Review of “Bama Profiles in Courage: Laykin”: (Capers) Barr flexes through an emotional range that most writers would never dare attempt … Humor and Bama sorrow are fused together like twined tree trunks that keep each other standing…..It’s part satire, part character study, with a wry lens on fame, fandom, and the modern South. Well done, Capers, well done.”– Ian Allen, The Times Literary Supplement.

You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet- Socrates (maybe)

1/1/24. On television, incendiary images of Bama fans, gaudy crimson like rumps of apes, legatees by birth to Denny’s Chimes, sit stunned in the Rose Bowl.  The unthinkable occurred. Bama lost. A rare two-loss season for the Tide. 

Bama fans appear as peculiar as bandy-legged changelings, stomping their heels, flexing their short arms and preening outstretched necks, revealing their soft white torsos, and mewing like wounded farm animals. Many Tide fans, most of whom had never flown in an airplane before or even left the state of Alabama (Mississippi doesn’t count) or stepped foot on the Alabama campus, were stunned, it was both beautiful and disgusting.

Both of Bama’s losses this season were officiated by Big 12 crews. Coincidence? Hardly. 

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