'Bama brothers Hightower, Upshaw ready for Super Bowl duel (Yahoo Sports)

It was nine years ago that the two small-town products - Hightower from Lewisburg, Tennessee and its population of just over 11,000, Upshaw from Eufaula, Alabama and its population of about 13,000 - arrived as freshmen together in Tuscaloosa. ''That's my ace,'' Hightower said of Upshaw. Coming from Alabama there was only like three guys from Tennessee that actually went like out of state or whatever.