2009: The Beginning - A look back at Alabama's first championship season under Nick Saban

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] this is not the end this is the beginning coming off of 2008 the general national consensus was that Florida would win the national championship again Florida had just come off of its second national championship in three years there was a dominant team in college football and Alabama had had a near miss first of all we wanted to rematch with Florida we wanted to play them again we wanted another shot at those guys that lost in 2008 was was a pivotal moment for us I think in Alabama just because we had went undefeated into that point we were dominating pretty much win that entire game [Applause] we lost it at the end of the game Tebow had some of his Tebow magic and came back on this Tim Tebow led some really great drives in that fourth quarter and we didn't execute down the stretch [Music] [Applause] I remember it being more emotional than probably any other game that I'd experienced at that point it was hardest for me knowing that there were great players that weren't going to be with us when we went after it again next year I think the best way to put it is we were having you know a little bit of like an identity crisis in Swann called one Andre Smith they were both leaving so it was John Parker Wilson so it was Glen coffee so it was Rashad Johnson you know those were our captains those were our playmakers you know a lot of guys were coming back but they were young and we needed leaders we had some young guys they had the attitude they had the ability the other thing they did not have was time on the job but once they got into the flow of it and saw that the standard had been set by that 2018 it took off from there I think some people wondered was o8 was that a little-little that has schedule was it not and then it was complicated by the Utah loss they did not give warm document about the Sugar Bowl in 2008 once they had lost to Florida you know they just didn't I think we just spent a lot of time kind of harping on those losses and how tough they were and getting back to that same point was such a point of emphasis for us the entire offseason where we looked at it as we weren't lucky to be there we were unfortunate we came up short there were some national expectations for Alabama but I don't think that that outside of Tuscaloosa there was a tremendous expectation that they would be contenders again we took ownership of that and part of that was the revenge factor that we had kind of created within our locker room it wasn't about what the media was saying or not saying I'm sure they probably looked it well no returning quarterback I had never started the game and and I'm sure that there were doubts that the media had about about my credibility and my ability to take over the starting reins but I can only say from my own experience that I had waited three years to get into that position I knew when I was giving my chance I was gonna do everything I could to be the best player best leader best everything I can be let's be honest here I mean McIlroy was not a big-time recruit he played at South Lake Carol in Texas one of the best programs in the country he never lost a game he was a good quarterback he was talked about a little bit but if I remember correctly kind of a left over because Tebow didn't go you know whether that played on Greg's psyche or not I have no idea but there's not an Alabama fan in the world that would have said oh no I want Greg McElroy versus Tim Tebow I did not like Tim Tebow I didn't like him at all I was very aware of who Alabama prioritized their recruiting I mean Tim Tebow was the most coveted player in the country Greg was a good quarterback in high school but there was just no way of really knowing whether he would be serviceable good for just another Alabama quarterback who has great compliments around him I think when you're going through a competition at the position it's really hard to focus on really anything else and it was just it was really more of an internal look as to how I wanted to perform that year as opposed to focusing on anybody else we had practiced on the Friday before spring break and I got with my family on that Friday night after we had finished up the first practice so does mine I got it like not even the slightest bit of doubt I felt really confident about my preparation it wasn't so much about what the other quarterbacks were doing that I knew that I had done everything that I had to possibly do to position myself to perform at a high level I think Gregg gets underrated I think people got stuck on the game-manager concept and he's saddled with that and between that and being a ginger it's really a lot to carry through life but the way that team was structured the idea was not necessarily to be an explosive offense that's not the way they won games they won games because Greg McIlroy who was a really good quarterback was surrounded by other really good players a lot of first rounders look around offensive line tailbacks wide outs we brought James carpenter and offensive line William Vallejos goes in Barrett Jones goes in Mark Ingram trent richardson replaced glen coffee so we came in with that two-headed monster running back remember going out and having a really good first day of springg against a really good defense seeking it myself like if we can do it against these guys we can do it probably against anybody so I remember leaving for spring break after that first practice feeling pretty confident about what we were gonna have on offense and my hold on the starting quarterback spot so Virginia Tech Atlanta I can remember coming out being so hyped up like so jacked like too prepared like way too much information in my study and the week leading up the Virginia Tech game was a tone setter and honestly what gets lost in it is the message of where we were you know the Clemson game the year before