Johnny Rodgers smiled as he tapped former Washington returner Dante Pettis’ gray sport coat.
“This is the baddest man alive,” said Rodgers, joined by a chorus of laughs of friends surrounding him.
“When you take a return back every single game, the first punt return of every game for three years in a row and you have more punt returns for touchdowns than anybody else in history, then you gotta get an award,” Rodgers said.
That award was the Jet Award, which Husker legend Rodgers gave to Pettis on Thursday night at the Omaha Design Center downtown.