Defining a season, a team and a tradition

You know when you're down, you can't make sense of anything and can't find meaning. Your'e searching for light, wishing you could go back and do it again. You're sad ,mad, disappointed and frustrated?

Well, that in so many words, is how it feels to be heartbroken.

NO, I didn't just get dumped.

Nope, I'm broken-hearted because I am a Bama fan who watched our boys play three quarter of fantastic football, before losing the fourth quarter, and eventually, the SEC Championshp to Florida.

I am by no means am down on my team or disappointed in them. They have done more than anybody thought they could. They have defined a season, a team and a tradition.

They have had a perfect regular season, and showed the college football nation that Bama is back, and isn't going anywhere. We don't need Tebow and all his damn awards. We don't need Stafford, Moreno, Harvin, or any of those guys. We aren't superstars. No, we're nitty gritty. We don't win with style points. We are down and dirty, in your face. You don't hear too much hype about our 'star players' because we aren't about 'star players' and the glam it brings. We are not about John Parker Wilson, Glen Coffee, Terrence Cody and Javier Arenas. We are about THE OFFENSIVE LINE, THE DEFENSIVE LINE, THE SPECIAL TEAMS, THE TEAM AS A WHOLE!!! Think we're lacking? Yea, the only thing we're lacking is a loss in the regular season. We are 12-0. Hmmm 12 seems like a familiar number. Oh, that's because Bama has 12 national titles, more than any team in college football history, so put that in your prayers Tebow.

I am proud of these players, coaches and what they've done. This one loss, does not define their season, the resilience from last year, the 12-0 'building year' ... that defines the season.

Thank you, Crimson Tide, for defining your season, and your fans, your team and above all, your tradition.

"Time and the Tide wait for no man."