{"product_id":"we-want-bama-a-season-of-hope-and-the-making-of-nick-sabans-ultimate-team-paperback","title":"We Want Bama: A Season of Hope and the Making of Nick Saban's Ultimate Team - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lively chronicle of how the 2020 Crimson Tide became Nick Saban's \"ultimate team.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWas Alabama's Crimson Tide in 2020 the greatest team of all time? The squad went 13-0 in a pandemic year, scored a combined 107 points against SEC powerhouses LSU and Florida, crushed Ohio State in a National Championship Game 52-24 in a contest that wasn't even that close, and followed it up with another top-rated signing class. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNick Saban called his boys the \"ultimate team,\" but it wasn't just because they kicked the ever-living hell out of everyone on the football field. It was because the team leveraged a power and influence born of Southern pride to push back against a hateful legacy of racism that a populist president was exploiting to divide the nation. At a time when Americans needed real leaders in the face of so much hate, the sports world answered the call and fought back for the soul of the country.\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2020, the Tide players left their training facility and, led by their celebrated coach, marched to a campus doorway made infamous sixty years earlier by another political demagogue and showed what people can accomplish when they fight together for a just cause in the name of unity. The most powerful force in a state crazy for college football had chosen to make a stand and replace George Wallace's \"Segregation forever!\" with a different message, written by one of the players: \"All lives can't matter until Black lives matter.\" \u003cbr\u003e​ \u003cbr\u003eThere have been some great football teams through the years, and they all deserve respect. But here's what we know for sure: They all would have been appreciative of what this Alabama team represented, and proud of what it accomplished. The Crimson Tide in 2020 captured something special that moved it beyond the conversation of best ever, and into the place reserved for most important of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e was an industrial painter, like his father, before pursuing a career in journalism. To break into the business while in school with a young family, he commuted from Birmingham daily to work at small-town Alabama newspapers. After stints at the Jasper \u003ci\u003eDaily Mountain Eagle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCullman Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNorth Jefferson News\u003c\/i\u003e, Joseph was awarded a fellowship at the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He respectfully declined to cover high school football for the \u003ci\u003eMiami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e. Joseph then covered the Florida Gators and the Miami Heat as a beat writer for the \u003ci\u003eHerald\u003c\/i\u003e. He returned home to Alabama in 2015 to work for the \u003ci\u003eBirmingham News\u003c\/i\u003e, his hometown newspaper. He is now the sports columnist for the \u003ci\u003eBirmingham News\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMobile Press-Register\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHuntsville Times\u003c\/i\u003e and AL.com. Joseph was born in Mobile and raised by Irondale. His lifelong best friend is Kevin \"Skinny Bandit, aka El Flaco, aka Bryant Get Me Something Cold to Drink\" Jackson. Joseph is married to Sarah Goodman, who encouraged him to write from the beginning. They have known the love of three children. This is Joseph's first book. It was written in the Jesuit tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.22 x 5.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47392220348594,"sku":"9781538716274","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/cc217f4f6dd0a74f33e15172bff64eb4.webp?v=1777958228","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/we-want-bama-a-season-of-hope-and-the-making-of-nick-sabans-ultimate-team-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}