{"id":851145,"date":"2026-09-17T16:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851145\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:48:18","slug":"alabama-football-fans-get-good-news-on-michael-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/851145\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama football fans get good news on Michael Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Big names from ESPN\u2019s College GameDay crew have rolled through here. Alabama football legends like Billy Neighbors, Lee Roy Jordan, Benny Nelson and Andre Smith, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cMarcell Dareus came by recently,\u201d said Mark Ezell, now in his mid-80s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Johnny Manziel\u2019s parents stopped by before the now-infamous 2012 Texas A&amp;M upset of Alabama \u2014 the one that vaulted him to Heisman front-runner status. ESPN\u2019s College GameDay had done a segment on Johnny Football that morning, and they were looking for a TV on which to watch it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cAnd his parents sat here right there on that sofa,\u201d Trisha Ezell said. \u201cWe actually rewound, you know, showed it to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Paul Finebaum even used their bathroom once to apply some makeup for a TV appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g79 _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Actress Sela Ward and American Idol singer Taylor Hicks have been by, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big names from ESPN\u2019s College GameDay crew have rolled through here. Alabama football legends like Billy Neighbors, Lee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[207107,35956,399,281396,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-851145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-basketball","tag-alabama-crimson-tide-football","tag-football","tag-jumbo-package","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}