Recent content by bama61

Conecuh, Snowden, or Monroe sausages. Snowden and Monroe are harder to find, but worth the effort. Monroe bacon is good too.

I believe this what was the greatest impact of Coach Saban's age. top notch assistants being unwilling to risk coming to Bama knowing that he could retire at any moment, as in fact he actually did. It may well have played a large part in his decision to quit.

After graduating from Bama got married and went to work in St Louis and while there got to see Jim Brown play when the Browns came to town. Awesome football player, fast, agile, and at round 230 pounds, not much smaller than some of the offensive linemen. For example, Lou Groza, the Browns...

Never had a choice, my dad got his BS at Bama and mom her MRS. My first memory of an Alabama game was the 1946 Rose Bowl game, listening to the game on a Zenith floor model radio which was nearly tall as I was. My parents were listening to the game, imbibing a bit, and talking about players they...

Gonna get awfully expensive to field a competitive middle school or high school team. Money has changed hands at those levels in past years of course, but not overtly or in as large amounts as it will now, or at least not so far as I've been known.

Yes, the public persona for the Coach Paul Bryant that arrived at Bama in 1958 in no wise resembles that of the Coach Bryant of the '70's. Somewhere along the line Coach Bryant apparently decided he liked the "kindly ol' Bear" public image and began to perpetuate it. In 1958 when he arrived the...

Eli Drinkwitz seems to have an idea of how he wants to attack the NIL issue: The Drinkwitz Plan

He just isn't one of Bruce's fans.... Bruce Pearl Take

Dabo was a member of Mike DuBose's staff. I hope to never see a member of that staff at Alabama ever again! Yes, I'm an unrelenting SOB, but that's just the way I feel about the staff that was instrumental in putting us on probation. Don't wish ill for any of them, just hope that none of them...

Like you Earle, I'd frequently see Coach Bryant on campus and also on the occasions I'd eat lunch at Druid Drugs although to the best of my memory I seldom saw him when he was alone. My failure to introduce myself to him was a source of considerable annoyance to my mother since she and my father...

It's going to be hard to find a Ray Perkins clone to follow Coach Saban, Perkins was probably one of the few to have a thick enough hide to follow Coach Bryant and survive.

A belated Happy Birthday Earle. The game this evening ought to make a pretty good celebration. And a Lane cake too? You can't get much more southern than that!

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with your response based on the fact that the OP didn't mention "underrated" at all, but rather posted "Who is a player that played for Alabama, that was not a big name, but went on to have an outstanding pro career? " and Starr fits this description to...

:devilish: Clearly you guys are too young to remember the real GOAT, Horace Gillom. Gillom played on Paul Brown's great Cleveland teams. Gillom played a bit both ways at end as well in a run first era. Gillom