As we noted this blog earlier, this is actually the fourth time in the past five seasons Alabama and LSU will meet with the SEC West on the line.
The fortunate thing: there should be considerably less Nick Saban chatter this time than either of the past two seasons. The last two seasons meant a little too much to both sides, specifically because of the Saban angle. This time around it's the biggest game of the season ... but it shouldn't feel like a life experience.
Anyway, here are a few of those memorable moments against LSU from recent memory.
(Note: This was prior to the '05 game, when Jamarcus Russell stuck a knife in our hearts in overtime. How that jet didn't crash into the construction at BDS, I'll never know. Perhaps that's why I'm not a pilot.)
And, my favorite ...
2 comments:
Two things:
1. On the flyover video, if you watch between :06 and :08 you will see closeups of Robert and Donald Miller. My brothers.
2. The goal line stop ends with a player injured. Was that Constant that got hurt? I can't remember who it was, but I remember that they were a pretty big part of the defense that year and they never played again.
You are correct on the player who got hurt: it was Marvin Constant (45) who so thoroughly wrecked his knee on that particular play, he was never really the same (there was a brief controversy in the immediate aftermath about whether the game should've been stopped, which would've given LSU another play, but it never amounted to much). Constant actually was a mere redshirt freshman on that team (he'd taken the place of Travis Carroll, who transferred to Florida and was badly over-hyped anyway) and pretty much had to give up football after that.
Another fun part about that particular play: Brian Koroknay lost his mind in the immediate aftermath, and poured his Coke all over a very angry Peter von Herrmann. Oh, the memories.
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