Video: Bama sideline guy too fired up

I know a few media guys in the South who are homers.

I know nothing about the guy I saw on TV celebrating on the Alabama sideline Monday night. This was when the Crimson Tide stopped Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson on a two-point conversion attempt in the fourth quarter of the exciting college football national championship.

I do know I want to call this guy something, so I will.

He’s Homer Gump, the bald and bearded great nephew of Forrest Gump.

I would like to think “Homer Gump” is a Birmingham newspaper sportswriter from Hoover or Vestavia Hills. You can watch this Barstool Sports Vine of “Homer” celebrating the stop in the final minutes of the Crimson Tide’s 45-40 title victory over the Tigers.

Written by Billy Joe Jessup

Billy Joe Jessup, 66, is a Mississippi good old boy who saw himself as the Southern Richard Meltzer back in 1974 and 1975. Jessup wrote two satiric sports articles for the rock music magazine Zoo World when he was in his early 20s, but ZW rejected his third article, killing his confidence so much that he battled writer's block for more than four decades until his Guy Hut breakthrough in March 2018.