I wish I could say that this was a great game to watch, however I wouldn't know. Most are aware this was one of those pay per view deals, and listening to it on the radio isn't as entertaining for sure.

Good news is that Alabama won, and not only that but Georgia lost so that put the Tide up in the polls to #4.

As you can tell, I'm a little bit late in posting. Last week was something else, and this weekend I was pretty busy with partying. lol. My best girl friend's 21st b-day was Sunday, so of course she had to be initiated into the "Bar Club". She is truly a blessing in my life and if she reads this, I hope she knows how much she means to me. I love you J, and I hope you had a great day! Also, a big thanks to "Bananna's" in Enterprise for showing us a great time!

Ok, now I can get to everything that I have been meaning to post but haven't had a chance...

Tyrone Prothro--

Tyrone Prothro was released from the hospital on Wednesday afternoon. RollTide.com reports that the first thing Tryrone did upon his release was visit the practice field and spend time with his team mates.

Tyrone also appeared at the game Saturday to support the Tide and pay the fans a visit.

For those out there wanting to see video of Tyrone's broken leg during the Florida game, click here. It's not a great video clip, however you can see what happened. It's not pretty, so if you are one of those faint at heart folks you may want to skip watching it. I also have video of Tyrone's "catch" if anyone is interested please leave a message, or contact me via email so I can send it to you. I have tried uploading it, but unfortunetly it's a rather large file and I simply don't have room for it anywhere.

DeMeco Ryans and Jamie Christensen were named SEC Teams Players of the week for the game against Tennessee. Jamie made the game winning fileld goal, and DeMeco led the Crimson Tide defensive unit, tying for high tackler honors for the game with 11 stops. He recorded 1.5 stops behind the line while recovering a fumble as well as intercepting the final Tennessee pass attempt of the game to help preserve the Tide’s 6-3 victory. This is the second time the pair have been named players of the week in the SEC.

DeMeco Ryans has also been named as a finalist for the 2005 Draddy Award (Academic Heisman Trophy) and won a $18,000 scholoarship for post graduate education.

DeMeco is also the reipient of the Coach Eddie Robinson National Scholar-Athlete Award funded by the George M. Steinbrenner Family and the New York Yankees. Congrats DeMeco!

Roman Harper's forced fumble against Tennessee was named Pontiac's Game Changing Performance Winner.

For a unprecedented fourth time a Crimson Tide player has won the honor with $20,000 going to the general scholarship fund.

For you die hard Alabama fans (like myself) PLEASE go to www.voteforheisman.com and vote for Brodie Croyle for the Heisman Trophy. Brodie was sent to the locker room during the Utah game for stitches after getting smacked pretty hard by a Utah player, no worries though, he's fine! :)

Georgia's loss of thier starting quarterback hurt the Bulldogs, but not much. I watched a bit of the game and was pretty impressed with Georgia's fight. As I mentioned, Georgia lost against Florida 10-14. Georgia's loss is Bama's gain though, and hey, somebody had to loose. This was one of those torn games as well. I really didn't want to see Florida win, but needed GA to loose in order to get the Tide up in the Polls.

Auburn (ack) also had a big game and beat Mississippi 27-3. I watched this one until the half...couple a really nice plays in the first quarter. I'm not worried though. heh.

As I mentioned, I did listen to the game on Saturday on the radio, the tireless Crimson Tide Network. It's really hard to get into "listening" to a game like you would if you can see it, but at least I knew what was going on. For those of you who have listened to the games on the radio, you all are very well aware of the former Tide great Kenny "Snake" Stabler. I almost would rather Kenny did the television broadcasting rather than radio, but I spose we have to pick and choose. Anyhow, while listening to the game it was mentioned how great of a season the Tide is having this year, about the records being broken, etc. It was said that it sure would be nice to see the Tide go undefeated and into the Sugar Bowl in Atlanta, and to pop a hole in the rediculous BCS for the National Championship game. It sure would be sad to knock a UNDEFEATED SEC team out of the Championship game two years in a row. Boy would there be a heck of a lot of peeved Bama fans...I would hate to be the BCS. lol.

