'Miss Terry' Saban enthusiastically sings along to Dixieland Delight

Alabama head coach Nick Saban‘s wife, affectionately known as “Miss Terry,” is a beloved figured in the Crimson Tide community. The singing of the country band Alabama’s “Dixieland Delight” in the second half of games at Bryant-Denny Stadium is a beloved part of the Alabama fan experience on gamedays.

Over this weekend during the Crimson Tide’s 34-20 win over Tennessee, Terry Saban was caught on camera singing along quite enthusiastically to the song.

The game was a major victory for Alabama as the Crimson Tide came back from 20-7 down at the half to score 27 unanswered in the second half. The victory moved Saban to 16-1 versus the Volunteers as the head coach of Alabama.

Miss Terry is the best! #RollTide pic.twitter.com/Ko9O7hU6iC

— Jeremy Davenport (@Davenport_RTR) October 23, 2023

Nick Saban explains best lesson Miss Terry ever taught him

Nick Saban was on “Hey Coach & the Nick Saban Show” last week when he divulged the best lesson his wife ever taught him throughout their long relationship. The two have been married since 1971 when Saban was a defensive back at Kent State.

“She’s given me so much advice through the years,” Saban said. “Probably the greatest advice really wasn’t about something in football but when I was first a coach at Michigan State, I had this Attila the Hun reputation with the media. I would go home and I would say, ‘Man, this is not like me. I don’t know why they portray me this way. This is not really how I am.’

“She looked at me and she said, ‘Well, do you ever watch yourself?’ She says, ‘You’re nervous. You’re anxious. You don’t treat them very well. You don’t smile. You don’t ever joke with them. You’re disrespectful to them. You act like they’re not asking good questions sometimes. Why would they like you? I mean, why would they?’”

His initial reaction to the constructive criticism was to get mad that she said it. But then, Saban said, he reflected on what she said and realized she had a point.

He changed his approach as a result of the conversation, and Saban said it resulted in him being viewed differently by the community.

“It helped so many ways in recruiting and relationships with players and all kinds of things,” Saban said. “[Media people] have a job to do but you also have a way that you can project who someone is by how they treat you and what they do. That’s probably the most important lesson she ever gave me.”