<![CDATA[Just what Alabama needed.]]>

<![CDATA[Just what Alabama needed.]]>It certainly was an eventful weekend to be an Auburn fan. Aside from prematurely ejaculating over a men’s basketball national championship game appearance that never materialized, they were also greeted with this news:

Veteran college football coach Tommy Tuberville will run for the United States Senate in Alabama as a Republican, sources tell CBS Sports.

The longtime Auburn coach had considered running for governor in 2017. Instead, he will begin his political career pursuing the senate seat currently held by Democrat Doug Jones. The Republican primary for the seat is March 3, 2020. If Tuberville makes it through, the general election is Nov. 3, 2020.

Jones won the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions in 2017 when Sessions became U.S. Attorney General. In a bitter, contentious special election campaign, Jones finally beat Roy Moore by half a percentage point.

Former Donald Trump press secretary Sean Spicer is working on Tuberville’s campaign.

That combination of talent immediately brought this to mind.

Looking forward to hearing Spicer insist at his first presser that Auburn did win the 2004 national championship.

— Senator Blutarsky (@MummePoll) April 6, 2019

Hey, it beats talking about the season he went to the spread and got fired.

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UPDATE: Oh, boy.

Tommy Tuberville (@TTuberville) on dealing with media scrutiny in running for U.S. Senate: "I dealt with (Paul) @finebaum my whole life,” Tuberville joked. “Don’t think it’ll be any different.” https://t.co/DU9OyaZhRB

— Mark Heim (@Mark_Heim) April 8, 2019

I’m beginning to think there’s some real blogging manna potential here.

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