Heads in Alabama just exploded all at once:

[Are_grits_groceries]

#oBAMA
@CambroLiving

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!

[Paladin]

1. Love it! Roll THAT Tide, Right-wingers! (nt)

[nolabear]

2. You do know there are a lot of black folks in Alabama, right?

And immigrants, and Northern ex-pats, and military families who have lived everywhere.

And people who would just grin and go on.

[Are_grits_groceries]

4. I changed it to Heads.

Yes I know that. I copied the title without thinking.

[nolabear]

7. And I expect some did. The wheels of progress turn slowly, but they turn.

And that man wears a hat pretty darn well.

[Dreamer Tatum]

3. Obama is coaching Alabama now?

I'm confused.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. It's the hat, mostly

The late Alabama Crimson Tide Football Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant wore that hat...
he is highly revered, with some good measure, for having a long unbroken streak of wins.
Football fans still speak his name in a hushed voice.

[Dreamer Tatum]

9. You ARE aware that Bear Bryant is almost singlehandedly responsible

for integrating the Alabama football team, yes?

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Yes.

[geek tragedy]

11. Well, who else but the coach would be responsible?

Note that he didn't even attempt to recruit black players until the 1970s, and even then only after a USC team with black players humiliated the Tide.

[Dreamer Tatum]

12. That was 1970. He was responsible for scheduling that game. nt

[Blue_Tires]

13. Well, Bryant supposedly scheduled that game for the sole purpose

of having the Tide fanbase see with their own eyes how big the talent gap was, which would erode any remaining opposition to integration...

[Drunken Irishman]

15. He was also a Democrat.

Who received votes at the 1968 Democratic Convention for the nomination.

Of course, I don't think he'd be a Democrat today if he was still alive. But who knows?

[Elwood P Dowd]

16. Tennessee, Kentucky, and Auburn started signing black players before Bryant.

Vanderbilt signed the first black athlete in 1966 -- basketball player Perry Wallace. Where is Perry today?

Wallace was a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice, where he dealt with natural resources and environmental law. In 1992 he was appointed to the Environmental Policy advisory council of the EPA.[6] He became a professor of law at The American University Washington College of Law in 1993, where he specializes in environmental law, corporate law and finance.[7]

[socialist_n_TN]

20. As did Mississippi State.....

nm

[livingwagenow]

6. Awesome! knr nt

[DURHAM D]

8. Too funny. Thanks for posting. nt

[sakabatou]

14. I don't get it

[uponit7771]

17. Bryant is a hero in that area, Obama in Bryant clothing is a literal sacrilege to them

[Go Vols]

18. that ^^^^^

[sakabatou]

19. I still don't know who that is

Must be a local thing, since I'm not from AL.

[JoeyT]

21. Football coach.

They weren't joking about sacrilege. I've seen more of the original hanging on walls here than pictures of Jesus or crosses. If the home has both, Jesus gets the lesser place. (In ultra-religious Alabama)

I never got it. Probably never will.

[Ruby the Liberal]

22. Famous football coach who died back in the 80s

Known for his houndstooth hat:

https://www.google.com/search?q=bear+bryant&safe=off&rlz=1C2CHFX_enUS557US557&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=2YRiUorpAtjh4AOQ14GwAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=653