Kenny Stabler has died

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Hope Stabler is still alive

It's true.


BREAKING: Alabama Legend Kenny Stabler, Dead At 69

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Sorry to hear this. I'm too young to know him as a player, but I saw him firsthand raise $100,000+ for several children charities.

Class act that will be missed by many

I will be fricking emotionally distraught if this is true. Kenny is a big reason I am a Raiders fan and was a guy I grew up idolizing. Even have a black lab named "Kenny" because of him. No one was cooler than that guy. Anyone who's met him at say a charity event knows what I'm taking about. 1st met him at the Captain's table in Mobile and we sat and drank forever it seemed like.

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The Snake was always one of those players that made Alabama football what it is to me. A combination of greatness, charisma and Southern good ol' boy swagger that made him a Crimson Tide icon.


(Although, to this day, I have never forgiven him for the "Sea of Hands" comeback to beat my Dolphins when I was a kid. I was mad that an Alabama player could do that to me.)

Kenny Stabler on what it meant to him in the book “What It Means To Be Crimson Tide.”

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From the day you first pull on that crimson jersey to the end of your life, you reap the reward of playing football for Alabama. That reward is in being remembered. It may be for something specific, or it may be just for being a former Crimson Tide player.

It still amazes me the number of people who will tell me about seeing the run in the mud. The details of the rain and wind, umbrellas turned inside out, clothes ruined, and yet they stayed to watch as we beat Auburn, 7-3, in 1967. And I hear this virtually every day from some Alabama fan. I listen to the whole story, because it is a thrill for them, and it is a great feeling for me that they remember. And we old Alabama players like to talk about Alabama football, too, particularly a win over Auburn.

A lot of people think the Alabama-Auburn game is the most emotional rivalry in college football, and it is gratifying to have been part of a play that will live forever because it was Alabama-Auburn and a game-winning play. I go through airports and inevitably someone will yell, “Roll, Tide” or “Hey, Snake.”

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I have two teenage daughters, and it’s great for them to see where Dad fit into the mix in the legacy of Alabama football, to see people ask me for autographs or talk to me because I am a former Alabama player. They can look at the photographs or even the old films, but it is the people who make it real.

To have been an Alabama football player is, as Coach Bryant said, to be part of a family. And no matter your role, you were a productive part of that family.

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On 1966....

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The greatest disappointment was an excellent season. We were two-time defending national champions going into the 1966 season and that year we went 11-0 and outscored our opponents 267-37 in the regular season. We had six shutouts. And then we beat Nebraska, 34-7, in the Sugar Bowl. And we finished third in the nation.

I had watched as a kid as Pat Trammell won a national championship, then watched Joe Namath and Steve Sloan win national championships, and I thought 1966 was my turn. We made a pretty good run, but we didn’t get there. It was disappointing, but I believe we did all we could do.

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RIP Kenny. You'll always be one of my favorite Bama players.

I'm confused as to what Suttles is apologizing about...