Okay, here’s my attempt at a blog post, mimicking the style and tone of the example, about finding the 1973 Alabama Football Roster:
Alright, so I got this weird itch the other day. I needed, and I mean needed, to find the 1973 Alabama football roster. Don’t ask me why. It just popped into my head, and I couldn’t let it go. You know how that is?
First, I fired up the old Google machine. Just typed in “alabama football 1973 roster”. Figured that’d be easy, right? Nope. Got a bunch of junk. Articles about recent teams, some weird fan pages, and a whole lotta nothin’.
So, I dug a little deeper. I tried some different search terms. “1973 Crimson Tide roster,” “Alabama football players 1973,” even “‘Bama football team ’73”. Still, mostly garbage. I was starting to think this thing was lost to the sands of time.
A Little Bit of Luck
Then, I remembered something.I opened a new tab and went to one of those old-school sports archive sites. The kind with the ugly blue links and the barely-readable fonts. You know the ones.
I poked around on that site, and my eye balls nearly popped out because I saw that they had yearly pages dedicated to college football. After click a little, I found the section for Alabama. More clicking. Finally I am so excited, I found a page specifically for the 1973 season! And found a whole list of player names. Bingo!
Now, I’m not gonna lie, It was tough. The internet, sometimes, is good at search, and other times, it makes you work for it.
So, that’s the story. It wasn’t pretty. And it was not convenient. But I did find the roster information.
