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“By far, my favorite is the Walk of Champions,” Hentges said. “The whole team gets off the bus and all the fans line up outside the stadium and we walk down what’s called the Walk of Champions. It’s got all the different plaques and National Championships we’ve won. You see the names of people from the early 1900s on. It’s really cool to walk down the storied past with fans cheering your name. That’s when it really sets in, ‘Ok. We’re ready to play a game.’”
For Kelly, the walk is up there, but his favorite game day tradition is no longer.
“Dixieland Delight was my favorite,” he said. “It was always during a home game - if you were beating them in the fourth quarter with five minutes to go, they would play ‘Dixieland Delight’ by the band Alabama and the whole stadium would be singing and in between choruses, they would say everything they wanted to say,” he said.
The team known as the Crimson Tide has an elephant as its mascot. For outsiders, it can be a little confusing.