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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/536070-the-50-greatest-players-in-alabama-crimson-tide-football-history/page/50

This has been posted before, but thought it would give us some warm fuzzies during the bye-week to see it again. I don't necessarily agree with all picks, but is definitely interesting, if not at least nostalgic.

I have to agree with the #1 player.  ;)

 I hear ya, buddy!  :lol:

I sense a story behind those comments.  :think:

Sorry about that. A bit of an inside joke.

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WAY INSIDE ! 

or is it low and away ? 

but watch out for in your ear ! 

Uecker, is that you?  :D

sorry , I have WS-lag today

made it the top of the 11th and crashed then burned  :-\

think we should wake Kenny up and tell him he made #15 ?

he would probably just say ...
"but that was Wilcox's number"  :lol:

I never made it past the 9th and I woke this morning thinking I would watch the folks in Dallas whooping it up but what a surprise.

My sophomore year my apt was down from David Hannah's. Charlie and John were both there so it must not have been football season. I remember walking across the parking lot--you could see their grill. They had maybe 12-15 hamburgers on, they had their girl friends or wives with them-- but each burger was close to a pound. Their girls may have split a burger!

how were the burgers WV ?  big ? 

the original "where's the beef" I guess   8)

LOL---I have no idea how they tasted--I bet good--except burgers that big had to be warmed over raw in the middle. Also they were shaped perfectedly,--I think that is what really caught my attention-- my guess the girls made the patties-- not the Hannah boys.

I knew John Hannah and his wife during the college years.  Both were good people. 

A funny anecdote:  John Hannah and I trained together for Campus Crusade for Christ.  We attended some sort of session in which they explained the importance of testimonials.  They gave us each a little cross to carry.  We were paired together and had to walk around campus trying to give testimonials to unreceptive students.  After trying it for a few minutes we looked at each other, shook our heads, and both went home.  I still have the little cross they gave us when we signed up for training.  It just wasn't for us.   :dunno:  (Sorry, Preacher)  :(

WELL ! that explains why WV didn't get a burger !   :dunno:

Everything I've seen or read has reinforced the fact that the Hannah's were a intelligent, deeply Christian family, and really close to one another. I think you were raised similarly, CAT.

Did any of you ever see John wrestle when he was at Bama, he was on the wrestling team as a their heavyweight.

No, but close to the subject we had a lineman, noseguard maybe, that was a karate champ (black belt) back in that same era. But I'll be a couple days remembering that name.

I remember that as well but can't remember either. John was never beaten in his wrestling career. Jim Kraph was a wrestler as well and he had never been beaten when he got to Bama and he wrestled heavyweight as well. Bama went to a quadwrangler meet in Atlanta and John and Kraph had to wrestle each other in the finals, Big John pinned him. Auburn came to Bama once for a match and they had a heayweight by the name of Baumgartner, I think that was his name, Hannah ended his wrestling career, he broke his chestbone. The dude was bad on the mat as he was on the football field. I used to go to all of their wrestling matches.

I have another wrestling story that is very interesting as well. Bama had a wrestler from Michigan by the name of Jhon Dunn, I think he spelled his John that way, and in the year 2000 when I was still working at Bell South a John Dunn from Michigan hired on and worked for me. You guessed it, it was his dad that wrestled for Bama. He came down for homecoming one year and my John brought him to our tailgate to meet me and we shared some stories that afternoon. Small world isn't it.

Great stories. Okay Jamos--was it Jim Bunch, OG (karate)? Or Mike Brock,OG--don't let me talk you into anything--I can't remember and am guessing.

Madalyn O'Hair ??

I want to say it was Bunch but then something inside me says it's Brock. I'll see if some of my buddies might have a better memory. Bunch was highly touted when he came to Bama, that's why I think it might be him.

Sorry, no way an offensive guard is the TIde's greatest player. The OG position is just not enough of an impact position. Also, his NFL career shouldn't count, this is the greatest player at Alabama.

I would consider one of these as THE best player:

Woodrow Lowe-LB  Three time All American
Don Hudson-He invented the WR position
Joe Namath-QB  Three year starter who was 28-4 & won NC

I could name 2 or 3 more, but I'm too tired to think.

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