Dispelling the Sam Cunningham-Bear Bryant BS

[SunCoastSooner]

Haven't we done this before? Wasn't this resovled last time other than for mvracist and Mtoolio?

[Van]

Sam, all that article really says is that the USC game forced Bama - not Bear Bryant, but TPTB at Bama, along with the rest of a reluctant state - to accept the change. It doesn't really dispel anything, not unless someone out there thinks Bear himself was personally responsible for the segregation of the Bama football team.

Fact is, it still took that game to get the Bama administration and the Bama populace to accept the change, which is far more damning than merely having one head coach be resistant to the change.

As a southerner who's embarrassed about Bama's backwards ass racial climate back then, you would be much better off if you could simply say, "Look, we all wanted change. The entire state wanted change. Bama's administrators wanted change. We just couldn't get it done, because Bear was an institution at Bama, and he wouldn't allow it."

Instead, it sounds like it was the complete opposite, i.e., that the football icon had to fight alone in an uphill battle against a state filled with institutionalized and culturally ingrained racism.

So, I'm not sure why you want to foment this argument, because it only makes Bama look worse.