Michigan’s 241-pound placekicker lumbered onto the field with the swagger of Denis Lemieux and the biker ’stache of Goose Gossage: decidedly un-kicker-like. That is, until he drilled a 37-yard field goal dead center through the uprights to win the game. This was likely Brendan Gibbons’s second greatest moment on the football field. The first came back in high school, when he kicked an 80-yard punt before saving a touchdown by nearly decapitating the returner.

Bo Jackson is on the same level as Chuck Norris, but all of it is true.

“He was merciless; he flung rocks and crab apples and punches with equal accuracy, and at one point, in the midst of a fight over a Ping-Pong paddle, he hit one of his female cousins with a baseball bat and said he would have hit her again if his siblings hadn’t stepped in. He’d steal a bike, strip it, toss it into a fire to burn the paint off, spray-paint it, and that same afternoon, ride down the street past the house he’d stolen it from.”

“Because of his ability to withstand punches to his chest from his older brothers and sisters, because he wrestled children twice his age and ducked no fight and reveled in his own stubbornness, he had been given a nickname, truncated from Southern shorthand for a wild boar. In time, Bo-Hog became Bo.”

Sweetness

Growing up Barry Sanders was my favorite football player. I watched him every Sunday and believe me when I say his career suffered because he was on a bad team.

What a waste. Four wideouts and Barry. Give him a fullback like Moose Johnston, put him behind a Dallas-caliber All-Pro line, and he’d get his double G-note in yardage every season.

Techmo Bo 

Who is Ernie Adams? Bill Belichick’s high school buddy and longtime right hand.

Ohio University Helmet Evolution

Desmond Howard

Barry Sanders Nike Ad

I love the amount of detail, thought, and planning that goes into something as (what seems) trivial as uniform design. The Oregon Ducks uniforms in the National Championship game were designed with speed in mind. Remember, the entire football program is designed around speed so why not make them appear faster with colors on their shins and a custom font to make the shoulders appear wider?