Whicker: John Jackson greets a Christmas that he wasn’t sure he’d see

The Redshirt Year is nearly over. John Jackson Jr. is eligible again.
Most of us are. We’re eligible to smell and taste and see things to the limit, to take a step and appreciate God’s green earth beneath us. Hardly any of us do. JJ didn’t either, not always. He was running like he did at USC when he was an All-Pac-10 receiver, when he was setting USC’s stolen base record, making the grades, raising three kids with his wife Ann, watching them perform at high levels but de