Alabama Crimson Tide Football Top 25 Ranking Tracker Bobblehead Unveiled

Today, ahead of #6 Alabama’s huge game against #11 Tennessee in Tuscaloosa on Saturday night, the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled a first-of-its-kind Alabama Crimson Tide Football Top 25 Ranking Tracker Bobblehead. The Alabama Crimson Tide are currently ranked #6 in both the AP Top 25 Football Poll and the AFCA Coaches Poll with five wins and one loss so far this season. The unique bobblehead featuring Alabama’s beloved mascot, Big Al, will let fans change Alabama’s ranking each week for many seasons to come. The officially licensed bobbleheads are being produced by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, an official licensee of the University of Alabama.

• Released ahead of #6 Alabama’s big home game against #11 Tennessee on Saturday night in Tuscaloosa, the bobbleheads are now available in the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum’s Online Store at this link.
• The bobbleheads, which are expected to ship in February, are $40 each plus a flat-rate shipping charge of $8 per order.
• Each bobblehead will be individually numbered to 2,025.
• Standing on a football field base, the Big Al bobblehead is positioned on numbered blocks that can be adjusted when Alabama’s ranking changes. Big Al is also holding a football adorned with the Alabama logo.
• Big Al, the costumed elephant mascot of the University of Alabama, made his debut in 1980, but the elephant became UA’s unofficial mascot in the 1930s. On October 8th, 1930, Atlanta Journal sportswriter Everett Strupper wrote a story about the Alabama-Ole Miss game he had witnessed in Tuscaloosa four days earlier. In describing the big, powerful Alabama team coached by Wallace Wade, Strupper wrote: “At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, ‘Hold your horses, the elephants are coming!’ and out stamped the Alabama varsity.” Strupper and other writers would continue to refer to Alabama as the “Red Elephants” with the red as a nod to the players’ crimson jerseys. The name stuck throughout what became a national championship season and beyond. Despite the nickname, it would be nearly five decades before Alabama recognized the animal as its official mascot.
• “We’re excited to add Alabama to our Top 25 Ranking Bobblehead Series which has been very popular with college football fans across the country,” National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum co-founder and CEO Phil Sklar said. “This bobblehead will be the perfect way for Alabama fans to track the team’s ranking each week for many seasons to come and a great way for fans, alumni, students, faculty, and staff to show off their school pride all year long!”
• The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum, which is located at 170 S. 1st. St. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, opened to the public on February 1st, 2019. The HOF and Museum also produces high quality, customized bobbleheads for retail sale as well as organizations, individuals, and teams across the country.