New Orleans Times-Picayune reporter Ted Lewis has a welcome to The Big Easy article for the Crimson Tide and fans today. It places Football in Alabama (or, Alabama Football, if you will) and The Civil Rights struggle, on parrallel time tracks. He quotes Historian Taylor Branch:
"Football and segregation were parallel manias in Alabama in the 1960s," Civil Rights Era historian Taylor Branch said. "And they were so imbedded with the idea of segregation, they couldn't find a way out of it except through football.
To his credit, Lewis mentions that LSU had it's first black player after UA.
Roll Tide?
UPDATE: Not to be outdone, The Wall Street Journal has a story about LSU with the headline "You Can't Spell Lush Without L-S-U." Really!
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