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How far would you travel to see a play based on the life of Paul 'Bear' Bryant? The Sports Professor Rick Horrow has the inside story.
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" This the sports professor Rick Carl what there inside story bare concrete most prolific coach. In all of the SEC. You know Southeastern Conference they're rolling in -- three billion dollars over a fifteen year period. With ESPN an extension of the CBS contract for television and not surprisingly Urban Meyer his six year four million dollar a year deal. Now Bobby Petrino less miles than Nick Saban or four of the top ten paid coaches all time but -- but this legacy Paul bear Bryant. This star of the show 26 years after he dies it play its sweeping Alabama starting in Montgomery going to Birmingham. That to Tuscaloosa. Bear country talking about life and times -- bear Bryant growing up as a poor. Farm kid in Arkansas. And fighting a bear when he was growing up getting his name. 323 wins in Alabama and by the way a flakes. Manufacturer. And Coca-Cola with the sponsors then and now chewing on those -- drinking Coke. As he did every Sunday doing the show talk and walking up on the Alabama opponent from the previous day. Good testament the more things change the more they remain the same bear Bryant's still the power of the SEC. When he six years later. Record. Deal yeah Sox --"