Now, amid these two very important anniversaries, and as his alma mater runs into Week 13 with an eye on running into the College Football Playoff, we ask a crucial, crimson-tinted question: Just how good at football was Forrest Gump, really?
If this was indeed the Forrest Gump Era of Alabama football, there was nothing stupid about it. During his presumed four years on the roster, the Tide posted a record of 38-4-1 and an SEC mark of 24-4-1, went 3-0-1 in bowl games and also won the first of Bryant's six national titles in 1961.
lorida State but after injuries graduated from Georgia, was in the same room with Bryant once, at a charity golf tournament hosted by fellow TV icon George Lindsay, aka Goober from "The Andy Griffith Show." So, with those credentials, an evaluation of Forrest Gump the football player, please, Enos .
Gabriel Mangrum has seen Forrest Gump touch the ball much more than that. Like, 281 times to be exact. Mangrum, known as GManski to his social media followers, is a former wide receiver for the Fitchburg (Massachusetts) State Falcons who graduated earlier this year with a degree in film and theater.
came just as "Here" was arriving in theaters. It came Nov. 8 in Oxford, Mississippi, on the eve of Ole Miss's rainy upset victory over Georgia. Trying to explain the premise of this story to a media pal, this very writer bemoaned, "The only thing missing is a chance to talk to Forrest Gump himself."
