Crimson Red Sports

Some pretty interesting names in this list... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Alabama_people) Check out the first name in the "business" entries...who knew? ???

 :shh:  :-[

I saw where a company is taking this guy's suits and making custom laptop bags out of them.

 :-X

Timothy Leary was a UA grad? I had no idea.

I knew that, I was surprised by Mel Allen.

Yeah, Mel was from Alabama and Red Barber, who used to do the old Brooklyn Dodgers broadcasts, was from Mississippi.

Timothy Leary is Dead - Moody Blues. Will I think it was the Blues. Leary got famous for designing Campbell Soup labels. Go figure.

And doing LSD daily for years.

I figured this would be Bernie Madoff.  If you read his bio you see at least he only attended UA as a freshman, so he didn't learn any of his business "sense" at Bama.

My mother had journalism classes with him at Alabama when he was Melvin Israel. Said he was some personality and great fellow.

Looks like "Allen" is a popular choice for a last name if your changing it. Tim Allen used to be Tim Dick (I would have changed it too).

Good point, 2Stater. Woody Allen used to be Allen Konigsberg.

Yup. And Steve Allen's real name is.......Steve Allen.  :P

Years ago I would often get invited to hunt at the Dollarhide Hunting Club near Eutaw, Ala. On the Friday nights before the Saturday hunt I had the pleasure of sitting around the fireplace and listen to some great baseball and football stories from Joe Sewell and Riggs Stephrnson. Joe and Riggs were both members of the club.

Remember any,J? I would think Joe Sewell would have some good ones.

I visit customers south of Eutaw around Demopolis. Years ago I use to stop at the Eutaw Bait Shop across from the Chevy dealer. Inside it was a gun store and a fishing tackle store plus an old like general store plus a small place with tables. Early in the morning all the area Alabama game wardens were in there drinking coffee. During hunting season the bait shop held a big buck contest and gave away a 4 wheeler. Some good size deer taken out of those swamps.

Not really, they didn't brag so much but liked to compare how it was when they played to how baseball was played then. Wu Winslet, who played football for Bama, was the President of the club and those three were very tight with each other. The hunting club was very popular with Bama players and coaches back then, Bear used to show up to play a little poker occasionally.

Here is a link to Dollarhide Hunting Club, it's a pretty good read.

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20090222/news/902211934?p=2&tc=pg

I used to go in there quite a bit, there was a big rattlesnake, that had been mounted, in there that was killed at Dollarhide, that thing was huge.

It has been said that former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson attended BAMA.

So did I, grad'd in 1967..but I ain't near famous.

Mrs. Johnson's Wiki page claims that she attended Bama for one semester during the summer but never returned.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson#Education

They conveniently forgot Carl Carmer, the University of Alabama English teacher from New York. His first night at the University, someone told him to get out before it was too late. He spent his time traveling the state to collect stories showing how backward Alabamians were, including voodoo rituals in Tuscaloosa. He published this in a 1934 book, Stars Fell on Alabama and soon left before our good folk got him. The book title was later used for the popular song.