A letter to Coach Saban

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John Brandon on Miami-Florida State, Alabama-Louisiana State, and Stanford-Oregon - Grantland

The entire article is good, but this part is clearly the best.




Coach Saban,

First off, let me say you have a fine, fine football team. The running game and the defense are just fantastic. I'll make this quick because you're busy. Tuscaloosa probably has a part of town where Latinos are concentrated. If not Tuscaloosa, then certainly Birmingham. In that part of town there will be a makeshift soccer field, or maybe even a real soccer field. On this field you will find children of all ages for whom kicking a ball is easy, second nature, and who haven't lived lives steeped in American collegiate football lore and therefore wouldn't be super-duper nervous if asked to kick a weird-shaped ball through uprights that to them would seem a gaping target. After you've chosen your boy, explain that he will receive a college education at one of the top 100 state universities in the nation if a few dozen times a year he kicks the weird ball through the uprights for you. There may be a moment of confusion when the boy thinks he has to actually hit one of the uprights with the ball, and then when he realizes he merely has to kick it anywhere between the uprights, both of you will laugh, and laughter knows no borders.
 
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An AL fan posted on one of their sites today that he would be "willing to shower with Sandusky, for a field goal."
 
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An AL fan posted on one of their sites today that he would be "willing to shower with Sandusky, for a field goal."

not sure he intended the bama fan showering part to be the punchline but it was to me
 
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Actually, given everything that's going on with immigration laws in Alabama these days, Latinos aren't as easy to find as they once were.
 

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