🏈 RIP, Snake
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bama alum
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What bizarre nonsense is this?
http://alabama.247sports.com/Bolt/Legendary-Alabama-QB-Ken-Stabler-passes-away-38132875
(Posting this from my phone while sitting a monstrous traffic jam, so I can't get the texts of the links posted. So sorry.)
http://alabama.247sports.com/Bolt/Legendary-Alabama-QB-Ken-Stabler-passes-away-38132875
(Posting this from my phone while sitting a monstrous traffic jam, so I can't get the texts of the links posted. So sorry.)
rocknthefreeworld
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About 10 or so this morning there were two threads started stating he'd passed. One was on TI, the other on BOL. Which came first? I didn't really pay attention to see.
The original post said he was in Gulfport, MS and in the hospital. It was one of those "lady in the next room heard he'd..."
The original post said he was in Gulfport, MS and in the hospital. It was one of those "lady in the next room heard he'd..."
BAMANEWSBOT
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Stabler was a star under Bear Bryant in the 1960s.
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Stabler passed away Wednesday after battling cancer.
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TUSCALOOSA — Legendary Alabama and NFL quarterback Kenny "the Snake" Stabler died in Gulfport, Mississippi, at the age of 69 on Wednesday after a battle with colon cancer, the family confirmed Thursda
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It's not part of the official selection criteria, but when the debate starts on the worthiness of a player for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, it's asked: Is it possible to write a history of the NFL without this player? If the answer is yes, then the player isn't a Hall of Famer.
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"As far as I was concerned, he'd live forever,"
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Social media came alive with a tremendous outpouring of support for the former Alabama and NFL QB
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Compiled 29-1 record in three seasons at Foley High
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Stabler passed away Wednesday after battling cancer.
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TUSCALOOSA — Legendary Alabama and NFL quarterback Kenny "the Snake" Stabler died in Gulfport, Mississippi, at the age of 69 on Wednesday after a battle with colon cancer, the family confirmed Thursda
Decatur Daily—Continue reading...
It's not part of the official selection criteria, but when the debate starts on the worthiness of a player for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, it's asked: Is it possible to write a history of the NFL without this player? If the answer is yes, then the player isn't a Hall of Famer.
Continue reading...
"As far as I was concerned, he'd live forever,"
Continue reading...
Social media came alive with a tremendous outpouring of support for the former Alabama and NFL QB
Continue reading...
Compiled 29-1 record in three seasons at Foley High
Decatur Daily—Continue reading...
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planomateo
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It's legit, family released statement via Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/kennystabler12?fref=photo
RIP Mr Stabler.
RIP Mr Stabler.
One of my favorite players of all time. When I was a child, my dad took me to see Alabama play South Caroline in Tuscaloosa, circa 1966. Stabler was one of the Alabama quarterbacks. I also got to see him play when he was with the Saints. I'm more annoyed than ever that he hasn't been voted into the NFL HOF.
Yes, both Kenny and Lee Roy Jordan both belong there.
PhillyGirl
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To many of you he is best remembered for the run in the mud to beat Auburn, anS he never lost to them. He was the undisputed boss in the huddle, and his teammates always felt like he could take him down the field late to win the game. So many of his raider teammates are in the NFL HOF. Something is wrong when Biletnikof is in, but Stabler is not.
If not being able to write the story of the NFL without mentioning him is a criteria, the 'Holy Roller', a deliberate forward fumble that enabled the Raiders to defeat the Steelers in the playoffs, also resulted in a rule change.
RIP, Smake, and comfort to your family in this sad time.
If not being able to write the story of the NFL without mentioning him is a criteria, the 'Holy Roller', a deliberate forward fumble that enabled the Raiders to defeat the Steelers in the playoffs, also resulted in a rule change.
RIP, Smake, and comfort to your family in this sad time.
HURT: No one was like Kenny Stabler
Cecil Hurt
TideSports.com Columnist
Like many young people of my generation in Alabama, I'd heard of Kenny Stabler as far back as I can remember hearing of anyone who wasn't family.
University of Alabama quarterbacks were famous, even then, and Stabler came along during a golden era, the next in a line that included Pat Trammell and Steve Sloan and the prodigious Joe Namath.
What's more, Stabler stayed in the public eye well after his Alabama career, thanks to his NFL exploits with the Oilers and the Saints, but especially with the Oakland Raiders.
That team, that franchise, had a swagger in those days that is almost impossible to explain to casual fans of the woebegone outfit that the Raiders have been in recent years. Not everyone loved those Raider teams, but you had to respect them - and fear them. Just as another Alabama product, Bart Starr, had personified the spit-and-polish precision of Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers - and Namath had been the perfect mixture of brash and gifted for the New York Jets - so Stabler was the model for those Raiders: tough, raucous and fiercely competitive.
