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Bobby Humphrey brought JPW and Brandon Cox to our youth "Kickoff" Sunday

Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:36 am
Posted by I-59 Tiger
Vestavia Hills, AL
Member since Sep 2003
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:36 am
and Antonio Langham. (JPW is John Parker Wilson,fwiw). Pretty cool of these guys, especially Humphrey. A guy at our church who is big Alabama fan has known Humphrey for 25+ yrs or so and asked him to do this about 5-6 yrs ago.

We have all of the youth come to the old Berry HS field and play touch football with these guys.Cox is the first AU guy we've had. Other SEC folks like me wear their colors and its a lot of fun.

When we got back to the gym at the church they each got up and spoke and testified.As you can imagine every female 6 to about 40 for Auburn wanted their pic/selfie with Cox and the ones for Ala with JPW, and of course some with Hump and Langum.Everyone of them patiently obliged.

In that our church maybe one of the few,if only OTM church in metro Birmingham that may have more Auburn fans, it was really neat how JPW and Langham signed autographs on orange construction paper for little boys and girls in Auburn shirts and wrote WAR EAGLE then signed.

And,yes,Humphrey made mention of his past. He's a big man,in lots of ways. Heckuva of a guy,two. He and I talked about the LSU-Ala games he played in and how even then they always looked forward to the LSU game and vice versa.

I'm sure there are several similar events like this throughout the SE and elsewhere,but I was at this one and I wanted to brag on Humphrey for agreeing to this and bringing the other guys.
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 10:04 am
Posted by FourThreeForty
Member since May 2013
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:38 am to




Humphrey's a solid guy and did some great things for Bama as did Wilson and Cox for their respective schools.


Here's to hoping Humphrey's flesh and blood will be giving QBs nightmares for years to come
Posted by CBandits82
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:39 am to
Cox was a tough dude.

He would get smoked in those epic LSU-AUBURN games when Tubbs was there and would get back up and keep trucking.

I always had respect for Cox.

Those mid 2000's LSU-AUBURN games were incredible.



This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 9:40 am
Posted by TT9
Global warming
Member since Sep 2008
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:40 am to
Good stuff. Always thought JPW was a jerk but hopefully age is growing him up.
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:46 am to
quote:

He and I talked about the LSU-Ala games he played in and how even then they always looked forward to the LSU game and vice versa.



Hope you didn't bring up his fumble on the goal line that cost us the game one year.
Posted by Master of Sinanju
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:54 am to
That's really cool.

quote:

JPW and Langham signed autographs on orange construction paper for little boys and girls in Auburn shirts and wrote WAR EAGLE then signed. 


Posted by ehole
in a house
Member since Nov 2010
3373 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 11:07 am to
CSB in the most legit way possible. Sounded like a great time for the kids and you.
Posted by jvilletiger25
jacksonville, fl
Member since Jan 2014
17032 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 11:12 am to
Did you talk about the 2006 refs with Cox?
Posted by Monticello
Member since Jul 2010
16197 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 3:59 pm to
Bobby Humphrey is about as quality of a man as you will ever meet. When kids were stuck at school in Birmingham during the snow, he was out most of the night with chains on his Tahoe taking kids home.
Posted by BradPitt
Where the wild things are
Member since Nov 2009
13389 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 5:00 pm to
Who gives a frick?
Posted by rootisback
Member since Mar 2014
3371 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 5:30 pm to
Good guys -- need more like them
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