re: Cannon's run question...

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I'm sure he was awesome and fast as shite. I just have a tough time believing he was running near Olympic-like times. I can't find any actual times results on the internet.

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He won the SEC in the 100 yard dash. Go to SECSports.com and look it up. No regular running back has done it since. I'm not sure any RB had done it before.

He could have competed in the Olympics in strength events, because he was that strong.

He was the closest thing in CFB to Bo Jackson before the actual Bo Jackson.

He made All-Pro as a RB very early in his career, then blew out his knees, got made TE, and made All-Pro at that position too.

People just see that he's white and from the 50's and make all kinds of assumptions about him, but nobody ever says those same things about Jesse Owens or Jim Brown or Muhammad Ali. Kinda weird, don't you think?

I get that the population of American youth is greater now than it was 50 years ago, but it's not THAT much greater. The best guy out of a million athletes 50 years ago is still going to be pretty damn good out of 2-3 million athletes today--unless human evolution has just been drastically condensed or something.