🏈 SI: Alabama's mountain of a nose tackle

[AFF]

Cody sure is getting a lot of press today...


I got a chuckle out of this:

Cody wasn't allowed to tackle opponents at practice. He could only wrap them up. One day, Cody met a 230-pound fullback in the A gap. Cody picked up the kid, slung him over his shoulder and kept charging through the backfield.
"Is that what you want, Coach?" Cody asked Jones.

"Yep," Jones said. "That'll do."

Former Mississippi Gulf Coast center Keating Helms, now the starter at Louisiana-Monroe, remembers turning to see Cody filling an entire door frame. Helms also remembers his first thought upon seeing Mount Cody. "Straight fear," Helms said.

Cody annihilated Arkansas center Jonathan Luigs -- the 2007 Rimington Trophy winner -- in a 49-14 Alabama win. Cody's signature play? On fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line late in the first half, Cody blasted past Luigs and left guard Wade Grayson to grab tailback Michael Smith before he could reach the end zone. Cody sprinted to the sideline for a celebratory flying belly bump from Bama offensive tackle Andre Smith. "That," Alabama play-by-play man Eli Gold said, "registered on some Richter scale out in Colorado."

Mash below for link:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/andy_staples/09/25/cody/index.html

 

[Guest]

I wonder if they wrote about how he was man handled by the HOGS according to there fans! LOL

 

[Guest]

"I've been trying to tell folks he could do it," Campbell said. "You're not going to block him."

"These people who try to run right at him," Jones said, "have lost their minds."

 

[bamafan4ever]

That article is filled with awesomeness!!

 

[Nate]

all of this hype and publicity while I love it. makes me very uneasy about tomorrow. Shula ball taught me to fear confidence lol

 

[Tideboy]

quote]Cody wasn't allowed to tackle opponents at practice. He could only wrap them up. One day, Cody met a 230-pound fullback in the A gap. Cody picked up the kid, slung him over his shoulder and kept charging through the backfield.
"Is that what you want, Coach?" Cody asked Jones.

"Yep," Jones said. "That'll do."
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Great article!