Link: Good article on 1969 Bama Ole Miss game

[BigTex]

http://espn.go.com/college-football...all-first-televised-primetime-game-stands-out

My dad used to talk about this one. It was one of his favorites.

Didnt see it posted already....please delete if a double post.

 

[kyallie]

http://espn.go.com/college-football...all-first-televised-primetime-game-stands-out

My dad used to talk about this one. It was one of his favorites.

Didnt see it posted already....please delete if a double post.

I put "1969 Alabama-Ole Miss" in the advanced search (upper right top of page) and found no posts but yours. Let the search bar be your friend! BTW, I was in Seattle then and saw it too, one of my favorites!

 

[bamagradinATL]

Good article. I grew up watching Scott Hunter on the CBS affiliate (WKRG) in Mobile.

 

[Crimson Speed]

Great article. That game had everybody sitting on pins and needles. Legion Field was a great venue in its day, but the Ole Gray Lady lost her glitter, thanks to the city of Birmingham. I still have fond memories of that place; even the Goodyear blimp was a special site back then.

 

[BillDee]

I was there as a soon-to-be a Bama grad. One of the most exciting games I ever attended.

 

[tmv85]

That was my husband's first Bama game. He's often said that even though he was already a Bama fan, that game cemented his loyalty to the Tide. I wasn't quite 3 years old.

 

[GreatMarch]

Everyone talks about that game and Archie Manning and the way he played. He did put some unreal numbers up. But everyone who looks back on that game in talking about Archie forgets.......Bama won the game. I remember watching Tim Brando and Tony Barnhart talking about that game a few years back and Tony was somewhat startled to learn that we won that night. And Coach Bryant hated that game. "Defense was horrible that night".

 

[Crimson Sabbath]

"I'll talk to the mayor. If he won't do it, he won't be re-elected." :wink:

 

[GrayTide]

That was one of those "you had to have been there" games. No defense and it was whoever had the ball last wins. Hunter and Manning in a classic offensive shoot out.

 

[FitToBeTide]

I was a sophomore at that game. Never attended an athletic event with so many ups and downs like that. By the final gun, the whole stadium was on the verge of a mass cardiac arrest, me included. The sights and sounds of that night are indelibly printed in my memory. One in paritcular tv shot was of Archie crying after the gun sounded, Tebow-like. Archie Who left it all on the field that night.