Maybe the wrong 1980s Heisman Trophy-winning running back from the Southeastern Conference dressed in a No. 34 jersey is running for national office.
This is in no way meant to throw shade on former University of Georgia great Herschel Walker as he seeks to knock out incumbent U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock (D) in their Peach State showdown in much the same way he once flattened former Tennessee Vol Bill Bates.
Walker won the Republican primary in a state where President Joe Biden has an approval rating of under 35 percent. Despite his political inexperience, Herschel’s longtime football hero status throughout Georgia after leading the Dawgs to the 1980 national title and winning the Heisman in 1982 should give him a legitimate chance to reach Washington, D.C.
But it was another No. 34 – 1985 Heisman winner Bo Jackson of Auburn fame – who stole this past weekend when it was revealed he recently showed the kind of sympathy, empathy and philanthropy this country so desperately needs when he quietly paid $170,000 for the funeral expenses of the 19 children and two adults murdered in the Robb Elementary mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, back on May 24.
“I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting old,” Jackson, a father of three and a grandfather, told the Associated Press a few days ago. “It’s just not right for parents to bury their kids. It’s just not right. I know every family there probably works their butts off just to do what they do. The last thing they needed was to shell out thousands of dollars for something that never should have happened.”