Hi VballDad, Thanks for your comment, it got me thinking. I'm chuckling a bit. You're absolutely right. All region is not all that impressive. All state, rather than all region and despite Ricks being a Jr. College power in the day (pre BYU-Idaho), playing for a big 4 year would be much more impressive. By the way, I wish it were 1984, that would make me more than a decade younger than I am :-). 

In hindsite my comment on being all-region was tacky. The reason I mentioned it was that I knew later in my post I would be commenting on lousy refs. I just wanted folks to understand that: 1) I knew something about the game of football and 2) I've had lousy refs a few times.