Roll Tide Grandma!

A few weeks ago just before the college football season started Marnie and I decided to teach Lucy how to say "Roll Tide!". Which for those of you who are college football challenged that is what we University of Alabama fans yell at our football games. You see at some game long ago one of the sports announcers said the team looked like a crimson tide (crimson is the color of our jerseys) rolling down the field. It stuck and from then on we cheer Roll Tide Roll at every game and at ever Auburn fan when ever possible.

As I said a few weeks ago we taught Lucy to say "Roll Tide!". Once
she got it down we called my mom, my dad and my brother and
prompted her to say to each of them "Roll Tide Grandma", "Roll
Tide Grandpa", and "Roll Tide Uncle Richard". The last one was
a little difficult but she did an admirable job. My family need less
to say was delighted. We are huge Alabama football fans. Of course
being from the south it is a requirement. My father being the biggest,
he played there when he was in college in the early 50s'. I on the
other hand was not really into football until I moved far far away
from all the really obnoxious fans.


Now that I live in Callie I miss the crisp fall air that brings football season every year. I miss the excitement of the live game and the smell of bourbon and coke coming form the student section. So every year at this time I sit down in front of the tv whenever a Alabama game is on and yell like a crazy person (see obnoxious fan, above).
I scare the dog and even Marnie. This year I will have to reign it
in a bit because I don't want to scare Lucy.

This morning when Lucy woke up and i was getting dressed in the bedroom I could hear her over the baby monitor saying sweetly to her self over and over again"Roll Tide Grandma". And Marnie thinks she's going to Brown.