The Trophy Case For Trent Richardson!??!

[Coach Hank Crisp]

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TUSCAOOSA _ For University of Alabama junior running back Trent Richardson, next week could be one of the best and worst times of his life.



On the one hand, he’s expected to be named a Heisman Trophy finalist on Monday, could win the Maxwell, Doak Walker and Walter Camp awards on Thursday, and then might enjoy a life-changing weekend in New York.

The bad part is that to be on hand for the presentations he has to do something that brings out his “ugly face,” get on an airplane.

“I really just start praying before I get on and when I get on just go from there,” Richardson said. “I start sweating and it's just a big mess, for real. I haven't gotten over it yet but I'm used to flying. Just when it takes off and when they be about to land, it's crazy.”

While this year’s Crimson Tide football journey won’t conclude for at least another month, his emotional coaster is about to reach some extremes as Alabama braces for yet another tight Heisman vote.

Similar to two years ago when Mark Ingram edged running back Toby Gerhart, the award may be down to Alabama and Stanford standouts with Richardson and Cardinal quarterback Andrew Luck. Both are already done until their respective bowls, but Baylor’s Robert Griffin III, Wisconsin’s Montee Ball and Houston’s Case Keenum will try to convince any voters watching their conference championships this weekend that they’re worthy of going to the Big Apple too.

“This is my first time, and it's going to be crazy, I know it is,” Richardson said. “I saw when Mark was there, how the ’Bama fans were. I know they're going to be supporting us everywhere we go. I just really can't wait to get up there.”

With a tip to Ingram, here are 22 favorable factors for Richardson winning Alabama’s second Heisman in three years.

1. Richardson’s numbers are better than Ingram’s were in 2009: With an extra game in hand Ingram finished with 1,658 rushing yards, 334 receiving, 1,992 total and 20 touchdowns. That worked out to an average of 118.4 rushing yards and 142.3 total yards per game. With his final game yet to be played Richardson has 1,583 rushing yards, 327 receiving, 1,910 total and 23 touchdowns, for an average of 131.9 rushing yards and 159.2 total yards.

[Chechem]

Hey, if Lindy can fly solo across the Atlantic, surely TR can make it to NY (with the help of a few mixed drinks).

[Coach Hank Crisp]

Hey, if Lindy can fly solo across the Atlantic, surely TR can make it to NY (with the help of a few mixed drinks).

My family and Missouri.

Half of my family were from St. Louis Missouri. My great grandparents moved to St. Louis after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.

My grandmother, who was a young lady at the time of earthquake, told me that her family had to live in the parks as San Francisco burned down around them.

Losing their home and business, they traveled east and settled in St. Louis Missouri where they started over.

My grandparents raised 3 children in St. Louis. My mother and her two brothers.  All three of them attended the University of Missouri.

Mother earned a degree in elementary education. She had just traveled to Hawaii teach when Pearl Harbor was attacked and WWII started.

My dad was a Lt. Cmdr in the US Navy and served aboard the USS Essex aircraft as a fighter pilot flying "F6F Hellcats" in the Pacific Ocean battles from 1942-45. The third fleet was stationed in Pearl Harbor. Dad was on leave in Hawaii during the war when he met my mother.

Near the end of the war,  mother went back to St. Louis. A year later dad traveled to St. Louis and they married on September 12th 1947, 64 years ago. Dad attended Washington University in St. Louis for a year before they moved to Ensley, Alabama where dad was raised.

They rented a small one room apartment not far from Legion Field. Dad attended UA, driving back and forth to Tuscaloosa before graduating UA in 1950.


One of my mother's childhood memories was traveling to St Louis Airport with her family and getting to welcome Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis.

I wish she was alive today to see her beloved Missouri Tigers play in the SEC!

My dad use use to say "how do you like them apples"?

TRUE!

[BAMADCHAMPSHIPS]

One more reason to not enter the draft. Once you enter the NFL he'll be flying across the country a bunch. ONE MORE YEAR! ONE MORE YEAR! ONE MORE YEAR!

[BAMAWV]

MFBATR has a much better chance of getting killed (in their dreams) by recently bitch slapped, disgruntled barners than by flying.

[SUPERCOACH]

TR should go take a few flying lessons once he gets all that extra money from the league.  It might make him feel a little more relaxed if he removed some of the mystery.

[MLB10]

flying- nice to know there's one thing I'm better at than TR

[Coach Hank Crisp]

3 4 Heisman!

[JodyBaker22]

flying- nice to know there's one thing I'm better at than TR

LOL!  that's awesome.

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