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Game Fixture. The archetype of the Alabama fan-indeed of all football-seized Southerners-is Birmingham Hardware Distributor Tony Brandino, who never attended the university. Since 1954 he has made it to 239 Crimson Tide games in a row, traveling as far as California and forgoing, among other things, a free trip to Switzerland and the mourning period for his mother-in-law. Brandino recalls: "The first time I ever heard about football, I was nine years old and it was a radio broadcast of the 1925 Rose Bowl-Alabama v. Washington. I've been hooked since." Brandino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/sport: Eat 'Em Up, Get 'Em! | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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