Bulldog Nation got some sad news last night with the announcement that Georgia football and NFL great Charley Trippi had passed away at his Athens home.
Trippi’s life story reads like an inspirational movie script. A smallish football/baseball player who grew up in a coal mining town during the Great Depression, Trippi was turned down by most area colleges when he went looking for a football or baseball scholarship. Trippi would later relate that his father, who worked in the mines, would sometimes come home so tired that he would have to lay on the couch and rest for an hour before summoning the strength to eat dinner.