It’s Not Who We Are… But Where We Are:

This little story was told to me by a southern character from Mississippi years ago. When I use the word “character” I mean, he really was one.

The story concerns legendary football coach for Alabama, Paul Bear Bryant. It seems that the coach had received a gift of some beautiful tweed material, and he wanted to have it made into a sport coat. He went all over the state looking for someone who could make it for him, but they all told him that there wasn’t enough fabric for a jacket. He had heard of an amazingly gifted tailor in Oxford Mississippi, who could do wonders with a needle. So the next time the team was playing there, he looked up the tailor and asked if he could do the job.

The little fella took a few measurements and then looked at the cloth and said, “I don’t see a problem, Coach. In fact I can get a full suit with two pair of pants and a vest from this much cloth.”

The Bear was shocked and asked, “How come the tailors in Alabama can’t even get a sport coat out of it, and you can make a whole outfit with an extra pair of pants?”

The little tailor looked up at him and said, “Coach, you have to remember, y'all ain't near as big in Mississippi as you are in Alabama.”

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