OT- 89 year old Bryan Sperry scores a TD before Kansas' spring game

Submitted by Gentleman Squirrels on

89 year old Bryan Sperry, a World War II vet and a former member of the Kansas Football team from the 1948 Orange bowl team, got to score a touchdown in Kansas' alumni game. Thought it was a really great gesture in part of the Jayhawks.

Link: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/25164728/watch-89-year-old-bryan-sperry-scores-in-kansas-alumni-game

Wolverine Devotee

April 28th, 2015 at 8:01 PM ^

Remember in 2007 when they were ranked #2......in Football?

And then seeing #8 Kansas beating Nebraska 76-39 and the sport being football was just....

God that was so weird. 

Fred Garvin

April 29th, 2015 at 9:15 AM ^

I also remember how my Mizzou Tigers put a stop to that insanity. I saw it live at Arrowhead. I thought Mark 'Mangina's' head was going to explode. It was awesome. Seeing Michigan punk Beak-U in the NCAA tourney a few years later turned six million Missourians into huge Michigan fans. At least for one night. It made me want to be a Wolverine. I now am one (grad student). Hats off to the old boy though for his service and for garnering half of kU's 2015 rushing yards on one carry. I hate that effin' school... "Lowrents, Kansas: Tons of women, just not many of them."

StephenRKass

April 29th, 2015 at 9:45 AM ^

Brings a tear to my eye. Love to see him in good health, and having good memories.

I'm 55, and a couple weeks ago, went down to Englewood on the south side of Chicago with my 88 year old dad. We visited the places where he lived and played, his High School, the parks he played in, the church he went to, the market where he had his first job in 38, the place where my grandpa worked in the 30's. It was so wonderful to see the memories and the smiles on my dad's face. Glad to see the same thing for Bryan Sperry.

Commie_High96

April 29th, 2015 at 7:33 PM ^

That is great. Sounds like a day you will remember for a life time. spendIing got time like that is so valuable. I recently drove my 91 yo grandmother to Flint to see where she grew up as the daughter of a Buick executive in the 20s and 30s. Of course her childhood neighborhood looks like 1945 France Or 1985 Beirut but it still was interesting.