kind of announced us on a national scene we're not gonna surprise Virginia Tech they know we're a good football team we're also in the Georgia Dome which is where we lost the floor to the year before and also where we wanted to get back to the end of that year I just remember answering questions Kirk Herbstreit didn't know my name but he walks by me and goes hey big man and big man y'all gonna be any good at front this year you know I love Gregg to death but he wasn't exactly gonna turn into Cam Newton overnight so it wasn't it you know I was like this is what it is you know it's like the first time you're you're taking a test of some sort like you're probably gonna be so over prepared that the wealth of information that you have your disposals gonna weigh you down at that point I remember just being so bogged down with information and then realizing this is just football this is not calculus I think he showed himself to the rest of the world I think we pretty much knew what Greg was Greg was a very accurate quarterback Greg threw a nice deep ball and sure enough we played great in the second half in the passing game offense gets going we get a big play in the fourth quarter to kind of open it up you know Coach Stevens got that crazy ability to just make you focus on what you have to do playing and play out it wasn't till afterwards you look back and go wow we played four games in the Georgia Dome over two years and played some pretty good football teams including we were getting to the point of the season where we needed a break like we needed a bi-week bad everyone was just a little bit edge because we hadn't performed offensively the way we would have liked dating back to the Kentucky game so it was like a four-game stretch there where it was like you know we Kentucky was rough and then the Ole Miss was not very good and then comes you know South Carolina Saturday night game on ESPN destiny televised South Carolina had a great team coming in coached by Spurrier South Carolina it was always a tough football team and that's the the best thing I can say is they were hard-nosed like they were always ready to play us full disclosure I had never experienced adversity or knuckle hype as a player never lost to came as a starter like never started the game with my first attempt being an interception way that never happened so I can remember vividly on the first attempt of the game trying to like check it down the road out Church if he breaks the right I try to throw it late over the middle I throw it right where Roy was not where Roy was going and then the rest of the game I was just seeing ghosts like the whole time my action [Music] [Applause] [Music] it completes it's been a tough night for number 12 we struggled from the get-go against this defense but there came a point we just put our foot down and said okay enough is enough we are going to give the ball on our best pull players hands and put it behind the offensive line and see if we can get it done King grew up now in the Wildcat formation is just going to take the direct snap and take off that one particular drive I think the hand I got the ball like six times in a row he run a wildcat so we just kept running the place calling different runs out of it and we were able to run down the field 30-yard marks that 15 marks got ten marks got 20 and it's like are we really about to do this against this defense [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we was able to move the ball we were able to move the ball out of the Wildcat somehow and now it's a stadium record 242 for marking we got down to like the two or three yard line and they threw me a tossing finish the drive off and that kind of helped push us past that hump of that game and getting a win I celebrated is the ugliest celebration of all time I literally did the worst like jump scissor kick like and I only got this far off the ground I'm ember just being so thankful after that game but yet feeling so guilty looking back on it learning how to deal with the diversity learning had to deal with a really slow start that was something I never really knew how to do I'm also just really lucky to have had a running game and a defense on my side that they can bail me out of a really really impossible spot that I put him in it's just it's a microcosm in my opinion of what that entire season was there was some struggles there were some ups and downs we had a good football team and in the end we put our foot down and we're able to get it done the SEC West [Applause] it's plenty about the Tennessee games I don't remember a whole lot about it it just didn't feel like a big game Lane Kiffin versus Nick Saban and it's not you know Rockne vs. Bryant it was lanes only year in Knoxville lane was a lightning rod for a lot of a lot of attention you know and it had been brash but I remember them saying that there are no headphones I thought Alabama will probably have to take theirs off headsets are malfunctioning therefore both teams will have to remove their headsets until the problem is fixed there's someone that disabled their headphones and it wasn't an alabama person i'm convinced of it like that's just my conspiracy theorists point of view so McIlwain is gonna have to come down onto the field I'm like we're good when I got the first date down I got the first third down down but they brought a blitz on the third play of the game they hadn't run before watch at Maxum boy Eric Berry and was it was it cheap yeah to get us feeling a little antsy with the headphones going down early I think was a little bit of gamesmanship I remember being completely out of out of gas as a team and I remember kidding the redzone a few times and not being able to get in the end zone and us being just so incredibly frustrated it was still a game where you felt like that for the first three quarters Alabama was in control of the game and then all of a sudden you get in the fourth quarter anyway they could lose this