Mason County's connections to the National Champions

Do you believe in six degrees of separation? That's the theory that you can be connected to any other person in the world through no more than six connections. Well, the Mason County football program has a couple of connections to a starter on Alabama's national championship team. Alabama defensive end Brandon Deaderick played for Elizabethtown when Mason County and E-town met in the Recreation Bowl in 2004. Then Deaderick was on the Kentucky All-Star football, when Mason County coach David Buchanan was the all-stars head coach. Kentucky beat Tennessee 41-27. Buchanan says Deaderick couldn't sleep the week of the all-star game and would go to the coaches' hotel room and talk throughout the night. Buchanan says he remembers Deaderick saying how good a football player he thought former Royal Mikah Turner was. So there you have it, if you know Buchanan or Turner, you are just two degrees away from Deaderick and three degrees away from the rest of the Crimson Tide.