Nick Saban Slurring and it Ain't From The Bottle

As reported pretty much everywhere today, audio was released of Alabama coach Nick Saban using a derogatory slur.

During a meeting with Florida reporters, Saban relayed a story about a phone call from a friend on the LSU board of trustees who had an unusual encounter with a cajun-accented LSU fan (full audio here).

"He was walking down the street yesterday before the Sugar Bowl," Saban said on the taped comments. "He calls me. There was a guy working in the ditch, one of those coonass guys that talk funny.

"I can't talk like them, but he can. Most people in Louisiana can."

Continuing to tell the story, Saban then quoted the worker's vulgar comment about Saban going to Alabama.

Saban has since apologized, asking that it be understood he was merely relaying the friend's story and that he himself finds the term offensive.

Expect this to get a lot of play the rest of his career. And a beatdown from one Ed Orgeron. And maybe The Waterboy as well as I think they're both offended.

"Mama says alligators are ornery cause they got all them teeth and no toothbrush. Mama says Nick Saban's the devil."

But we all know he's not really the devil, it's just his medulla oblongata.