GREEN BAY — Virtually every workday, since his blip-on-the-transaction-wire signing on May 6, Chandon Sullivan has walked past the large photograph hanging just outside the Green Bay Packers’ locker room on his way to the players’ parking lot.
“If you walk out here, as you’re leaving, it’s on the left side,” Sullivan directed from his locker earlier this week. “I guess it was kind of on my mind, subconsciously.”
If Sullivan’s strike-a-pose interception celebration during the Packers’ 34-24 victory over the Dallas Cowboys last Sunday looked vaguely familiar, your memory served you well. It was inspired by that picture he passes so frequently — the one of three-time Pro Bowl safety Nick Collins, one of the greatest defensive players in recent Packers history, on his knees with his arms outstretched skyward in an AT&T Stadium end zone, celebrating his Super Bowl XLV pick-6 interception return for a touchdown.