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A current or former Bama players death that hit you hard.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 7:33 am
Posted on 4/30/25 at 7:33 am
Derrick Thomas for me. I am a Bam and a Chiefs fan. Cut down in the prime of his life. I imagine a seat belt would have saved him.
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Posted on 4/30/25 at 7:53 am to mrbroker
Santonio Beard, Ray Hudson, and Ahmaad Galloway. I was in school at the same time they played. It was just flooring that they all three passed so young and around the same time frame.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 8:20 am to mrbroker
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Derrick Thomas for me
This. I heard right after it happened. I had a graduate office in Farrah Hall and walked over to the Chimes and planted my favorite gameday shaker in the ground by his Walk of Fame casting. A picture of my shaker and the casting was the front page of the Crimson White the next day. I was sad.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 9:46 am to CapstoneGrad06
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Santonio Beard, Ray Hudson, and Ahmaad Galloway. I was in school at the same time they played. It was just flooring that they all three passed so young and around the same time frame.
Dang, I didn't realize that Hudson and Galloway had died. I remember hearing about Beard. Those guys were at Bama just after I had graduated.
I don't know if any hit me truly hard, but I always hated hearing stories about guys like Tenpenny and Khyree Jackson, that were cut down really before even the prime of their life.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 10:24 am to mrbroker
Most on here probably don’t know or have forgotten about Kevin Turner. Hands down the toughest player to ever play at Bama imo.
Kevin Turner was a beloved fan favorite that died way way too young. If ever there was a statue of a Bama player to be put on site at BDS it would be his in my book
Kevin Turner was a beloved fan favorite that died way way too young. If ever there was a statue of a Bama player to be put on site at BDS it would be his in my book
Posted on 4/30/25 at 10:49 am to hwyman108
My choice also. He was a good one.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 11:45 am to mrbroker
Most of you probably don’t remember him but Aaron Douglas the transfer from UTk back in 2011. Never got to meet him; however, we grew up in the same town and I knew some of his close friends from high school.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:03 pm to mrbroker
Coach Bryant. I was a senior in his last year as HC. I knew he was old and liked his scotch and cigarettes but it still stunned me. Never really got to enjoy his retirement. Had a hell of a career and was/is a legend but it sucks he didn't get to take it easy, enjoy is grand and great grand kids.
Long live the king!
Long live the king!
Posted on 4/30/25 at 12:31 pm to mrbroker
It's refreshing to see new topics here instead of everything getting buried in those retarded megathreads.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 1:11 pm to Amarillo Tide
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Coach Bryant. I was a senior in his last year as HC. I knew he was old and liked his scotch and cigarettes but it still stunned me. Never really got to enjoy his retirement. Had a hell of a career and was/is a legend but it sucks he didn't get to take it easy, enjoy is grand and great grand kids
Same for me. I was a high school junior when he passed. I met him at a book signing when I was about 6 or 7 years old and he was promoting his autobiography. To a little kid he was just as much a giant in person as was his legend. I think he knew he didn’t have long to live when he called it quits. It’s just too much of a coincidence that he passed so soon after walking away from the game. I never will forget the funeral procession up I-59 where every overpass had people on it paying their last respects. I was on the McCalla exit overpass since it was closest to me. We’ve been blessed to have had 2 of the greatest coaches to ever coach the game. They each were great in their own way, and I love them both, but I still think Bum Phillips summed up Coach Bryant perfectly when he said “He can take his’n and beat your’n, then he could turn around and take your’n and beat his’n.” It’s true and in a matchup with equal talent, I would take Coach Bryant to beat Coach Saban more often than not.
Rest in Peace, Coach Bryant. Gone, but certainly not forgotten.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 1:31 pm to mrbroker
As you can probably tell by the name I chose, it's DT. It was rough
Posted on 4/30/25 at 4:13 pm to PuertoRicanBlaze
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It's refreshing to see new topics here instead of everything getting buried in those retarded megathreads.
You haven't started a new thread on this board since 2024. Why do the people that bitch and moan about megathreads never start threads for new and refreshing topics?
Posted on 4/30/25 at 5:15 pm to mrbroker
Robert Bobby Smith Co-Captain of Coach Bryant's 1958 team. Coach Snith was my high school HC for my 9th and 10th grade class. Coach passed 2 years ago.
We stayed close. He lived in Fort Walton and I in Destin from 2003-2010. Played golf at the municipal course in Ft Walton often since is home was almost on the course.
Class person.
We stayed close. He lived in Fort Walton and I in Destin from 2003-2010. Played golf at the municipal course in Ft Walton often since is home was almost on the course.
Class person.
Posted on 4/30/25 at 7:56 pm to JoseyWalesTheOutlaw
DT. The greatest LB at Bama and I got a chance to meet him. Awesome dude. RIP!
Posted on 5/1/25 at 4:48 am to mrbroker
Pat Trammel
Posted on 5/1/25 at 7:41 am to IB4bama
His death hit Coach Bryant really hard as well.
Posted on 5/1/25 at 10:33 pm to mrbroker
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A current or former Bama players death that hit you hard.
I may be a little slow and don't understand how this works...
What current Bama players are dead?
This post was edited on 5/1/25 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 5/2/25 at 1:07 am to mrbroker
Kevin Turner for me. KT was a teammate of mine during my time as a walk on. Dude was pound for pound the strongest and toughest guy I had ever been around.
When he passed from ALS years later, I had my wife and kids at Disney when I got the notification from ESPN.
When he passed from ALS years later, I had my wife and kids at Disney when I got the notification from ESPN.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 5:55 am to Tw1st3d
Who were currently playing at the time of their death. So yes professor shithole I understand once they die they are former players. Anything to contribute besides your red pen.
Posted on 5/3/25 at 2:05 pm to mrbroker
One that got me wasn't the death of the player himself, but his family.
Siran Stacy lost 4 kids and a wife (who was on the UA volleyball team) in a terrible car accident. He and one of his daughters survived the wreck. I belive the driver of the other vehicle was killed too.
Siran Stacy lost 4 kids and a wife (who was on the UA volleyball team) in a terrible car accident. He and one of his daughters survived the wreck. I belive the driver of the other vehicle was killed too.
This post was edited on 5/3/25 at 2:08 pm
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