re: Provide your best alabama joke here..

From a few years back: Alabama and Auburn were playing in Legion Field in Birmingham. Late in the game, Auburn was ahead and heard a car backfire, and, thinking it was the end of the game, left the field. Then it took Bama four plays to score."

(This actually happened) An Auburn fan of mine in Mobile (named Bill) called up his wife one day and told her the sad news of the Bama quarterback who could not play because he was badly burned in a grease fire. Sadly she responded "Oh, no, what happened?" He responded "He was bobbing for French fries."

I was a graduate student at Bama for a semester in 1990 in Mass Communications and Film and one of Dr. Jennings Bryant's Research Methods courses required that we conduct surveys using a random number generator for telephone numbers. I called one, said we were conducting an opinion survey (this is violated quite often by today's pollsters) identifying I was from Alabama and that we were getting opinions about various things, and got a response--"So this is to see if I think we need a new coach?" The coach then was Gene Stallings, who would later win the National Championship. Good thing for Bama this guy's view wasn't weighed much.