Alabamans respond
to bowl brouhaha
Dear editor,
I am one of the many Alabamans
who have long been impressed with
Coach Devaney and the fine football
program at the University of Nebraska.
Last year's Nebraska team earned our
grudging respect and admiration for
the way they dismantled so effectively
our Alabama team in the Orange Bowl.
What a pity, therefore, it is to have
this respect for a worthy opponent so
tarnished by the recent statements and
actions of the Nebraska students and
supporters. 1 must especially protest
vigorously the crude and disparaging
signs that were displayed on national
television by the Nebraska students at
the Oklahoma game.
Alabama is being accused of
avoiding a bowl game with Nebraska
by sneaking off to play Texas. Last
year's Nebraska team would certainly
make a most worthy opponent again,
but to equate this year's team with
them is pure hallucination and can
serve only to diminish the
remembrance of the 1971 team. It
should have been apparent after the
very first game with UCLA that this
was a new year, and that last year's
record and 15 cents would buy a
pretty good cup of coffee.
What degree of honor would
Alabama gain or how much closer
would they come to attaining the
national championship by
administering a third defeat on a bowl
opponent extremely fortunate to
escape with only a tie in another
game? Is this the team that a certain
Midwestern coach with a propensity
for, running out the clock in a tie ball
game would have us play?
Surely, even sophomoric logic
would demonstrate the ludricous
nature of such a "contest,"
Many people have been damaged by
these intemperate remarks and
displays. In addition to last year's
Cornhuskers, the players and coaches
at Alabama who have worked very
hard to attain one of the only three
unbeaten records in the nation have
had these efforts belittled by the
petulant complaints of the ' also-rans.
But more than these, the worst
effect has surely been felt by a vey
fine University of Texas football team.
Although conference champions and
only once-beaten,they are depicted as a
weak sister picked to pad a record. If
the advancement of inter-collegiate
athletics and the continuance bf
mutual respect in this endeavor is our
goal, it is not well served by such a
petty and demeaning episode.
James E. Blackman
Mobile, Ala.
Dear editor,
You Turkeys play football like old
folks fornicate. Cousin Bear would
have condescended and played y'all,
had your record warranted it. Put
together a good record next year and
maybe you can once again bask In the
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glory reflected from a bona fide
powerhouse. Meanwhile, go
commiserate with another has-been,
Notre Dame.
Beauregard Bryant
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear editor,
I would like to defend the
University of Alabama on charges
brought by Nebraska Coach Bob
Devaney and Notre Dame Coach Ara
Parseghian.
Alabama wants to be national
champion, as does Nebraska, Notre
Dame, Southern Cal., Michigan, and
every other university. Nebraska
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defensive captain Bill Janssen was
quoted as saying that "(Nebraska's)
first choice was to play anybody ahead
of us in the ratings who could help
us." My question is: How could
playing Nebraska help Alabama in the
ratings? No matter who won Alabama
would get nothing out of it. So why
not play an easier team and hope
Southern Cal and Michigan get beat.
That's the smart thing to do isn't it?
So why the criticism? You'd do the
same thing in our place.
Something else Nebraska must face
is that nothing you did or could have
done would have won the National
Championship. They (AP) won't give
it to any team three straight years. A
.easiTin point . is Alabama in 1 966.
r After being 1Mo; T and 1964 and 1965
we went 10-0 during the 1966 season
and beat Nebraska 34-7 in the Sugar
Bowl, yet we were No. 3.
As to Notre Dame's comments, its
none of their f business. It
sounds as if Parseghian is scared of
playing Nebraska.
Thank you for letting me give our
side.
Mac Broughton
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
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