Alabama NewsCenter — Michael O’Neill, Thom Gossom team up for ‘Alabama Boys’ at Auburn

By Alec Harvey
Alabama NewsCenter

They’re two of Auburn’s most recognizable alumni, and they actually were classmates at the university, but it took an Academy Award nominee to get Thom Gossom and Michael O’Neill together years after they graduated.

“Alfre Woodard introduced us,” says Gossom. “She had a 40th birthday party for her husband at Santa Monica airport. She said, ‘I have somebody from Alabama I’d like you to meet.’ He was familiar, and he said the same thing. Turns out we were living maybe five minutes from each other.”

O’Neill remembered that Gossom had played football for Auburn, but that was about it.

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