Football Players Will Talk

This past fall semester I was practicing on the track at UB during a football practice.  I'm confident we were doing some stupid looking work out, like jumping off of boxes and sprinting for 30 meters or something like that.  Suddenly, one of the football players (with his too-tight spandex shirt raised well over his belly button) screamed out, "Ain't none of ya'll faster than me."

These are the moments when you would do anything for that kid to put some spikes on and just do the damn thing.  I'm fairly certain that the kid that said that was also a linebacker... not generally the swiftest of positions.  I think that football players say those things because they think sprinters are scared that football players have some sort of untapped speed ready to be unleashed so they never want to race them.  I would have, and would still absolutely love to race any challengers on the football team, or any other athlete from any other sport at UB.  As a matter of fact, there was a kid on the football team who just got drafted by the Dallas Cowboys, who was on the track team for a while.  He was plenty football fast, that's why he got drafted.  We raced once in the 200 and I just dusted him.  He went like 22.1 or something.  All speed is not created equal!

I brought this up because I wanted to post this video that I love.  It's my favorite sprinter, Wallace Spearmon Jr. talking about how much Chris Johnson talks. Follow this link because it's not on youtube.

Just in case you've never heard of Wallace Spearmon Jr., here are some videos to give him some credibility on the subject...

Wallace beating Usain.

Wallace going 19.65.  I suggest turning the volume down for it.

Moral of the story is: If you're a football player talking about how fast you are, why don't you just race us?  We're not scared.