game they could absolutely lose this game because they're not being efficient not scoring on offense like they need to score thankfully Lee Tiffin makes a couple of long kicks kind of puts us in good position but you still never felt comfortable about it the nine-point lead against Tennessee that year felt like an insurmountable lead for a team you know the one thing we didn't do was fumble the football marking or my don't think had a fumble all season until that Tennessee game [Applause] [Music] everything that happened after that was so improbable it was like there's no way this is gonna happen oh my god that just happened sure enough they go down score like a two-minute drive towards the end of the game this is Gerald Jones touchdown Tennessee and then sure enough they get the onside kick Tennessee I think yes oh no you got to be kidding me if we lose to Tennessee and we scored 12 points that's the worst thing ever the next thing you know there's like I mean I was sick to my stomach and I actually turned when they lined up for the kick I turned around to the opposite end zone the jumbotron and the corner of the endzone and I just I remember being like I'm not watching like I remember vividly thinking to myself like there's no chance this balls going to the uprights Lincoln for the lead [Applause] halation is not even a good enough word I mean I literally fell to Annie said a Hail Mary and hid around on the field like oh my god what just happened I thought Alabama had lost it was just in a state of shock afterwards like I cannot believe they won the game you can do the geometry the ball couldn't have been what would Terence Cody's vertical leap had been 22.5 Julio is 13 feet in the air behind him it's unbelievable coach Bryant once told me you gotta have a little schedule up gotta have a little injury love doesn't matter how good you are that all I can do is get the best players prepare them to play the best you can get out a little luck there's usually a moment like that in the season when you win a national championship not always for that was there but as the season went moved on it became just a footnote as all Tennessee games have become the Iron Bowl is hard to really sum up until you've lived it as a starter to feel the intensity of the rivalry knowing that you were gonna have to go out there and perform was on another level it was my first Iron Bowl as a head coach right and what I do remember is that we just came off a real tough seven-point loss to Georgia two weeks earlier and then we had an off week and the year before they got beat 36 nothing it was kind of hard to take arpan to seriously the '08 season was such a disaster a new coach in so Alabama fans were feeling pretty good we put together a game plan and we really felt solid and a matter of fact I told them that we're gonna score first in the game and immediately when we score first we have a onside kick built in that we're gonna surprise onside kick we're gonna go and get the ball and go down and score again that's how the game is going to unfold [Music] [Applause] [Music] sacré big room 50 40 watch out 30 exit cut back 20 15 10 5 touchdown Winry school nobody look at me I don't want anybody giving away anything that might happen we don't know where the cameras are it's business as usual you know when we huddle up on the sideline you know what we're doing we don't even need to call it it was clear that they weren't intimidated and and I think in year one for Gene Chizik that was actually really important for those players and we actually went up 14 nothing we just knew that the only way we could defensively stay in the game was to make sure that we matched the physicality blow-for-blow they had two first-round picks at tailback at least in our eyes Mark Ingram and Trent Richardson and we didn't care how many people we had to stack up around the box if they were going to beat us they had to beat us today head roof was their defensive coordinator and he was like we told our kids no matter what happened the marking room was not going to win the Heisman and jordan-hare Stadium and he won the Heisman but it definitely wasn't cuz of it happened you're in there stating you know it's it's like we always say defensive guys always say that you know you go into a plan and if they beat you at something that you know they're great at if you don't take that away you regret it on Sunday morning we took it away we took it absolutely nothing up the gut all of a sudden remember standing on the Alabama sideline at the end of the game going are they gonna blow this blow a shot at winning a national championship we couldn't seem to finish and he drives like we were able to get into the red zone I had to settle for a couple field goals and then it's 2120 and we're backed up with our back just their student section but I remember looking up at the clock and it being in under ten minutes and thinking to ourselves like man we've we got to put something together here we literally had field position we had everything we wanted in the fourth quarter and they start this Drive they drive is as memorable a drive as I can remember of that era you could tell from the moment Alabama got the ball they were gonna get the job done and it was it was like death by a thousand cuts good protection the world throws five play clock to six nothing else sets up controls Jones [Applause] in motion they're gonna stay on the ground past the five-yard line goes Richardson I remember everything that was not happening right for these guys for three and a half quarters is happening right now we get down there and we hadn't thrown a goal line pass all year like it just mark was running offensive line was a road grader like we just didn't throw goal line passes and this wasn't quite in a goal line situation it was just inside the five but coaches hate we're gonna throw it or hear the Upchurch though one of my favorite teammates and I just remember when they made that play