About a million miles from Coach Bryant's TV post-game comments, where he constantly blamed himself. If a player fumbled, he'd say something like, "Whoops, looky there. We should have spent more time on ball-handling."
Maybe so, but I was in school then, and I never saw Coach Bryant carrying a football around campus.
But I saw players carrying one (with tape used as a handle) whenever
they fumbled.
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