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When a coach from the west coast crossed the boarders and can remember him saying to me is that dip in your mouth, well he must not smoke. said to my self he must be from the west coast. think he put out a couple of players to the leage. reese and sydney. think his name is coach john neal. thought he went back to Oregon. oh yea and he put a doctor on the board. think his name is alan or something like that.

(11-15-2014 11:16 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(11-15-2014 10:25 AM)MbouchUABSiena Wrote:  

(11-14-2014 09:23 PM)anubus Wrote:  2000 I attended the Blazer Memphis football game won by the Blazers 13-9 (1st college game ever) and was impressed by the defense and how the team rallied from a 9-3 deficit (I wish I could find a video copy).Sorry Tim Tebow but Jamil Duggar was the originator of the kneel and give thanks after scoring a TD. As the seasons went by I kept track of games via internet and enjoyed listening to games via the voice of David Crane.I like a lot of you grew a hatred for Paul Bryant Jr. and the evil board of trustees as we were forced to tolerate Neil Calloway,denial of a stadium and now this uncertainty.This haves trying to have it all will eventually destroy college athletics unless the so called lesser programs fight back. But regardless I enjoy watching/listening to Blazer football and hope it continues in the years to come.

Well for me I was at a sporting store in Dothan, around 6 years of age and I'm
41 now. and a UAB shirt popped out at me, it was Green and Gold and said UAB. Said Go UAB . When I became a Alabama Fan first day I saw Bears Hat. bout 78. The Day I became an Auburn Fan when Pat Dye came from East Carolina. When I became a Florida State fan when I walked up to the Stadium and the Indians where chanting, When I became a Boston College Fan, when Flutie a little white guy ran with the ball when I became a Syracuse fan, when I saw coach at a diner with a Sryacuse hat and he looked like Pat Dye. When I became a Joe Pop Fan when he was blue and white. when I became a Troy fan when never but I live close. when I became a fan.

You are quite impressionable, aren't you?

And I am pretty sure they were not selling UAB shirts in sporting goods stores in Dothan in 1979, when you would have been 6. The UAB bookstore would have been selling all UAB stuff then since the program was about a year old.

think this was probally a little before football, could of been 83 when Bartow came from UCLA. but none the less its a true story. Did Happen. Like it Did Happen. but dont want to get caught up in Dates. but it did happen. the shirt just jumped out at me and truth says, It was Green and Gold.

(11-15-2014 12:29 PM)blazr Wrote:  

Don't be judgmental.

Fine. You are now appointed official interpreter.

Football: Ditto everything Cajun said. I graduated in 1988 and started attending the club games when they started the next year.

Basketball: January 22, 1980 - As a 14-year-old kid, I watched in starry-eyed excitement along with 17,308 other people in the BJCC Coliseum as the Blazers took on the Depaul Blue Demons (who had reached the Final Four in 1979 and finished 26-3 in 1980) and fell 57-54 in one of the most exciting games I've ever attended. I was hooked.

...my dad bought season tix to the first 3 years of the BBall program... I went to all but 1 game the first two years (sick), and went to most of the magical year 3 regular season games as well. I started HS ball the next year, so didn't make it to as many UAB games...but definitely was a Blazer for life.

Attended UAB and graduated in '92 in Mech Eng. There were some meetings held back then to try and get football going... Oliver Robinson was one of the folks involved, and I'm sure Coach Bartow had a lot of input as well, of course. I figured they could reach I-AA level at best, as even back then, it seemed there was a lot of disparaging talk about the proposal from the general public.

I grew up an Auburn football fan, so... when UAB played AU for their first Div IA game, it was a literal 'total transfer of loyalty'...wasn't at the game, but was quite proud of the Blazers that day listening on the radio to ol' Gary (who probably had some weird emotions going on as well, as he was the AU radio guy for years...but I think he completed HIS 'loyalty crossover' that day as well...).

I have purchased season tix for UAB football since they were available, from the Div III days onward.

I have been to EVERY home Blazers game since they went DivI-A (FBS) in 1996. I was in Baton Rouge in 2000. Also a handful of other road games over the years.

If we no longer have football, I'll still root for the Blazers in Bball and whatever else they let us keep, but it will be a major loss, and I won't really be into football anymore in general if my alma mater doesn't field a team...

GO GREEN!

I have been a fan for as long as I can remember. There was no "other" team in our household growing up.