Terrell Davis = Luke Skywalker
The University of Georgia isn’t exactly a desert on the college football landscape, but the NFL Draft’s sixth-round might as well be the barren planet Tatooine from where our story’s conquering hero hails.
We first meet Luke Skywalker scratching out a living on his Uncle Owen’s moisture farm, the Star Wars equivalent of the special teams unit. By the end of the first trilogy, however, Skywalker, like Davis, proves to be the biggest hero of the day.
Skywalker possesses uncanny talent (he can bullseye womp rats only two meters wide), as did Davis (he rushed for 2,000 yards in a season), but both needed someone to help unlock their full potential. Skywalker’s came in the form of Yoda, the diminutive Jedi master who finally teaches him to channel the Force. Davis had Mike Shanahan, the master mind who devised the perfect scheme that made him unstoppable.
Without Skywalker, the Rebel Alliance never destroys either Death Star and the Emperor rules the Galactic Empire for the Dark Side for all time. Without Davis, the Broncos don’t win either Super Bowl and Brett Favre quite possibly becomes the greatest quarterback of all time.
