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Furman Bisher can rot in hell.

Posted on 7/4/21 at 12:42 am
Posted by prplhze2000
Parts Unknown
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Posted on 7/4/21 at 12:42 am
Made up all that crap he published.
Posted by Wolfhound45
Hanging with Chicken in Lurkistan
Member since Nov 2009
120000 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 12:54 am to
He has been dead since 2012 baw
Posted by footswitch
New Market
Member since Apr 2015
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Posted on 7/4/21 at 3:01 am to
You're damn right!
Posted by Ted2010
Member since Oct 2010
38958 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 3:07 am to
Who?
Posted by paperwasp
11x HRV tRant Poster of the Week
Member since Sep 2014
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Posted on 7/4/21 at 3:11 am to
Posted by forestwhitackersgood
Dallas
Member since Jun 2019
3062 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 5:19 am to
quote:

Made up all that crap he published.



Posted by schmoo
marietta ga
Member since Jul 2017
1392 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 5:48 am to
I rarely agree with corndogs, but this hits the nail on the head
Posted by pioneerbasketball
Team Bunchie
Member since Oct 2005
132323 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 6:03 am to
who and whats the story?
Posted by Wally Sparks
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2013
29153 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 6:28 am to
Context?
Posted by RD Dawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
27297 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 6:40 am to
He paid for Wally Butts retirement.

600k was a lot of money in the early 60's
Posted by coachcrisp
pensacola, fl
Member since Jun 2012
30599 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 8:50 am to
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He paid for Wally Butts retirement.

Yes he did....and helped put The Saturday Evening Post into bankruptcy.
PS- There are a lot of kids on this forum who know NOTHING about SEC history....just saying.
Posted by RD Dawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
27297 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 9:01 am to
AND stopped Bama and Georgia from playing annually.

Talk about scorched earth.
Posted by LSURulzSEC
Lake Charles via Oakdale
Member since Aug 2004
77309 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 9:12 am to
quote:

Made up all that crap he published.




My understanding is he contributed several interviews he did for the story...but he did not write the story and non of the interviews he conducted made it to the actual published article...
Posted by SavageOrangeJug
Member since Oct 2005
19758 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 9:16 am to
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Furman Bisher can rot in hell.

Well, he already lived 30 minutes from Atlanta.

How much worse can it be?
Posted by coachcrisp
pensacola, fl
Member since Jun 2012
30599 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 9:18 am to
quote:

"The magazine rushed the story to print when it got wind that others might publish it first. Frank Graham Jr. penned the story with help from Atlanta Journal sportswriter Furman Bisher."
Posted by OlGrandad
Member since Oct 2009
3494 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 10:17 am to
This dominated the news and was THE TOPIC in the barber shop.



quote:

On March 23, 1963 the Post ran an exposé on college football, The Story of a College Football Fix, charging that James Wallace “Wally” Butts Jr.—the University of Georgia’s athletic director and former football coach—had given away game secrets to Alabama head coach Paul “Bear” Bryant that affected the outcome of a 1962 Georgia-Alabama game.
Read the complete article
Posted by Irons Puppet
Birmingham
Member since Jun 2009
25901 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 12:36 pm to
quote:

Yes he did....and helped put The Saturday Evening Post into bankruptcy.
PS- There are a lot of kids on this forum who know NOTHING about SEC history....just saying.



Truth is most are the "new" Bama fans. All they know is Saban.
Posted by Diego Ricardo
Alabama
Member since Dec 2020
5910 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 12:42 pm to
quote:

Yes he did....and helped put The Saturday Evening Post into bankruptcy.
PS- There are a lot of kids on this forum who know NOTHING about SEC history....just saying.



AJC has a similar history with making up bullshite about University of Alabama athletics too if my memory serves. I wasn’t there to see the worst infractions but they have been recounted to me…
Posted by Jacknola
New Orleans
Member since May 2013
4366 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 12:50 pm to
He, Bobby Dodd, the Atlanta Constitution/Journal, Saturday Evening Post, and especially anything associated with Georgia Tech can collectively go bathe in a pig sty.

What a collection of arseholes… and arsehole publications… Everyone should know that the source of AC/J antipathy to Alabama was Bobby Dodd and Georgia Tech’s despair over Coach Bryant’s rise. Frick Georgia Tech.
This post was edited on 7/4/21 at 12:55 pm
Posted by paperwasp
11x HRV tRant Poster of the Week
Member since Sep 2014
23107 posts
Posted on 7/4/21 at 12:56 pm to
quote:

Truth is most are the "new" Bama fans. All they know is Saban.

In context, 1963 was almost 60 years ago.

I’m familiar with a lot of SEC history, and have never heard of this guy. (I do remember bad blood between Alabama and the AJC.)
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