ARLINGTON, Texas — For football fans, Jared Lorenzen was unlike anything seen before or since.
He was a left-handed quarterback squeezed into a nose tackle’s body that was somehow attached to a ballerina’s feet. To top it off, he was directing an Air Raid offense when it was still a newfangled look that hadn’t taken over the sport completely.
Kentucky football was never great, but the presence of the larger-than-life Lorenzen running a wide-open passing attack made their games a must-watch. The novelty of seeing Refrigerator Perry scoring 1-yard touchdowns for the 1985 Bears was being replicated by a guy dropping back on every offensive snap.