AYC Update! If you have joined as a general member and yet to pick your t-shirt up, please email us at yellcrew@gmail.com. We will also be set up on the Quad on Gameday taking memberships.
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traditions › HISTORY
The Alabama Yell Crew was founded in 2000 when Trent Willis, a then member of the Alabama Spirit Team, and David Knight, former President of Mark's Madness, exchanged an email about ideas on making Bryant-Denny Stadium a more intimidating environment. Through a unanimous vote, what was then the Alabama Spirit Team voted to disband giving all of its responsibilities to the new Alabama Yell Crew. When the original Spirit Team was founded in the early 1980's, its responsibilities ranged from making break-through banners for the Crimson Tide football team to passing out paper shakers and running the huge "A" flag.
The old Spirit Team took part in various homecoming activities and had a maximum membership base of 40. After officers were selected for the new Alabama Yell Crew, signs for the new group began appearing around campus and on internet message boards just before April of 2001. Carl Headley, a long time Alabama fan from South Carolina, posted a message regarding a website he had encountered. "What is Yell Crew?", Mr. Headley asked...the Alabama Yell Crew in kind responded with a question of its own: "A New Tradition is Coming...Is Alabama Ready?" That football season, with a membership base of almost one thousand, the questions was answered with an emphatic "HELL YEAH!".
In the months between the first announcement of the Alabama Yell Crew, in April 2001 and the start of the 2001 football season, the Alabama Yell Crew received more than 40,000 web hits. AYC was the subject of more than 1,000 message board topics and posts, was the lead or feature story in 9 different newspapers from Alabama to Arizona, and was featured on more than a dozen news broadcasts in Alabama. The Alabama Yell Crew is well on its way to making Bryant-Denny Stadium the loudest, most intimidating environment in the nation.
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