Well, enough for me today. I think everything is as cuaght up as I can get it for now. Unfortunately I had a rather rough day at work and my good old back spasms are dong thier thing today. Hope everyone had as great of a weekend as I had! :)

Oh yeah, this will be the only time you see this color on my page where it's actually a good thing..

I spoke to my little brother (he is a director at a physical therapy clinic in Tuscaloosa) this afternoon and got a brief update on Tyrone. It seems the infection that Tyrone experienced was probably caused by the fact that his bones were sticking in the ground, and there are all kinds of chemicals used on turf. My brother said that Tyrone should have been already putting pressure on the injury to aid in healing, however due to the infection he has had to keep his leg elevated in order to stay the infection. Rumors are out that Tyrone should be getting out of the hospital late Monday afternoon, however my brother couldn't confirm that.

As I provided earlier a address where you can send a Get Well Card to Tyrone, The Paul W. Bryant Museum has a GIANT card that people can go in and sign to be given to Tyrone at a later date. For those who are not in the Tuscaloosa area, you can visit the museum's web page and click on "Send Tyrone a message" link on thier front page. Those who would perfer to send a mailed get well card can do so to the following address:

Yes, I'm still trying to recover from this game. My head is pounding from all the screaming but yes, the Crimson Tide came out on top yet again!

It was a highly defensive game on both sides of the field, but the best stuff came in the last quarter, in fact, the last few minuets of the game.

Brodie took a beating this round getting sacked five times. He's gonna wake up tomarrow wishing he never heard of Tennessee, but he's got a lot to be proud of.

DJ Hall had "Prothro" written in Crimson marker on his wristbands, I'm sure Tyrone appreciates that as much as I did seeing it. DJ had a super game even if the score doesn't show it.

DeMeco, awesome as usual. Jamie....it's all you buddy!!!! I'm so proud of how these guys can get themselves out of sticky situations and pull out a win in seemingly grave odds.

This week I am not naming one single player as my player of the week. I'm so proud of both the offense, defense and special teams that I'm naming The Alabama Crimson Tide the TEAM of the week! ROLL TIDE!

Georgia ended up winning against the Hogs, athough not by much. Georgia lost thier starting QB to a knee injury, so it should be a interesting game against Florida next week.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna get drunk before the Auburn vs. LSU game. :)

Like I really care. Last year, as much as I dislike Auburn they were totally screwed. Hey, if it can't be Alabama, it damn better be Auburn is my thinking.

I get that they have changed things around this year to make the BCS a bit more "fair" but in my book any year where you have an undefeated team not get the national championship is not "fair". Auburn got screwed, and should if nothing else at least shared the title. Just my opinion of course. Let me tell you, for an Alabama fan to even say that aloud is a big deal. ;)

Seems to be a big argument as to weather or not LSU and/or Florida will make it to the National championship game. uh. yeah. I get there are still five games left for most of the teams, but drastic things would have to happen in between then and now for either team to have a shot. Anything is possible I suppose, but if either team has even a inkling of a shot it would be LSU in my opinion....of course the season isn't over yet, or even close to being over, so why the argument, I don't know.

I am sitting here watchng the Hogs and the Dogs. lol. I tickle myself sometimes. So far Georgia is on top on the scoreboard, however I don't think Georgia expected such a fight from the Hogs. Of course I am routing for the Hogs...not much chance it helping them too much in the polls, and it will knock Georgia down a peg, good for the Tide, especially being that we have already had our bout with Arkansas.

I'm a bit torn about the game between Auburn and LSU. Part of me wants Auburn to pounce on LSU to knock them down a peg on the polls, and yet at the same time, just because it's Auburn, I want LSU to knock the **** out of them. lol.

Well, I'm outta here for now. Update later.

I don't check my stat counter very often, but over the last couple of weeks I have noticed my counter jumping big time. Out of curiousity, I decided to take a peek today.

