The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul ‘Carry’ Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback in the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime.

Through the bloodiest years of the civil rights movement, Carry Bryant and Joe Namath-two of the very most iconic and controversial figures in American sports-changed the game of college football forever. Brilliantly and urgently drawn, this is actually the gripping accounts of how these two very about Increasing Tide: Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie’s Last Quarter different men-Bryant a renowned trainer in the South who was facing a set of ethics scandals that threatened his career, and Namath a cocky Northerner from a steel mill town in Pennsylvania-led the Crimson Tide to a national championship.

To Bryant and Namath, the game was everything. But no one could ignore the changes sweeping the nation between 1961 and 1965-from the Independence Rides to the integration of colleges across the South as well as the assassination of Leader Kennedy. Against this explosive backdrop, Bryant and Namath transformed this is of soccer. Their final competition jointly, the 1965 Orange Dish, was the initial football game broadcast nationally, in color, during best time, signaling a new era for the activity and the nation.

Award-winning biographer Randy Roberts and sports historian Ed Krzemienski showcase the moment when two thoroughly American traditions-football and Dixie-collided. A compelling story of race and politics, honor as well as the will to win, RISING TIDE catches a singular amount of time in America. More than a background of college soccer, this is the story from the struggle and triumph of the nation in transition and the legacy of two of the best heroes the sport has ever seen.