{"id":21780,"date":"2019-11-13T15:06:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2019\/11\/13\/color-me-crimson-can-football-unite-alabama\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T15:06:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:06:30","slug":"color-me-crimson-can-football-unite-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/color-me-crimson-can-football-unite-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Me Crimson: Can Football Unite Alabama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2019-11-13\/color-me-crimson-in-deep-red-alabama-can-football-unite-a-state?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/s20352.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/19.11.12-Alabama.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Nothing brings people together like a common enemy, right? Also, matching jerseys and a rallying cry. University of Alabama football fans have been united by the Crimson Tide for generations, but is chanting \u201croll tide\u201d really powerful enough to bridge Alabama&#8217;s political and social divides?<\/p>\n<p>As Ben Flanagan <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/life\/2019\/10\/does-alabama-football-create-unity.html\">writes for AL.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Covering Alabama football fans for the better part of a decade now, spending countless hours around hundreds of tailgates operated by all sorts of people, I&#8217;ve seen an almost universally positive and cohesive environment. Time seems to stop in Tuscaloosa when the Crimson Tide hit the field.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But is this cohesion as fleeting as the game clock?<\/p>\n<p><em>Produced by Haili Blassingame.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2019-11-13\/color-me-crimson-in-deep-red-alabama-can-football-unite-a-state?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Color Me Crimson: Can Football Unite Alabama?\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2019-11-13\/color-me-crimson-in-deep-red-alabama-can-football-unite-a-state?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2019-11-13\/color-me-crimson-in-deep-red-alabama-can-football-unite-a-state?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/s20352.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/19.11.12-Alabama.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Nothing brings people together like a common enemy, right? Also, matching jerseys and a rallying cry. University of Alabama football fans have been united by the Crimson Tide for generations, but is chanting \u201croll tide\u201d really powerful enough to bridge Alabama&#8217;s political and social divides?<\/p>\n<p>As Ben Flanagan <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/life\/2019\/10\/does-alabama-football-create-unity.html\">writes for AL.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Covering Alabama football fans for the better part of a decade now, spending countless hours around hundreds of tailgates operated by all sorts of people, I&#8217;ve seen an almost universally positive and cohesive environment. Time seems to stop in Tuscaloosa when the Crimson Tide hit the field.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But is this cohesion as fleeting as the game clock?<\/p>\n<p><em>Produced by Haili Blassingame.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}