The Whisperer Remembers ... Ken Burrough.

There’s a trend going on into today’s NFL. You see it all the time. Receivers who used to have numbers in the high 80’s are now all of a sudden opting for the lowest number they can find. You see linebackers running around in single digits, the same with defensive backs, all basking in this newfound numerical freedom. Nice of the league to let the guard down and have a little fun, it’s really cool. But when it comes to numbers, man no one was cooler than this dude here.

The Saints selected him in the first round of the 1970 NFL Draft before shipping him off to Houston the following year, and that’s when the Saints realized just how good of a thing they had. He terrorized the former AFC Central, playing for the Oilers in the same city where he dazzled fans at Texas Southern. At Texas Southern he was matched up against boys, and the assumption was that in the NFL, he’d face off against some real men, but somehow, he made those men look just like boys. Neither boy nor man stood a chance.

Talent notwithstanding it was his jersey number that was all the rage. And when you paired that unique jersey with a man standing 6’3, weighing 215 with blazing speed, special things, the inexplicable … magic happens. Whisper Nation, tap the person next to you and say, ‘he was all that” … as we remember the mercurial talents of #00 himself … the one, the only, former New Orleans Saint/Houston Oiler receiver … Ken Burrough.