His wasn’t a name you’d hear at sports bars or press boxes or stadium concourses of late. He didn’t have the cachet of a Russell Wilson or Edgar Martinez or Steve Largent in this town.
But there was a time when former Huskies quarterback Bob Schloredt was king of Seattle sports. As former UW QB Sonny Sixkiller said: “He was bigger than life.”
Schloredt died Thursday at the age of 79, meaning the Emerald City lost one of its most accomplished athletes. In a time when hydroplanes and Husky football was all this city had sports-wise, he won back-to-back Rose Bowl MVPs in 1960 and 1961.