BEREA, Ohio -- Seemingly, not a day went by that D'Ernest Johnson didn’t pester Tim Ruskell, who’d just taken over running the Orlando Apollos of the newly formed Alliance of American Football league.
“I know he kept getting tired of me calling him,” Johnson said. “They already had all their running backs. But I was still calling. Every day, ‘Did anything change? Do you guys need a running back?’ The same thing.”