Nick Saban’s Alabama titles challenge wrong Bear Bryant legacy

By TOM SHANAHAN Everybody loved the late Bum Phillips -- a Hall-of-Fame quipster and folksy NFL head coach with the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints. Here’s quintessential Phillips, enshrined in college football lore, explaining Alabama legend Paul “Bear” Bryant’s coaching prowess. “Bryant can take his’n and beat your’n, and then he can turn around and take your’n and beat his’n.” That was Ol’ Bum, who was a Bryant assistant in 1957 at Texas A&M, although he might…

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