He’s known to thousands of Washington Huskies fans as one of the most legendary players in program history. Come Friday, he’ll be a member of the Pac-12 Hall of Honor.
But there was a time when former Huskies quarterback Sonny Sixkiller didn’t even tell his own high school classmates he was going to play college football until there was an assembly.
“We had our senior rally in the gym where everyone’s announcing ‘So-and-so is going here. So-and-so is going there,” Sixkiller said Friday. “They said my name and I said “The University of Washington” and they were like, ‘Whoa!