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Message: [QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 4052581, member: 225"] I don't know what will happen with the number. All signs point to it being offered to Sean next year. I assume he would take it despite any current vagueness. Floyd's grandson is in a no-win situation on this and like you I feel for him. Unless he is a star coming out of high school they will have totally changed the rules for being gifted the #44. This isn't like Buddy getting JB's number. That number has no history. Chaz Owens wore Billy's number in high school but does not now. 44 is different. If Floyd's grandson gets #44 without having to pay his dues like all the others since Jim Brown, then the "legend of 44" has become "the legend of Floyd Little" and would seem to point to a financial arrangement. That, of course, has already drawn speculation but that also totally changes what we all thought the tradition of 44 was all about. [/QUOTE]