re: The saddest thing I've ever read...

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I believe you're off 10 yrs.

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Right you are... must be getting old, but I remember that game and Joe Namath throwing about 3 or 4 interceptions, Alabama going for two point conversion to win instead of kicking the extra point to tie (contrast the Notre Dame-Mich State play-for-a-tie game in 1966), and the 7-6 loss. This left Alabama with an 11-1 record and no national championship.

I think so many whiskey bottles were thrown at Bryant in this game that two years later Coach Bryant wore a helmet into the stadium. Oh well... it was a long time ago and college football seemed more important, and fun, then.