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Complete disclosures available at public.com/slash disclosures. This is Lee Habib and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people. To search for the Our American Stories podcast, go to the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Our next story comes to us from the guy Sports Illustrated said was the greatest offensive lineman of all time.
John Hanna was a two-time All-American at the University of Alabama. Was selected fourth overall by the New England Patriots in the 1973 NFL draft. Hanna received nine Pro Bowl selections and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1991. Hannah shared this story first with 1819 News, a multimedia company for the state of Alabama. Here's John Hanna sharing two moments in his life that pushed him towards excellence.
One story is from his youth. Another from his time spent under legendary coach Bear Bryant in Alabama. Let's take a listen. In the fourth grade, I was nine years old in Canton, and there were two playgrounds, and they were on terraced. There's one upper terrace and a playground down below.
Up on down on the lower terrace playing kickball with a bunch of guys. And all of a sudden, about seven or eight guys. on the top of the Top terrace started serenading me with a song called, and it went like this: it says, Fatty, fatty, two by four can't get through the kitchen door. And so it hurt.
So I go home, tell my mom about it. Uh mom. Call my dad.
Now, 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 Dead.
So dad called him up and asked him if I could play for him and he said, sure.
So that night, Dad comes in and he says, John, I talked to the junior high coach. And uh 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 2x4 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, well, why not? I said, fatty, fatty, 2x4.
So the whole first part of my life, when it was football, it was because I wanted to be somebody besides Fatty, Fatty, 2x4.
So that was kind of what got me going into football.
Well, Coach Bryant, you know, was a legend way before I got there. Uh 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 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. I remember my um Sophomore year, a week before we played Southern Cow. It was Amen. 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 forty-five minute um 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 the guys in the huddle were just poof.
ball out. And uh it was, you know, we I think at the end of the day, There are about 10 guys 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'em sock'em days.
And uh 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. I said, I'm going to quit too. But bad blame it, I've earned supper.
So anyway, uh Uh 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. Oh, five minutes before. That's when the meeting started at night. He goes in.
He says. Boys, y'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 does.
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 bear out there somewhere. And he says, you'll push yourself up to that bear and you'll back off.
And you'll push it and you'll back off. But he says some day 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. When I went into Pro Bowl, I knew I wasn't a great most gifted athlete.
But I knew I could probably outwork everybody that played in front of it. Even in the, you know, 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 Hanna. 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's 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 adults supervising us that create the limits that stop us. John Hanna's story. storytelling about fatherhood, about coaching.
About so much more here. on our American stories. Uh This is Lee Habib, host of Our American Stories. Every day on this show, we tell stories of history, faith, business, love, loss, and your stories. Send us your stories, small or large, to our email, oas at ouramericanstories.com.
That's oas at ouramericanstories.com. We'd love to hear them and put them on the air. Our audience loves them too. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years.
And now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 Semi-Quincentennial Coin and Metal Program from the United States Mint. It celebrates the founding ideals that have long shaped our coinage. Available one year only, this historic collection features new coin designs, limited edition releases, and reissues. Shop new official coins at usmint.gov forward slash semi-q.
That's usmint.gov/slash S-E-M-I-Q. Eczema is unpredictable, but you can flare less with F-gless. a once-monthly treatment for moderate to severe eczema. After an initial four-month or longer dosing phase, about four in ten people taking EBGLIS achieved it for late and clear or almost clear skin at 16 weeks. And most of those people maintain skin that's still more clear at one year with monthly dosing.
EBGLIS, Libriquizumab, LBKZ, a 250 milligram per 2 milliliter injection, is a prescription medicine used to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 pounds or 40 kilograms with moderate to severe eczema, also called atopic dermatitis that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin or topicals or who cannot use topical therapies. EBGLIS can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. Don't use if you're allergic to EBGLIS. Allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. Eye problems can occur.
Tell your doctor if you have new or worsening eye problems. You should not receive a live vaccine when treated with EBGLIS. Before starting EBGLIS, tell your doctor if you have a parasitic infection. Ask your doctor about EBGLIS and visit ebglis.lily.com or call 1-800-LILIRX or 1-800-545-5979. I'm U.S.
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