Published January 3, 2021, 12:48 PM
In this file photo taken on August 07, 2010 Floyd Little speaks to the crowd during the 2010 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Field at Fawcett Stadium in Canton, Ohio. -(Photo by Joe Robbins / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Floyd Little, a legendary running back for the NFL’s Denver Broncos, was recalled by US President-elect Joe Biden as fearless and gritty on Saturday after his death was announced at age 78 after a battle with cancer.
Little, whose death Friday night was announced by the American Football Hall of Fame, was a classmate of Biden at Syracuse University, when Little was a gridiron star and law school student Biden recalled watching “his number 44 flashing by defenders who had no chance.”