Joe Montana
Legend of Freddie Solomon gets spotlight treatment at University of Tampa (St. Petersburg Times)
**By Gary Shelton, Times Sports Columnist**
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Joe Montana was telling the story about Fast Freddie Solomon and the way the
yard lines blurred beneath his feet.
It was January of 1983, a conference championship game against the Washington
Redskins. At the time, the Redskins had cornerback Darrell Green, who was
widely acknowledged to be the fastest player in the NFL and, perhaps, out of
it.
“Everyone was talking about how fast Darrell was,” Montana says. “Then I hit
Freddie with a little pass, and he just took off. Eighty yards or so (76).
Darrell couldn’t catch him.”
Looking at it, it seems as if the replay is on fast-forward. The 76 yards seem
to take about five seconds to cover.
“We always called Freddie fast, but no one knew how fast he was,” Montana
said. “He was as fast as he had to be.”
•••
The stories are flowing now, the funny ones, the serious ones, the touching
ones.
Everyone has a Freddie story.
As it turns out, there has never been a better time for the telling. For that
matter, there has never been a finer time to appreciate the caring soul of
Freddie Solomon.
Solomon, 58, …
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