🏈 Showdown May Cast Alabama's First Heisman

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/sports/ncaafootball/03heisman.html

The Paul W. Bryant Museum on the campus of the University of Alabama has everything from a Waterford crystal houndstooth hat to 15,000 cans of 16-millimeter game film to the couch and desk from Bryant’s old office.






Alabama’s football history is so rich and treasured that the museum employs seven people full time, four part time and six to eight students each semester.
But amid all this history, which includes claiming 12 national championships and more than 90 all-Americans, there is something missing. No Alabama player has ever won a Heisman Trophy.
“I didn’t know that,” Florida Coach Urban Meyer said. “Wow. That blows my mind.”
Alabama running back Mark Ingram appeared poised to end that streak, but last week he was shut down by Auburn and gained 30 yards on 16 carries. He also sustained a hip pointer that kept him out of Alabama’s winning drive.
With the Heisman race wide open and Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, the 2007 winner, coming off his best game of the season, a layer has been added to Saturday’s long-awaited showdown in Atlanta between No. 1 Florida and No. 3 Alabama for the Southeastern Conference championship.

The third paragraph from the end of the article blew me away. You could have had a lot of my money betting me that there was one of those in the Bryant Museum.

 

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There actually is one of those things in the Bryant Museum. Just as you walk in the door on the right in a plexi-glass case. It belonged to John David Crow from his playing days at aTm. He won it playing for Bryant his last year at aTm in 1957