It's ancient history now, but let me tell you kids a story about a young man who was nine feet tall with an arm like a very powerful gun that shoots stuff a long way. Michael Glennon was his name. I tell you what, that young man could sling it about the yard with great precision, and how. Opponents tried as best they could--with the best tactics of the day--to confound Big Mike, but the efforts were always futile; a sad comedy against a man with incomparable physical and intellectual heft.
Let me also tell you about a defensive back with a wingspan that covered the entire east coast.