Elijah Eugene Pitts (February 3, 1938 – July 10, 1998)

Elijah Pitts has always been a hero of mine. He was the only pot bellied running back in the NFL. I've heard that when Vince Lombardi was told that he ought to look at Elijah, he said "Elijah who?  From Philander where?" Too bad that he, like Goose & Bobby Mitchell weren't given the opportunity to play for the University of Arkansas.  Maybe Elijah wouldn't have gone anyway.  "Pitts hardly seemed destined for a long career in pro football. The son of a sharecropper, he grew up in Mayflower, Ark., a town with a high school so small that it did not have a football team. He attended high school 12 miles away in Conway, Ark., was a football star there and was offered scholarships by a number of colleges. But he decided to stick close to home, playing for Philander Smith College in Little Rock, a school with several hundred students.

Pitts was picked by the Packers in the 1961 draft as only a 13th-round selection and had to compete with the star runners Paul Hornung and Jim Taylor. 'I went with the attitude that I was as good as anyone,' Pitts recalled." 

Damn right you were Mr. Pitts and better than most.