The Centurions: #23 Jason Rivers

The Star-Bulletin's countdown of UH football's "Centurions", the 100 greatest players in the University of Hawaii's 100 years of football, continues with #23, receiver Jason Rivers.

Kalani Simpson praises Rivers.

It was something awesome to watch.

He played receiver in a different way. Violently. Ferociously. Hungrily.

Angrily.

He played the way Pancho Gonzales played tennis. The way Bob Gibson pitched.

He would make plays and howl into the night. He would knock people over. He would block. He would fight you. He would fight you with everything he had, and for everything you had. He would take it from you.

This is what made him great.

And he was fiercest in the biggest moments, or, as June Jones put it once, "When the stage gets big, he gets big."