 I'm from Western Pennsylvania, 28 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, and Coach Paul Bryant had two Western Pennsylvania quarterbacks before me. One was called the Kentucky Babe and Babe Pirelli and the other was a guy named George Belanda. And those two guys I believe kept Coach Bryant's eyes open from guys from Western PA. My mother ultimately decided that I go to college. We had a meeting, a family meeting, and my brother Bob asked my mother what she wanted me to do, and she said, oh, I want Joey to go to college. Bob hit the table with his fist, man, that's it, you go to school. No baseball. I didn't want to go to school, but we still did what our parents told us to do at that time, and that's how I got lucky to come to Alabama.