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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHeads in Alabama just exploded all at once:
#oBAMA
@CambroLiving
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!
Paladin
(28,272 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)And immigrants, and Northern ex-pats, and military families who have lived everywhere.
And people who would just grin and go on.
Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)Yes I know that. I copied the title without thinking.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)And that man wears a hat pretty darn well.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)I'm confused.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)The late Alabama Crimson Tide Football Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant wore that hat...
he is highly revered, with some good measure, for having a long unbroken streak of wins.
Football fans still speak his name in a hushed voice.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)for integrating the Alabama football team, yes?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Note that he didn't even attempt to recruit black players until the 1970s, and even then only after a USC team with black players humiliated the Tide.
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)of having the Tide fanbase see with their own eyes how big the talent gap was, which would erode any remaining opposition to integration...
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Who received votes at the 1968 Democratic Convention for the nomination.
Of course, I don't think he'd be a Democrat today if he was still alive. But who knows?
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Vanderbilt signed the first black athlete in 1966 -- basketball player Perry Wallace. Where is Perry today?
Wallace was a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice, where he dealt with natural resources and environmental law. In 1992 he was appointed to the Environmental Policy advisory council of the EPA.[6] He became a professor of law at The American University Washington College of Law in 1993, where he specializes in environmental law, corporate law and finance.[7]
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)nm
livingwagenow
(373 posts)DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)sakabatou
(42,174 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Go Vols
(5,902 posts)sakabatou
(42,174 posts)Must be a local thing, since I'm not from AL.
JoeyT
(6,785 posts)They weren't joking about sacrilege. I've seen more of the original hanging on walls here than pictures of Jesus or crosses. If the home has both, Jesus gets the lesser place. (In ultra-religious Alabama)
I never got it. Probably never will.