This is a special week for me, as it is for many older Tide fans — Alabama’s real rival, the Tennessee Volunteers come to town.
We may begrudgingly respect LSU. We may live with, hate, and even occasionally love, Auburn fans like a little brother. But there is absolutely no hate that burns in the heart like the white phosphorus loathing between Tennessee-Alabama
Alabama and Tennessee share a 146-mile contiguous land border.
One of the most ambitious public works projects in human history, Roosevelt’s Tennessee Valley Authority, took advantage and made use of the expansive Tennessee-Tombigbee river waterway: The end product literally saved the Deep South — providing electricity to an entire region, creating a post-agricultural South, pulling several states out of decades of post-Reconstruction military occupation and economic stagnation.