Seems like everyone is interested in seeing video footage of when Tyrone broke his leg. Well, I don't have footage of that, but I do of his awesome catch. Here is a picture I was able to find earlier, but decided not to post it because quite frankly, it kind of grosses me out.

If I do find footage, I will post it, however it's not a easy task. If anyone out there happens across it, please leave a comment and let me know where it can be found.

One other thing I would like to touch on is that there seems to be quite a lot of snipping going on about why Prothro was even in the game at the time he was hurt. He was in the game because he wanted to be, period. Even if Coach Shula had decided to pull him out and replace him with a second stringer, he wouldn't have gone gladly for sure. I don't normally get into all this "other" stuff because I don't see the point of it really. My view point is that instead of trying to lay blame on someone, how about we just pray that Prothro will be blessed with quick healing so he can come back to us (fans, the team) next year with a vegence to make the plays he wasn't able to this season.

I would much perfer Prothro be remembered for "The Catch" than for his broken leg.

One last tidbit. I do a bit of template fiddling and today finished up one for a online friend...go check it out here.

Demico Ryans has been named a Semi-Finalist for the prestigous Butkus Award. The Butkus Award is regarded as one of the most elite individual honors in college football.


Brodie Croyle has been named as a finalist for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.

Alabama's career passing touchdown leader (36), Croyle has passed for 1,345 yards and nine touchdowns for the fifth-ranked Crimson Tide. He has thrown at least one TD pass in 19 of his 22 career starts.

According to the one of the local papers Croyle is also up for the Heisman Trophy, however I have yet to find any conformation on that.


Bama VS. Vols, not so much a rivalry. According to an article in the Montgomery Advertiser players for both teams show no anomisty towards each other. Fans are an entirely different story. :) Read the article here.

I have to say that I love reading interviews with good ol Charlie Peprah. (Yeah, I know I am waaay older than him!) I have been watching him for a few years now, and he is always such a great talent on the feild, as well as a person. Or as much as one can tell without actually sitting down and talking with him person to person.

"The first thing that comes to mind is orange, that obnoxious orange," Peprah said. "There’s a whole lot of orange."

Of course he is talking about Tennessee here, but I love how he stuck that obnoxious part in there. lol. Sorry, I just really found it funny. Most of us Bama fans just really hate ORANGE!

You can read the article here.

According to reports DJ Hall will be playing in Saturday's game agains the Vols. Reports say that he is still feeling some pain, but the trainers have been working with him and Coach Shula feels he is up to the task. DJ was hit pretty hard in the game last week against Ole Miss and suffered with a bruised rib and some pain in his back.

Newspapers have Alabama winning by 3. First time in years that Alabama has gone into a game against the Vols and not been the underdog.

Two days to go......

While the Crimson Tide gears up for the big game against Tennessee on Saturday news of the Rivalry abounds. Trash talking is a normal thing, however this year it seems a lot more potent than in the past.

Many loyal tide fans blame Tennessee head coach, Phillip Fulmer for the three year probation, scholarship reduction and the bowl ban that ended last year. So, does the Tide have reason to want to tear the Vols into a million pieces? Yeah, I suppose they do. I am the first to admit that I am a true Tide fan and talk smack with the fellas at work (hey, I'm a chick and I think sometimes I know more about the sport than they do!) but for some reason I feel as this game is even bigger than the Tide's on going rivalry with Auburn. The difference is this year we have what it takes to knock some sense into Rockytop. Will it happen? I dunno, game day is another 3 days away, but I sure am looking forward to it. It will be a good and tough game, I'm betting. We have something that Tennessee doesn't have though. Loud, roaring, loyal FANS, and I can guarantee that stadium will be off the charts on the noise level. If that isn't enough to intimidate them, I don't know what is! Oh, how I wish I could be there screaming with all the other fans! (Tickets PLEASE!)

