Eli Gold is back with an updated version of his long-standing treatise on Alabama football. Fans of Alabama history will appreciate this one.
Fans expecting more of the Saban golden age will be somewhat disappointed in Eli Gold’s “Crimson Nation: The shaping of the south’s most dominant football team.” Rather, Gold’s pacing tells the story of Alabama football, giving each era its turn, and doing so in a slower, more deliberate style designed to emphasize the building of the product, not that finished Death Star that Alabama would become. And, in the slow panorama of history, these past nine years have been an eye-blink.