Tide fans soak up the SEC atmosphere

By Joe McAdory

Published: December 7, 2008

Had the opportunity to spend Saturday morning meeting a handful of Alabama fans attending the SEC Championship Game at the Georgia Dome. I strolled the grass lot outside the Dome to watch ESPN GameDay for a while before walking a half-mile to the RV lot, where fans grilled, chatted, watched television and kept warm with butane heaters.

To the Blakes from Montgomery—thanks for the chicken wings and hospitality. These folks can cook!

Included in this entry are a few shots taken on this bone-chilling morning. And for this native Floridian, it felt like Siberia.

Pictured above, Josh Sahib, of Tuscaloosa, speaks his mind Saturday morning outside the Georgia Dome near the ESPN GameDay set.
Below, John and Charlotte Blake, of Montgomery, grill chicken wings and prepare lunch for friends and family in the RV lot adjacent to the Georgia World Congress Center Saturday morning.
Father and son Bob and Dwight Blake, attended their first Alabama game together in the 1960s when Joe Namath was quarterback.
Plush dolls of Alabama’s 2008 victims hang along the awning of Dwight Blake’s RV outside the Georgia Dome.