November 7th, 2016 at 10:43 AM ^
About 90 years from now, there will be an article about Wolverine Devotee at 109 years old or so doing the same thing.
November 7th, 2016 at 10:41 AM ^
LOL
“Don’t ever become 106,” he muttered. “They won’t leave you alone.”
November 7th, 2016 at 10:49 AM ^
“I wish they’d quit talking about this age of mine,” Risher recently said. “I had trouble getting a date when I was 90. And when people know I’m 106, I don’t have a chance.”
It just never gets easier.
November 7th, 2016 at 10:59 AM ^
You have money. Then it's quite easy, regardless of age.
November 7th, 2016 at 11:05 AM ^
work too.
November 7th, 2016 at 12:33 PM ^
November 7th, 2016 at 10:57 AM ^
He is Virginia’s oldest living former player, having participated in one game in 1931. And he’s been watching Virginia football since 1919.
Just wow.
November 7th, 2016 at 10:49 AM ^
That's really awesome. And he's right....no naps on route 29. I was just on US29 N. 2 hours ago driving to work. Too hilly and curvy to really even blink.
November 7th, 2016 at 10:58 AM ^
It's pretty this time of year though.
Charlottesville is a great town, kind of Ann Arbor-ish.
I wish for them that their football was better. It's well supported given its tepid results.
Any recruit that considers MD, PSU, VA Tech, UNC should also be considering UVA. They are in a decent recruiting area. They should be able to recruit better than they do now.
November 7th, 2016 at 11:21 AM ^
I wish for them that their football was better. It's well supported given its tepid results.
My wife attended UVa back in the very late 70's and early 80's. She said nobody had any expectations about the football team doing well. It was really more a reason to get dressed up** and attend a game as a social function.
She was also a member of the UVa "scramble band," which can barely be called a marching band. She reports it was all great fun.
** Yes, dressed up -- back then, and to some extent still today, men wear sport coats and ties to the game, and the women wear dresses. It's a southern thing, I guess.
November 7th, 2016 at 12:43 PM ^
November 7th, 2016 at 1:07 PM ^
Yes, UVA still does the southern thing, dressing up for games. It's a big deal.
Once you get an hour south of DC, Virginia is very southern.
Richmond was the capital of the south during the civil war, so there's a reason.
November 7th, 2016 at 12:23 PM ^
I love the drive on US 29 between Lynchburg and Manassass. The worse part is probably Charlottesville due to all of the construction and traffic issues.
November 7th, 2016 at 10:51 AM ^
A man this loyal and dedicated deserved to see his Cavaliers beat Louisville.
November 7th, 2016 at 11:26 AM ^
based on mileage, my body (51) already knows what that feels like.
November 7th, 2016 at 12:32 PM ^
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November 7th, 2016 at 12:52 PM ^
Dude is a national treasure.
November 7th, 2016 at 1:08 PM ^
Does everybody know him down there?
November 7th, 2016 at 2:02 PM ^
I mean, not necessarily personally, but everyone at least knows of him. He's a bit of a mini-celebrity in that a lot of people have an I-met-John-Risher story and every one of those stories sound like the ones people have of meeting Ernie Harwell or Gordie Howe. UVa football has a semi-official historian who does a thoroughly brilliant job of chronicling the team's history all the way back to its origins and who uses Risher as a source for like a zillion things. And everything Risher says always corroborates.