Sitting on the fireplace was a sign that read: We interrupt this marriage to bring you the football season. Visitors saw the sign and laughed about it. Those same people never understood the truth in that sign. Despite the giggles that it induced, the meaning was as honest as the day is long.

Marie Rosie Livings was a football wife. She went to every game and watched every episode of her husband Billy’s show, Volunteer Review, which aired on WSFA-TV, channel 12 in Montgomery on Sunday evenings after The Bear Bryant Show and Shug Jordan’s Auburn Review. The television show came on the cusp of multiple winning seasons and a state championship for the relatively new Jefferson Davis High School football team. And Livings never faltered, her support for Billy and the boys was unwavering. But that wasn’t all she did.