UCF (which happened to fall on my birthday).
And boy was that a gorgeous day in Mississippi.

I'm serious - once it was obvious the final score was gonna be close, I pulled for UCF. I wanted Dubious gone, and I figured that would be the last straw.

 

[TideEngineer08]

Wasn't even thinking of UCF (which happened to fall on my birthday).
And boy was that a gorgeous day in Mississippi.

I'm serious - once it was obvious the final score was gonna be close, I pulled for UCF. I wanted Dubious gone, and I figured that would be the last straw.

Many of us did.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Many of us did.

It was a group prayer!!

 

[B1GTide]

So, essentially, not bad weather at all.

 

[Evil Crimson Dragon]

The 2015 UGA game was a monsoon

 

[FitToBeTide]

Memorable day for a lot of reasons. It was a fabulous wedding present for my new bride and I that day. 57 years together since that day on 12/2/67.

 

[Cowtown Bama]

I remember watching that Boston College road game in 1983. I remember Ray Perkins mentioning something about why are we traveling to Boston in November. It was miserable. Walter Lewis took off running for the endzone on the last play and got tackled a few yards short. Also I went to the Independence Bowl Saban’s first year against Colorado. It was freezing cold for that one.

 

[Bama Lee]

For me, it was that music city bowl against Virginia Tech in the Vanderbilt stadium

I was at that game. 36 degrees with a drizzle and Bama didn’t show up at all

 

[CB4]

My father in law played for Delta State in early 1950’s. He was a center and LB. They were playing Troy State in Cleveland, MS in torrential rain.
Delta State was up 6-0 late in the 4th quarter in a pouring rain. Fourth down, backed up inside their own 10 yard line. The coach asked him “hey Red what would ya do?” He said “take the safety. Free kick. They can’t move it in the mess against our defense. I’ll just snap the ball over our punter’s head out of the end zone”. Which is what he did. They won 6-2.
My father in law always says “I only scored two points in my college football career and it was for the other team”.
He was also a true freshman in 1951 on the Delta State team that lost to Alabama 89-0 in Montgomery. He played the entire second half because their “all conference” center said “No mas” by half. Alabama’s nose guard had wore him out.
In the locker room after the game, their coach was raising cane and yelled at them “How the hell do you lose a game 89-0?”
Someone in the back muttered “they eased up on us….”

 

[CB4]

My father in law played for Delta State in early 1950’s. He was a center and LB. They were playing Troy State in Cleveland, MS in torrential rain.
Delta State was up 6-0 late in the 4th quarter in a pouring rain. Fourth down, backed up inside their own 10 yard line. The coach asked him “hey Red what would ya do?” He said “take the safety. Free kick. They can’t move it in the mess against our defense. I’ll just snap the ball over our punter’s head out of the end zone”. Which is what he did. They won 6-2.
My father in law always says “I only scored two points in my college football career and it was for the other team”.
He was also a true freshman in 1951 on the Delta State team that lost to Alabama 89-0 in Montgomery. He played the entire second half because their “all conference” center said “No mas” by half. Alabama’s nose guard had wore him out.
In the locker room after the game, their coach was raising cane and yelled at them “How the hell do you lose a game 89-0?”
Someone in the back muttered “they eased up on us….”

Edit: as a side note my FIL, at almost 91 years old and suffering from dementia, can STILL name many of the players on the Alabama team he played against that day. Can’t remember what day of the week it is or which meal he is eating, but still remembers that day.

 

[Tide-one-on]

I took the kids to a Florida Atlantic or one of those South Florida directional schools one September..Never again!!

 

[theballguy]

Not football, but it was a Bama game.

Forecasters confirm tornado hit downtown Atlanta

The National Weather Service on Saturday confirmed that a tornado struck downtown Atlanta on Friday night, damaging the Georgia Dome and forcing the Southeastern Conference tournament to move.

www.espn.com

When I lived in Georgia, I lived in Stockbridge (about 25 miles southeast) on a small hill. I could see the tornado leaving Atlanta and heading towards the airport.

If I remember right, didn't that tornado hit the Omni or something?