Who remembers the guy who used to go shirtless in the middle of December with the green Riggins wig? Hahaha. That's how the Jets chant started. OK, so here's my favorite Riggins story, thy name is infamy . . . Riggins was at a Congressional dinner in Washington, D.C. I know it was 1985 for sure, because I remember it was the year that he retired. He was seated next to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, proceeded to get sh!t faced, and then double fisted glasses of wine and anything else liquid dinner related that he could get his hands on. Then he started hitting on O'Connor. "C'mon, Sandy, baby, loosen up, you're too tight!" He slid to the floor and fell asleep on his face while VP Bush was making a speech. Wait staff stepped over Riggins' body and poked him with a proverbial stick occasionally to see if he was still alive. The only downside to this story is that he didn't say, "You're with me, Leather." He wound up getting dragged out of the ballroom under his armpits about an hour later. Now this is mildly embellished non-fiction, but forget football yardage and the HOF, this is the true stuff of legends. I'm sure tons of people remember it. If it happened now it would bust the internet forever. Synopsis: Riggins got wasted at a black tie event in D.C., chatted up Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (who wasn't the least bit insulted), fell asleep under the table, and people are still talking about it over 30 years later. HAH, found a compilation . . . http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/07/john-riggins-sandra-day-oconnor-loosen-up Anyway, it's about time that I changed my signature to, "C'mon, Sandy, baby . . . !"
