Most fans have a bumper sticker on their car, but would you name your own child after a team legend? We've all begged out of family commitments to watch a game, but have you ever missed a wedding? What about a funeral? Take the quiz and find out how you rank against the fans in Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer.

 

1. When my team is playing I

Rarely attend or watch live on TV.

Sometimes attend or watch on TV.

Often attend or watch on TV.

Always attend or watch on TV.

Always attend.


2. Including travel, tickets, beer, special cable subscription packages, fan Web site fees, payments on an RV, etc. each year I spend roughly the following amount on my team:

Less than $100.

$100 - $500.

$501 - $1,000.

$1,001 -$5,000.

More than $5,000.


3. When I'm traveling far from home and I see someone wearing my team's logo or colors, I

Think it's a meaningless coincidence, and move on.

Think it's a meaningless coincidence, but nevertheless feel a curious pang of camaraderie.

Feel camaraderie and act on it, by offering the stranger a high five.

Wet myself, shout my team's slogan, bear hug the stranger, and tell him I love him.


4. In Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, we meet a couple who skipped their own daughter's wedding in order to attend an Alabama - Tennessee game. I view this couple's behavior as:

Sickening -- beyond the pale.

Weird, but harmless.

Weird, but I definitely know where they're coming from.

A perfectly logical reaction to the thoughtlessness of the daughter, who should’ve chosen another weekend to get hitched.


5. When my team loses, I typically feel rotten for

A few hours.

Several hours to a day.

Days.

Merely contemplating this question has reminded me of a terrible loss I witnessed years ago, and now I am too depressed to answer.


6. In Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, an Alabama football fan who desperately needs a heart transplant chooses to RV to football games rather than to stay close enough to his hospital to keep his place on the waiting list for a new heart. The man’s explanation is that "Life without football isn’t worth living." I find this line of reasoning

Psychotic.

Self-defeating, but not insane.

Profound, and thought provoking.

Freakin' beautiful -- I love you man!


7. I visit my favorite sports Web site

Once a week.

A few times a week.

Every day.

Several times a day.

The way a crack addict hits the pipe.


8. In Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, author Warren St. John visits a reunion of 600+ people who were named after Bear Bryant. I find the idea of naming a child after a football coach:

Bizarre.

Harmless.

It depends on the coach.

As the parent of young Paterno/Bowden/Osborne/Madden/etc. Smithers, I’m deeply offended by this question.


9. In Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, we meet Tony Brandino, a man who attended 500 consecutive Bama games, quitting only when a bout of the flu left him too ill to attend game # 501. ("I felt like death warmed over," Brandino wrote in his memoir, FANtastic. "My head was throbbing. My stomach felt like a canoe in the Gulf of Mexico. If I had made it to the stadium, I would’ve puked on everyone.")

I think someone who goes to 500 consecutive football games is

Certifiably nuts.

A few ticket stubs short of a sky box, but not insane.

To be admired.

Off to a good start.


Answer TRUE or FALSE to the following:

10. I own one of the following CDs: Who Let The Dawgs Out (Who! Who! Who!), Whoop! There It Is, Jock Rock (the K-Tel compilation featuring "We are the Champions," the "Nah Nah Nah, Goodbye" song, etc.).

True

False


11. I chose the color of my car with my team in mind.

True

False


12. I can identify and/or have consumed one of the following: P.G.A., a pink panty pulldown, a Bama Bomb, a baloney log.

True

False


13. I have surreptitiously listened to a game on headphones in a house of worship.

True

False


14. I have lied to my spouse or children about my whereabouts in order to watch a game.

True

False


15. My will stipulates that I will be buried in a team jersey or a customized coffin with my team logo on the lid.

True

False



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