How Coach Bear Bryant Saved and Changed My Life
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Jeremiah Castille played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and was on the last team coached by the legendary “Bear” Bryant. Here's Jeremiah—who went on to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Denver Broncos in the NFL—sharing how his coach not only improved his game, but also saved his life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
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| 0:52.5 | Jeremiah Castile played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and was on the last team coached by the legendary bear |
| 0:55.9 | Bryant. Castile was a pallbearer at Bryant's funeral in January 28, 1983. Let's take a listen to |
| 1:03.6 | his story. I was born in 1961, Columbus, Georgia. My father was a World War II vet, number eight of nine children. |
| 1:13.8 | They had about a fourth grade education. |
| 1:15.6 | I was born in the project's government housing there at Elizabeth County Apartments. |
| 1:21.3 | Then we moved to Phoenix City, Alabama. |
| 1:24.1 | I was probably three years old. |
| 1:26.2 | So around 1964, we moved moved and none of my siblings graduated |
| 1:30.6 | from high school. The drugs, the alcohol, the, what I saw at home, domestic violence was in |
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