John Riggins Get His Due

Riggins Added To Ring Honor On October 13

The announcement that John Riggins will receive the ultimate KU football honor when the 'Hawks take on Baylor this October sort of ties in nicely to our current locally bred running back. Riggins at KU was before my time*, but most of the accounts I've heard indicate that he was a pretty unique individual. At least according to Brandon McAnderson, Jake Sharp has a little streak of strangeness to him. I'll take that as a sign and predict multiple 2,000 yard seasons for Sharp.

Brandon's famous take from earlier this season on Sharp (link):
http://kuathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/082107aaa.html

Brandon McAnderson fired the opening salvo.

Told that backfieldmate Jake Sharp described himself as a loner, McAnderson didn’t bat an eye.

“He says he’s a loner,” McAnderson said. “I say he’s a weirdo.”

When word of that verbal scud made its way back to Sharp, he looked like he’d been smacked with a rolled-up newspaper.

“Who said that?” Sharp said, his eyes darting around the room. “B-Mac? B-Mac?”

Given a chance to riposte, Sharp thought for a minute before blurting out, “I can’t really make fun of him. But I’ll say this: He may look big with all his pads on, but if we were on the street walking by each other, he’d be afraid.”

*My most vivid memory of Riggins is of him running over the Miami Dolphins in the Superbowl. At the time, I was a die-hard fish fan and the image of him going about 40 yards off left tackle for the game-clinching TD haunted me for years..