Arkansas Fight · Oct 10, 2015
Bear Bryant Was A Houndstooth Hat Brim Away From Becoming a Hog
Shanna Lockwood-USA TODAY Sports The "Taxidermy" lineLook at this picture. That hog and that elephant - now those animals are a man's-man beasts, none of the cute, cuddly and sanitized fluff you see running around at your local Razor Fest or Prince of Tides Fest of whatever it is Alabama fans do. No, these things represent the truth - straight from the wild and hungry, raw, powerful.
Not unlike Bear Bryant himself, who hailed from just about the most hardscrabble background of any legendary coach we know of. He did the normal hardscrabble things like peddling vegetables, not graduating high school on time, running around without shoes and being one of 12 children.