Like I said, Dreamland was great and the ribs were delicious. You’re right, it IS funny that the sandwich doesn’t come with bread. Alabama can be a silly place sometimes!

Sometimes we like to make little jokes, even when we’re praising a place so hard it almost makes us hyperventilate. I’m glad you were clever enough to pick up on the whimsical tongue-in-cheek humor and not lose sight of all the wonderful things we had to say about Dreamland and Alabama fans in general. Some folks get confused and angry for no good reason! Can you believe it?!?

Anyway… Thanks for stopping by! We haven’t really written for this site much this year, but it’s nice to know folks are still finding their way here. Maybe we’ll see you at Dreamland sometime, champ!

Was it still good to eat?

With this weekend being a trip to Louisiana… Saying too many nice things shouldn’t be a problem.

Boy, do I dislike the state of Louisiana.

There’s an Ed Roach who was a graduate of North Texas, also a West Alabama President, who was the President at West Texas State. He works for Troy now. Looking at his resume, it doesn’t look like he ever worked for North Texas, though.

And for Blue Lou: Little brother was in a band of some local prominence. One of our joke ideas was that he’d wear a different type of hat at every show, and that they’d sell replicas at their merchandise table.

He, like me, has the English equivalent of his Greek name (Dimitrios). So the brilliant marketing idea was to call them “Jimmy hats”.

Also, with the rain, both of us wore some sort of cap to keep our glasses dry.

Anyway… I’d never wear a flat cap, but he seems to pull it off pretty well.

And on another side note… I almost made a lengthy digression into clip-on suspenders and the pointless/unfortunate fashion choice of doubling up suspenders and a belt. You can see a guy in front of me rocking that look… And I think it’s one of the worst man-fashion decisions a guy can make.

One day, I’ll do a primer on proper pant suspension for the distinguished gentleman of our age. Not today, though. This writeup was already way too long.

You’re right about the team families. Also, just about every college has some alumni within driving distance. Birmingham is just 50 miles away.

By they way, do they still remember former North Texas President Ed Roach out your way. I think he lives in Tuscaloosa, at least he did for a while. He was president of the University of West Alabama about 60 miles west of here. He dealt with a bit of controversy at both places.

Travels with Tina for K-State, on the old site:
http://tysports.blogspot.com/2008/09/travels-with-tina-tina-takes-manhattan.html

Anyway… If you’re an Alabama guy, how did you stumble across our site? Glad to have you, glad you enjoyed it, but a little surprised that a non-North Texas guy/regular reader found this post on the first day after it was posted.

One other thing to consider- A lot of those traveling fans are probably friends and family of players and coaches. We sat between the parents of two of our coaches and one section over from the players’ parents.