In the words of the Professional Wrestling Icon “Nature Boy” Ric Flair
“To Be the Man, you have to beat the Man”
Saturday night in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome….
The Southeastern Conference Championship game….
The Alabama Crimson Tide didn’t just beat the man….
They took him behind the woodshed and wore his ass out.
Many of you were kind enough to email me asking my thoughts about this game
Here they are….
In no particular order
EDITORS NOTE: Please forgive me, it’s been a while
Some experts said before the game “if” Alabama could keep the contest close
The Tide “might” have a shot at playing the Mighty Florida Gators (again) in the National Championship game.
Some even claimed this game was going to be a “Classic”
I guess it was if you spell “classic” B-L-O-W O-U-T
But to be honest I felt good about this game
My confidence was not misplaced
Before the game a calm Alabama Quarterback, Greg McElroy
addressed his offence with this simple sentence, spoken in a calm, but excited voice
“Let’s go win a championship boys”
Then I saw the Alabama defensive player with eye black similar to Tim Tebow’s
It had a Bible verse on it too…
Ezekiel under one eye and 20:29 under the other eye
This Bible verse reads……
“Then I said unto them, what is the high place whereunto you go? And the name thereof is called Ba’mah unto this day”
No jumping around…
No screaming or flexing muscles and cockiness
Just Business from the boys in Crimson
The Alabama Crimson Tide limited the Florida Gators to “13” points for the entire game, Believe that?
While Rolling up almost 500 yards of total offense against the “Number One” defense in College Football.
Something else we all learned in this game….
Superman doesn’t wear “Number 15” as the Gator Nation would want you to believe
He has a “2” in his equation
Like say…
“12”
“22”
“25”
“28”
“62”
I don’t know if Mark Ingram will win the Heisman Trophy from this game
But I can tell you who won’t….
But the Florida Gators should have known at Half-Time this wasn’t going to end well.
In the Dr. Pepper Challenge for a Hundred Thousand Dollar College Scholarship…..
Two people were selected to throw ten footballs into an oversized Dr. Pepper Can from ten yards away.
There was a young man from Florida out on the field doing the “Gator Chomp” and saying…..
he was going “Ten for Ten” and then while doing the Gator Chomp felt obligated to yell, “Go Gators!”
The other young person was a young lady from Alabama….
that according to her “just learned to throw a football” and she said
“her high school football coach taught her how to throw it”
The competition started…..
And the little girl from Alabama that just learned how to throw a football beat the boy doing the gator chomp.
It was a sign of things to come
In the second half the Crimson Tide made Urban sweat and Timmy cry…
No moral victories, no fourth quarter comebacks
No matter how many times CBS Sports….
Showed replays of last years SEC Championship game
This was the Alabama Crimson Tide’s night
They simply dominated the Gators in every phase of the game…..
and now the Crimson Tide are the Southeastern Conference Champions
and will have the opportunity to play for the National Championship
I know this article will upset the commentators and sideline reporters from CBS Sports….
who have carried on a Love Fest with Urban Myer and Tim Tebow all year.
But I suspect they are still on the “suicide hotline” and won’t have time to read it.
Forgive me, I’m still excited
I will have more later on in the week…….
Including emails and other news about this game and the other games from last week.
But for now, I am still celebrating…
ROLL TIDE ROLL
MEB