Now this is funny.
Burns is at the wheel of Saban’s black Mercedes S550, and because he knows Saban’s musical taste veers toward the Eagles, Al Green, and the Rolling Stones—no country—he’s got “Gimme Shelter” cued up on the stereo. Saban sits shotgun, and I climb in the back. As Burns guides the sedan past columned fraternity houses on the arbored Alabama campus, Saban mentions he’s seen the Stones twice. In an attempt at levity, I tell him I’d recently tried to turn my four-year-old daughter on to the Stones but that she had responded by earnestly asking me, “Dad, how come the man in these songs can’t sing?”
Saban spins around from the front seat and shoots me the bug zapper.
“Mick Jagger can sing,” he says, before turning back to face the windshield. “Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.”
Maybe he can get the Stones to play a halftime show at Bryant-Denny sometime.
Get The Picture 
Saban is approached by an Alabama fan who wants to thank the coach for signing a football for his son. It meant so much to the boy, the man says. Saban gives the man a confused look, as if not comprehending how this large animate object had suddenly appeared in his path, and gets in the car without saying a word.
Asshole!
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Interesting article. I’m still glad we’ve got a living, breathing coach. Hard to argue with Saban’s results, though.
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Well….Mick Jagger CAN sing!!!
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“Mick Jagger can sing,” he says, before turning back to face the windshield. “Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.”
Alternate ending:
Warren thought for a moment and replied, “Mick is more of a vocal stylist than an actual singer.” Then, there was yelling. Someone said, “Shut the **** up, Donnie!”
The passenger door automatically opened and, like a blonde, he was kicked out of the 550S Snake Stabler-style
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6 page article in GQ?? That’ll keep most bammers busy reading until the aTm game…
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It’s a good thing “Sympathy for the Devil” wasn’t playing because it would have gotten unbearably hot in that back seat.
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One of you guys use to say to your child.”What does Mick Jagger say?” The Child’s response would be, “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you need.” When, I heard that story years ago from our friend, Senator; I used it with my Children. It is a great way to stop a child from wanting something they do not need. Worked for me! 🙂
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So Nick may not be a guy I’d want to take on a fishing trip, but I gotta say, between his musical tastes and advocacy of a 9 game SEC sched, he ain’t all bad. He needs to ease up on country, tho. After all, both Al Green and Ray Price recorded memorable covers of Kris Kristofferson’s “For the Good Times” and the Eagles practically lived at the intersection of rock and country. Oh, for the good ol’ days of integrated radio stations…
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No country music? Last time I checked the Eagles were country music. Terrible country music.
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Pot calling the kettle black.
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Wonder what he thinks of the Alabama Shakes.
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Saban doesn’t have time for ice cream products.
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That’s a good point. He did have time to drink the milkshakes of Tommy Tuberville and Corch, however
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That was an excellent article. If St. John is right, it explains a lot about Saban. I would have loved for him to have asked how Saban felt after the 2005 SECCG. Or 2004 in Athens.
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Saban was the Dolphins head coach in 2005.
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Right you are. Probably a good thing I wasn’t conducting the interview.
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Posted on the IORR site (a Rolling Stones site). Congrats, Senator!
http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1915662
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Alas, the little lady knows something Sir Keith has known all along — that Jagger doesn’t in fact have much of a voice. But you can’t argue with his marketing acumen.
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Hmm — wonder if Saban ever has dones air guitar to “Gimme Shelter”? THAT would be awesome to see
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