Alabama football fans haven’t had much practice coping with losses in recent years. Still, this is a bit much.
In the final stages of Alabama’s 45-31 Sugar Bowl loss to Oklahoma on Thursday night, a crazed female Crimson Tide fan was caught on video throwing down with a group of smug Sooners rooters.
As in, the houndstooth-clad mother literally threw herself down into the next row to unleash a tide of punches and vicious kicks before being restrained. Her favorite Alabama cheer: Rammer Jammer Bodyslammer.
The unapologetic brawler, identified as Michelle Pritchett of Sweet Water, Ala., told the Alabama-based news website Yellowhammer she was defending her teenage son against taunts from the rowdy Oklahoma contingent and “I’d had a couple drinks, but I was not intoxicated.”
“I hate to say it, but I’d do it again if I had to,” she said. “I’m not going to let anyone go after my son.”
Alabama suffered its second consecutive loss Thursday — the first a miraculous final-second defeat to archrival Auburn on Nov. 30 — after winning the national championship the prior two seasons.
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