Crimson Tide finally doing justice to Bear Bryant’s legacy
BIRMINGHAM, Ala – Paul “Bear” Bryant next month will have been gone 26 years, longer than the 25 he coached at Alabama, yet people still come here to Elmwood Cemetery to see where he rests, and to leave things for him.
On Thursday afternoon, two days before the top-ranked Crimson Tide were to play No. 2 Florida in the Southeastern Conference Championship game, Bryant’s grave at Elmwood sat surrounded.
People had left three red-and-white pom-poms, a bouquet of red plastic carnations, a small American flag, an Alabama hat and an Alabama welcome mat, the kind that might sit outside of a front door. Bryant died more than a quarter century ago, on Jan. 26, 1983, but people still visit Bryant “just about every day,” said a man who works at Elmwood who didn’t want to be identified.
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