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Chargers' Sproles: 'I'm just playing'

By Greg Garber
ESPN.com

Thursday, January 8, 2009

They got little baby legs And they stand so low You got to pick 'em up Just to say hello ... Don't want no Short People 'Round here -- Randy Newman, "Short People" When Darren Sproles was delivered into this world, his father, a little giddy over the unexpected girth of his 10-pound son, nicknamed him "Tank." In retrospect, Larry Sproles -- a 5-foot-5 running back at MidAmerica Nazarene University -- may have been thinking wistfully. Darren eventually grew (modestly) into a 5-6, 1 ...

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