It Don't Get Any Better Than This

Nope........it don't! :) Matt and I are headed down to Tuscaloosa tomorrow morning bright and early to watch Alabama and Tennessee play their annual 3rd Saturday in October game. I haven't been to a Bama/Vols game since 1977.......30 years ago. The Tennessee game is the biggest game of the year for me. Bigger than the Auburn game? Yeah, for me it is. I grew up in an era when Auburn was not all that good, and the Tennessee game was always a dog-fight. The Vols were for sure our biggest rival! On the third Saturday in October in 1973, I went to take my ACT test. The person giving us the test told us we could leave when we finished the last test. It was the Science section, and I didn't need any encouragement to hurry up because science is like Chinese to me anyway. The other students must have thought I was the second coming of Einstein, because I finished that section in RECORD time and ran to my car. I was NOT going to miss any of the Bama game on TV.
Wilbur Jackson went for about 80 yards for a TD that day, and the Tide won another one. We also won the game I went to in 77. Tennessee didn't make a first down until the 3rd quarter, and even the Bama fans clapped for them when they finally did. Bear's boys didn't lose too many during that stretch. That 77 team is still my favorite team of all time, and they got ROBBED by Notre Dame for the National Championship........the Irish went from 5th to 1st in the last poll. If Bama had been awarded that Championship, it would have been the 1st of 3 in a row. Anyway, I can't think of a better 52 year birthday present!!

By the way, the 13 I scored on that Science section of the ACT probably made me who I am today!!!!!!!! :)