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R.I.P., TOO FULL OF BAMA GUY

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Tommy Lewis, the fullback who in the 1954 Cotton Bowl came off the bench to tackle Rice running back Dicky Maegle and temporarily prevent a certain touchdown, died this past Sunday at the age of 83. When asked why he did it, Lewis replied that he was "too full of Alabama." We don't know why anyone would consider any of this to be ignominious: coming off the bench to make a tackle is the ultimate team play, particularly when you explain it with an explanation that will outlive all of us. Lewis, like most people who have done insane things on a football field, was a nice, perfectly normal person in the real world, and said he regretted the play for the rest of his life. He shouldn't have.


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