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Top 5 US cities #NFL players per capita:
1️⃣ Mobile- 13 players from pop. 184,952 (1 in 14.2K)
2️⃣ Miami- 19 from 439,890 (1 in 23.1K)
3️⃣ Tampa- 15 from 387,050 (1 in 25.8K)
4️⃣ New Orleans- 13 from 376,971 (1 in 29.0K)
5️⃣ Atlanta- 13 from 496,461 (1 in 38.2K)
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Pick 6 for the huge 35-28 win over baker 🔥🔥🔥 @the_coachmentor @McTJacketsFB @CoachDFaulkner @CoachTbuck4 @QuintinProffitt
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The Regular Season is over…The tournament begins Friday! #SeparationSeason #BlueMapChasing #GoSpartans
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HBCU Premier Sports, Player and Family Appreciation Spotlight for Week 9
☆ Bruce Crenshaw (OL) from Alabama A&M
☆ Blount High School- Mobile, AL
☆ Bruce Crenshaw (OL) from Alabama A&M
☆ Blount High School- Mobile, AL
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These are my top 5 reasons why college football attendance is dwindling:
1. The death of regional games and rivalries. Too many schools are now in conferences that make no geographic sense. Having gone to Arizona State, seeing annual games with the LA, Bay Area, Oregon & Washington schools replaced w/ conference games against schools from Kansas, Texas, Florida, Ohio and West Virginia doesn't resonate. This is being felt everywhere.
2. Conference imbalance. We now have a world where the Big Ten and SEC are inherently favored for earning CFP bids and higher rankings before each season begins. The ACC and Big 12 are Tier 2 leagues, and the G6 schools are essentially in a separate class. This has produced an uneven, biased landscape that is entirely unfair.
3. Noise pollution. I go to college football games to tailgate, watch football and listen to marching bands - not for blaring music and sound effects, hyperventilating PA announcers, and flashing light shows. The environment has been degraded.
4. Expanded College Football Playoff. We've entered an era where if your school isn't contending for a CFP bid, it's playing out the string.
5. The transfer portal. Annual free agency has many schools turning over rosters by more than 50-75%. The connections between players and fans has greatly eroded. Most fans can't name 10 guys on their teams any more. That's not ideal.
The sport needs more stability, the return of regional conferences, better game day atmospheres, and a more level playing field.
1. The death of regional games and rivalries. Too many schools are now in conferences that make no geographic sense. Having gone to Arizona State, seeing annual games with the LA, Bay Area, Oregon & Washington schools replaced w/ conference games against schools from Kansas, Texas, Florida, Ohio and West Virginia doesn't resonate. This is being felt everywhere.
2. Conference imbalance. We now have a world where the Big Ten and SEC are inherently favored for earning CFP bids and higher rankings before each season begins. The ACC and Big 12 are Tier 2 leagues, and the G6 schools are essentially in a separate class. This has produced an uneven, biased landscape that is entirely unfair.
3. Noise pollution. I go to college football games to tailgate, watch football and listen to marching bands - not for blaring music and sound effects, hyperventilating PA announcers, and flashing light shows. The environment has been degraded.
4. Expanded College Football Playoff. We've entered an era where if your school isn't contending for a CFP bid, it's playing out the string.
5. The transfer portal. Annual free agency has many schools turning over rosters by more than 50-75%. The connections between players and fans has greatly eroded. Most fans can't name 10 guys on their teams any more. That's not ideal.
The sport needs more stability, the return of regional conferences, better game day atmospheres, and a more level playing field.
I am beginning to think College Football has a bit of an attendance problem brewing. Look at the thread below to see the crowds yesterday at Oklahoma, Penn State, UCLA, TCU, Maryland, SDSU, and FSU. 🤯
What is the main cause? Unrealistic expectations? Economy? Apathy? Halloween?
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This kid understands the assignment. 🫡
Straight to business for Jeremiah Smith after becoming the all-time @bigten receiving TD leader
(via NBC)
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Alabama A&M (RB) Kolten Nero racking up 81 total yards, his explosive 61-yard burst completely flipped the field and set up his own 4-yard touchdown to capped off the drive
☆ Foley High School, AL
☆ Foley High School, AL
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It is lonely at the top. Alabama A&M -- the No. 1 ranked team in HBCU football -- won a hard-fought Magic City Classic over Alabama State to get some breathing room in the SWAC East.
