Cecil Hurt

Every game should be a home playoff game until the championship because you're screwing the fans, making them pay to go to games.

Cecil Hurt once said to me, he said, there's only two people that want to play off.

People who go to the games for free and people who don't go to the games.

That

Thanks for taking my call.

Look, I want to talk about this, but I want to take it in a different direction.

First off, the guy who mentioned Cecil Hurt.

Man, I miss Cecil Hurt.

... for the money people.

So we used to always say, uh, God rest his soul, he was a good one, but when Cecil Hurt turned on an Alabama football coach, you knew it was over because you knew Cecil had the hard line to the power boosters at Alabama, and when Cecil turned on a guy, that meant the power boosters had turned on a guy.

That's right.

And they were telling Cecil, "This guy ain't gonna make it," and Cecil's like, "All right."

Now, by the end, by the end, he had a, he could've picked 1,000 people, okay? But he didn't have that his first year or two.

Uh, and he picked, uh, a couple of people, m- uh, myself and Cecil Hurt, who was a longtime, uh, friend of ours, uh, from the Tuscaloosa News, and it was like Noah's Ark.

Uh, he went to the people that he trusted, uh, not because he cared about us.

I know, I, I mean, and that's just being, uh, truthful.

So no, I'm excited about it.

Uh, the one drawback for me personally is that unfortunately, the late, great Cecil Hurt not around-

Mm-hmm

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