Alabama Crimson Tide football is tradition rich with a number of great coaches over the years, and has produced the top football players to ever come out of college football, but not one compared to the most legendary coach of all time, Paul Bear Bryant .
Paul “Bear” Bryant
Bear Bryant started his career at Alabama as a football player in 1931. He was only 1934 national championship play end. Brian always joked that he was the “other end” that played for “mamma”. The other end was the legendary NFL Hall of Famer, Don Hudson. Even bear Bryant’s college playing days, he showed mental toughness and playing the 1935 game against Tennessee with a broken leg.
As as head coach, Paul Bryant went through several university jobs such as the University of Maryland, University of Kentucky, and Texas A&M University before he at last had the break to go back to his alma mater, Alabama. So moved was Bear Bryant, that he notably was quoted as saying, “Mama called. And when Mama calls, you just have to come runnin’.”
In the year of Bear took over as head coach of Bama, and started leading it to its previous Rose Bowl-style brilliance but achieved even to greater heights. Establishing celebrated players like Pat Trammell, Joe Namath,Big John Hannah, Snake Stabler, Lee Roy Jordan, Billy Neighbors, Johnny Musso, Bob Baumhower, and many others.
No doubt, Bear Bryant was a exceptional motivator and knew how to make his teams to do what he required them to do. Florida A&M coach, Jake Gaither said of Bear Bryant, “He can take his’n and beat you’n, and he can take your’n and beat his’n.” The motivation wasn’t just on the field, the inspiration carried into life also by the quality he instilled in his players like big John Croyle, who founded the faith-based Christian Big Oak Ranch for troubled boys and girls in Springville, Alabama.
The last year that he coached Alabama, 1982, was a down year for Alabama and Bear couldn’t see himself coaching Alabama into mediocrity. He always said that if he stop coaching that he “wouldn’t last a week.” In truth, he didn’t last much longer than that, only 37 days. On January 26, 1983, Bryant died of a heart attack at age 69 and many attended his funeral. Public officials projected that in the range of a half-million to a million people were lined all along the 53 mile stretch from Tuscaloosa to the graveyard in Birmingham that was blocks from Legion Field.
Bear’s Legacy
Bear’s heritage lives in the players that are now growing older and the fans that recall his championship spirit. Not only that… He helped shatter segregation in the South’s football universe, and in doing so, helped turn the state around from prejudice to glory. Not only that, he changed the world to a better place than he left left.. He ain’t never been nothing but a winner. Roll Tide!
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