When Terry Fuller was 10 on autumn Saturdays in 1965, his parents, Don and Marjorie Fuller, would put him on a passenger train in Amarillo bound for Lubbock. At the other end was his uncle, Bill Lockhart, chairman of the art department at Texas Tech University, who would take him to football games featuring All-America running back Donny Anderson.
“He was my Michael Jordan,” Fuller said.
“He was the greatest thing that ever walked as far as I was concerned.”
When the passenger train played out, his parents put Fuller on a Greyhound bus for the same routine.