🏈 Bear Bryant/Joe Namath Photo

[reger60]

I stumbled across this photo tonight. I'd never seen it before, but I liked it.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

very nice.

 

[BamaFan425]

Hanging in a restaurant in Chattanooga by the bathroom. I think TGI Fridays. Look at it every time I go the restaurant.

 

[bamafan4ever]

I was in Las Vegas this past weekend and took a picture of this at a store at Caesars Palace. I thought it was pretty cool as it was front and center.

 

[LBS]

The story I was told regarding that photo was that it was taken after a defeat and that it captured one of those moments where the Coach was using the heartache of a defeated competitor to teach one of those harder life lessons. In this sense, it was symbolic of the coach/player relationship regardless of team or sport that is to say, it was bigger that that game, our team, or these people.

It does not take but a few minutes for former players of Coach Bryant in conversations to drift out of the Hard-Nosed Bear of a Man type storys into cavioting it all by stressing that he was also a great father figure. We so seldom see that side of Coach Bryant, this photo is what represents that angle for me.

 

[LBS]

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[Swamptick]

Great picture. Thanks for sharing.

 

[UAgrad93]

Could that pic have come following the Orange Bowl loss to Texas? Remember. Joe Willie took a QB sneak and thought he scored while the officials said otherwise.

 

[firestorm]

Nice pic, go to my tide's archive... Thank you.

 

[RollTideinGA]

My dad had a some magazine that was published in memory of the coach after his death. I remember that picture being in the magazine.