Santa Claus Has A Favorite College Football Team

September 3, 2013

While in Atlanta to see my alma mater beat down Virginia Tech, I spotted a friendly face from across the bar.

Maybe it’s because Alabama keeps winning and that’s all he does as well — after all it takes a winner to deliver millions of presents to boys and girls across the globe in a matter of hours; maybe Nick Saban is a very close friend; maybe it’s because we’re as red as his cheeks, but it appears Santa Claus is a big Crimson Tide fan. Who knew?

After taking the pic, Santa said the only thing feasible at the time, “roll tide.”

The picture was taken at Stats, a downtown Atlanta sports bar.

Josh Helmuth is the editor of CraveOnline Sports. You can follow him on Twitter @JHelmuth or subscribe to the channel’s Facebook page here.

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Josh has enjoyed dipping his toes into a variety of careers since graduating from the University of Alabama, the most rewarding thus far having served as a youth director in southern California for four years, and his broadcasting career which has garnered two Emmy awards and three Edward R. Murrow Awards.

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