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She drank whiskey, swore often, and smoked handmade cigars. She wore pants under her skirt and a gun under her apron. At six feet tall and two hundred pounds, Mary Fields was an ıntimidating woman.
Mary lived in Montana, in a town called Cascade. She was a special member of the hools would close on her birthday, and though women were not allowed entry into saloons, she was given special permission by the mayor to come in anytime and to any saloon she liked.
But Mary wasn’t from Montana. She was born into enslavement in Tennessee sometime in the early 1830s, and lived enslaved for more than thirty years until slavery was abolished. As a free woman, life led her first to Florida to work for a family and then Ohio when part of the family moved.
When Mary was 52, her close friend who lived in Montana became ill with pneumonia. Upon hearing the news, Mary dropped everything and came to nurse her friend back to health. Her friend soon recovered and Mary decided to stay in Montana settling in Cascade.
Her beginning in Cascade wasn’t smooth. To make ends meet, she first tried her hand at the restaurant business. She opened a restaurant, but she wasn’t much of a chef. And she was also too generous, never refusing to serve a customer who couldn’t pay. So the restaurant failed within a year.
But then in 1895, when in her sixties, Mary, or as “Stagecoach Mary” as she was sometimes called because she never missed a day of work, became the second woman and first African American to work as a mail carrier in the U.S. She got the job because she was the fastest applicant to hitch six horses.
Eventually she retired to a life of running a laundry business. And babysitting all the kids in town. And going to baseball games. And being friends with much of the townsfolk.
This was Mary Fields. A rebeI, a legend.
Mary lived in Montana, in a town called Cascade. She was a special member of the hools would close on her birthday, and though women were not allowed entry into saloons, she was given special permission by the mayor to come in anytime and to any saloon she liked.
But Mary wasn’t from Montana. She was born into enslavement in Tennessee sometime in the early 1830s, and lived enslaved for more than thirty years until slavery was abolished. As a free woman, life led her first to Florida to work for a family and then Ohio when part of the family moved.
When Mary was 52, her close friend who lived in Montana became ill with pneumonia. Upon hearing the news, Mary dropped everything and came to nurse her friend back to health. Her friend soon recovered and Mary decided to stay in Montana settling in Cascade.
Her beginning in Cascade wasn’t smooth. To make ends meet, she first tried her hand at the restaurant business. She opened a restaurant, but she wasn’t much of a chef. And she was also too generous, never refusing to serve a customer who couldn’t pay. So the restaurant failed within a year.
But then in 1895, when in her sixties, Mary, or as “Stagecoach Mary” as she was sometimes called because she never missed a day of work, became the second woman and first African American to work as a mail carrier in the U.S. She got the job because she was the fastest applicant to hitch six horses.
Eventually she retired to a life of running a laundry business. And babysitting all the kids in town. And going to baseball games. And being friends with much of the townsfolk.
This was Mary Fields. A rebeI, a legend.
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Birmingham is expected to rake in an estimated $25 million during the week of the largest HBCU rivalry game in the nation.
That’s a $7 million increase when compared to a decade ago, according to Magic City Classic Executive Director Perren King.
That’s a $7 million increase when compared to a decade ago, according to Magic City Classic Executive Director Perren King.
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Ice Cube at the Magic City Classic. His response "I ain't never seen anything like this before! I'm from the West Coast...and to see this many black people having a good time!"
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2029 Prospect To Know: @ReidSkrmetta
Fairhope OL Reid Skrmetta is a fast-rising offensive lineman prospect in the state of Alabama.
6-3 280 pounds and versatility to play anywhere along the OL.
Fairhope OL Reid Skrmetta is a fast-rising offensive lineman prospect in the state of Alabama.
6-3 280 pounds and versatility to play anywhere along the OL.
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Touchdown Vigor. Jhi Brown finds Arkansas State WR commit Zy Wilson.
Fairhope leads 17-14 at the half.
Fairhope leads 17-14 at the half.
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I took this picture of Tee Martin 6'2" 210 pounds at Williamson high school in Mobile AL in 1995. He was a 5* talent and nationally recruited. Yes that's my 8 year-old son climbing through the sunroof of our rental car. He was a great travel companion but at times would get bored
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Hanford Dixon, Theodore alum and former Southern Miss cornerback, is this week's Senior Bowl Spotlight. He played in the 1981 Senior Bowl. wkrg.com/high-school-fo…
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