RBR Reading Room: I Remember Paul “Bear” Bryant (rollbamaroll)
Paul W. Byrant’s stature over Alabama football presents a difficult problem
for an author: how do you get close enough to glean a true understanding but
stay far enough away to avoid the coaches considerable aura of influence?
The sheer passage of time has resolved this dilemma by whittling down the
number of individuals who had immediate contact with the coach. In this
respect we are lucky the late Al Browning penned his tome _I Remember Paul
“Bear” Bryant_ before his death in 2002.
Browning covered Alabama football as the _Tuscaloosa News_’ Sports Editor in
the late 1970s but left to become Bryant’s personal assistant in the early
1980s. When Bryant died Browning served as the family media liaison. He later
went on to cover Tennessee football at the Knoxville _News Sentinel_.
Browning, who died of cancer at the age of 52, penned several books on Alabama
football including the game-by-game recounts of the Third Saturday in October
rivalry as well as the Crimson Tide’s bowl contests.
_I Remember Paul “Bear” Bryant_ is a collection of recollections about Bryant
that Browning collected through the years. The bulk of these seem to be from
the author’s own …
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Sum It Up: 1,098 Victories, A Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective $16.10 Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest challenge: early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.Pat Summitt was only 21 when she became head coach of the Tennessee Vols women’s basketball team. For 38 years,… |
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Coach Royal: Conversations with a Texas Football Legend (Voices and Memories(TM)Oral Histories from the Center for American History) $11.71 Many legendary men have been associated with University of Texas football, but for most fans one man will always be “Coach”—Darrell K Royal. One of the most successful coaches in college football, Royal led the Longhorns to three national championships and eleven Southwest Conference titles during his twenty years (1956-1976) as UT’s head coach. He coached some of the Horns’ best players, includ… |
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The Right Kind of Heroes: Coach Bob Shannon and the East St. Louis Flyers $7.36 Profiles the career of a high school football coach who has fought for twenty-three years to instill pride in his players, who have grown up in East St. Louis–a city where many young men wind up on the streets, in jail, or dead…. |
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Tennessee Volunteers Adidas Sideline Football Coaches Flex Hat Cap This hat features the Tennessee logo smack dab front center so anyone coming your way can see you are a true fan. The Flex design also ensures a comfortable time while sporting your Vols apparel…. |
