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RBR Reading Room: Bear
The late Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski once said, "We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are." It's an idea one should keep in mind when att...
RBR Reading Room: Another Season
The memoir of Alabama coach Gene Stallings is distinctive for what it is not about - football. It is, instead, a story about a father who happens to be football coach and his very unique son, John Ma...
RBR Reading Room: Crimson Nation
Eli Gold, as most every Alabama fan is aware, has been the voice of Crimson Tide football for two decades. The sound of his voice has become an intimate part of the gameday experience and, as such,...
RBR Reading Room: Bama After Bear
Alabama football found itself on the cusp of a new era in 1983 with the retirement and subsequent passing of Coach Paul W. Bryant. Instead of a period of forward looking optimism, the Crimson Tide fa...
RBR Reading Room: A Damn Good Yankee
There is no statue of Xen Scott in front of Bryant-Denny Stadium. The four coaches so honored are those led Alabama football to National Championships. Yet, the legacy of such success has served to o...
RBR Reading Room: Wallace Wade
Historically Alabama football has been synonymous with defense. Brutal defenses that tend to run roughshod over opponents and win championships. And that longstanding tradition can be traced back to ...
RBR Reading Room: Turnaround
The phenomenal success of Paul "W" Bryant as head coach of the Crimson Tide often seems something that was destined for the former Alabama player from the very start of his career. His tenure leadi...
RBR Reading Room: Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
Alabama football often inspires a degree of devotion that can blind one to the fact that the magnificent affliction is a communal one and best experienced as a group activity. We get so caught up wit...
RBR Reading Room: The Junction Boys
Jim Dent’s 2001 book The Junction Boys has pretty much become required reading for understanding the peculiar methods of leadership employed by Coach Paul W. Bryant during the first half of his...
RBR Reading Room: Coach Tommy of the Crimson Tide
At Coach Paul W. Bryant's funeral in 1983, Ohio State coach Woody Hayes noted that "Rockne was the great coach of his era and Bryant was the great coach of his." Frank Thomas was the great coach that...
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