Nobody Said Freedom Was Popular

Freedom isn’t popular, and if you defend it too well, you won’t be either.

When it comes to college football, I’ve always been on the winning side of history thanks to a lucky geographical birth in Alabama, and parents who had the good sense to pick the right program to support in the state. My mom, who moved all over the country as a child until her parents finally planted outside of Birmingham, often recounts the story of ho…