” In my estimation, if Bear Bryant had been allowed to coach a college all star team against the super bowl winner in those days, the NFL could easily have been seriously embarassed.”
Agreed. The Bear was on a different plane than the mere mortals who were his contempopraries.
The difference between Bryant’s and the Okie visions of the wishbone was that anytime anybody lined up with ten or eleven guys on the line of scrimmage against the Tide like the Fla. teams started doing with the Okies, it was just an automatic seven points; that just put Ozie Newsome and two other gifted receivers out there against man coverage at best, with pinpoint passing. And there was no real defensing the wishbone ground game with anything less than nine or ten guys up close.