Drive-By Truckers said it best, "don't piss off the boys [and ladies] from Alabama." Over the next fifteen months, Tuscaloosa would retreat into her athletics -- and there was hell to pay.
A funny thing happened on January 1, 1926: A hardscrabble coal city, in a destitute state, in the poorest region of America -- long the butt of coarse jokes and historical opprobrium -- had enough.
They punched back. Hard. And the word of collegiate athletics was changed forever.
For nearly 90 years, Alabamians would recall that game. They would relive moments predating their birth.