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<blockquote data-quote="Vespidae" data-source="post: 507281" data-attributes="member: 2957"><p>That's a true story. Here is Kim King's recall of that game:</p><p></p><p>A story Kim King (GT QB in the mid-60s) used to tell about his recruitment:</p><p></p><p>In November of 1962, Alabama, the defending national champion, came to town with a 26-game unbeaten streak. The morning of the game, my parents, my girlfriend and I were invited to the Georgia Terrace Hotel, to Bear Bryant's suite. Alabama was ranked number one again, but Bear was worried.</p><p></p><p>He was sitting by the window. You could see Grant Field from there. He was sitting with a pack of Chesterfields and a pack of Benson & Hedges.</p><p></p><p>He was Chain-smoking, smoking one from one pack, then one from the other. He kept looking out the window at the rain, and saying, "This is Dodd's weather, this is Dodd's kind of weather."</p><p></p><p>He said, "Mrs. King, excuse my language, ma'am. But that damn Dodd's gonna beat my butt today." He said it about 10 times. My father said, "Coach Bryant, you've got a national championship team. You've got all these players back."</p><p></p><p>Bryant said, "It's raining. It's a sloppy field. This is Dodd's weather. He'll figure out how to play in this weather. He knows how to win in this kind of weather."</p><p></p><p>GT won, 7-6. Dodd thought of that as his greatest victory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vespidae, post: 507281, member: 2957"] That's a true story. Here is Kim King's recall of that game: A story Kim King (GT QB in the mid-60s) used to tell about his recruitment: In November of 1962, Alabama, the defending national champion, came to town with a 26-game unbeaten streak. The morning of the game, my parents, my girlfriend and I were invited to the Georgia Terrace Hotel, to Bear Bryant's suite. Alabama was ranked number one again, but Bear was worried. He was sitting by the window. You could see Grant Field from there. He was sitting with a pack of Chesterfields and a pack of Benson & Hedges. He was Chain-smoking, smoking one from one pack, then one from the other. He kept looking out the window at the rain, and saying, "This is Dodd's weather, this is Dodd's kind of weather." He said, "Mrs. King, excuse my language, ma'am. But that damn Dodd's gonna beat my butt today." He said it about 10 times. My father said, "Coach Bryant, you've got a national championship team. You've got all these players back." Bryant said, "It's raining. It's a sloppy field. This is Dodd's weather. He'll figure out how to play in this weather. He knows how to win in this kind of weather." GT won, 7-6. Dodd thought of that as his greatest victory. [/QUOTE]
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