Vince Brown remembers flying into Birmingham and grabbing a quick taxi ride over to Legion Field. It was Nov. 15, 1980 and it was the Californian's first time in Alabama.
As a track and field recruit, Brown originally wasn't interested in moving to this foreign land. He was a West Coast guy all the way. Yet, there was something about that football coach in Tuscaloosa.
Alabama lost to Notre Dame that Saturday evening, but a seed was planted under the lights on the west side of Birmingham.
It's a story that parallels the path his son is taking more than three decades later.