Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN Sometimes I receive challenges -- albeit feeble efforts -- to stories debunking a tired and unsubstantiated claim that Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty traded Joe Namath in 1961 to Alabama coach Bear Bryant for Charlie Thornhill in 1963. It is complete fiction, a tall tale promulgated largely to obfuscate Bryant resisting integration until his first Black player in 1971, Wilbur Jackson. And sometimes I hear from someone like Victor Hester,…