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The long list of celebrity Bama fans includes ... Stone Cold, T.I., and Ringo Starr?

Some of these folks have local ties, and some are just here for the championships, but there sure are a lot of them.

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Today - Season 66
Today - Season 66
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Melissa Joan Hart

The Sabrina The Teenage Witch star married into Bama fandom, wedding a man from Enterprise, Ala., whom she claimed on social media “has never missed a snap.”

Hart is a native New Yorker but adopted the Tide in adulthood. She reps the New York Giants on Sundays and Tide on Saturday with a superstitious flare.

Gucci Mane

The rap star puts his money where his mouth is as far as Bama is concerned. He may hail from Atlanta, but he was born in Bessemer, Ala., near Birmingham, the hometown of Jameis Winston and Bo Jackson.

They may have fallen short of an unblemished season, but he wasn’t lacking in confidence when the title game came around.

Joe Scarborough

The MSNBC political analyst is an Alabama alum. He didn’t stray too far in his professional life, representing the westernmost tip of the Florida panhandle while in Congress in the 1990s. His feed is not bashful about the Tide.

Lucas Black

He’s a star of NCIS: New Orleans, but when he’s not solving Naval crimes in the city Alabama won the 2011 national title in, he’s repping the Tide.

Jason Isbell

The Green Hill, Ala., native is one of the most popular up-and-coming acts in music.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Apparently, the Texas Rattlesnake is a Crimson Tide fan.

“Man, I tell you what, I’ve got a couple of favorites,” Austin said. “I really love what Nick Saban has done wherever he’s been. I’ve been a Roll Tide fan for a long time, so I would call the Alabama Crimson Tide my number one team.”

T.I. and Scott Stapp

Their encounter years ago started with shared Bama fandom.

“I had met T.I. back in 2004, we were both writing songs for The Passion of The Christ: Songs Inspired By soundtrack and we had briefly interacted there and knew what each looked like,” said Stapp. “We’d talked about being fans of Alabama.”

It ended with the Atlanta rapper saving the former Creed frontman’s life.

Stapp revealed that during a drug binge in a Miami hotel, he jumped off the 4th story balcony of his hotel room breaking his hip and nose and fracturing his skull. T.I., who was also looking for a room in the hotel, happened to find Stapp laying on the ground and immediately took action to save the injured singer’s life.

”It’s ironic -- he walked in, and I found out later it was the only room left in the hotel and he came in off the street and came out, and as I’m laying on the ledge, blood fell to [T.I.’s] feet and he looked up and he had an Alabama hat on. I said, ‘roll tide,’ and then he looked at me and put two and two together and really saved my life.”

Yelawolf

In the narrative arc of rap videos, perhaps there has never been one more college football-related than the Alabama native’s “Pop The Trunk.”

In it, Yelawolf’s father pulls out a gun to shoot an intruder on his property. The intruder is wearing Auburn gear.

Yelawolf raps that he “stood up in his Crimson Tide Alabama sweatpants” before going outside to see what’s going on.

Noah Galloway

The Birmingham native is a U.S. Army veteran who overcame injuries suffered during a tour of duty to become a fitness enthusiast. He finished third on a season of Dancing With The Stars.

Sara Evans

The country singer married to former Alabama QB Jay Barker is not above Roll Tide-ing us on Facebook from time to time.

Sela Ward

An actress in network shows House and CSI: NY, Ward spent her formative years in Tuscaloosa as a cheerleader for the Crimson Tide.

She was homecoming queen at Bama back in the day.

Ringo Starr

The rock star posed with this shirt during Bama’s Peach Bowl decimation of Washington in the 2016 season’s Playoff semifinal. The connection comes via a friend from Troy, Ala. Tuscaloosa’s a long way from Liverpool, England.

Channing Tatum

Tatum is from Cullman, Ala., and the 21 Jump Street star gave a declarative “Roll Tide” in an interview with GQ.

Jake Peavy and Craig Kimbrel

The Mobile, Ala., native has been far from home during a major league pitching career that’s taken him around the country. But he comes home every now and then, like when he took this picture with the College GameDay hosts during a 2013 taping in T-Town.

Kimbrel, a longtime closer who got his major league start with the Braves, is from Huntsville, Ala. He’s a Bama fan, too.

Justin Thomas

The PGA champion and Alabama alum made a bet with fellow tour pro (and diehard Georgia fan) Kevin Kisner on the title game. The result:

Jason Taylor, at least while Nick Saban’s there

Saban’s time with the Dolphins didn’t go all that well — that’s one reason he’s at Bama, after all — but this Pro Bowl DE from Pennsylvania has his whole family rooting for the Tide:

Crimson Tide fans on account of their dad’s former coach, Isaiah (15) and Mason (13) were dejected at halftime, their team trailing 13-0.

Taylor reminded them of another game they’d attended less than a year ago, Super Bowl LI, when Belichick’s Patriots surged back.

“These two guys are best friends, so, trust me,” Taylor told his sons at halftime. “The best pro coach did it last year, and the best coach in college football is going to have something.”

Courteney Cox

The Birmingham native and former Friends star’s best on-screen role may be this Rose Bowl pep talk given to her team before Nick Saban’s first title in crimson and white. The houndstooth hat would have certainly been roasted by Phoebe and Rachel.

Jimmy Wales

The Wikipedia co-founder went to both Alabama and Auburn. But in the Iron Bowl within his soul, the Crimson Tide reign supreme.

What’s your single-best story Crimson Tide story, either from a game you were at or one you weren’t?

Without question, it’s gotta be the 1979 Sugar Bowl “goal line stand.” The single best moment of college football in history. Quite possibly the single best moment in all sports history. Maybe I am biased, but anyone who makes a top 10 list without putting that one on there is just a very sad and confused individual.

Drake, of course

It’s hard to call Drake an actual fan of any team besides his hometown Raptors. We’ve all seen Drake suit up in Kentucky basketball threads when the Cats are winning. SB Nation chronicled his complicated fandoms a couple years ago.

But Drake did put some cash on the line for the win over Georgia. He wasn’t bashful about calling Migos member Quavo, an Athens native, to brag.

Have a celebrity Bammer we missed? Drop them in the comments.

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