Rickey Dixon, the great Oklahoma defensive back, will join the likes of Vince Young and Jacob Green, icons of Texas and Texas A&M, in the next class of the College Football Hall of Fame.
Only Dixon won't make it to New York for the ceremonies in December. He doesn't get out of DeSoto much these days.
Takes a lift just to get him out of bed.
Dixon, 52, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, in 2013. Doctors gave him five years, tops. He can't walk, can't talk, can't hardly breathe on his own.