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Ron Dayne has loomed large throughout his life.(The Orange County Register)
PADADENA _ He weighs 18 more pounds than Ricky Williams.
He's 19 pound heavier than Jamaal Anderson.
He's bigger than the ``Boom'' man, Mike Alstott. He's bigger than ``The Bus,'' Jerome Bettis. He's bigger than Natrone Means.
When Wisconsin's Ron Dayne enters the NFL, he'll be the biggest of big running backs.
Even his childhood idol, John Riggins of the New York Jets and Washington Redskins, couldn't fit in Dayne's suit. And Riggins defined the position of power back.
Size always has mattered for 5-foot-10, 254-pound Dayne, who faces Stanford today in the Rose Bowl.
When he was a child, Dayne and a friend exchanged Underoos, popular children's underwear featuring super heroes. He cried to Brenda Dayne, his mother, because he couldn't fit in them.
Then there was the time when the elementary school called his mother because Dayne had broken a boy's collarbone while playing football during recess. Dayne fell …