On to the News....
Tuscaloosa, AL

Unlike previous Alabama head coaches, Mike Shula downplayed the importance of Saturday's home game with Tennessee. In his Tuesday news conference, he made a few prosaic comments about the game, the history of the series and the team that has become Alabama's fiercest rival.
"We're undefeated, so they're all important," he said. "We have to get ready for a good football team. It's our seventh game. Our focus has to be on that."

Maybe he was trying to forget the orange mashed potatoes. Click here to read more.

Tyrone Prothro received a unexpected Letter..

Seventeen days after he entered the hospital to repair an open fracture of his left leg, Alabama junior Tyrone Prothro continues to recover in DCH Regional Medical Center from a leg infection.

Prothro's spirits were buoyed on Tuesday by a letter he received from President George W. Bush. Alabama head coach Mike Shula did not disclose the contents of the letter he personally delivered to his standout receiver but did describe Prothro's reaction.

"Pro was excited about the letter," Shula said. "His dad came in the room and he said, 'I've got a letter from one of my buddies.'"

Federal health regulations prevent Crimson Tide coaches or team physicians from discussing the condition of their athletes without permission from a parent. A statement released through the university noted that "further updates will be released upon their request." Prothro's extended stay in the hospital has become an issue following the surgery to insert a rod in his left leg to repair a fractured tibia and fibula. For More click here.

Special Guest
Birmingham, Alabama native, Condoleeza Rice will be attending Saturday's game against Tennessee. Reports state that security will be tightened because of her visit to the game, and that media should report to the game early for inspection by the secret service.

According the Montgomery Advertiser, only a few fans should be affected by the added security, and those using elevators on the press box side of Bryant-Denny stadium should be prepared for delays.


Demeco Ryans has been nominated for the 36th Rotary Lombardi Award!

In 44 career games, he has recorded 272 tackles, with 26 TFLs (-83) and 5 sacks (-42). He has 272 career tackles and is currently 8th all-time at Alabama and he is second among active SEC defenders with 272 career tackles.

Ryans has been honored once this year as the Southeastern Conference's Defensive Player of the Week after his performance against Arkansas on September 24 (15 tackles, 2 TFL, 1 sack, 1 FR, 1 QBP). Click here for more.

Christensen named SEC Special Teams Player of the Week.

University of Alabama sophomore Jamie Christensen has been named Southeastern Conference Special Teams Player of the Week as announced by the league office.

Christensen was the hero for the Tide in their 13-10 victory over the Ole Miss Rebels. He nailed a 31-yard field goal with no time left on the clock to give the Tide the win. He also hit a career long field goal of 43 yards earlier in the game. Christensen, who also handles kickoff duties for Alabama, recorded two touchbacks on his three kickoffs. More Here.

Side Note: I was carousinging around the internet this afternoon looking for some "I hate Orange" graphics in witch I was most unsuccessful, however I did come across a article in a RockyTop newspaper where the sports writer pretty much said he thought the Vols were going to ge their butts kicked by Bama. I would have included a link, however it was one of "those" websites that only give you a snippet of the article then require you to sign up to read more.

And Last but never least, today is my little brother's birthday, and I would like to wish him the BEST day EVER!

Yes, the first half was quite sloppy on both ends of the field. Turnovers, and penalties were bad for both teams. Score at the half, still 7-3 Ole Miss.

Ole Miss tried a field goal attempt in the last seconds of the half, but was blocked by the tide.

Word is that DJ is still suffering from pain in his lower back, should know more after the half as to weather or not he will return to the game today. If not, hopefully it's not so serious that he'll be out for the rest of the season. I know back pain, and it's not fun even on a good day.

Hopefully the Tide will come out of the lockeroom ready to play the football with no fooling around and no sloppy mistakes.

As for me, I will probably be back at the end of the game for a update, however I may put it off until later. Unfortunately I have had a rather rough week with back problems, and for the last three days been suffering from some serious headaches witch I think is being caused by the Flexeril prescribed for my back spasms. Always a party around here, let me tell ya! :)

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer give 'em heck Alabama!

