🏈 Warren St. John's GQ profile of Alabama's Nick Saban: 'Sympathy for the Devil'

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Author Warren St. John goes "on a mission to find the soul of the scariest man in college football."



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[planomateo]

For those of us who don't subscribe to GQ

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Just in time for kickoff - here's my GQ profile of Alabama's Nick Saban: <a href="http://t.co/8Sy4SlbgDm">http://t.co/8Sy4SlbgDm</a></p>&mdash; warrenstjohn (@warrenstjohn) <a href="https://twitter.com/warrenstjohn/statuses/372319895490285568">August 27, 2013</a></blockquote>
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[TerryP]

Damn good read!

 

[ElephantStomp]

Damn good read!! That was really good

 

[JoshB]

Wow, that was really really good.

 

[Billie Bob]

Awesome article. He is such a good writer.

 

[BAMA JAMMA]

Did not now Saban chews!

Awesome article!!

 

[JoshB]

Did not now Saban chews!

Awesome article!!

Kinda surprising for a guy that doesn't drink or smoke. I guess we all have our vices, some just more disgusting than others lol

 

[tidentrue]

My favorite parts
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Maybe that's something all the great coaches have in common. They are who they are, for better or worse. They're not phonies. I ask, cajole, and eventually beg Cedric Burns, Saban's right-hand man, to reveal his insight on the two types of Alabama coaches. Eventually, he relents."There's the ones with statues and there's the ones without," Burns says. "And the thing is, the ones without statues are all different. But the ones with statues are all the same."
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There's going to be extra security. Angry that Saban will be speaking on their home turf, some Tennessee Vols fans have left threatening voice mails for the event's organizers."One speech closer to vacation," Saban says in the car. "They're threatening to kill me. If they want to assassinate my ass, they need to go ahead and do it."

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Burns has the stereo on "Tumbling Dice." Saban listens for a few bars, then hits a button to cue up another Stones tune that seems to better suit his mood: "Sympathy for the Devil." He gazes out the passenger-side window at the Alabama campus. The place is quiet, the velvety green quad nearly empty. Pretty soon players will show up for practice. Students will arrive for the fall semester. A new football season will begin. Saban nods his head as his man Jagger sings:

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game.

 

[JoshB]

^^ The bit about the statues was my favorite too, Saban's defense of Mick Jagger was pretty funny tho.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

What a well written, informative piece. Didn't know his kids were adopted, never heard the story of the kid his Dad took in and raised, and Saban helped as an adult. It's refreshing to read an Alabama article that's not a rehash of widely known factoids.

RTR,

Tim