By Curt Gowdy and Pat Smith
Co-host of ESPN2's "CITGO's In Search of Flywater"

Friday, December 13, 2002

It was 1949 and Paul "Bear" Bryant was lost in the Bronx. He'd just watched the Yankees beat the Red Sox in the Stadium, where he'd been a guest of Mel Allen, the legendary New York sportscaster, who was an Alabama graduate and my boss at the time. "Uh, Curt," he asked. "How do I get back to Manhattan where I can get a drink?" I took him down the ramp from the booth and out of the Press Gate to the Jerome Avenue El, and we rode the D train down into the bowels of the city. That night we had ...

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