Super Bowl sprint showdown at SCA meet: Gault vs. McConkey

Willie was a blur at 2011 Sacramento worlds.

Willie was a blur at 2011 Sacramento worlds.

In 1986, Willie Gault helped the Chicago Bears win Super Bowl XX. A year later, Phil McConkey starred for the New York Giants when they won Super Bowl XXI. Now they’re set to meet on the track May 28 — at the USATF Southern California Masters Championships (not nationals as I errantly posted earlier). The latest Status of Entries shows Willie and Phil entered in the M55 100 and 200. Willie is the favorite, of course, off his recent world records. But Phil is a warrior who never gives up. Both will be pressed by world champion James Chinn.

Phil (left) and Jim Chinn, battling at recent meet, will renew rivalry as well in Grand Rapids.

Phil (left) and Jim, racing recently, will push Willie at Cerritos College.

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May 17, 2016

3 Responses

  1. James Chinn - May 17, 2016

    I’m just hanging on for the ride.

  2. Terry Parks - May 17, 2016

    Should be a great race.

  3. Jeff Davison - May 18, 2016

    In the Phil versus James pix … Phil doesn’t really have 4 legs … that’s me in the hidden background. I was almost in the picture for the first 40 or 50 meters … then I was really hidden afterwards …

    Willie, James and Phil are all top notch sprinters. Have fun at SCA lads.

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