BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Ken “Snake” Stabler may know football and wine, but he’s not so sure about snakes.
Not even the venomous-looking serpent that bares its fangs on his new private-label wine, “12.”
“I don’t know what that is,” Stabler said. “It’s a friendly snake, though. Not a poisonous one.”
A friendly Stabler, dressed in a crimson turtleneck and wearing championship rings on each hand, recently greeted wine connoisseurs and football fans alike at a series of tastings to launch his Championship Collection line of Chilean wines at Overton & Vine in Mountain Brook.
The “12” wine is named for the number Stabler wore as a star quarterback at Alabama in the 1960s and later for the NFL’s Oakland Raiders.