Bama1966
I am a avid Alabama fan, there
is not a day something with Alabama isn't on me. My Dads side of the
family is from Hamilton Alabama, and it didn't take me long to become
a Alabama fan. I have 3 boys, and a lovely wife. One of my sons is
named after Coach Paul Bear Bryant.
I got into message boards in the mid to late 90's and that's where I
met Porkchop, Porter, Doemasters and the rest of this crew. We all
migrated together and formed Crimsontusks. It didn't take long for
Doemasters and our crew to merge and become RollTideBama, it was a no
brainer.
Our final addition Terryp rounded up a great site and here we are
today. We have a solid staff with mods and Global mods, the best on
the net. I consider myself lucky to be a part of a site with so many
good people.
The one thing we all want out of this site is to have a site for the
members, without them there is no site. Our memberbase is very
important to us, and as long as they keep reading, we will provide
them a site with integrity, truthfulness, and up to date info.
Porter
I grew up in Birmingham, but moved south and
went to high school in the Mobile area at McGill-Toolen and Daphne
High. I received my degree from The University of Alabama in 2007
(same graduating class as Joe Namath). I'm married to a super girl and
we currently reside in Tuscaloosa. If I'm at an Alabama football game,
on vacation, or spending time with my family and friends, then I'm
having a pretty good day.
I've been an Alabama fan all my life and have been talking Tide
football with folks on Internet message boards for the last decade. I
jumped at the opportunity to be a part of this site several years ago
and have had a lot of fun watching it grow with every season. The
staff and member base at RollTideBama.com is the best on the net. We
might get beat by quantity, but not quality.
I've always been a little bit of a recruiting junkie, as I would even
buy the old recruiting magazines every year and read them at school
all day (while in high school) instead of doing my class work. This
has kind of carried over though the years, even though the days of
recruiting magazines are all but gone. My dad was a high school
football coach when I was born, and throughout much of my childhood,
so I guess I was kind of indoctrinated into the sport early on.
While BAMA football is my first love, I also follow all the other
Crimson Tide sports pretty closely... especially baseball, basketball,
softball, golf, and gymnastics.
PorkChop
I've been a BAMA fan for about as long as I can
remember, mostly because I come from a family of BAMA fans. I guess
you could say I was born into it. I can't imagine being a fan of any
other team.
I currently live in Los Angeles, California, and am a medical
assistant by trade. I am married and have two young sons, the older of
which (who is 10 years old now) is an avid BAMA fan. So much so that
he tried to go trick or treating this past Halloween as Paul
"Bear" Bryant.
I've been participating on BAMA message boards since about 1998, and
like most people I came into this whole thing as just a "average
Joe". A participating member of a particular site. Eventually I
was offered jobs by several BAMA sites, and it was when working as an
administrator of one particular board that my good friend and fellow
administrator Bama1966 began discussing with me the possibility of
"trying our hand at this message board thing". I guess you
could say the rest is history.
After deciding to own/operate our own site we founded CrimsonTusks.com.
We had a nice member base (mostly of long-time internet friends), but
our site was rather bland and visually unappealing. At the time we
really didn't possess all of the technical know how that is required
to run a great internet site. Coincidentally, one of our friends (and
board member) Doemasters had a nice site of his own, possessed the
know how, but lacked a stable member base. At that point we all
decided that the smart thing to do was pool our resources and join
forces in an attempt to create what we hoped would be one of the best
"free" sites out there following BAMA athletics. At that
point CrimsonTusks.com and RollTideBama.com merged into one site,
keeping the name RollTideBama.com for practical purposes.
All in all, this has been a labor of love for me, and I'm proud of
what we've done after striking out on our own. I do think that
RollTideBama.com is one of, if not the best, free BAMA site out there.
Lance "Doemasters" Shores
I was born and raised in Bessemer, Alabama and
attended McAdory High School. My love for Alabama sports was sparked
by the first game I attended. Alabama defeated rival Auburn in the
Classic 315 game 28-17. Coach Paul Bryant became the winningest coach
in history of college football that evening and I have been hooked
ever since.
Rolltidebama.com was started back in 1990 and as
stated above merged with Crimsontusks.com a few years later and has
grown to become one of the best free Alabama websites out today. Like
coach Bryant said, " surround yourself with good people" and
that's what we have done. The members make this website what it is
today and I thank everyone of them with a big Roll Tide..
Today I work for in finance for the City of Hoover and
also film for the Tpmmy Wilcox Outdoor Show, so be sure to tune each
week and you might even see me in front of the camera.
Be sure to look for me at the games and come up and
give me a roll tide and let me know what you think of our website.
