He's since sold thousands of prints of The Goal Line Stand, many of which are elaborately framed and hang like Picassos in living rooms, restaurants, and hotel meeting rooms all over Alabama. Moore's the college football equivalent of Norman Rockwell. No dummy, he has painted numerous other winning moments in Bama's football history, which have titles such as The Kick and The Interception. He reckons he's sold about 60,000 Alabama prints over the last twenty years. It is no exaggeration to say that his prints are part of Alabama's cultural heritage.
Fans bristle when the unthinkable happens, take a defeat to heart.
It sticks in the craw. That's for the Western Athletic Conference or the Pacific Ten, by damn. Dooley's daughter may have been bruised after that '72 Tennessee game, but Vol Coach Bill Battle was humiliated. It was cruel but prescient. Tennessee soon fired Battle.