“College football was a religion in Alabama, and Saturdays in the fall were holy days.”
“College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.”
“And if Bitsy was so all-fired set on everything being perfect, she wouldn't have scheduled the damn thing on a football Saturday. Nobody's going to miss the Alabama game for a wedding, for God's sake. We'll be lucky if the priest shows up." ~Aunt Muddy”
“Football is violence and cold weather and college rye. ”
“Fall in Alabama was menopausal: hot one moment and cold the next.”
“In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.”