Hightower wants to park "The Bread Truck"
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On our most recent podcast, the subject of a nickname for rookie running back Tim Hightower came up. I mentioned that I had seen Hightower referred to as "The Bread Truck," a moniker that brought chuckles. I will be honest, I thought it was a recent fan invention. Apparently it wasn't, so I decided to go right to Hightower and find out where it came from. Turns out, it's legit -- but Hightower wants nothing to do with it. In fact, when I brought it up, his first reaction was "Oh man, I knew that was going to come back sooner or later."
Turns out, and this is Hightower's own assessment, he could get "kind of lazy" at times when he would carry the ball in college. An analyst who either did the Richmond games on TV or radio made note that Hightower carried the ball once like a loaf of bread -- a football no-no. Later, Hightower broke off a long run (he believes it was against New Hampshire) and the announcer said "There goes The Bread Truck." A guy who runs hard but carries the ball like a loaf of bread. Kind of a backhanded insult, actually.
"It’s not really a good nickname," Hightower said. "I wanted to leave that back there (in college)."
http://www.azcardinals.com/blog/blog.php?author=1
On our most recent podcast, the subject of a nickname for rookie running back Tim Hightower came up. I mentioned that I had seen Hightower referred to as "The Bread Truck," a moniker that brought chuckles. I will be honest, I thought it was a recent fan invention. Apparently it wasn't, so I decided to go right to Hightower and find out where it came from. Turns out, it's legit -- but Hightower wants nothing to do with it. In fact, when I brought it up, his first reaction was "Oh man, I knew that was going to come back sooner or later."
Turns out, and this is Hightower's own assessment, he could get "kind of lazy" at times when he would carry the ball in college. An analyst who either did the Richmond games on TV or radio made note that Hightower carried the ball once like a loaf of bread -- a football no-no. Later, Hightower broke off a long run (he believes it was against New Hampshire) and the announcer said "There goes The Bread Truck." A guy who runs hard but carries the ball like a loaf of bread. Kind of a backhanded insult, actually.
"It’s not really a good nickname," Hightower said. "I wanted to leave that back there (in college)."
