'Legends are not common,' longtime Birmingham News sports editor Alf Van Hoose wrote of Alabama Coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant the day after Bryant's death in 1983. 'He was, and friends can visualize him wincing under that resounding reminder to him, a legend.'
Jan. 26, 2023, 6:00 a.m.Sports Illustrated via Getty ImagesEditor’s note: Alf Van Hoose worked for The Birmingham News from 1947-90, serving as sports editor and lead columnist for the last 22 of those years. In that time, he became arguably Paul “Bear” Bryant’s closest friend in the media. Re-printed below is the column Van Hoose published on Jan. 27, 1983, the day after Bryant died at age 69.
Little stories illustrate the big man as well as large ones. Share one, please, from a Tuesday conversation. Paul Bryant is box-office. He established a record gate eight years ago as target of their first fun event. Everyone wanted Bryant’s shoulder, to his, or her, wheel. You know why. He’d make it turn. Demands on his time, his energy, were unceasing. No public man I know, outside the ministry, gave of himself more unselfishly.
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