šŸˆ Mal Moore tells Scottsboro audience he's optimistic about '11 Tide team

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The speech merely took Mal Moore back a half-century.

Coming here, to the home of Pat Trammell, one of Alabama's finest quarterbacks and this town's greatest sports hero, reminded Moore of his own playing days at the University of Alabama.

Moore, now the director of athletics at his alma mater, was a quarterback for Paul "Bear" Bryant. He was behind Trammell at Alabama, and in fact was redshirted for a season, perhaps to inherit Trammell's job.

Then, Moore said, "they moved a guy ahead me."

A kid from western Pennsylvania. Kid named Joe Namath.

As years went on and Moore's coaching career led him north, to Notre Dame, the story was exaggerated a tad.



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OT: I really love editors choices of article titles at times. Here's a great example with the article having 34 words in it that deal with the title, the rest just a conglomeration of McCarter's idle, streaming thought...

At least, that's how it appears to me...

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Hurlbut was an interesting character, a tough guy that Bryant liked. Namath was the guy in 62, but Hurlbut had a moment on center stage. The team was undefeated but trailed Georgia Tech 7-0 late in the game. We got into the end zone and went for two. Bryant pulled Namath for Hurlbut for the try, and many still think Hurlbut got into the end zone, but the refs said no. Many thought that team was fully as good as the NC team from the year before.

In 63 Bryant kicked Namath off the team after the Auburn game, and Hurlbut got the start for the Miami game. (I think this game was moved to a later date because of JFK asassination.) We won, and drew Ole Miss for the Sugar Bowl. Hurlbut played this game at safety, and Steve Sloan quarterbacked a 12-7 Bama win in the snow.
 
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