It was one of the more puzzling comments since the pilot of the Hindenburg said, “Hey, do you smell gas?”
After Vanderbilt’s 14-7 victory over Kansas State a week ago, overly enthusiastic Commodores senior offensive guard Nifae Lealao ended a postgame interview saying “Alabama, you’re next!”
There was no other way to watch the film clip and not believe Lealao made history by becoming the first Vanderbilt player ever to call out the vaunted Crimson Tide football machine.
Lealao tried to backtrack the following day on his Twitter account explaining that “All I meant is that the next to come to our house and play us.