Last year the Alabama Crimson Tide destroyed my LSU Tigers in the BCS championship game. It’s Notre Dame’s turn this year. I tried sending out bad, bad, bad, bad vibrations but it didn’t work.

I hate Alabama: the football team, the state, you name it, I hate it; especially the Tide’s humorless, Cosby sweater wearing, LSU quitting coach, Nick Saban. He is, however, a helluva football coach so hating him is futile. In the immortal words of Becker and Fagen, “They got a name for the winners in the world

I want a name when I lose. They call Alabama the Crimson Tide, call me Deacon Blues.”

Here’s my around the corner neighbor Deacon John Moore doing *his* version of Deacon Blues: