Those ‘We Want Bama’ Signs? Yeah, No You Don’t

Washington, Ohio State, Clemson (again) … you don’t really want Bama. If anything, you want anybody BUT Alabama football come the College Football Playoffs.

Way back when, the practical end of an insanely popular sitcom named “Happy Days” was signaled when Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli donned water skis and jumped a shark.

Here in the present-day world of college football, there is a cliche that has similarly “jumped the shark” just like The Fonz …

The “We Want Bama!” sign.

While the signs aren’t a recent phenomenon, “We Want Bama!” seems an even more insane request than it has been in years past. They sprout up now and again on ESPN’s College GameDay. Witty Cleveland Browns fans flashed them last month. Washington Huskies fans waved them around earlier this year.

You want Bama, eh? Ok …

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You want Jonathan Allen – a probable No. 1 overall NFL Draft pick this spring – terrorizing your quarterback for 60 minutes? You want Reuben Foster laying so much wood to running backs that they will want to ask out by the fourth quarter?

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You want Alabama football assistant Lane Kiffin, in between getting his ass chewed by his head ball coach, celebrating touchdown passes well before they are thrown? You want Jalen Hurts, who is BY GAWD JUST A FRESHMAN, alternating between dissecting your secondary and romping through it?

If you were to somehow get so lucky as to force a defensive stop, you want JK Scott doing his best Ray Guy impression with a punt over your returner’s head? Stuff the Tide short of the end zone, great … you want Adam Griffith finally solving the code of his own talent three points at a time?

ArDarius Stewart on the jet sweep. Bo Scarborough on fresh legs in the fourth quarter while your offensive linemen feel like they are on ice skates. O.J. Howard on the drag route. Minkah Fitzpatrick lurking, just waiting for you to get fresh with a deep ball. Shaun Dion Hamilton or Tim Williams looking to decleat one of your best with a smile on his face.

Ask around to the few and far between that wanted Bama and got pretty close. Ask Dabo Swinney, who thought he *had* Bama last year in the CFP National Championship Game – only to see Nick Saban dial up an otherworldly onsides kick with a half-grin on his face. Ask Hugh Freeze, who blew Ole Miss’ goalpost budget for the next decade – only to come away with zero Western Division titles and the NCAA setting up camp in Oxford.

We could go on and on and on … You want Bama like you want a wisdom tooth extraction marathon. You want Bama like you want to take sharp grounders at third without a cup. You want Bama like you want your wife, mom AND your mother-in-law nagging you for a long weekend. You want Bama like you want the IRS on Line 3.

Washington, Ohio State, Clemson (again) … you don’t really want Bama. If anything, you want anybody BUT Bama.

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Problem is, Alabama football doesn’t really care about your wishes and dreams. Alabama wants what it wants, and the Crimson Tide will take it whether you like it or not.