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Photos: How did Alabama’s newspapers memorialize 16th national championship?
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — It was not even 1:45 a.m. MT.
Yet there they were, right next to a rack of “All In” Clemson national championship T-shirts that probably will never sell: Street hawkers offering up a newspaper front page declaring Alabama victory.
Two for $5, they yelled in that familiar sing-song voice of anyone who has ever eyed the hot dog salesperson inside an athletic stadium. Take something home with you to remember this.
Thousands of Alabama residents are happily (some not so happily) heading to their lawns this morning, peeling the thin plastic off their newspapers.
How did the Alabama papers commemorate the Tide’s self-claimed 16th national championship victory? Here’s a look, thanks to the website newseum.org.
Not every Alabama paper managed to insert the result of the game on page 1A:
But hey, it could be worse.
The Birmingham News only delivers on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. As far as we can tell, that means that residents in Alabama’s largest city — plus Mobile — will not get papers this morning.
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
