Brian Hobbs remembers getting a call in 2014 to let him know Ricky Williams was interested in selling his Heisman Trophy.
An avid sports memorabilia collector, Hobbs drove from his home in Tallahassee, Florida, to meet Williams in Austin, Texas, where the former Longhorns star was finishing the undergraduate degree he had not completed when he left school for the NFL in 1999.
“He took me on a tour of the Texas football stadium and the different areas around there,” Hobbs told The Associated Press by telephone.
And then he returned home with the Heisman Trophy that Williams won in 1998.