Rammer jammer

It's been three days since Alabama smoked Florida and I'm still squealing like an excited schoolgirl about it. I tend to get excited when watching Bama play, but for the first two quarters I was running around, jumping and yelling in my living room like my Prozac subscription was WAY overdue. For some reason when I get excited watching football my voice tends to start sounding blacker, like when Will Smith talked junk to the crashed alien in Independence Day.

Back to what's right and good in the world. We Bama fans have been waiting for a win like this since, well, the '99 SEC Championship game against Florida. That was sweet in its own way for being in a championship game and seeing Steve Spurrier turn various shades of cherry Kool-Aid, but the win Saturday had its plusses as well.

One of those plusses was that Urban Meyer saw how an offense whose plays look like they were drawn up in the dirt in the backyard might work in the Mountain West, but not the SEC. Athletes here are a little bit faster. The greatest thing was seeing UA returning to the ranks of the elite. It just feels like the universe is back in order.

We can't get too cocky though. After Tyrone Prothro's TD on Bama's first play from scrimmage, my wife and I were running around and screaming, much in the same way when Freddie Milons returned the first punt of the year for a score agains UCLA in the 2000 season opener. That was the highlight of the year. The Tide stumbled the rest of the season.

This team is different though. Although this year's defense is not the '92 unit, they're tough. Brodie seems to be gearing up for three years of frustration to erupt in one final season of dominance. Kenneth Darby is one of those elite backs who somehow goes unnoticed until he's running over and around you for a buck-twenty.

Oh yes. Things are good in Bama nation. Rolllllll Tiiiiiiide!!!