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Gene Stallings on Nick Saban's 'rat poison' rant, health: 'I'd take Junction over a heart attack'

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When Gene Stallings says he's going to do something, you better believe he's going to do it.

Eight days after suffering a heart attack, the former Alabama and Texas A&M coach was at Kyle Field in College Station.

The 1967 Aggies, coached by Stallings, were honored Saturday night during No. 1 Alabama's 27-19 win over the Aggies.

"It's matter of saying what you're going to do," Stallings told me Monday during his appearance on The Opening Kickoff on WNSP-FM 105.5. "If it had been up to (the doctors), I would not have attended, but I had an obligation.