ESPN.com’s Len Pasquarelli turned in, in my opinion, the best written remembrance of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward. It’s honest, emotional, amusing, and doesn’t attempt to hide anything. And it gives you a better sense of who Ironhead was, when really, most people just know him as that huge running back from Pitt who did the Zest commercial and was never as good in the NFL as he should’ve been.

So if you have a chance, check out the column. Here’s my favorite bit, about how he actually brought Brian Bosworth to tears on the football field…

Hebert also recalled the time, during a game in 1988, when Heyward hit Seattle linebacker and alleged tough guy Brian Bosworth so hard he made him cry. According to Hebert, then-Saints coach Jim Mora called the same off-tackle play six straight times, with Heyward as the lead blocker. “After about the third time,” Hebert said, “Bosworth was crying. Honest. Tears were rolling down his face, because he didn’t want Ironhead to hit him anymore. He cried ‘Uncle!’ for real. Ironhead, he just laughed at him.”