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Yahoo Sports: Nebraska Heisman winner Johnny Rodgers seeks pardon for 1970 felony charge

In 1972, Nebraska’s Johnny Rodgers won the Heisman Trophy, but 41 years later, he is still trying to shake off the stigma associated with a mistake he made two years before winning the award. Rodgers is seeking a pardon from the state of Nebraska for his role in a 1970 armed robbery in which he was convicted of a felony larceny charge. Rodgers and a few friends came up with a plan to rob a Lincoln gas station near the end of his freshman year. They got away with $90 in an incident Rodgers described as “10 minutes of insanity.” ...

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