Legend in his own time! I sure miss you. RIP COACH:
35 years ago today, we lost a legend Coach Paul Bryant
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It's one of those days everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news.
This is very true. I was caught totally off guard. I felt a deep sense of loss and was sincerely sad. After my father, my uncle, and my grandfathers, Coach Bryant was and is the man. I hope and feel Coach Saban is having the same influence on young men and women now.
His death was a shock to many. It seemed like he retired and then he was gone. I'll never forget the TV coverage of fans lining the road during the funeral procession to pay their respects. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think the procession traveled from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham and fans were lining the overhead bridges and other viewing points the whole way.
This also reminds me my dad has been gone 20 years. He is buried in the same cemetery as Coach Bryant.
I didn’t find out until Thursday morning. I lived in Germany. We used to get “Stars And Stripes” newspaper every morning. I was just about to leave and Mom asked me to get the paper. I didn’t look at it and she opened it and read loudly - you could tell they’d cut in some space to put the headline in the middle of the Friday by page - “Ex-Alabama Coach Bear Bryant Dies of Heart Attack at 69.”
Then I had to go to school in total shock.
Remember - they had a moment of silence for him at the Super Bowl on Sunday after he died. A lot of his former players - including McNeal, Stephenson, Nathan and Baumhower - were in the game.
Then I had to go to school in total shock.
Remember - they had a moment of silence for him at the Super Bowl on Sunday after he died. A lot of his former players - including McNeal, Stephenson, Nathan and Baumhower - were in the game.
I`ve always considered it to have been a singular privilege of my lifetime to have been able to watch "live" Coach Bryant`s Alabama career from his very first game to his very last. First college and Alabama game I ever attended was in Mobile with my Dad, who`s been gone since 1984, when Alabama played Tulane. RTR Coach.
Me too. I well remember that day, I was at work had the local WHAS radio station on and they broke into the broadcast to announce it. It was in the afternoon EST and I was in shock. Louisville isn't exactly Bama country.
It was the first Bama game I ever attended also, 1961. Never forget it.
Here are a few comments from some former players that I thought poignant. CLICK
This state and so many, many people owe you so much, Coach. Thanks for coming when "Mama called". RTR.
I worked souh of Birmingham then. When that news arrived at the office...I didn't believe it. Everyone remembers where he or she was when that news broke. Kinda like folks who were around when JFK was murdered. Yeah...I have missed the boss too.
I thank Coach Bryant for being such a large part of my younger life. My dad reminded me of Coach Bryant. RIP dad and coach.
I attended two Alabama games with Coach Bryant at the helm. One in the mid 1970s that I don't remember all that much. And the other was what turned out to be his final home game vs Southern Miss in 1982. My daddy's first cousin's husband was a professor in the business school and he got Coach Bryant to sign a book for me in December 1982, a little more than a month before his death.
Like a lot of significant events,I remember it well... We were coming out of the Oxford Mall and a guy saw my Alabama Hat and told me that Coach Bryant had died.
When we got in my truck I turned on the radio, and that was on every station. We lost a great one that day.
ROLL TIDE ROLL.
When we got in my truck I turned on the radio, and that was on every station. We lost a great one that day.
ROLL TIDE ROLL.
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