J.A. Adande

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1,096 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 8 Sep

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The Chuck ToddCast · Alabama: How the Crimson Tide Took Over College Football (Part 1) · 18 Aug 2026 podcast

This is what a real football player looks like.

Chuck as a journalist, you know that every story should be verified by at least three sources and

You won't be able to find three people who can swear that that's how it actually happened.

So it appears that this belongs to that ethos espoused in the movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence.

When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

This legend has been printed again and again and again.

You know, it's possible that, you know, some theories that

Bear didn't want to send a message to his team, you know, they really wanted to make it clear to the Alabama fans, right, that here's, here's what you guys are missing by not having you're you're clinging to these old ways and it's costing us, right?

Right.

We're getting beat, our scores can double up.

Um, you know, we'll never know for sure, because neither Brian nor McKay ever talked about their motivations behind the agreement.

They they the only details we have on that meeting at the airport comes from USC assistant coach Dave Fertig, who was there.

Um, it was retold in the story uh Turning of the Tide, uh, a book by Don Yeager that's kind of centers on that game.

Yeah, and and he was a part of history too, on his end, right?

And and this is his good friend and and he was able

you know, to help him help him out and um

You know, made some money in the process too, right?

You know, so I wonder going back to that that smile and what Brian could have been thinking at that moment, you know, and and

In my mind, I like to think that he has some type of inkling of what's gonna come, that Alabama would go from having no black players on the field that day to having seventeen on the roster by the end of the decade.

The Crimson Tide would win three national championships in the nineteen seventies, and in nineteen eighty one he would break the record for coaching victories at N CAA's top division.

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