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Sam’s Iron Bowl Prediction

By Brian on November 19th, 2012 at 3:00 pm with one comment

From left to right:
Alabama football player
Goal post with football
Me
Sam
Auburn football player
Two Auburn fans

Her prediction is 81 – 1, good guys.

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UA Gymnastics

By Janie on March 10th, 2012 at 3:53 pm without comments

Samantha and I went to a gymnastics meet back in early February.  She has loved her gymnastics class so much (really, just the trampoline) (despite having a new teacher every few weeks) that I thought she’d enjoy the meet.  She did.  She learned a couple of cheers like “Go Go Go Alabama” and “B-A-M-A Roll Tide Roll.”

 

About a month later, we went again as a family (and the Grissoms were supposed to go with us, but their attempt was foiled yet again by sickness).  Sam was an old pro this time.  She asked for popcorn until I conceded.  I got the family tub, and discovered that Ellie can put us all under the table with her popcorn eating.  (That blur down there is one reason I didn’t get to watch much of the second meet…)

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Winner!

By Brian on April 25th, 2010 at 4:26 pm without comments

This is me on most of my drives to work.

Harvick nudges McMurray for Talladega Victory

I was pulling for Reutimann though.

Reutimann Alabama National Championship Car

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Just for Lizzie

By Brian on January 20th, 2010 at 7:54 pm without comments

Why is the University of Colorado known as CU and not UC or U of C?
The same applies at Kansas-KU, Missouri-MU, Nebraska-NU, Oklahoma-OU and Denver-DU. “Midwestern casualness,” says former CU historian Fred Casotti. It has always been this way at Colorado, for whatever reason, and at the other five listed above-but seemingly nowhere else in the USA. In the 1950s, there was a concerted effort to eliminate the use of “CU” on the Boulder campus, both as a symbol and in speech, but Casotti said that no one would buy into it. “Nobody would change,” he said. “It’s easier to say than U of C, UC sounds like slang or something (as in ‘you see’), and it was traditional. By trying to eliminate it, they reinforced it.”

(from the official athletics website of the University of Colorado)

Similarly, here we say “UA.” “AU” must just be slang.

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Roll Tide

By Janie on December 1st, 2009 at 7:15 pm without comments

This fall, Samantha has learned to say “Roll Tide.” I caught her saying it towards the beginning of the football season on October 10, 2009. Check it out.

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