Ramzee Robinson intercepted a pass from Ole Miss quarterback that resulted in the field goal.

Alabama is certainly struggling this first half with under 6 min left before half time. Score is 7-3 Ole Miss.

I have always believed the Tide to be a second half team, for whatever reason they go into that locker room and come out ready to fight. I was quite shocked when the Tide hit so hard in the first half against Florida, however I'm glad they did. They needed to push that hard in order to ensure the win.

I'm out for the rest of the half...ROLL TIDE!

Looks like DJ may have had the wind knocked out of him by the way he landed on the ground. Recent update says the DJ's lower back is bothering him and he has gone to the locker room.

Bama is on the scoreboard with a feild goal after one failed attempt.

DJ Hall was just hit hard by Ole Miss on a touchdown attempt. I hate when they go to commercial! He was still on the ground and Alabama trainers are surrounding DJ.

DeMeco Ryans has been named Sports Illustrated's midseason All-American on defense. For more on this story check out RollTide.com. Congrats DeMeco!

Even after a "bye" week, Alabama mangaged to move up in the AP poll to #6.

So far this Ole Miss team doesn't look to be fooling around with the good 'ol boys. After two turnovers within two minuets, Ole Miss was able to get the ball back and take it in for the touchdown. Ole Miss is leading 7-0 with 53 seconds left in the first quarter. Don't count the Tide out however, they have the ball and are moving it down the field quickly! Ole Miss has a pretty impressive defense, however the game is no where near being over yet!

You can steal this Alabama Blogger button that I made to put on your website, or blog. The only requirement of course is that you link back here!

I have finished up with the links and such, I think. My back is doing is spaz thing, so I'm outta here for the nite!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Hope you have a great day and know that I love ya bunches! :)

Well, another weekend has passed and I didn't get much accomplished. Ok, well, I did do the laundry. lol.

Yesturday I spent a good portion of the day trimming my azaleas and cutting down stray trees that grow in exatly the spot you don't won't them too. Then I burned the tree limbs and some pine needles.

Today, well. um. Yeah. I woke up this morning at 5am with my back doing flips. I love those spasms so much I wish everyone could experience the joy of it. Of course I am being sarcastic because really I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through that. I spent a hour in the bathtub followed by a good dose of advil and some niquil. I guess I picked up a bit of something yesturday while outside and the nice cool fall weather we are having here (finally) in the south. Not sure if it's the peanuts or just the sniffles but it was certainly aggravating me this morning. Needless to say not too long after I got out of the bath, I was out cold on the couch. Didn't manage to wake up until after 11am.

Haven't done much since except watch movies and play the game "atomic" on the computer. Of course now I'm starting to get motivated and want to clean the house. Never fails. Yeah, I'm the person who does nothing all day long, but come bed time I decide it's time to rearrange the bedroom.

This is why I am distracting myself by writing on my blog. I feel it coming on. I still have a couple of minor things to do before I hit the hay, and believe it or not, I feel like I could fall asleep right now even after taking the late cat nap around 4. My back feels a little better than it did this morning, but I'll probably take another hot bath before I go to bed, just to make sure I'm able to make it in to work in the am. I'll probably get sent home early because it's a holiday, military is off, thus it will be deadville in Daleville. lol.

Another hurricane out there. Hurricane Vince. Wilma is the last one in the alphabet, then we are on to the greek alphabet. Yeah, I'm guessing a least a couple more pretty good storms before it's all over with. Last week marked the anniversary of hurricane Opal that hit here back in 95. She was fun. Seriously. It was my first hurricane as an adult (I was in the womb for Camile, and I hear there were a couple when we lived in Panama, but I don't remember either.)and I was so stupid that I continuously went outside to see what was going on, well, mostly to smoke, but you get what I mean. It was quite interesting, for sure. I remember thinking that it didn't seem that big of a deal, until we woke up the next morning and looked around the neighborhood. There were a few houses that suffered with trees crashing through thier roofs, but mostly it was trees and power lines down everywhere. We couldn't even get out of town because the powerlines were across the roads. All things considered we weathered it well, however anything bigger than Opal would have me a bit concerned, probably to the point that I would head to my brother's place in Tuscaloosa.

