As legend has it, two thousand years ago a Roman citizen could walk across the face of the known world free of the fear of molestation. He could walk across the Earth unharmed, cloaked only in the protection of the words civis Romanus – I am a Roman citizen. So great was the retribution of Rome, universally certain, should any harm befall even one of its citizens.
Flashing forward to 2016, and at the risk of offending my Italian friends, I’m prepared to make the following correlation: Alabama football is the Roman Empire, and Nick Saban is our emperor.