{"id":34104,"date":"2018-12-08T23:11:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T23:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34104"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:14:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T23:14:50","slug":"pulling-for-home-boy-of-sorts-for-heisman-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34104","title":{"rendered":"Pulling for ‘home boy’ of sorts for Heisman Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I haven’t had this much interest in the Heisman Trophy since, oh, 2015 when Oregon’s Marcus Mariota won the award as the nation’s top college football player.<\/p>\n

The object of my attention this year is a young man from Allen, Texas, who plays for the University of Oklahoma. I refer to Kyler Murray, the OU quarterback.<\/p>\n

Given that I now live about one mile north of Allen High School — and one of my granddaughter’s brothers graduated from there while another one is attending Allen HS — I want Murray to win.<\/p>\n

He’s got some tough competition among the finalists: Tua Tagovailoa of Alabama and Duane Haskins of Ohio State. All of them are QBs.<\/p>\n

But . . . I’m going to pull for Kyler Murray. I don’t particular follow OU football. I haven’t yet gotten into the Allen Eagles’ groove, although I am<\/em> aware of their multiple Texas Class 6A football championships — with is a real big deal!<\/p>\n

We’ll know shortly who gets the Heisman. Kyler Murray has a decision to make: football or baseball? He’s signed a contract with the Oakland A’s. The kid can play hardball, too.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, John Elway was thought to be a better baseball<\/em> player than a football player when he graduated from Stanford in the early 1980s. He chose football.<\/p>\n

Elway’s gridiron career turned out all right.<\/p>\n\n

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I haven’t had this much interest in the Heisman Trophy since, oh, 2015 when Oregon’s Marcus Mariota won the award as the nation’s top college football player. The object of my attention this year is a young man from Allen, Texas, who plays for the University of Oklahoma. I refer to Kyler Murray, the OU … Continue reading Pulling for ‘home boy’ of sorts for Heisman Trophy<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[260,2097,2893,8195,4940],"class_list":["post-34104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-allen-high-school","tag-heisman-trophy","tag-marcus-mariota","tag-u-of-oklahoma","tag-u-of-oregon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34106,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34104\/revisions\/34106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}