re: The SEC RB Pantheon

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Funny quote from Billy Cannon when he was presented with an award not long long after LSU and UT played (and I'm going from memory so I may not get the quote 100 percent correct but it's the gist of what he said), "Y'all fly me all the way up here to accept this award but last week you wouldn't let me go a single yard." He was referencing getting stopped short of a TD that would've won the game and accepting the award in Tennessee. Billy was a beloved figure by everyone in his day not just at LSU but not many know about him now.

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I wasnt lying when I said Cannon was football in America. Bud Adams, met him in the endzone after the Sugar Bowl his senior year in order to sign him to the AFL. He was the 1st pick in both drafts. IMHO, he is the only other running back that took over the football landscape in college like Bo and Hershel did