ESPN cuts away early from A-Day

If you’re like us, and you’re likely not, you were watching Alabama‘s spring game on Saturday afternoon, known as “A-Day.” The national champions drew a crowd of more than 91,000 people to watch a glorified scrimmage, which shows that we Crimson Tide fans simply care more about the pigskin. Once the north end zone addition is put up, and Bama wins its 14th national title this year, there will likely be about 100,000 people at next year’s A-Day. This one was carried live on ESPN, and they cut away when the clock ran out with the Crimson and White teams tied at 17. But coach Nick Saban is not one for ties, and he gave the team a sudden-death overtime.

That was when backup quarterback A.J. McCarron showed what the SEC has to be scared of when starter Greg McElroy graduates. He slung a 39-yard touchdown pass to win the game for the White, which was the second-team offense and first-team defense. We’re not yet ready to say that this will be like the ’70s, when the Tide won three national championships and generally dominated college football, but the depth is, as Jim Rome would say, sick. The video below was posted at Roll Bama Roll to show the people who weren’t apart of the 91,000 what went down. And by the way, if you don’t know, the A-Day winners get steak, while the losers get franks and beans. That was a steak-worthy throw and catch.