📡 This Week, 60 Years Ago: Bear Bryant signs a 10-year contract with Alabama worth $17,500 a year.

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[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

“The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren’t being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country’s future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.”...........Coach Bryant

We're there for sure.......................

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Yea...the BEAR.....I remember my dad coming home from work bubbly over ..
Jumping around.."Mama...we just hired BEAR BRYANT..."she looked at him and shured her shoulders.....and finished making supper....

 

[TUSKtimes]

Coach Bryant never accepted much salary during his entire tenure at the Capstone. But he sure owned that place and the state of Alabama in every sense of the word.

 

[Bamabww]

Coach Bryant never accepted much salary during his entire tenure at the Capstone. But he sure owned that place and the state of Alabama in every sense of the word.

Very true. I remember reading the Administration "made" Coach Bryant take a raise because his salary was so far behind other coaches at that time. I believe Joe Pa was in the same boat at PSU.

 

[RollllTide!]

That was a lot of money back then. He made more with Chesterfield and golden flake ads. He also built a great dynasty and had outside business deals in many industries. My hounds tooth hat tipped to him.

 

[rick4bama]

That was a lot of money back then. He made more with Chesterfield and golden flake ads. He also built a great dynasty and had outside business deals in many industries. My hounds tooth hat tipped to him.

Forgot about Coke!

 

[Bamabww]

He made more with Chesterfield and golden flake ads. He also built a great dynasty and had outside business deals in many industries. .

Yeah, I can remember my momma only buying Zeigler sausage because of Coach Bryant.

 

[Sid Youngleman]

At Coach Bryant's insistence (because it wouldn't have been so otherwise), his salary was set at an amount less than that of the President of the University.

 

[TerryP]

He made more with Chesterfield and golden flake ads.

You sure he made advertisements with Chesterfield?

 

[TUSKtimes]

"Have you called your mama today? I sure wish I could call mine."

 

[50+yeartidefan]

"Have you called your mama today? I sure wish I could call mine."

Great commercial...and i know how the BEAR felt..cause I sure wish I could call my momma...

 

[RollllTide!]

You sure he made advertisements with Chesterfield?

Chesterfield sure did think so if you read their history. I remember seeing some ad with him smoking but it could have been photo chopped. Can't find it now.
Chesterfield (cigarette) - Wikipedia

 

[TerryP]

Chesterfield sure did think so if you read their history. I remember seeing some ad with him smoking but it could have been photo chopped. Can't find it now.
Chesterfield (cigarette) - Wikipedia

I've seen a few memes, seen a few photoshops, but don't recall ever seeing an actual ad. I could easily be wrong. @OldPlayer You recall?

 

[rick4bama]

I look, but like you all said photoshops!