A View of the Game from A Bama Homer

BigHouseDon · Nov 7, 2007

MobileBengal said: ↑

Check 5 posts up. Bobby Williams won that 10th game. Saban was already in Baton Rouge.
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Now that you mention it I believe you're right. My bad. BW used it as a stepping stone up from "interim"

BHD

MobileBengal · Nov 7, 2007

Yep, and BOY did he make MSU look stupid for making that decision.

StaceyO · Nov 8, 2007

Jean Lafitte said: ↑

I'm a big fan of Bear Bryant, and I'm a lifelong LSU fan. I don't care to try to find "bad" in the Bear, because it's much more constructive to remember him fondly, recognize that he was a good representative of southern football and the conference, and let him be remembered as a legend, which he is.

I'm always saddened when my fellow LSU fans bash Bear . . . let the Bauburn fans do that, not LSU, because Cholly Mac would not approve of LSU fans behaving that way.

As for the PURPLE AND GOLD HOUNDSTOOTH HATS . . . I have this to say . .

these hats symbolize how fondly we remember this formidable adversary.

LSU only had a 4-16 record against Bear . . . and I can never know this for sure . . . but, I really hope that even tho Bama won most of those games, I hope that the Bama players were physically whipped and beaten after the LSU game than for any other opponent.

If I am to be beaten, I want my opponent to weep with tears of physical pain after the game for the super-human effort it took to defeat me.

PS I'm really happy that I stepped onto the Bama team bus after the 1981 game in Tiger Stadium and met Bear and shook his hand after he got the win. I was a college kid with a purple LSU sweatshirt on, and I think that I made a good impression on the old gent.

I represented The Ole War Skule and our Fighting Tigers student body very well during my brief visit expressing my hope that Bear would eventually break Amos Alonzo Stagg's record.

There's no reason for animosity between LSU and Bama . . . it is certainly against the traditional respect that Cholly Mac and Bear always showed towards each other.

Never forget that when a pee- on LSU student (me) went up to Coach Bryant on his teams' bus full of his players dressed in coats and ties right after they left the visiting locker room in Tiger Stadium . . . and I offered my hand to shake . . . Coach Bryant shook my hand and thanked me for my congratulations and good wishes . . . Bear STOPPED LOOKING AT HIS AFTER-GAME NOTES AND SHOOK MY HAND. He did NOT chase me away, or look at me with a jaundiced eye . . .he did not scold me or discourage me in any way.

Bear was very nice to a pee-on LSU student (me) . . . that says something about this Gentleman (him, not me).

Again, no reason for LSU and Bama fans to get at each other's throats.

LSU! :crystal: :lsup:
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I grew up respecting Bear Bryant because my dad, a football coach, absolutely idolized him. I remember the day he died as being a very sad one in our household.

That's to say nothing against LSU during that time because my dad knew Charlie Mac very well and always thought highly of him, too.

But Bear Bryant was special--a true legend.

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