I have been concerned about Hank for several weeks now. It is hard to believe he is no longer with us. Hank and I shared a lot in common. We both have kids that are high school seniors this year. l posted with him often. He and I both liked to discuss HS football.        

I know Hank had a son and at least 2 daughters. My prayers go out to his wife and family.

Rest in Peace Hank. You will be missed.

Is this the same guy?  Are you sure?  Posted today.  

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Would someone send me a PM with a link to the obit.

Thanks.

Definitely bizarre, but they say bad things happen in 3's, but let's hope we don't lose anyone else for a long time. Taz under 40 and Crisp is 55, wow!


 

They usually get schooled around Thanksgiving.  HTH.

Uh oh, my cover has been blown! Really, I can't stand to read about such a whiny, sniveling person who has screwed their whole life up but wants to blame someone else. For God's sake, his life is ruined because he couldn't play RUNNING BACK?!!! WOW! Grow up and be a man.

 

He's nothing but a whiny, self-pitying, self-absorbed little b**ch, low-life. His life was ruined because he was moved from running back? Give me a break! What a sniveling little punk and none of this rant is about his turning the Tide in, it's about what kind of man (what a joke) he is.


 

When Jelks' stint in the NFL and the Canadian Football League was over after just a few years, he returned to Gadsden an embittered man, a substitute teacher barely making above minimum wage. In Jelks' mind, Alabama cost him a career at running back, and he was determined to get even one way or another.

And when a businessman knocked on his mother's door one day in 1992, Jelks got his opportunity. Jelks said the stranger who approached him -- he could remember only that the man's first name was Larry -- had a proposition.

Sitting on his mother's couch, Larry displayed canceled checks written from UA supporter Harold Simmons to Jelks when Jelks was still in school. Larry had proof of the improper benefits that would bring down Alabama, leading to the first sanctions from the NCAA in school history."(Larry) said, 'I knew Alabama did you wrong. You were a great, elite running back, and I liked to watch you run.' He said, 'I'm not a fan, not of Auburn or Alabama; I'm a businessman.' He made that distinctly clear. I said, 'What is this about?' He said, 'They did you wrong, and you deserve revenge.'

"And all of the sudden, it clicked. That's when the light came on. That's when the evil side came on me. My mother said don't do it, and my grandmother said to let it go and move on. I didn't. I made up in my mind."

"I was scared in the South," Jelks said. "I knew that I had hurt a lot of people, and they didn't deserve that. When I heard rumors of a death threat, I was fearful.

"That was the most scary, uncertain time in my life. Here I am angry, having gone against the university that gave me an opportunity. I betrayed them. I felt I had damaged all my memories, relationships. I was banned for life."

Afterward his coach pulls aside "That was probably the best tackle you have made all year."