Sometimes the legend of Michael Bishop seems larger than the man himself.
He was, after all, the quarterback who could throw a football 90 yards in the air, flatfooted. Or was it 100 yards, blindfolded and standing on one leg? There was talk of him breaking shoulder pads in practice too because he threw so hard. Or maybe he just looked at them and they broke?
Oh he could run too, dashing between defenders, untouched, almost like a choreographed dance, into the end zone. And while he wasn’t faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, or able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, Bishop was — at the time — K-State’s own Superman.