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Monday, June 30, 2014

Roll Tide Guy—Passing the Torch

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One year ago on Round and Square (25 April 2012)—Seinfeld Ethnography: These Pretzels...
Two years ago on Round and Square (25 April 2011)—Breaking the Vessel: Managing History

[a] I'm Innocent...Roll Tide PD

I'm Innocent...
Roll Tide

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But now that I have your attention,I want to tell you that I will be going away for a while.

This is how it works, and I plan to serve my time, "keep my nose clean" (as Detective Rockford said in the 1970s), and maybe show up for a cameo on Round and Square every once in a while.

[b] One kind of autumn festival RF

For the month of July, though, RSQ readers are off to Bavaria.

I am proud to be able to introduce my successor the next month of posts. He (this is an assumption based upon clothing, but I could well be wrong) will tell you as much about Bavaria as I have taught about Alabama.

There will even be some football, too.

Please welcome...Lederhosen Pug.

Roll Tide.

[c] Just for a moment RF

[Originally posted on June 30, 2014]

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Roll Tide Guy—Iron Bowl

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One year ago on Round and Square (24 April 2012)—Primary Sources: Good Morning, Mother
Two years ago on Round and Square (24 April 2011)—Endings: Primitive Classification

[a] I'm Innocent...Roll Tide PD

I'm Innocent...
Roll Tide

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But now that I have your attention, I want to complete my "substantive" posts this month with a nod toward the Iron Bowl.

[b] Auburn Gateway RF

That's what we call it down here when my Crimson Tide play the Auburn Tigers. There is mutual loathing (sometimes taken to criminal levels), but I have had a lot of time to think these days, and I am renouncing my previous antipathy for Auburn.

Mind you, I still want to crush them every year, but this is really Alabama pride.

The whole darned state.

I'll be thinking about that while I listen to the game (while square-dancing on my houseboat...on Alabama's navigable waterways).

Beat Auburn, but let's not kill their trees.

Roll Tide.

[c] Save the date RF

[Originally posted on June 29, 2014]

Saturday, June 28, 2014

Roll Tide Guy—Coach Saban

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One year ago on Round and Square (17 April 2012)—La Pensée Cyclique: Chinese Thought (and Civilization)
Two years ago on Round and Square (17 April 2011)—Beginnings: Civil Twilight

[a] I'm Innocent...Roll Tide PD

I'm Innocent...
Roll Tide

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But now that I have your attention, I would like to utter a 'bama sacrilege that everyone thinks, but few dare openly acknowledge.

[b] Sacrilege RF

I have little to lose (and a lot of time to think these days), so I have been reviewing all of the coaches in Alabama football history.

And you know what?

Coach Saban (the current guy) may be even better than the Bear.

Shocking.

Roll Tide.

[c] Coach Tide RF

[Originally posted on June 28, 2014]

Friday, June 27, 2014

Roll Tide Guy—Bowl Big

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One year ago on Round and Square (16 April 2012)—Fieldnotes From History: Stinking Drunk
Two years ago on Round and Square (16 April 2011)—Endings: Civil Twilight

[a] I'm Innocent...Roll Tide PD

I'm Innocent...
Roll Tide

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But now that I have your attention, I want you to know that the Crimson Tide has played in an NCAA-record sixty bowl games.

[b] Bama Rose RF

Sixty. From 甲子 to 癸亥, that's a beautiful series.

There have been Rose, Orange, Cotton, and other bowls.

There has even been a Meineke Car Care Bowl, and there might have been a Poulan Weedeater Independence Bowl (these are real things).

Let's not kid ourselves, though. We like Big Bowls.

Rose Tide.

Roll Tide.

[c] Roses RF

[Originally posted on June 27, 2014]

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Roll Tide Guy—Closing In On 1,000

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One year ago on Round and Square (15 April 2012)—Hurtin' Country: Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down
Two years ago on Round and Square (15 April 2011)—Seinfeld Ethnography: Elaine Exclaims

[a] I'm Innocent...Roll Tide PD

I'm Innocent...
Roll Tide

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But now that I have your attention, let me just say that the Crimson Tide boast(s) 838 NCAA Division 1 victories. Now that's a lot.

[b] Hundreds RF

That means that we could top the 1,000 mark at some point in 2030. By then, I'll be sixteen years out of rehab, and square-dancing on my houseboat (on Alabama's navigable waters).

It would be a little closer if we hadn't gotten caught cheating a few times, and had to "vacate" (I love that term) several dozen wins.

Oh, well. Getting caught is sometimes part of the process.

Roll Tide.

[c] Coin Toss RF

[Originally posted on June 26, 2014]

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Roll Tide Guy—122 Football Seasons

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One year ago on Round and Square (14 April 2012)—Fieldnotes From History: Temple Diviniation
Two years ago on Round and Square (14 April 2011)—Beginnings: Mansfield Park

[a] I'm Innocent...Roll Tide PD

I'm Innocent...
Roll Tide

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But now that I have your attention, I want to tell you that football (the American kind) has been played at the University of Alabama since 1892.

[b] Don't Stop RF

That's the year a geeky football powerhouse-to-be called the University of Chicago opened a few Oxford copycat doors.

I am not sure if they ever played, but I am looking into it. All I know is that Alabama never stopped letting football dominate academics, and Chicago blinked (way to go, Robert Maynard Hutchins...I hope you're happy with your old Heisman and academic respectability...and Division III football today.

Whoo-hoo.

Moi? I'll bask in fifteen national championships and concede Chicago a few of those "Nobel" things I've heard about.

Roll Tide.

[c] Noble? RF

[Originally posted on June 25, 2014]

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Roll Tide Guy—2014 Football World Cup

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One year ago on Round and Square (12 March 2012)—Displays of Authenticity: Game Face
Two years ago on Round and Square (12 March 2011)—Breaking the Vessel (3): Reading Like a Ruler

[a] I'm Innocent...Roll Tide PD

I'm Innocent...
Roll Tide

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I hear there's a big football game going on down in Brazil tonight (starting right now, actually).

[b] Are you ready? RF

I didn't know they played football in Brazil (or Croatia), but I'm going to be watching. I can't get enough football, especially in the summer, so this will be great.

Maybe in 2018, Coach Saban and the Alabama team can qualify for this World Cup thing. I'd love to see our O-Line go up against those boys from Argentina.

Football in June? Hell, yes.

Roll Tide.

[c] All the world RF

[Originally posted on June 12, 2014]

Monday, June 2, 2014

Roll Tide Guy—Bear Bryant

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One year ago on Round and Square (2 March 2012)—Displays of Authenticity: 100 Points
Two years ago on Round and Square (2 March 2011)—Asian Miscellany: Introduction

[a] I'm Innocent...Roll Tide PD

I'm Innocent...
Roll Tide

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[b] Houndstooth RF

...and since I have your attention, anyway, let me just say "Bear Bryant." If you don't know about the man in the houndstooth cap, you don't know anything about Alabama football.

French Bulldog Puppy had you reading about Emile Zola. That's well and good...if you're from France. I'm from Alabama, and I want you to read about the legend of Bear Bryant. From B...to B.

Roll Tide.

[c] Bear Ball RF

[Originally posted on June 2, 2014]