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Meet the couple that walked down 'tailgate aisle' before Alabama-Tennessee

When Chip Thomas and Karen O’Connor thought about where they’d like to tie the knot, they figured a destination wedding would be fun.

Maybe the beach.

Maybe something more exotic than that.

Maybe ... a football game?

What might sound farfetched to the rest of the world felt like a brilliant idea to the couple from Roanoke, Virginia. See, Chip and Karen have bonded over football. She watched the NFL with her dad growing up and he watched college football with his father as a child. A native of Alabama, he introduced her to Alabama and the SEC.