Years later, I got to know Stabler fairly well during his days as Alabama's radio color man. He had mellowed by then, although with Kenny, "mellowed" was a highly relative term. He was unfailingly friendly, quick with a story (never the same one twice, given his unlimited supply) and gracious to everyone who stopped by to visit. This was true even though, in those days, he was often the biggest celebrity in the press box.
He loved that radio role, and he loved Alabama, and if he wasn't technically perfect, occasionally missing a player's name by a syllable or two, no one minded. Crimson Tide fans returned Stabler's love, tenfold. When he eventually had to leave the broadcast crew, he ached deeply. It wasn't the loss of the fame or recognition.
Kenny Stabler never lost that, not until his final day, and never could have lost it. But he missed the Saturdays, I think, and being, even in an extended sense, a part of a team. I also think how much he would have enjoyed broadcasting Alabama football's recent epic run of success, because he never lost his love of winning, either.
In retrospect, it's hard to think of any player that generations of Alabama fans loved more. There was the talent, of course. (Shame on the Pro Football Hall of Fame for not including him on that basis alone, let alone his Super Bowl success.) But there was also that personality, that smile and wink that were a part of the legend. He'd played for Bear Bryant, and Coach Bryant had disciplined him and taught him life lessons and loved him - but never quite tamed him.
He shared a tough Gulf Coast upbringing that thousands and thousands of Alabama fans identified with. He symbolized a region and a lifestyle like a Jimmy Buffett, not one who played guitar (which is good) but actually played football (which, in this state, is even better.)
Along the way, and it doesn't get mentioned as often as the legend does, he was the doting and supportive father of three accomplished daughters, something that he loved to talk about more than any Super Bowl he'd ever played in.
The nickname "Snake" defined an elusive, darting playing style. It became linked inextricably with a good-time, hard-living persona. But beyond the Snake, Kenny Stabler wasn't cold-blooded or venomous, but warm and gentle. He squeezed every bit he could out of his journey through life, but he shared the fun. It's good that so many people watched him play, and got to know him - because we will not, in our times, see another one like him.
https://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1781747
Cecil Hurt
TideSports.com Columnist
Like many young people of my generation in Alabama, I'd heard of Kenny Stabler as far back as I can remember hearing of anyone who wasn't family.
University of Alabama quarterbacks were famous, even then, and Stabler came along during a golden era, the next in a line that included Pat Trammell and Steve Sloan and the prodigious Joe Namath.
What's more, Stabler stayed in the public eye well after his Alabama career, thanks to his NFL exploits with the Oilers and the Saints, but especially with the Oakland Raiders.
That team, that franchise, had a swagger in those days that is almost impossible to explain to casual fans of the woebegone outfit that the Raiders have been in recent years. Not everyone loved those Raider teams, but you had to respect them - and fear them. Just as another Alabama product, Bart Starr, had personified the spit-and-polish precision of Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers - and Namath had been the perfect mixture of brash and gifted for the New York Jets - so Stabler was the model for those Raiders: tough, raucous and fiercely competitive.
Years later, I got to know Stabler fairly well during his days as Alabama's radio color man. He had mellowed by then, although with Kenny, "mellowed" was a highly relative term. He was unfailingly friendly, quick with a story (never the same one twice, given his unlimited supply) and gracious to everyone who stopped by to visit. This was true even though, in those days, he was often the biggest celebrity in the press box.
He loved that radio role, and he loved Alabama, and if he wasn't technically perfect, occasionally missing a player's name by a syllable or two, no one minded. Crimson Tide fans returned Stabler's love, tenfold. When he eventually had to leave the broadcast crew, he ached deeply. It wasn't the loss of the fame or recognition.
Kenny Stabler never lost that, not until his final day, and never could have lost it. But he missed the Saturdays, I think, and being, even in an extended sense, a part of a team. I also think how much he would have enjoyed broadcasting Alabama football's recent epic run of success, because he never lost his love of winning, either.
In retrospect, it's hard to think of any player that generations of Alabama fans loved more. There was the talent, of course. (Shame on the Pro Football Hall of Fame for not including him on that basis alone, let alone his Super Bowl success.) But there was also that personality, that smile and wink that were a part of the legend. He'd played for Bear Bryant, and Coach Bryant had disciplined him and taught him life lessons and loved him - but never quite tamed him.
He shared a tough Gulf Coast upbringing that thousands and thousands of Alabama fans identified with. He symbolized a region and a lifestyle like a Jimmy Buffett, not one who played guitar (which is good) but actually played football (which, in this state, is even better.)
Along the way, and it doesn't get mentioned as often as the legend does, he was the doting and supportive father of three accomplished daughters, something that he loved to talk about more than any Super Bowl he'd ever played in.
The nickname "Snake" defined an elusive, darting playing style. It became linked inextricably with a good-time, hard-living persona. But beyond the Snake, Kenny Stabler wasn't cold-blooded or venomous, but warm and gentle. He squeezed every bit he could out of his journey through life, but he shared the fun. It's good that so many people watched him play, and got to know him - because we will not, in our times, see another one like him.
https://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1781747
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