When he headlines a Legends of Wrestling event Sunday before the Jaguars host the Vikings at Jacksonville's EverBank Field, the thought of “What if?” will never cross Ric Flair’s mind.
Flair may very well have managed to forge an NFL career himself. Flair played on the University of Minnesota’s freshman team in 1969 and says he would have started at right guard the following year when revamped NCAA rules allowed him to join the varsity.
There was just one catch to making the team.
“I didn’t want to go to summer school,” a laughing Flair told Sporting News earlier this week in a telephone interview.