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Tuscaloosa News [AL]
14 June 2009
THE ABC AND DEAS OF SPORTS [Blog]
Tommy Deas
Urban Mythbuster: Alabama's No. 12 jersey
Apparently there has been an urban myth going around about the No. 12 jersey on the University of Alabama football team.
The jersey, according to the myth, is somehow sacred. Only a player -- specifically a quarterback -- who is thought to be the next all-time great is supposed to be assigned that number. There's even a version that claims that to wear the No. 12, a player has to have the blessing of not only the head coach, but whoever wore it before him. [...]
Tuscaloosa News [AL]
14 June 2009
THE ABC AND DEAS OF SPORTS [Blog]
Tommy Deas
Urban Mythbuster: Alabama's No. 12 jersey
Apparently there has been an urban myth going around about the No. 12 jersey on the University of Alabama football team.
The jersey, according to the myth, is somehow sacred. Only a player -- specifically a quarterback -- who is thought to be the next all-time great is supposed to be assigned that number. There's even a version that claims that to wear the No. 12, a player has to have the blessing of not only the head coach, but whoever wore it before him. [...]
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