Alabama NewsCenter — 5 Alabama restaurants with ties to football legend Bear Bryant

Alabama News Center | September 17, 2023 @ 10:00 am

By: Eric Velasco

Tuscaloosa is branded as the town where legends are made. And, especially to Crimson Tide football fans of a certain age, few figures are more fabled than Paul William “Bear” Bryant.

Born during football season (Sept. 11, 1913), he played end for the University of Alabama, including on the 1934 national championship team. He was an assistant coach in Tuscaloosa in the late 1930s. Most famously, he mentored and led a generation of players as multiple-championship-winning head coach there from 1958 through 1982.

Like those “George Washington slept here” signs around the mid-Atlantic region, you can still find placards in and near greater T-town that proudly proclaim, “Bear Bryant ate here.”

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