Seeing Brian Dawkins selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday night brought back a few memories from my youth.
Dawkins and I are around the same age, I have a year on him, but who is counting right. We were both in college—though different schools—at the same time and like a lot of Clemson football players from that era, I would run into him and his teammates from time-to-time.
We weren’t friends or anything like that … I would just run into them at the mall or at a restaurant or an establishment downtown. I remember how I always thought it was cool because these were Clemson football players who ran down the Hill on Saturdays in the fall.