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re: On this day 36 years ago
Posted on 10/16/18 at 8:54 am to Vols&Shaft83
Posted on 10/16/18 at 8:54 am to Vols&Shaft83
After owning the SEC for more than 2 and a half decades, the man was tired. He won 6 NC, and played for 3 more at least. I understand why y'all fixate on him, but he has been gone for 3 decades, and y'all are still afraid of him. He must have done something right.
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Posted on 10/16/18 at 8:56 am to Sid E Walker
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frick you and your rainbow shitting unicorn.
Did you ever in your life imagine you'd type that sentence? Because, I'll be honest: I never thought I'd read it.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 9:03 am to Vols&Shaft83
2 years ago UT had really high hopes
Posted on 10/16/18 at 9:04 am to Vols&Shaft83
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October 16, 1982: Bear Bryant brings undefeated, #2 Bama to Neyland Stadium to face a Tennessee team that would finish 6-5-1. Three hours later, Johnny Majors would be carried off the field following a 35-28 VOLS Victory. The Bear was never the same, retired at the end of the season, then died and went to Hell 6 months later.
Well, he had beat UT's arse 12 straight times. i wouldn't brag toooo much.
Everybody claims THEY got the Bear to retire. Fact is, he was very, very sick. As someone who was actually alive during this and remembers the 82 season, There was a question as to whether he would even make it through the season. As Lee Roy Jordan said, he should have died in the summer in 82, he just willed himself through that season. We lost bad to Southern Miss right before Auburn and there never was a question as to that being his last season.
The announcement of his retirement came in mid December. I was watching the Big Monday Big East game between Seton Hall and someone on ESPN and they interrupted the game and anchor Bob Ley came in with an ESPN special report saying he had retired and would announce it formally the next day. Remember it like it was yesterday. It wasn't after the UT game, not the LSU game, not even the Auburn game. It was the day Bama left to go to Memphis for the Liberty Bowl so you can all put it back in your pants. He retired because he wanted to. Not because of you.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 9:08 am to TheHarahanian
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LSU beat him 20-10 in Birmingham 3 weeks later, and I think he announced his retirement following that game.
Incorrect. Bryant didn't announce his retirement until December of 1982, about two weeks after the Iron Bowl. The loss to Southern Miss in Bryant-Denny is the straw that broke the camel's back. Losing to Auburn merely reinforced his decision.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 9:26 am to TouchdownTony
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He retired because his liver was retired.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 10:09 am to Vols&Shaft83
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Someone is triggered as frick
Is this also what tell you your psych doc when she tells you that you have major depressive disorder with schizoaffective behavior?
Posted on 10/16/18 at 10:11 am to sand mountainDvalues
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We sent that racist POS to the seventh circle of Hell
Good thing Neyland was already there to greet him.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 10:13 am to Robert Goulet
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Half of the Goulet men would agree with you as they subsisted on a steady diet of likker, premium tobacco, and red meat.
Posted on 10/16/18 at 10:21 am to skrayper
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Good thing Neyland was already there to greet him.
I’m going to forward this to SavageOrangeJug and then cackle as he whips your arse outside gate 21
Posted on 10/16/18 at 10:24 am to David Ricky
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SavageOrangeJug
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