As one Bama asst coach said "the Sam Cunningham game is the biggest myth in sports history". Bryant would have NEVER sacrificed a game for anything or anybody. People forget Bama went to the coliseum and beat SC, with Cunningham, pretty soundly with an all white team the next season. Bama had started integrating before SC came to town (albeit late and very slowly). Bama was going to integrate with or without Cunningham but the bottom line was USC was better than Bama in 1970 and Bama was better than USC in 71. Even Sam alludes to the whole thing of being a "setup" is not true.
Sam Cunningham is my all-time football hero. I saw every game when he was a senior at Santa Barbara High School in the fall of 1968. Go Dons. RIP Sam. Love ya!
Sam cunningham was what alabama and thevsouth needed at that time.watch all the bowl match ups before then between southern schools and the rest of the country.
At 58, I remember this man like yesterday as he drove over the top during the 1970 season, I honestly don't recall how many times, but during my life he's been the Master of the 'Dive". That season, and his play has always stuck out to me, and I know it's all due to his name sake. I've also always measured every college RB using "BAM" as the bar. No one could leap the pile like, Sam Bam Cunningham. NOBODY!!! Thank You, Sam, for a lifetime worth of memories. RESPECT!!! GO HAWKS!!!
Turns out Tenn won that game!, but lost the three subsequent games to Florida. Since 1996, of 23 games (one each year) Florida won Eighteen, damn Tennessee football sucks lol
Sam Cunningham is a talented and classy person. Congratulations to him for his great role in opening the south to integration on and beyond football fields. I enjoy hearing his recollections of the 1970 game at Birmingham.
i just love monk mentality... i wish celtics would trade down... but its not realistic... good luck to who ever get their hands on this guy... i will have to follow your team because of him...
should stay in college; he already graduated from high school halfway through the wildcats season. He even used the weight room and learned the teams system; while watching their games off the bench. But his incredibly raw at his poistion and really needs to stay in college to learn how to play team basketball. If he enters the draft he would either go underrated and play in the dleague, or get selected in the late 1st round or second round by a team and just play on the the teams dleague affiliate.
I hope my Chicago BULLS take him with the 16th pick. so he can develop under Jimmy Butler. Gar Forman said he want the bulls to get younger and more athletic.
That's your favorite? He barely even played PG. Ulis & Fox played the PG about 85-90% of the time. UK's had droves of much better real PG's than Briscoe with his awful jumper and bonehead plays.
