It must be hard for many Alabama football fans to recall anymore, given the stratospheric rise to dominance that is the Crimson Tide in the past 10 years. But once upon a time, the most dominant college football program in recent history was cast aside like an unwanted old cardigan.
All over some threadbare carpet.
OK, that wasn’t the only reason December 2002 became seared into my memory. But some weather-beaten rug was the proverbial straw to Alabama football’s camel during the holiday season – a season that left college football royalty holding a rope their head coach callously let go of in the middle of the night.