A friend of mine from work who is in his early 60s said he once stood next to Ken Stabler, the legendary former Oakland Raiders quarterback who died on Wednesday from complications of colon cancer, at a bathroom stall. My friend said Stabler looked barely taller than him, and appeared fairly small in stature.
That image of a small in stature Kenny Stabler standing in a public bathroom somewhere is about the only one where, in my mind, he isn’t mythical and larger-than-life.
I’ve been an avid NFL fan since I was a little kid in the early 80s, and I got a great deal of my football education by watching NFL Films highlight shows.