By Charles Goldberg
AuburnTigers.com
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. u2015 The dad wore an Alabama shirt. Rudy Ford and Marcus Davis wore a smile, using their celebrity as Auburn football players to brighten the day of a young patient during a visit to Children's Hospital of Alabama on Monday.
Sure enough, JaCoby Richardson, age 12, followed Ford and Davis out of his room to ask for an autograph.
The winner? Patients and athletes alike after three dozen-or-so Auburn and Memphis players visited the hospital as part of the activities leading up to Wednesday's Birmingham Bowl at Legion Field.