retirement of bill curry, the head coach of the georgia state panthers. he is a legend in our state not of his time but all time in terms of football. he played football at college park, georgia in high school and went to georgia tech when they were in the southeastern conference. he was a small 200-pound center. went from georgia tech to the green bay packers and played in the first super bowl game as a start are senator, traded to the baltimore colts and played in the famous game when joe namath delivered victory against the colts. he went on to play for other nfl teams until he was hurt in a game on an injure caused by merlin olson. he didn't quit when his career ended in terms of playing football. he went into coaching. went back to his home alma mater georgia tech and coached as an assistant then took pepper roger's place and became the head coach and took them 0 the bowl games, took them to conference championships, was a true leader. from there he was sought out by the university of alabama, a pretty big job in the south when it comes to football.