It was such a special torch passing, so warm, so genuine. Meant to be, really.
That first year, you could see it in their eyes in the sweaty sideline Birmingham News photo enlargements that did so well during the 1993 Christmas season. You could see it in the sweaty post-Iron Bowl victory locker room video as they both stood up there talking cee-gars and true champions and Auburn Men.
And I’d totally forgotten, but you could even see it in that Colonial Bank commercial they tag-teamed. (Can’t see the video? Try here.)
Oh, and word is one of the star struck youths at the beginning of the video is the proprietor of Hank’s House of Houndstooth.
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There was an earlier version of that commercial, or one earily similar to it, where Dye was sitting in a diner and when asked about Bowden responded, yes “I ‘spect he’s gonna do all right.”