call on the sideline we ran out I thought oh my god he is about to be an Alabama hero for this play the formation is near I left Peter pass right X corner and it was it was one of those plays that we had run every single week of the season and sure enough week twelve where we're finally pulling out of the Arsenal who said if they're gonna beat us that's how they're gonna beat us and we stopped the run that day but that one drive with the game on the line you know made all the difference it's just you know Greg put this it wasn't like a line drive it wasn't like a floater it was just the most perfect ball to have that kind of moments just I know that had to been heartbreaking for them because that was one of the best moments of my life it was one of those scenarios where we had every opportunity to close the door and win it and you know we we didn't that's why they were the national champs to have them you know get punched in the face repeatedly and then take the ball and go down the field with everything on the line I think that was I'd say a statement drive for Greg McElroy for Nick Saban and I would say the program because you saw at that point after the disappointment no eight in the SEC championship game that team kind of had that killer instinct a couple of plays later knocked down the Hail Mary and then put into the SEC Championship at 12 and stays undefeated quite frankly you know great players make great plays winning games are on the line we made them beat us left-handed the problem is they beat us left-handed it was the best feeling in the world to know that 12 months of frustration 12 months of preparation were paying off right in front of us we really did have to take it one game at the time because the suc that year was an absolute gauntlet we were so good at focusing on what we had to do that week and that savings thing you don't focus on the horizon you don't focus on the end goal you focus on what you do to get there but there was never a doubt that it would be Florida we had pictures and them everywhere we had pictures and holding SEC signs with you know confetti coming down it was the game that we had envisioned since we lost verse them in o8 that was our motivation that failure and when we get tired or when we were like running sprints or lifting like it was all like what we gotta do to be better than Florida what we got dude it I'll get back to that position where we can redeem ourselves again and we wanted them I mean that was that's what we worked every day for they were in the mill the dynasty it would have been a complete letdown to play anybody else and that has to see championship I have never felt better going into a game I knew our plan was sound we had a great week of practice we had focused all offseason on what we were going to do and I knew we were gonna go out there and play our best game was when we got to that day that game I remember the emotions were high in the locker room multiple guys were emotional before the game I you know meant a lot to us it was exactly like the year before in terms of lead-up because it was more or less a national semifinal when we didn't have the playoff but you could tell sort of a shift in the feeling of who Alabama was nationally and certainly the feel of what Alabama was to to its fan base because the success is saving it kind of sunk in you know a loss wasn't acceptable at that point I wasn't just you know feeling like Alabama was so much better than everybody else but I do remember thinking that it's gonna be hard to beat Nick twice in that same game I mean this this was the moment where the whole country just stopped and took a deep breath and and watched the SEC there's never been two championship games like that Alabama had a lot of good players with a lot of good memories meaning they remembered what happened the year before and I remember thinking to myself then going into this game if Florida is gonna win this one they're gonna have to bring their lunch I was supremely confident the first play as we came out of the game we had Julio in the slot which is the first time he'd been in the slot all year he runs an over out kind of kind of held up for a second moved to my right just to touch and then through it totally over the top and he had created like a miles worth of separation between him and their best corner like that's it we got him Ted roofs defense at Auburn like I said it a lot of had a lot of success the week before and as much success as they had you knew that Florida would probably do something very similar right like happened you not and sure enough what we practiced came out perfectly defense collapses they go to five down linemen the marketing and punches one in from about eight or ten yards out I felt like everything we did worked I mean it really was like a you know you'd come out for this what your thing's gonna be a fist fight and really it felt like we've landed haymaker after haymaker sometimes when you start the game well offensively I feel like we would exhale like man good all right we're off and running let's go but with Florida I remember the mentality always being like that's not enough it's not enough we got to go get more because that guy on the other side and that team on the other side they're not gonna go quietly even though you knew Alabama was ascending you weren't sure there's still tim tebow it was still Florida I just remember going into that game just on a personal level I I did not like Tim Tebow I didn't like him at all I think it's pretty clear that at that point I was very aware of who Alabama prioritized in recruiting I didn't like all the accolades that he got and I wanted to shot at him on a personal level I did and I was really really excited to see that week that the narrative was the only difference between Alabama and Florida was the quarterback I'm not saying he wasn't a better college player than me I know that I'm not not that dumb but I also know that it was particularly