Latest happenings and a new mayor

Ok so I finally bought a vehicle. I got a 1997 Isuzu Rodeo. It's black and its an old beater, and I have to go Monday and buy a tag and a starter for it, but it aint bad for $700. I think I'm falling for someone again, and I hope this time it means something real. In other news, William Bell won the election and is on the job on 3rd floor City Hall. Hopefully the citizens of Birmingham made the right choice.

Number 13

The last time Alabama won the National Championship I was not yet five. I can only remember Gene Stallings smiling on the fuzzy television in our living room in Birmingport.
Now, I’m going on 23 and I couldn’t be more elated. Over the past eighteen years I’ve watched the Tide go through scandals, terrible seasons, and numerous coaches.
Three years ago Nick Saban arrived at Birmingham International and every Tide fan, including myself, somehow knew he was going to be our savior. It was said then that he very well could be the new Bear Bryant. Obviously we were right.
For a man to come in to what was the most awful team in the nation and turn it around and win the Tide’s thirteenth crystal pigskin is a feat I’ve never before witnessed and probably never will again. I have said it to myself many a time and I feel it is safe and less blasphemous to say it aloud and in public now. If Bear Bryant was Alabama’s football god, then Nick Saban is our messiah.
This is not something you see every day. This is not a dream. This is real. For many years 12 has been a symbolic number at Bryant-Denny. Now 13 is the magic number.
This is our future. This is our legacy. This is our present. This is our future. We are the Alabama Crimson Tide and no one in the world is better than us.