🏈 Happy Birthday Johnny Musso

[DB Cooper]

Happy birthday to my favorite Alabama player of all time and idol of my childhood - Johnny Musso #22

Which Alabama player was idol of your childhood?

 

[TideatMileHigh]

Shaun Alexander

 

[mando]

#22 has always been my favorite because he is the first true bama stud RB that I remember looking up to. Born in 60's so the early 70's are when I really started following and understanding bama football.

 

[#80]

Bear said #22 always tried to get one more yard.

 

[Rolltide24]

DT for me. Never got to see Musso play, but I know he must have been a stud.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

@mando
@Rolltide24
@#80
@DB Cooper
@TideatMileHigh
Was affectionately called " the Italian Stallion"
And if you wanted to tackle him. Be prepared for a mouthful of knees.... his legs so high as he ran...,,
1971 media guide

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Which Alabama player was idol of your childhood?

No doubt.....LeeRoy Jordan ....#54....
" If they stay between the lines...LeeRoy will get him ( or something like that)". BEAR said

And Pat Trammel was probably #2 ( I saw Pat play in high school and as I remember he scored a TD on Gadsden High and it was the only TD Gadsden gave up that year)

My dad loved HS football and we went to games on Friday night.... what great memories.... listened to Bama football on Saturday afternoon on the radio

 

[We All Bleed Crimson]

Hey, I was a Johnny Musso fan too! He just never stopped driving and digging until the whistle blew. The Italian Stallion!

 

[tider79]

The only time I got to see him in person was at the 71 Orange Bowl, I was so amped for that game for weeks being a thirteen year old......remember walking out of the game with my daddy with tears in my eyes....Nebraska owned him as well as our wishbone offense. They were well prepared having played OU earlier that year. And Johnny Rogers was the real deal.

 

[mando]

My dad loved HS football and we went to games on Friday night.... what great memories.... listened to Bama football on Saturday afternoon on the radio

50+ this described my world growing up. The small town I grew up in all shut down and came out to the the games. For away games we would go also. Did not matter where the team played we were there. If they were in the playoffs we would jump in the car and drive across Alabama. Friday night heroes for sure lol. I played in middle school and high school. To small and slow to play after that but I have great memories of growing up this way. #22 and bama football were certainly part of those great memories.

 

[DB Cooper]

As a kid, I had a red and white football jersey with #22 on it and my brother had one with #11 (Rutledge)

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Musso, Nathan and Ogilvie were all favorites I loved to watch as a kid.

I never kept up with what Ogilvie did after football, but I searched and saw an article from 2009 that noted he was in the concrete business, and realized the company's predecessor was ReadyMix USA. That was a Paul Bryant, Jr. started and owned company run by Marc Tyson - Paul's Dad - before it sold to Cemex.

Where are they now: Major Ogilvie

Posted by ESPN.com's Chris Low AP Photo/Ron Heflin Major Ogilvie, who turned 50 in December, still lives in Birmingham. I’m always asking somebody or they’re asking me, “Whatever happened to this player or that player?

www.espn.com