re: Hide yo hamburgers, hide yo chicken. He is back again this winter!

I covered a game of his, in Lexington one cold night against the Gamecocks way back when and Sheldon Brown was one of our DBs at the time who jumped one of his passes and had it hit him right in the sternum ... he failed to make the interception.

Sheldon told me it knocked the air of him, that he heard it come wizzing in like a bullet and before he could get his hands up the ball had hit him in the chest and gone flying back the other way twenty yards. We heard the thump of impact in the press box.

Then he showed me the bruise on his chest from the impact of the ball ... must have hit him with close to 100 foot pounds of energy or so. You could almost see the seams of his pads in the bruise.

I'd never seen anyone, not anyone, throw a football with that much velocity, it was just amazing. He always seemed to throw perfect spirals too. Maybe the greatest arm in the history of college football ... I don't know what his top-end was but there were rumors that he could throw one 85 yards on the fly.