ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Two Super Bowl Rings, one Super Bowl MVP, one NFL MVP, a 2,000-yard season, 7,607 total rushing yards, 60 rushing touchdowns, seven consecutive playoff games with at least 100 rushing yards and much more.
Terrell Davis put together one helluva resume, but that resume wasn’t changing.
“I played football 17 years ago,” he remembers oh-so-precisely.
The Broncos all-time leading rusher had been eligible for his sport’s greatest honor, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, for more than a decade, his one resume hole of longevity debated ad nauseam, his inability to get in shoved in his face year after year as his peers donned brand new gold jackets.