SI Vault article about Coach Bryant (1981)

I had a difficult time keeping up with time frames. Maybe, I was tired when I read it, but it seemed all over the place.

I agree 100%. I didn't take it as a flame. I wasn't crazy about the article either, I just posted it because I had never seen it. You're a better person than me if you can reread it

I stopped at the point when he says the campus has nothing beautiful or graceful.

I think it was like a week before he broke it. So I bet this was the article

Congratulations, my friends! You just found and read vintage SI tripe that they used to write ALL the time in my youth. Although that was the preeminent sports magazine in the country growing up, I never gave them a dime of my hard earned southern money because dammit, they couldn't help themselves. Every time they felt the need to write about Alabama because they just couldn't ignore the elephant in the room any longer (pun intended), they trotted out all of the old Yankee cliches' about the South and how backwards and ignorant we were. They vilified us at every turn and every compliment was a back handed one. I believe SI was based in New York and they had no trouble maintaining that persona for my entire childhood up until about the turn of the century. They've softened some, now, but not completely. Their shtick got old, our old southern gentlemen coaches like Bryant, Vaught, Neyland, etc have all succumbed to time, so they've changed their tune some. I'll never forgive nor forget them. They, among other northern media, would sing the praises of heathens like Parsegian, Hayes, Schembeckler, and McKay and their football teams and being as pure and clean as the driven snow while we southern people just rooted in the mud and filth and cheated and lied and did everything but eat babies. My offense runs deeps as I was forced to endure this insult and drivel from the time of my earliest memories until I was a young adult freshly graduated from college. So no, I won't forget. That article is vintage SI in it's treatment of the South and of Coach Bryant. Every praise is qualified with an insult, either stated or implied. frick them and frick their attitude.

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Don't forget Joe Paterno. He was the sports media's embodiment of winning the right way - "Success with Honor."

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The whole child molesting stuff gets all the attention, and rightfully so, but when Penn State was an Independent, it was a joke playing at their stadium. The refs were bought and paid for and everyone knew it.

I honestly thought, I was just tired and being a peckerhead. I'm glad it pissed other folks off too.

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I realize that was written in 1981 but it was really unbearable.

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I see what you did there

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written by some SI douche

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You're not very old, are you?