Could Jamie Foxx come to a University of Michigan football game?
Lloyd Carr had Russell Crowe. After Monday night, Rich Rodriguez might have Jamie Foxx. It’s not every day Foxx, one of the most famous entertainers in the world and an Academy Award winner, walks into the same restaurant and sits down at the table next to you. Yet that was exactly what happened to Rodriguez and Co. last night at Gibson’s in Chicago. “He’s a great guy,” Rodriguez said Tuesday morning. “He’s obviously extremely talented. I’ve seen some of his work ethic and he’s one of the most talented entertainers in the country. So, it was neat. “…Hopefully, we can get up to a ball game. I’d love to see him again.” Rodriguez said Foxx’s father was a football coach and Foxx, who was born Eric Bishop, played quarterback for Terrell High School in Texas. The pair talked for almost an hour. Word spread fast about the experience as Michigan’s players attending media days received text messages about the meeting. And the players tried to show up. “We wanted to come,” offensive lineman Ma
