Michigan Football Forum: 'Bama Riots Over Bear Bryant Cartoons

Michigan Football Forum: 'Bama Riots Over Bear Bryant Cartoons: "'Bama Riots Over Bear Bryant Cartoons


(from M Zone wire reports) Tuscaloosa, AL -- Riots broke out across the University of Alabama campus and the state itself today following reports that the M Zone's Danish affiliate - Den M Distrikt - posted cartoons showing former University of Alabama football Coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant wearing an Auburn hat and another showing him drawn into the infamously cheesey 'Dogs Playing Poker' painting. The cartoons were first published way back after the 2000 season. But officials speculate they were not noticed at the time because Crimson Tide fans were too busy trying to figure out how the hell to get rid of Mike DuBose before he ruined their program.

In Alabama and other parts of the south, images or caricatures of 'Bear' Bryant that depict the legendary coach as anything but a deity on par with God Almighty is considered blasphemous and highly offensive to Crimson Tide fans, akin to saying, 'I don't get what the big deal is with NASCAR.'"