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The Truth About Sam Cunningham & Bear Bryant from Neal McCready in The Press Box

Sep 10, 202114 min
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Episode description

Fact or fiction?  1970.  USC visits Birmingham and beats Bear Bryant's Alabama Crimson Tide 42-21 behind Sam "Bam" Cunningham's big day.  For decades, the "story" has been told over and over, saying that after the game, Bryant brought the African-American USC running back into the Alabama locker room and told his team, "this is what a college football player looks like."  So did it really happen?  We get the truth, when long-time college football writer, our friend, Neal McCready, joins us inside The Press Box.

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