Heisman Watch: Sugar Ray Rice

Now you can’t catch me, baby you can’t catch me.  ‘Cause if you get too close, you know I’m gone like a cool breeze.  -Chuck Berry

The Heisman.  The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award. The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award awarded annually to the most outstanding collegiate football player in the nation.  Our country’s football salvation.  Leaving opponents needing cardiopulmonary resuscitation.  I know.  I know.  It’s early.  So I gotta get up early in the morning.  To find me another lover.  Gotta find me a lover that won’t run for cover.  I found me one.  I found Ray Rice.  I found Sugar Ray Rice of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.  

I understand Rice’s Heisman hopes went down this week.  Went down this week because Rutgers played lowly I-AA Norfolk State.  Went down this week beacause Sugar only got twelve touches.  He may have only gotten twelve touches, but the cat did score three touchdowns.  Scored three touchdowns on runs of twenty-two, seven and four. Scored three touchdowns and put himself atop the scoring leaders list.  On top of the world looking down on creation.  Looking down creation as the nations second leading rusher for yards.  The only running back to be in the top five in both categories.  Yowza!

Rice will probably fall down the list even more.  He will fall down even more because Rutgers is off this weekend.  I get knocked down.  But I get up again.  You’re never going to keep me down.  You’re never gonna keep Sugar Ray Rice down. Sugar Ray finished with jaw-dropping numbers last year.  Awe dropping numbers last year.  Newton’s Law dropping numbers last year.  And he’s doing again this year.

His 175-yard outburst against Navy in Week Two made him Rutgers’ all-time rushing leader.  Rutgers all time leading rusher!  And get this.  He’s only two games into his junior season.  Holy Mackerel.  And that’s not all.  There’s another all-time rushing record that might come into play next season.  We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.  If Rice has another season in the sun next year, the NCAA career rushing record could be his.  On Wisconsin, On Wisconsin’s Ron Dayne is the current owner with 6,397.   Rice still has a hefty 3,000 yards to go, but if he keeps shredding opponents the way he has been, it’s not out of the question.  Yes it’s early, and Sugar Ray Rice should get his worm.

Public Acknowledgements: The Gap Band, The Carpenters, Chumbawamba and Terry Jacks

Peace out homies.  Six Two and Even!

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