As a child in Charlotte, Vinnie Sunseri saw Kelly Johnson as the guy who could do it all.

Sunseri, Alabama’s sophomore safety, was only a fifth grader when he saw Johnson, a seventh grader, dunk a basketball.

“He was a freak athlete,” said Sunseri, whose older brother, Tino, played on Johnson’s middle school football team.

“I was like, 'Wow, I want to be like Kelly.’”

Years later, the tables had turned.

With Sunseri on scholarship and seeing action as a true freshman, Johnson, who had finally worked his way into some special teams duties as a walk-on junior, wanted to be just like Vinnie. He wanted to play.
 

NO game should schedule kickoff before it is socially acceptable to drink beer!! 

Hope you didn't leave your boat there!

I agree, Chech, but even if we win all games and the NC, I suffer each time an opponent gets a first down, am devastated if they get beyond the 50-yard line, am horrified if they make a sack, crushed if we get a penalty, get pains if they score any points any way, and stop breathing if we fall behind anytime.

So why do I endanger my health by following football? Because Bama is the greatest thing on the gridiron.

Okay, let the suffering begin.

Pass Christian, MS

This is the worse Category 1 storm I remember.  But (as said above), it's the duration of the storm that made it so bad.  Many in south Louisiana are saying it's worse than Katrina, but that's moot.  Katrina's approach to the coast wasn't nearly as bad for Louisiana as for Mississippi; south Louisiana didn't have as much high water.  So, the comparison isn't appropriate.  Katrina was remembered because of failed levees in New Orleans, not tidal surge and rain south of there.

Good luck, Jody. I think you guys will be the best team in the east this year. Hopefully Georgia's favorable schedule wont keep you from Atlanta.

I do think tonight will be a tough game though. Vandy will be feisty this.year.

would you say this has to be the most powerful Cat 1 storm ever ?

I hear that there are some people saying the NHC missed it with
their forecast on intensity and other factors .

as always , some folks always have to lay the blame elsewhere it seems
(Land of the Free Home of the Blame)

so I wondered ... what do you all think ?

NHC = good job or NHC = missed it ?

 

Yep.  He wants to run the ball clock as much as possible.

I don't remember any of the big games for season openers until recently.  Of the recent ones I would have to go with the Clemson game from 2008.  I could not wait for that game because I was anxious to see things get turned around.  John Mark Stallings died just before the season started and I remember thinking how unfortunate it was that he wouldn't live to see us back on top.