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"As a young journalist and avid University of Alabama football enthusiast, the author wheedles his way into an RV with fellow Alabama Crimson Tide fanatics for a road game with Vanderbilt. So begins his personal journey into the sociological mindset of hardcore fans, their camaraderie, and the zealous passion they exhibit for their favorite team. Along the way he falls into the lifestyle of the traveling Crimson Tide tailgaters eventually buying a not-so road worthy RV himself. He experiences the emotional highs and lows of following the Tide through their SEC Conference title season while traveling to the campuses of opposing teams.
The people he befriends along the way are too bizarre to be believed; such as the man who has dedicated himself to breeding and showing pedigreed poultry throughout the country in between attending games in his custom RV, the man on a heart donor waitlist who cannot venture more than 2 hours from his hospital in Tennessee or he will forfeit his spot on the list but routinely travels beyond those parameters, or the couple who skipped their daughters wedding to attend an Alabama home game. St. John cites scientific studies that demonstrate crazy fan behavior is universal from college football to soccer the world over and traces it's roots back to the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome. "
David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Sports story?
- football
Sports story
Yes
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Road trip
Yes
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
- obsessed
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 8 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Deep South
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Book makes you feel?
- very happy
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- eccentric personalities
- Dry-cynical
- surreal
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Autobiography?
Yes
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
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