The first post in a series stemming from my interview with Doug Barfield at Panera Bread.
Bear Bryant
The Finest Tackle of ’67: An Iron Bowl Story
“We should’ve won it. We should’ve won it. I don’t know… we should’ve won it.”
VIDEO: Bear Bryant isn’t sure Bo Jackson got in the end zone for winning ’82 Iron Bowl touchdown
The sun didn’t come up Sunday morning at the Bryant house, and later that afternoon Steadman Shealy, former Bama quarterback and host of The Bear Bryant Show, barely had the strength to open the Golden Flag bag.
Angry Auburn fans sends ‘cow college’ clipping to Shug, calls Crimson Tide a name
It changes so much—I’d rather beat Texas, I’d rather beat Notre Dame, cow college, little cow college, little cow college down the road—it’s natural to wonder if it’s just some urban legend Didn’t them Auburn students sacrifice a goat and streak through Toomer’s Corner when Bear Bryant died kinda thing, or like that apocryphal this […]
Exotic Nadina (the Turkish Delight) welcomes Shug and Bear to Birmingham
From a mid-60s (we want to say 1964, but could be wrong) issue of Dick Coffee’s “Birmingham Doins.” Related: Bear Bryant—Auburn fan? … Keep Reading: * Read the Iron Bowl chapter in “Big Fish”. * The Snorg Tees Girl in a 1987 Auburn Iron Bowl victory T-shirt * Top American pale ale first brewed in […]