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One story is from his youth, another from his time spent under legendary coach Bear Bryant in Alabama. Let's take a listen. Fatty, fatty, two by four can't get through the kitchen door. And so it hurt. So I go home, told my mom about it. Mom called my dad.
You know, most parents would either call the principal or call the parents. Dad didn't do any of that. He was different. The boy that was coaching the sixth, seventh and eighth grade football team had played for dad. So dad called him up, asked him if I could play for him.
He said, sure. So that night, dad comes in and he says, John, I talked to the junior high coach and it ain't going to be easy. It's going to be hard. But if you can go out for that sixth, seventh and eighth grade team, I believe you can do it. And if you go out there and make that team, they'll no longer call you fatty, fatty, two by four anymore. So I went out as a nine year old and played.
Not only that, won a starting position. First game broke my nose. Dad wanted to pull me from the game. I told him no.
And he said, why not? I said, fatty, fatty, two by four. So the whole first part of my life when it was football, it was because I wanted to be somebody besides fatty, fatty, two by four. So that was kind of what got me going into football. Well, Coach Bryant, you know, was a legend way before I got there. And but immediately before I got there, Alabama was going through some struggling times, you know, and struggling for them is six and four.
So, you know, it was it was it wasn't a great time to go to Alabama. So the biggest lesson that Coach Bryant taught me was was that you can go further than you ever thought you could. And I remember my sophomore year, a week before we played Southern Cal, it was scorching, hot, humid. And Coach Bryant came through the tunnel to get to the practice field and he was whistling Amazing Grace.
I knew it was going to be a rough one. So after about a 45 minute individual drills, we got to doing our scrimmage, our controlled scrimmage. And we went and we went and we kept going. And all of a sudden, guys in the huddle would just fall out. And it was, you know, I think at the end of the day, there are about 10 guys who sent to hospital with heat stroke and dehydration. Several other hit, gone with either knees or broken bones or something.
I mean, it was just one of those rock and sock days. And anyway, I get back to crawl up the stairs to my bedroom and I hear all the suitcases clicking and hear the trunk of cars closing and people driving off. And a lot of people left. And I said, I won't quit, too.
But bad blame it. I've earned supper. So anyway, I fell asleep and didn't go to eat supper. Woke up the next morning and I said, well, heck, I'm here.
Might as well stay. And anyway, we went to the three had a three o'clock meeting and Coach Bryant comes in and he winds that watch. He said, well, boys, I'm a little early, but we'll go ahead and get started anyway. Every day, five minutes before.
That's when the meeting started. He goes in, he says, boys, you all learned a big lesson yesterday. He said, you'll push yourself and push yourself and you'll think you're going to die. But the human body is an amazing machine.
It'll always pass out before it dies. And it clicked. And, you know, my dad had also told me, you know, and he preached the same gospel that Coach Bryant did. He said, there's an invisible barrier out there somewhere. And he says, you'll push yourself up to that barrier. You'll back off. You push it and you'll back off. He says, someday, either fear or anger or some emotion is going to drive you through that barrier.
And if you ever break that barrier, you're going to find out that there's a whole world out there that you've never experienced. And that's what Coach Bryant got for it. When I went into pro ball, I knew I wasn't a great, most gifted athlete, but I knew I could probably outwork everybody I played in front of.
Even if I got my butt whooped in the first quarter, I'd last out to where I'd come out ahead in the end anyway. That was kind of the attitude I had because of what I'd learned from Coach Bryant. And a special thanks to the folks at 1819 News for the audio. And thanks to Greg Hengler for editing and producing that piece of storytelling. And a special thanks to John Hannah for sharing those two stories. That enduring memory of how his father treated that discrimination, basically that weight discrimination, that taunting. And he just said, like, buckle up, strap up and just work through it.
Push yourself through it. There is victims and there's victors and sometimes legitimate victims. But often it's our own expectations and our own diminished expectations from ourselves and our adult supervising us that create the limits that stop us. John Hannah's story, storytelling about fatherhood, about coaching, about so much more here on Our American Stories. Here at Our American Stories, we bring you inspiring stories of history, sports, business, faith and love. Stories from a great and beautiful country that need to be told.
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