Just A Minute: A Review of the 2020 Alabama National Championship Book 'History Made'
Being someone who has done a national championship book, I know firsthand how tricky and difficult they can be to do, especially considering the limitation that one often faces.
Tommy Ford has been able to successfully hurdle those with another national title commemorative collection, if you will, History Made: The 2020 National Championship Alabama Crimson Tide.
Like some of the others he's done before, this is a coffee-table style book. It would only take about an hour or so to read, and it delivers on what it promises, a fun reflection of Alabama's amazing season and epic national championship run.
Chapter 1 is titled: "Bring on the Asterisk." So right there you know what you're getting into.
There's a look back at each game, including thee team posters from each win. The postseason games are broken into their own chapters, and there's an impressive forward by quarterback Mac Jones.
Visually, it's stunning, including never-seen-before photos by the Alabama staff including Kent Gidley, Robert Sutton, Rodger Champion and Jeff Hanson.
That alone makes it a must-own for Alabama fans.
However, my favorite thing in the book is easily the least glamorous or eye-popping visually.
In the front section, paired with the forward that Jones clearly put some effort into, there's a four-page printout of something the quarterback put together with his father, Gordon, following his redshirt 2017 season.
The title is "A Vision for Mac" and it spells out his goals at Alabama. It provides a greater insight into him than any interview or anything else that you'll read.
Again, four pages, single-spaced, mapping out not necessary what he wanted to accomplish, but how he wanted to grow and develop as a player and person.
It just might be the perfect holiday gift for Crimson Tide fans.
