Nick Saban calls out Ohio State’s uniforms in response to Kirk Herbstreit’s Adidas rant
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Nick Saban usually got the last word, or last laugh, during his legendary college football coaching career at Alabama and LSU.
On Friday, during his weekly appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, Saban wanted to get that last word on fellow ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit, who had just finished a legendary rant on McAfee’s show about the Adidas college football uniforms he called “hideous.”
Then Saban came on the show and got his jabs in on Herbstreit, his Saturday morning partner on College GameDay, and he went right to Herbstreit’s past in driving his humorous point home. Herbstreit, for those fans not old enough to remember, did play college football, and he played it at Ohio State from 1989-93.
So, naturally, that’s the direction Saban went on Friday.
“I got a little … Herbstreit? Ohio State? They have exactly the same uniforms as when I coached there in 1980. And he’s complaining about Indiana,” Nick Saban said. “I mean, the same Buckeye, the same helmet, the same everything.”
Saban was the defensive backs coach at Ohio State in 1980 and ’81, so he’s as familiar with the Buckeyes’ uniforms as Herbstreit is, and he wasn’t going to let his partner get away with that Adidas rant unscathed.
Here is Saban’s full rant on Herbstreit’s rant:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
