Remembering an Alabama superfan who turned Crimson Tide players into teddy bears

It won’t be long now. June 6, 2025, will be here in 12 days, and thousands will wonder how time has moved so quickly. A week from Friday will make six years he’s been gone, and over those six years they have done their best to Be Like Walt.

He came into the world on April 27, 1983. “It was a little bit overwhelming,” said Tuscaloosa’s Betsy Gary. “Having a son with Down syndrome was uncharted territory for me and my husband Walter.”

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