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...Paul Dietzel, the Washington Redskins' Jack Pardee, the New York Giants' Ray Perkins and the University of Pittsburgh's Jackie Sherrill. More than 60 former Bryant players have gone on to the pros (including five last year alone), among them former Jets Quarterback Joe Namath, Houston Quarterback Kenny Stabler, former Dallas Linebacker Lee Roy Jordan, New England Patriot Star Offensive Guard John Hannah and current Jets Quarterback Richard Todd...
...grizzly, anything-to-win image, that came into question when he suspended Joe Namath, his most famous player, for breaking training rules in 1963. Neither man will reveal the details of the infraction, but whatever its cause, the coach benched his star quarterback before the final regular-season game against Miami and extended the banishment to include the Sugar Bowl. "I don't guess anybody would think much of what Joe did nowadays, including myself," Bryant says. "But he was supposed to be a leader, so he had to live by the rules. It was the hardest thing...
...anything bad.' All he would say was, 'No, ma'am, Coach Bryant is right.' I told him to stay with me. He came out to the house and stayed several days in a room downstairs. Paul never did know it; I never told him." Says Namath: "She hid me out. It was a tough, trying time in my young life. I was hurt. She knew that and responded by protecting me, helping in a motherly way." The next year Namath came back to star again...
...sing much better than a shower warbler," carped one drama critic. But on creaky knee and in creakier voice, Joe Namath scored big with his audience in Li'l Abner. Making his musical debut at Atlanta's Civic Center, the former New York Jet nimbly slipped through some opening-night tight spots. When upstaged by a squealing pig, he simply outbellowed the boorish ham. Later, when his pitch wandered way offsides in a love duet with Hee-Haw's Misty Rowe as Daisy Mae, off-Broadway Joe just laughed along with the twittering crowd...
Imagine, if you will, Howard Cosell intoning in his inimitable manner: "The locales--Detroit's Cobo Hall, home of the hapless Pistons, and Madison Square Garden in New York, home of Sonny Werblin (the man who signed Joe Willie Namath thereby altering forever the face of football) and his corporate-athletic empire. The promoters--the national organizations some call 'the parties.' The contestants...