Ahhh the 3rd Saturday in October, it is a date that prompts Hospitals, Emergency Rooms, Docs in a Box and Womens Shelters throughout the T-Town Ghetto and Alabama to make an impassioned plea to the gelled up feathered angel wings bangs of Nick Saban:

We beg of you Nick Saban, win the Tennessee Game! each time Alabama loses a game, especially the Tennessee game, emergency rooms overflow with women who mysteriously fall down trailer steps and injure their faces, kidneys, spinal cords, and various other internal organs as well as missing clumps of hair. The parade of injured women begins around the 2nd quarter and increases throughout the game then the masses start coming in.

please Nick, win this one for the women! (Pictures courtesy of Orange Junior)

Then there is one chilling word that embodies the tradition and class that is Alabama Football:

PINSON

Associated Press

Updated: September 30, 2003, 7:47 PM ET [Link]

PINSON, Ala. — A Pinson man was charged with attempted murder for holding a gun to his son’s head and pulling the trigger in the midst of a tantrum after Alabama’s double overtime loss to Arkansas Saturday.

The bullet narrowly missed 20-year-old Seth Logan, who said he picked the wrong time to ask his dad for a car, sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Randy Christian said Monday.

Joseph Alan Logan, 46, surrendered to police Saturday and was charged with attempted murder and domestic violence. He was released from the Jefferson County jail Sunday on $7,500 bond.

“I know we take football serious in the South,” Christian told The Birmingham News for a Tuesday story, “but that’s crossing the line.”

The request upset Joseph Logan because his son has already wrecked several vehicles, Logan told investigators.

“He claimed he was just trying to scare his son,” Christian said.

According to the police report, Joseph Logan had been drinking alcohol and began slamming doors, tossing boxes and throwing dishes in the sink after the Crimson Tide lost its football game to Arkansas 34-31 in double overtime Saturday.

While Joseph Logan was throwing the tantrum, Seth Logan asked for a new car.

Joseph Logan then retrieved a 9 mm pistol from his car, grabbed his son by the collar and pressed the gun to his son’s forehead, the report said.

Logan threatened to shoot his son in the head, then pulled the trigger.

Seth Logan moved his head just as his father fired and the bullet whizzed past him, the report said.

Seth Logan fled to a neighbor’s house to call police. He told police his ear was numb and his head ringing, but he was OK.

Sheriff’s authorities called the SWAT team after discovering the armed father still had a 13-year-old son in the house with him.

Joseph Alan Logan walked out of the house with the other son and turned himself in to police just before the SWAT team arrived, Christian said.

Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press