A Part of the Master Plan

The Falcon\'s Al Miller has become a heavyweight among the NFL\'s elite strength and conditioning coaches
by: David Purdum
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The voice on the phone said it was Linda Knowles, Bear Bryant’s secretary, but Al Miller knew better. Growing up just 40 miles from Bryant, Miller, a coach himself, had fallen for the ‘Bear Bryant’s on the phone’ gag before.

“OK, yeah, sure,” he sarcastically replied to the imposter secretary.

Then, suddenly there was another voice on the phone. “Boy, when he got on that phone, there was no denying whose voice that was,” Miller remembered with a chuckle. “I set up in that chair and took notice right quick.” With only two years of experience under his belt, Miller became Bryant’s last strength coach at ....The full article can only be seen by subscribers.
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