The Best Tweets From Alabama vs. Virginia Tech
By Chris Dodson
Credit: Paul Abell-USA TODAY Sports
Even with the 35-10 win by the Crimson Tide over the Hokies Saturday evening, many Alabama fans, experts and even casual watchers of college football had something to say about the game. Where do those people go to voice those opinions? To the micro-blog site Twitter. Some tweets were celebratory, other were critical and many were just plain funny. What were some of the best tweets from Saturday? Let’s take a look.
Crimson Tide Sports Network Play-by-play announcer Eli Gold kicks off his 24th season calling Crimson Tide football.
A couple people noticed the pregame cow-dropping occurring before the Chick-fil-a Kickoff game.
Only time I feel safe when hearing cows are falling RT @danwolken: Thousands of little Chick-fil-A cows are parachuting from the ceiling.
— Edward Aschoff (@AschoffESPN) August 31, 2013
The Crimson Tide scored quickly on a punt return for a TD.
VaTech just hit the reset button on the XBOX
— Brian Oliu (@BrianOliu) August 31, 2013
Bama fans instantly start worrying about the last time the opener started with a Punt Return TD
— Patrick Claybon (@PatrickClaybon) August 31, 2013
Even former Alabama safety Will Lowery had something to say after Alabama’s quick start.
Don't know if I have seen a team this scared to play Bama... Since Michigan St 2010 maybe
— Will Lowery (@jwlowery29) August 31, 2013
After Virginia Tech scored their first touchdown…
See, now you just made Saban mad.
— BamaHammer (@Bama_Hammer) August 31, 2013
A lot of people had things to say about Christion Jones.
Christion Jones has scored a touchdown in every way imaginable except in a Go-Kart.
— Cecil Hurt (@CecilHurt) September 1, 2013
Dating back to 1944, Christion Jones is the first UA player to score 2 returns/non-offensive touchdowns in one game. #RollTide #BAMAvsVT
— Alabama Football (@AlabamaFTBL) August 31, 2013
There was something to keep the crowd entertained during the downtime between timeouts and halftime.
COW DRUMLINE GUYS pic.twitter.com/FpLsXfVq58
— Brett Hudson (@Brett_Hudson) August 31, 2013
Twitter is great for the things sometimes the TV coverage misses as well.
Kirby Smart having to calm down OLB Adrian Hubbard on the sideline. Hubbard got heated, felt the refs missed a hold.
— Alex Scarborough (@AlexS_ESPN) August 31, 2013
And then there were the various other fantastic tweets floating around the twitterverse.
Hey ESPN if you get a chance during your puppet show maybe show the football game.
— Charles Evans (@banditref) August 31, 2013
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