Tim Tebow’s Tears: “The Paul Finebaum Test”

Infamous Sports Radio Host Paul Finebaum

Ask anyone in Alabama, especially, who the most-hated person is, and they’ll likely tell you Paul Finebaum.

Finebaum, the often incendiary-comment-making sports radio host, is one of few things who can unite the state divided by Alabama and Auburn fans.

After Alabama’s big win over Florida in the SEC Championship game Saturday night, I wrote

The Tale of Tim Tebow’s Tears

Tebow Stunned by Bama, 32-13, Questions Whether He Can Walk on Water

Attention, worshippers. Services have been cancelled for the foreseeable future.

Please clean out your huts and prepare to return to the “real” world. Tebow-town is officially closed.

Just as Jim Jones could only serve up the Kool-Aid for so long to facilitate the blind faith of his followers, so, too, has it been proven the mild-altering concoction consumed by Tim Tebow’s congregation has turned sour.

Forget “The Promise.” Forget Superman. Forget all the stupid Tebowisms. And every other shred of

Blast From the Past: Bama-Florida 1999

Bama-Florida 1999: No Tickets To Witness 21st SEC Title

Sure, I entertained the thought of making the short trip to Atlanta to see the SEC Championship game the last two years.

But the closest I (almost) came to actually getting there was in 1999, and I enlisted a little help along the way.

A 9-2 regular season was good enough to get us to the Georgia Dome for a rematch against Florida.

About two months prior to the SEC Championship meeting, Alabama beat the Spurrier-coached Gators

College Football: Week 13

Apparently, hatred is a powerful motivator as Week 13, a.k.a. rivalry week in college football showed us.

Most of those bitter matchups were pretty close games, unless you’re Florida and instead ran up the score (only pulling the starters with a little more than four minutes to go in the fourth quarter) on an embattled Florida State team.

No matter to the man-crushing Tebow-worshipping media, who were so impressed with the Gators’

Blast From the Past: Bama-Auburn 1999

Bama-Auburn 1999 Memorable for Win, Signature Cheer

As I’ve mentioned before, 1999 was a great year in recent Alabama history. For one, I was a student at the Capstone, majoring in Crimson Tide football and journalism.

I only got the “official” degree in journalism, though. Perhaps the football one is just understood.

Alabama had already clinched a spot in the SEC Championship game opposite Florida the week before, so beating Auburn held no other implications other than bragging rights.

Any football fan knows that a win over a big rival can do wonders for “salvaging” a season, and any football coach knows that it can do wonders for saving your job.

Just ask Bill Curry or Mike Shula. I’m sure they

Bryant-Denny Stadium Behind the Scenes

The Alabama “A” Inside the Locker Room

Getting Ready for the Game

Terry Grant and Javier Arenas

Best Seats in the House

The outcome of the game could have been better. Still, it was a great one: Alabama hosting Georgia in Tuscaloosa at night; coach Nick Saban on the sidelines poised to turn the Tide.

But one Matthew Stafford completion to the end zone in overtime cancelled out John Parker-Wilson’s comeback bid, and it was over. No. 22 Georgia wins, 26-23.

For me, precious little can soothe a loss—especially the season’s first—and God bless those who know this firsthand. But on this trip to Tuscaloosa, I might have found as much