Earlier this week, Herschel Walker was on a teleconference call promoting an upcoming MMA fight and said that he wanted to be the “George Foreman of football.”
From ESPN.com:
“Who knows, at 50 I may try for football again to show people I can do that,” Walker said Monday on a teleconference call to promote an upcoming fight. “I want to be the George Foreman of football. I can come back and do that one more time.”
“The two teams I would come back to play for are Minnesota or Atlanta,” Walker said. “It would probably be Atlanta because that’s home for me.
“I’m a Georgia boy. That’s just home.”
That’s just what the Falcons need: another bruising running back to go along with Michael Turner and Jason Snelling – and one approaching 50, no less.
With how good of shape he’s in, I wouldn’t doubt that Herschel could return to football and take a few handoffs. Have you seen him lately? The man could scare children with his action-figure like physique.
But at his age, I’m thinking one hit from Jerome Harrison would end that experiment real quick.
