It worked at Alabama for a while, until the defensive linemen started weighing 350 pounds and ran a 4.4 40.
Watching the first video what really made the wishbone dynamic and nearly unstoppable was a fast athletic QB. If you ran the wishbone in the NFL your QB would get killed, nowadays QBs are protected but if they were considered runners defensive players would give no mercy and your QB would get drilled on every option play.
More like until Paul Bryant died and the guy who took over didn’t want to hear about it. Bryant won two national titles with it in those last four or five years if memory serves.