ESPN sportswriter Ryan McGee wrote an
incredible article about what it means to be from West Virginia.
It’s about a pair of millionaires who
still have Country Roads in their heart and DNA – Nick “Brother” Saban and
Jimbo Fisher.
They will be the head coaches when
Alabama plays Florida State at 8 p.m. Saturday. ABC has this choice TV
coverage.
When Ohio State won the national
title in 2002, it almost never happened because Cincinnati came within an
eyelash – and two dropped passes in the end zone at the end – from derailing
the Buckeye express.
Brother checked with Rick Trickett,
once a WVU assistant coach, to find out who was the Bearcats’ coordinator. It
was Jimbo. Brother arranged a meeting with Trickett and Fisher. He hired both
of them on the spot. They were West Virginia comfortable with each other.
Brother also talks about Dewey Tarley,
the Farmington No. 9 miner, and Pepsi Meffe’s service station pinball machine
in Monongah next to the United Mine Workers Hall.
To read the article that explains why
West Virginians who meet for the first time chat like family, click on http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/20495103/alabama-crimson-tide-nick-saban-florida-state-seminoles-jimbo-fisher-west-virginia-roots
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