Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's episode two for this week. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

We're going to get into a couple of the big games in week two and get to your mailbag questions.

But first, Bruce, you wanted to bring up some sad news in the college football world from Tuesday.

Yeah, Sam Bam, Cunningham, college football legend.

He was a great player at USC.

And then with the Patriots, he passed away Tuesday.

He was 71.

And, you know, obviously he was before both our times at USC.

But I knew the folklore and the history

about him, about the 1970 team that USC had that played an all-white Alabama team and beat

them. He ran for 135 yards and two touchdowns, and that had a big role in Bear Bryant's decisions to recruit black players.

I think there was a famous line by one of Alabama's assistants talking about, you know,

trying to compare how much Sam Cunningham's performance that day did to integrate Alabama in those 60 Minutes

as relation to a lot of other things that were very significant in the civil rights movement.

Just personally, I got to meet Sam when I first moved out to Los Angeles.

I went to dinner at Petros Pepadakis' family's restaurant in San Pedro.

And John, his dad, who was a teammate and a captain on that team, and there's been books

written.

I think there may be a movie made about that team.

Sat me with Sam, and I got to sit at his

table and I was in awe of him because I, you know, he was a legendary figure for largely for that

game, but, um, he was, he was, you know, he was a huge running back. He was a big guy. So I'm sure for

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