satisfying playing well in doing some things that that he did throughout the course of his college career that made him so special it was fun to do some of those things myself and again the Blitz mcelroy rolling out tries to dance down the sidelines Wow rich the cough it's funny because there's a fourth-quarter trill that we do throughout the fourth quarter program where you quite literally hop on one legs for like 15 yards and coach Cochran he's like hey we a I told you you were gonna use it like all right coach I get it man like that was clearly self-preservation right there at its finest and frankly me ending up on one leg was more because I just couldn't quite keep both feet on the ground and just looking back on it's like I can't believe I was like who was that guy like it was just it was just such a mentality of and whatever it takes in this game I think the biggest play for me we ran a sort of trick play for Greg kind of half rolls right and he sets up camp and looks back so the other side of the field that Greg threw a ball over Pete's head he can end up catching it like this on the front of Sports Illustrated just like this and it was just like I can't wait I just lurk like there's the number one defense in the country and somehow that just worked there were so many times where they could have climbed back into it and against worse teams they would have but that team was uniquely special with the intangibles that we had and how much we cared about each other and and how much we had put into that game is that we just wouldn't have it as good as Tebow was of a quarterback rolana McLean was that good at the linebacker and just everything they did it seemed like we had an answer for and we just we had a ton of success doing things that we were good at which was running the football and keeping it away from them how about the night for Greg McElroy los for Tim Tebow there's always something fun about kneeling on the football like kneeling on the football is the best you could see like your kid from Texas got here and got revenge against Florida in his his first here's a starting quarterback and you could kind of tell that he kind of knew that this was the place where he was supposed to be I think the realization of that win was was this that Urban Meyer was no longer the king that Nick Saban was and what would happen in the future and it didn't take long to settle that debate you know I was a great feeling for us and I feel like throughout my whole career even though I wanted national championship that was the biggest one that we had Alabama this is the one you have fought for forever I mean it and it's your favorite football game that's my favorite football game I've ever played in like we're on top of the world I mean we really did it was just so gratifying and to see the happiness with coach at that point you know he was not a guy that showed a lot of personality you know to that point he he would occasionally smile but that was for the camera and that was about it but to see him genuinely happy was something I I wouldn't forget as well I mean he was genuinely happy genuinely proud of us and it was worth it like the last 11 months 12 months were hell but man they were worth it I think because this feeling of elation will never be able to be replicated like we can win in a couple weeks but it wasn't gonna be the same because we never made it about the team we were going to play we made it about the team that we just beat and and that was by far the most gratifying feeling that I can recall [Applause] in the closest race ever the 2009 Heisman Trophy is awarded to Mark Ingram the Heisman when I got to Alabama was not something that happened and there we were had just beaten the reigning national champs in marking and writing won the Heisman I just remember thinking I never in a million years thought this would happen in my life it's like crazy that they never had Heisman Trophy went out all the all-americans they've had and all the championships to be able to do that it was a blessing and I couldn't did it without the support of many people there was this special bond between him and us in his speech he thinks his offensive line you know thinking about one's line and I cried I got teared up and cried I feel like that award was you know I want it but a lot of people had their hands in it we'd be able to fill that trophy case for Alabama legacy and now all the Alabama fans and my family and my teammates my coaches be able to do that that was wild being in college and one of those championships and winning those awards with my guys and those are moments I'll cherish the rest of my life to be honest with you I think it took us probably solid week or two to where we really felt that drive to go back and compete we know the importance of the game because it was a nest championship that's essentially what we wanted but beaten Florida I feel like I said I feel like that was our biggest win it's so funny because coach made us watch the movie miracle before the game because the u.s. beat the Soviets in the semi final game not in the championship so like he had they're kind of like we we kind of won the Superbowl against Florida you know we just had to make sure that we stayed on point because we were so excited coming off of a big win any time that you come off a big win like that you got to be you got to be aware of not having a letdown all sudden it was full go I you know we didn't matter that it was Christmas didn't matter in New Year's none of it mattered I mean it was all about football and I don't think we felt stressed I think we just felt like this is this is you know our destiny like we're gonna be able to do this I mean this was this was an epic confrontation of not only two of the biggest names in college football but but to the loudest and aces and it was at the Rose Bowl covered a lot of college football but I don't remember a game that I was more excited about I mean this was really