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FrogMan
01-11-2010, 07:00 AM
offered at TeeFury.com (http://www.teefury.com):

http://www.teefury.com/products_images/top_alabama_football.jpg

http://www.teefury.com/products_large_images/bottom_alabama2010.jpg

As I said, available today only. That's how TeeFury works. Shirt is $9 + $2 for shipping but will be gone at midnight eastern tonight.

Thought it was clever but couldn't remember if we had Alabama fans on here. Simply thought I'd share anyway... :)

FM

DaddyTorgo
01-11-2010, 07:48 AM
i fail to see why it has an elephant...

Alan T
01-11-2010, 07:54 AM
i fail to see why it has an elephant...


Alabama has had that mascot for as long as I can remember. Probably longer than I've been alive. I have no idea why or how they got an elephant mascot, but my impression from my father when we watched games as a kid (He was a University of Tennessee grad) was that the Elephant had been around his entire life too.

So no surprise to see their mascot on the t-shirt :)

JonInMiddleGA
01-11-2010, 08:30 AM
The elephant goes back to at least 1930 but the real origin of it has been lost to time apparently.

Red Elephant - RammerJammer.com (http://www.rammerjammer.com/redelephant.htm)

DaddyTorgo
01-11-2010, 08:37 AM
Alabama has had that mascot for as long as I can remember. Probably longer than I've been alive. I have no idea why or how they got an elephant mascot, but my impression from my father when we watched games as a kid (He was a University of Tennessee grad) was that the Elephant had been around his entire life too.

So no surprise to see their mascot on the t-shirt :)

didn't realize they had an elephant as a mascot. Not being exposed to much of Alabama in any sense (thankfully) up here and all. Always just assumed they were one of those schools without an actual physiacl "mascot" and just had the "Crimson Tide" nickname.

Galaril
01-11-2010, 08:54 AM
didn't realize they had an elephant as a mascot. Not being exposed to much of Alabama in any sense (thankfully) up here and all. Always just assumed they were one of those schools without an actual physiacl "mascot" and just had the "Crimson Tide" nickname.

Geez what's wrong with you. Everyone knows that elephants were indigenous to Alabama prior to the the 1950s :)

DaddyTorgo
01-11-2010, 09:02 AM
Geez what's wrong with you. Everyone knows that elephants were indigenous to Alabama prior to the the 1950s :)

:lol:

Matthean
01-11-2010, 09:06 AM
Geez what's wrong with you. Everyone knows that elephants were indigenous to Alabama prior to the the 1950s :)

Pfft. Michigan tops that with wolverines not being around for 200 years. :D

First Michigan wolverine spotted in 200 years - Science- msnbc.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4374309)

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JonInMiddleGA
01-11-2010, 10:04 AM
It's hard for me to think of the elephant ("Big Al") without thinking of how the fictional host Leonard Postoasties (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Postero)used to describe them on the weekend syndicated prediction show Leonard's Losers: He always called them the Puce Pachyderms, and that's stuck with me for close to 40 years now.

Passacaglia
01-11-2010, 01:25 PM
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide....

Call me Deacon Blues.

ntndeacon
01-11-2010, 02:43 PM
I was always told the story that a trunk company with an elephant mascot was used by a lot when the Tide went to the Rose bowl in the 30s and that Elephant stuck as a Alabama mascot too.

Passacaglia
01-11-2010, 03:25 PM
I should have known that saying the word 'deacon' would get ntn posting here.

Scoobz0202
01-11-2010, 04:13 PM
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide....

Call me Deacon Blues.

Every single time I hear the name Crimson Tide, that comes to mind. Every time.


Great fucking band.

Passacaglia
01-12-2010, 03:15 PM
Every single time I hear the name Crimson Tide, that comes to mind. Every time.


Great fucking band.

Right on! You truly are living up to what that button said about you!

Scoobz0202
01-12-2010, 03:44 PM
The 99% or the 1%!? :p

Passacaglia
01-12-2010, 03:49 PM
The 99% or the 1%!? :p

I think the answer to that is obvious.