Belated (?) Weigh-in,, probably should have started,
First of all, I did give a caviot that I know this thread has been done before, so excuse the "reset".

Second, this is great stuff. I got to somehow archive this thread because it gives you more insight into the folk on this page. Too many to address specifically. :bowdown:
Well, uuuuuh,, being "significantly removed" from the college world,

I elected not to go with the many college nicknames I collected and went with something related to my general personality, current (then) location-Montgomery, and as is so prominent, the alma mater.
I'm a huge outdoorsman, I was living in Montgomery, I went to Tuskegee, I mountain biked all the time in Tuskegee National Forest and the backwoods of Macon county, I have canoed/kayakked just about every creek and/or walked every river in the east central Alabama region and I'm a history buff. While going to Tuskegee, I used to always see these signs in Tuskegee National Forest, "Taska Recreational Area", "Bartram Trail", so when I moved back to Bama in 97' I looked up "Bartram Trail" on the net and said, "dayum, das me to a T if I would have been born in the 1700s". It was very easy to remember, type and since William Bartram traveled through the region that is now Tuskegee/Macon county/Montgomery in the 1700s, I reasoned the parallels were perfect, so Bartram it was.
Background:
Bartram Trail
This trail is named for a naturalist-explorer of the 1770?s, William Bartram, who followed old Indian trails throughout the South and recorded the flora and fauna of the region. The 8.5 mile recreational trail in the Tuskegee National Forest, near Bartram?s actual route, commemorates his travel in the Montgomery area. Wildlife that exists there includes several species of endangered mussels, the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, beaver, wood duck, herons and a medley of songbirds.
and for the hardcore nature/history buffs:
http://www.bartramtrail.org/pages/Bartram_Trail/al.html