I see I keep getting off track so I best be ending this for this evening. Eventually I will get my links and such taken care of.

Really looking forward to the football game Saturday. Sucked not having a game to watch yesturday, although I did catch some of the Florida game. Guess they had a off week? :)

toodles!

Tyrone Prothro had surgery to repair the broken bones in his leg, it's reported that a steel rod has been inserted. It's said that the road to recovery will be a long one, however Coach Shula is looking forward to seeing Tyrone during practices next spring. RollTide.com has stated that while Tyrone was in the hospital he had many visitors from team members, family, and friends. No doubt he is well taken care of and well loved. Anyone interested in sending Tyrone a Get Well card can do so by sending to the following address:

Tyrone Prothro
c/o Alabama Football
Box 870323
Tuscaloosa, AL. 35487-0323

I read a couple of articles that say that being on the cover of Sports Illustrated is the kiss of death, however I'm tickled to see it none the less. There is nothing like having something a little extra to rub in the faces of Auburn fans! *Snickering* I'm running out tomarrow afternoon to get my copy to be displayed on my wall for all time :) The article is written by Mark Beech, and a brief snippet of it can be viewed at the SI website.

I'm sure most know this by now, but the good old boys have made into the top ten of the AP polls. Alabama has manged to knock the Gators out of the top ten and insert themselves into a cozy number 7 slot. Alabama is 5-0, and 3-0 in the SEC. Yeah, I like this a lot. I'm really trying to not get my hopes up too high for the big bowl game being that we are only half way through the season, but it's really hard when you see your boys go out there and show a "exalted" team like Florida who the boss is. It killed me how the sports casters during the game last week kept touting how great of a quarterback Florida had, evidently he had a bad day because I didn't see too much out of him. I will give this to the Florida Gators though, they did have a couple of good plays in the first half (however both attempts failed) that I would really like to see the Tide pick up on. I found them to be quite tricky and found myself saying to myself that it was a good play, even if it didn't get the results the Gators were looking for.

As I mentioned before, the Tide have this weekend off, as does Auburn. Leaves me with thinking of how I will spend my Saturday with no game on, at least not one I want to watch. I suppose I can get that yard work done that I have been putting off...

You can see I haven't quite finished with the changes. I have had one of "those" weeks. Crisis with one of my very good friends, doctor's appointment cancelled, prime time tv. lol. I will spend some time on getting things taken care of this weekend when I don't have to worry about work and whatever else might come up.

Hope everyone has had a good week, at least better than mine has been!

As you can see I have changed things around a bit. Okay, so a lot. I haven't quite finished as you can probably tell by the lack of links and such, but I will get to it Monday. I wanted to check out the SEC Rankings, however I have been busy working on this for a good portion of the day. I'll check it out when I'm at work 2-marrow.

It's getting late, so I'm outta here. Feel free to let me know what you think of the new look!

Sweet Dreams to all!

Unfortunately, It looks like our "star" is out for the rest of the season. In a play that just happened seconds ago, Brodie Croyle's pass the Tyrone Prothro (who was in the inzone) fell on his leg wrong, and you can plainly see that his ankle/foot is broken. Reminds me of the when Thiesman broke his leg during that Redskins game many years ago.

This is horrible for the team, as it is for Prothro and for the many fans. Prothro is being taken out right now in a stretcher.

Alabama fans everywhere want you to know, Tyrone, WE LOVE YOU!

Prothro is running, dovely is jumping, Prothro running, dovely jumping, Prothro running, dovely jumping, Prothro touchdown, dovely's shorts fall off! (I have lost close to 100 lbs and not much of my clothes fit anymore;) uhwhoohoo, let's play some football!

Awesome first half, Alabama is leading at the half 24-3! What was I so afraid of?????