Give it to John. Riggins took the hand-off, ran to his left, shed Dolphins corner Don McNeal and high-tailed it 43 yards into the end zone. Fourth-and-one, 43 yards, for No.
Washington would go on to win its first Super Bowl, 27— Riggins had tears in their eyes. Riggins' Super Bowl heroics earned him late-career fame, including a feature in SI on his country living in Kansas.
After all that, Riggins missed the parade. When he woke up the next morning, he saw Maureen Bunyan reporting live from the parade route, and then he spotted the team in the background. Riggins averaged just 2. Back trouble limited him in , and then everything came tumbling down the following year.
For a decade, Riggins had waited for his big NFL break. And he got it in But that meant a guy who tolerated sports because it meant he could stay a kid had to rein in his boisterous persona now that he was on a national stage. At the same time, he faced the prospect of growing old, of bad knees and a bad back, of knowing his time in the league could end any day. He had a couple beers that afternoon with a friend and then a double scotch at the Washington Sheraton.
The next day, the news was everywhere. This had been a Press Club event, after all. Friends called Riggins from South America and Japan to ask what had happened. Three weeks later, he escaped it all by going on a safari in Zimbabwe. There, local guides helped with his luggage. Three months later, the Redskins traded a first-round pick for running back George Rogers, a potential replacement for Riggins, who was once again in the midst of salary negotiations.
He ran for yards just three times that season and averaged under 30 per game over the final four weeks. John Kasay's fateful Super Bowl kickoff stays with him, but doesn't haunt him.
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Before John Riggins ever stepped on an NFL Football field he excelled on the gridiron in both high school and college. At Centralia High School in Kansas, Riggins not only set records at the running back position but was also a standout basketball player and a track star who set school and state records in the yard dash.
Riggins made an immediate impact on the team and in his first season even shared the backfield with his brother Frank. In his senior season in , Riggins rushed for 1, yards and scored a then-school record 14 touchdowns. He was also the first running back chosen that year as well. Unfortunately for Riggins, the heyday of the Jets was now long over and he would endure five seasons of mediocre to bad Jets football.
If FAIR succeeds, and more power to them, it would buck the trend that has existed for over a decade as traditional pensions are frozen or slashed, if they exist at all, often replaced by k s or other retirement-saving vehicles. Other benefits include programs that address assisted living, joint replacement, spine treatment and discount prescriptions.
Yet listen to former players and they will tell you that without lifetime medical coverage and other resources, it is far from enough. And they still feel disenfranchised by the dividing line that is Karen Friedman, executive vice president and policy director of the Pension Rights Center, has heard similar themes before.
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