one of these defining moments in in time and the game lived up to it we look down at this beautiful scene here in Pasadena to unbeatens ready to battle for the heavyweight championship with college football mentally physically I mean literally I had repaired my entire life for that and I just felt like we could not possibly be in a better position to do this than we are right now with the group of guys we have and everything that you have prepared for everything you expected the game to look like went by the wayside as soon as Cole went down [Applause] both days hurt I thought it could have been a classic national championship game had Colt still been playing and healthy but you know what that's football right we also work sure exactly whether or not he was gonna be coming back but when he wasn't on the sidelines and everyone was kind of like alright well we're going altra conservative and I can remember vividly having that conversation like when it shifts from hey we're gonna be aggressive we got to go out there and we got to match him to hey we have an advantage in the trenches if we're not gonna throw it unless we have to there's no need to so like the game was kind of transitioning right into where our strengths lie and aamir feeling pretty excited about celebrating nothing the middle [Applause] darienne's going for the Enzo that's an interception and a touchdown 24 six Marcel Darius once we scored before half-time you're going locker rooms raucous yeah everybody's just losing their minds like we just scored a touchdown we're up by two touchdowns national thought a game I remember everyone in the locker and being like big like this is so great like and of course coach is trying to rally us but you know we're 21 years old we're we're celebrating already I as a captain as a you know a guy who wanted to be a leader it's like okay how do I put a lid on this like hey this game is only halfway over late in the game you know Garrett Gilbert had done you know his thing and you know it wasn't necessarily out of reach and I remember thinking I think the Texas was down three and got the ball back I remember thinking holy crap a high beautiful punt Shipley will have to go for the fair catch at the 7 yard line we felt good about our playing of the field position game at that point I knew we're gonna get aggressive defensively and that's when Eric Anders came off the right side oops all falls on it and we're running on the field going we can score a touchdown right here on you know from the 3 yard line we should be able to put it away when you're in it you're going through the gauntlet of the season it's like forget everybody else all that matters is these 125 guys in the coaches and when we got done I do remember there being that shift and it's like man we didn't do this just for us like we did this for the state I musta hugged everybody in the dang football building I hugged you know Coach Saban and Greg and all my linemen and they hand coach saving the crystal ball I don't know if it ever made it on the telecast but I looked at Rolando and Marc and I was like you know you won the buckets award you won the heisman like how about y'all let me get this ball first like how about yelling then kiss her first and I Hyundai good give it to my coach give it Mike give it to Mike and he just watches it across his face with his eyeballs and he puts it down into my hand Chris even puts it down in my hands and I just smooched it and I was like there's a greatest day ever it was awesome bringing it back to the crystal ball now change it back to Tuscaloosa I remember when we pull it in you know driving down the strip in Tuscaloosa there was people everywhere at the airport people were everywhere just going to class the students were you know they loved it the teachers the whole campus was just on fire the feeling was that this was the team that has tanked out you knew they're gonna be back next year and the year after and they would just start racking them up at that point but I want everybody here to know this is not the end this is the beginning it was the beginning of I'll say today the greatest accomplishment in the history of college football and what he's been able to do with these five national championships at some point it just became second nature to us to outwork everybody it was just an incredible incredible group of guys that weren't all five stars like we weren't all even four stars a lot of us for three stars but we bought in I mean that's something that does not happen just by recruiting or by coaching or by just you know winning football games you have to instill that to see them go on and have even more success over the last decade now has been remarkable I don't know that whoever really hit me you know it's just 10-year reunions gonna be pretty emotional seeing a lot of guys I've seen in a long time we did a lot of special things with I think we'll probably hammer home a lot more than it ever has been there's something about that group in the nucleus that was created within that group and the chip that was on that group shoulder and just how close we became over the course of a 14 game season that even if you've lost touch with guys you're still so proud of what they're doing in the world and you're proud that we were able to share you know those couple years together and specifically but you [Applause] thanks corals here for you since 1920 [Music] the field I remember turning around and saw the I guess you can call it a Gatorade shower you know a couple of guys tried to shower cuz everyone Gatorade ended up hitting him in the head yeah we've had enough for his rules [Applause] right now and I actually talked to Coach they went about the next they were in the plane I was like what happened on the Gatorade shower he's like no not knocked me out but I remember watching on the sidelines and I thought that just happened

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Published: Thu Nov 14 2019