TOLEDO, Ohio – When the University of Toledo Athletic Department decided to commission an artist to paint portraits of its three members of the College Football Hall of Fame, they sought the services of another Rocket Hall of Famer.
Aaron Bivins, the Toledo Football team's all-time leading tackler and 2006 inductee into the school's Varsity T Hall of Fame, was chosen to paint water-color portraits of Rocket greats Chuck Ealey, Mel Long, Sr. and Gary Pinkel. Ealey and Pinkel are being officially inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in Las Vegas on Dec. 6. Long was inducted into the prestigious group in 1998.