It was repeated all game: Alabama the sledge hammer and Auburn the object. Six years of futility and embarrassment, all let out on a day that ended the streak. Remembering the 2008 Iron Bowl and the beginning of Nick Saban’s dynasty, with AaronSuttles:
So as he sat in the locker room preparing for the day’s 2:30 CT CBS broadcasted game, Johnson couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw what the photo to his phone revealed.
But Saban lost his first Iron Bowl too. So the 2008 Iron Bowl was in many way therapeutic for the entire Alabama program.“During the previous six years, we were probably an average 6-6 team,” quarterback John Parker Wilson said. “I know we were pretty good and went to the Cotton Bowl, but other than that we were a struggling team. That year we had already secured our place in the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta.
That game and whole season established Alabama as a more physically imposing team than nearly everyone it played. It was a message certainly delivered to Auburn that day. No one in the stands left the blowout early. They stayed and they sang and they took pictures with the scoreboard in the background. Players hung around on the field and even came back onto the field to take pictures to remember this day.
“But I remember us being in a four-minute drill, and I think the first person they took out was Antoine Caldwell. And this is in the middle of the drive, like play by play. Then I want to say they took out maybe Andre Smith. This was by design, in retrospect. They were taking us out one by one, kind of a chance for us to soak it in and kind of get a little ovation as you come off. And I had never experienced anything like that because we’d never be in that kind of situation.
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