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Speaking for a lot of Alabama fans at the time, Hal Rains wrote a tribute to Paul Bear

Bryant in the New Republic after the 1982 season saying,

on December 29th I watched the broadcast of Bryant's last game.

After 25 years in the stands, in front of television sets,

then hunched over radios in distant cities

where the signal from home was almost too faint to hear, I am tempted to announce my retirement as an Alabama fan.

It can, after all, never be as good again. And for many years it seemed rains was right. A national title did

come in 1992, but afterwards it only seemed Bama had made a deal with the devil, and mostly

incompetence and ineptitude prevailed with losing seasons and multiple NCAA sanctions, including nearly the death penalty in 2002.

Finally, on January 4th, 2007, the Crimson Sea was seemingly parted, and Nick Sabon landed as Alabama's

football coach.

In the morning of the announcement, I boldly proclaimed Sabin would win a national title in four seasons.

I was wrong. He won his first title for the tied in just three.

Sabin did it his own way, which was really the only way it could be done at Alabama.

Every coach you followed Brian, including Jean Stollings, a former player and protege, could never get away from the suffocating Bryant Shadow.

But Sabon never blinked an eye at what had come before him, only what would lie ahead.

After the first title over Texas in 2009, I remember talking to him at an event a week later.

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