When you are a hard-hitting journalist like me, sometimes you have to eat crow! The Heisman Trophy post is my second crow feast. But this will not stop me from taking tough positions in the future and telling it like it is!
Mark Ingram won the 2009 Heisman Trophy award in the closest balloting ever. He edged out Toby Gerhart by 28 points and Colt McCoy by 159 points. Congratulations to Ingram and my sympathies to the Tide and the "World Of" faithful because, I will go out on a limb again and say that, Mark Ingram will not be wearing Alabama crimson next year, but will be playing on Sundays in the NFL.
It is unbelievable that Ingram is the first Crimson Tide player to win the Heisman Trophy, but when you look back, the greatest Crimson Tide modern day (post-1960) skill position offensive players (and I am sure that this will create wide-spread controversy among the "World Of" even with all of those caveats) were Joe Namath, Kenny Stabler, Ozzie Newsome and Johnny Musso, in no particular order. Only Musso even made the top-5 Heisman Trophy candidates. Alabama has generally won football games on the defensive side of the football and as a team. Undeniably, the most famous person in Alabama football history was an end on the 1934 national championship team, Paul "Bear" Bryant (by the way the other end on that team was Don Hutson).
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Jay,
Looks like you are going to have to eat crow again. Ingram is only a sophmore and is not eligible to play in the NFL until after one more year. He will be back, and when he leaves possibly after next year we have a back up that is just as good (no kidding).
Crimson Tide
Once again, I should have followed the old Abe Lincoln adage "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Under the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement NCAA players are not eligible for the NFL draft until three full college seasons have elapsed since their high-school graduation. Based on Crimson Tide's comments, I assume that Mark Ingram has not had a red-shirt season and is only two years removed from high school.
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