Stay Classy, Football

one of my favorite blogs, the selvedge yard, has an excellent post about bear bryant, coaching aesthetics and class - namely citing that ubiquitus shot in every football game of the coach on the sidelines and how the contemporary coach in a puffy starter jacket covered in logos look like the michelin man. that's not classy, not like bear bryant. it has photo accompaniment. read it here.

Three Wolf/Mount Cody Moon

game day is coming. this one is important. we need to channel our energies and project them toward tuscaloosa. i have inspiration for you. go ahead and marinate on that for a little while.

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Robin Williams on Larry Langford

"ol' joke stealer," as they call him in the industry, came to birmingham and made some jokes about football and larry langford. go figure. kinda funny. saw him at a rodeo one time - horse, spurs, and crooked clown commissioner jokes. the man knows his audience.

Today is Roll MF'in Tide Day at Work

well, really it's wear your school colors on casual friday day. that translates to roll mf'in tide day where i come from. the first game of the season is tomorrow and that rulez. yes with a z. there's a lot of buzz about football on the facebooks. i noticed that some of my nc state friends were disappointed by last night's showing. i went online to check out gopack.com to find the score from the evening before. what i found was inspiring. nc state hired a local independent rock band named airiel down to contemporize their school's fight song.

(i wonder if they know what loitering means? if they do! oh man, that's hard!)

check out the contemporary version! it's totally rockin. i really like how they yell out the team mascot at the beginning. i think that is a trademark. here's another song where they yell at the beginning:

airiel down also composed the fight song for the carolina hurricanes. it's on their myspace. this got me thinking. alabama should pay a band to contemporize their fight song. we could get saliva, the makers of "click click boom," or those guys who did the "ew ah ah ah ah" song to cover the fight song or rammer jammer. actually, the football program has so much money, we could lose the marching band altogether and pay one of these bands to play live in the stadium. now that would be rad.