Broncos great Floyd Little: TD, expect a hectic Hall of Fame week

From one Denver Broncos Hall of Fame running back to another, Floyd Little’s advice for Terrell Davis when his enshrinement comes up this summer: Be prepared for one tough week.

Great. One last hurdle before the Hall for TD.

Little knows a thing or two about what goes down during the Pro Football Hall of Week in Canton, Ohio, being a 2010 inductee himself.

In fact, he was asked to help lead orientation for this 2017 class — he couldn’t due to scheduling conflicts — because, by his own admission, he has a “tendency to tell them exactly what to expect.”

And what to expect is being pushed and pulled in a million different directions, from signings to appearances to other events and so on.

“You’re gone almost every minute of every day that you’re there,” Little told 104.3 The Fan’s “The Drive” on Friday. “And you finally have a little bit of time to lay your head down, to gather yourself, but before long you’re up at 6:30 or 7 a.m.”

Little added: “… You don’t even have time to go to the bathroom, let alone engage your friends.”

Speaking of friends and family, you won’t get to see them much. And if you don’t forewarn them, Little said, they’ll be “very upset with you.”

“I like to tell the new enshrinees, ‘Here’s what you need to tell your family. Don’t be mad at me if I don’t spend any time with you,’ Little said. “All of your friends that are going to be coming to support you, they’re going to want to hang out with you. You don’t even have time to say hello to them and thanks for coming.

“So you need to tell them in advance so they don’t be upset with you because that week is not even yours.”

And put ink to paper in formulating that 8 ½ minute speech before your arrival.

“If you don’t have your speech by the time you get there, you can forget it, because you don’t have time to go over it,” Little said.

Davis told “Schlereth and Evans” this week that his speech will likely surround his remarkable journey from sixth-stringer to Hall of Famer.

He hasn’t started writing it yet.

But despite likely needing a two-week vacation after all the hoopla wears off, it’ll still remain one of the greatest moments in a Hall of Famer’s life, Little said.

One that will leave his legacy changed forever.

“I’ll tell you, that was one of the toughest weeks I’ve ever had. But at the same time, your life will change now as a Hall of Famer,” Little said. “Terrell Davis is no longer Terrell Davis. He’s Hall of Famer Terrell Davis, and whatever he does in life reflects on all 300 of us.”

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