We Alabama football fans can sometimes lose sight of a balanced perspective. In our national championships are a birthright cocoon, we can, in un-Saban-like fashion, get blinded by a glorious destination, losing sight of the joy of the journey.
Such national championship tunnel-vision can also lead to distraction. This week many of us are agonizing over the difference between Tua Tagovailoa being 85 percent recovered from an ankle injury and 100 percent. Some of us were even startled to learn Tua did not always revere Alabama football as he grew up in Hawaii. Many of us look at the Orange Bowl as a chance to rectify the wrong of Tua missing out on the Heisman award.