[NU Sports] buchanan and gissendaner

[Brad Wilson]

Thanks to Tom and the others for bringing up two
terrific players who brought some light into a dark
time for NU football.

I always thought Buchanan was the perfect receiver:
terrific routes, sure hands, and that niftiness that
made him elusive. Can you imagine him on this team, or
2000, or 1995?

Gissendaner was our Gale Sayers -- big play central.
My best friend's fondest moment for NU football was
(before the Rose Bowl) Gissendaner's catch to cap the
comeback at Champaign. (BTW didn't that win knock
Illinois out of a bowl game? -- too bad!!!)

If you remember in '93 that Dyche did not have
programs -- it had those roster posters with a photo
on the front. One had a sublime photo of Gissendaner's
grab, the ball just in his hands with the scoreboard
and time in the background so you could see the
situation. My friend was, I suspect, not alone in
framing it.

Of course a shout out too to the QB who threw the pass
that Gissendaner caught -- Lenny Williams, another
marvelously fun guy to watch, who worked miracles with
absolutely no running game when defenses knew NU was
passing on every down.

Excuse the nostalagia here with a big game in two
days, but I can't help sometimes to think back to the
fine players NU had in the mid-to-late 80's and early
90's, players who missed the prosperous years but guys
I dearly enjoyed watching and rooting for -- Ed
Sutter, John Duvic, Bobby Christian, Curtis Duncan,
Ira Adler, Byron Sanders, Buchanan, Gissendaner,
Williams -- too bad these guys missed the good times.

Brad Wilson





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