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By Robert Stacy McCain on 12.18.09 @ 3:28AM

A superior commitment to football excellence extends even to Alabama's legal system:

The BCS Championship game is so big in Alabama that it has shut down school for three days and now led to an accidental-death case being delayed so an attorney can attend the game.
In a move that is becoming as much of a trend as SEC teams playing for and winning the national title, an Alabama lawyer filed a motion seeking a trial date continuance based upon a conflict with the Alabama-Texas BCS title game. Jon B. Terry, a 57-year-old defense attorney for Energen Corporation filed the motion in Jefferson County, Alabama stating as grounds for the continuance, the well-established Roll Tide exception to general court business.
In a call to his office, Mr. Terry's secretary "not the Auburn one" said she was not at liberty to announce the judge's response to the motion. But a call to the judge's chambers, the honorable Dan C. King presiding -- an Auburn man no less -- confirmed that the judge has granted the motion although an official order has not yet been released.
Judge King told the Birmingham News, "If I didn't, they'd say, 'He just didn't grant it because he's an Auburn fellow. I wouldn't do that to 'em."

Texas can't hope to match the football fanaticism of a state where "Roll Tide" constitutes a principle of law as sacred as habeas corpus.

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Rammer Jammer| 12.18.09 @ 9:31AM

That right there makes me teary eyed.

Eddie| 12.18.09 @ 9:38AM

No big deal. If the justice system in Bama is as bad as the one in Tennessee, the trial will be delayed many more times for years to come by idiot attorneys, appeals, etc. A couple of days won't make any difference.

Alan Brooks| 12.18.09 @ 11:53AM

You got it.

And talk about govt corruption. Let's see, what region did Slick Willy come from? Which are its neighboring states? Perhaps the Confederacy DID have a better govt than today's state govts. Ask Red.

Oldefarte| 12.18.09 @ 1:08PM

As an Alabama resident and [fanatical football fan], I say every Alabama state agency, court,etc should be completely shut down so that governmental workers,etc can watch the Crimson Tide """""ROOOOLLLLLL"""" over Texas and become 2009's #1 team in the nation!!!!!!!!

Gavin| 12.31.09 @ 10:03AM

Yes, in Alabama we grow up eating, sleeping, and breathing college football. On Saturdays when our team plays, families get together, fathers and sons bond, and a tradition is carried on. Even if teenagers can't talk about anything else with their parents, college football is always a common bond. So, if the rest of the country doe not understand the tradition, that is their shame, not ours.