What does bama roll tide mean

Roll Tide. Catch a fish? Step in new puppy pee on the wooden floor? With less than 50 percent of the student population hailing from the state of Alabama, some unfamiliar freshmen and new faculty need time to adjust to the new colloquialism, particularly when outside of sports situations.

The phrase comprises the name of the athletics website RollTide. As a freshman, that is generally somewhere along the admissions process, particularly if the student chooses to come to school on a tour. Dorothy Worden, an assistant professor of applied linguistics, is new to Tuscaloosa and the English Department this year. I think it becomes in some ways perhaps emblematic of the culture of the University and the football team and all of those things. The association to football is more clear, since the phrase originated as a means of cheering on the football team.

Alabama football began with a game in Birmingham on a Friday afternoon in November of The seemingly ubiquitous slogan is everywhere, and it still means very little to those of us who didn't attend the football powerhouse in Tuscaloosa. For the majority of football fans who don't bleed red, the questions that rears their elephant heads in front of us at times such as these are quite simple: What does "Roll Tide" mean, and is it the most obnoxious slogan of all time?

Grooms first points out that Alabama's football team was originally referred to in newspapers as either "varsity" or the "Crimson White," in a reference to the official school colors. Roberts coined the nickname to describe the Alabama-Auburn game, played in a sea of mud. So where did it come from? There are accounts of the song being sung as early as and the first printed reference to it was in Now the phrase "Roll Alabama Roll" is used constantly throughout the song but there is no mention of the tide.

So was there a confluence of this Civil War-era shanty and the Alabama football team's nickname at some point?

And when did the phrase, whatever it's origin, gain hold as the UA football war cry? Anyone who has been to the ocean wasn't immune to the hypnotizing crash of the waves against the shore.

They probably took a couple steps out and let the waves crash upon their feet or went even further out and let the tide toss their weightless body towards shore. This is the core meaning of "Roll Tide". The Crimson Tide is a force that once it builds momentum, it can not be stopped and it will crush, toss or destroy whatever is in its way. When the Tide is rolling, the opponent is being man handled and totally dominated.

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