"Barry Class"

And The Athlete of the Day goes to........Barry Sanders.

Barry Sanders is pure class. He only played ten seasons in league and could have easily destroyed Walter Payton's history leading (at the time) rushing record. But he didn't. He did want to.

Walter Payton was his idol and correct me if I'm wrong, Sanders retired around the same time that Walter came out with his rare autoimmune disease.We all saw what that disease did to Payton. It took his great size and turned him frail and unrecognizable. People don't talk about that having an effect on Barry. But, I think it did. Pure class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DcHoF0Gjao