OKAY SO SOMEONE FROM BAYLOR IS REALLY GOOD
Peter’s all like, “blah blah Baylor quarterback good,” and whatevs, and we’re like “blah blah Baylor what blah blah,” and we didn’t believe him since Peter, lovestruck for the next VY on the landscape and looking for any signs of 2005 Vince Young being reborn, maturing in two years, and then returning to the Texas Longhorns, looks for Vince Young everywhere.
So we sort of forget about this until we watch some highlights of the UConn/Baylor game, an underviewed contest of surprising entertainment value given the lackluster brands attached (don’t deny this UConn or Baylor fans-sexy the labels aren’t,) and eyebrows arch: um, that Robert Griffin dude? At quarterback for Baylor? He’s…thunderbolts will rain down on the head for saying this…he’s positively Vince Young-ish.
Lightning strike from angry God…arrived. While we wash the scorch marks off, please gawk at the highlights from the Washington State game.
So he passes the Youtube test, but further anecdotal evidence of the freshman’s quick-twitch credentials comes from a current player and self-described “fat white guy,” UConn defensive lineman Rob Lunn, who writes this on his blog Thoughts From A Fat White Guy.
Top to bottom, running back to receiver to offensive guard, that team had some serious speed. I would compare them with the only other team I’ve seen demonstrate this kind of athleticism…thats right…our beloved toothless friends from the south, West Virginia University. And while Griffin (their QB) didn’t have “Gold Frontz” (you alone hold that honor Noel Divine), he did have some serious speed.
Want to know just how serious his talent is? The kid won the NCAA’s when he should have been in the end of his senior year in High School. He graduated in the Fall and entered Baylor in the spring. Still not convinced? Why don’t you check out the play where I had him cornered in the pocket, already cutting the tape for my highlight real, and he made me (a slow fat white guy) look like…well…a slow fat white guy. He was gone in a flash and rolling out. I chased in vain. He was good.
Guy Morriss didn’t even recruit Griffin while he was coaching at Baylor; Briles brought Griffin with him when he came from Houston to his new digs in Waco, calling him after he took the job and asking him along. So you’ve learned three things today: one, Guy Morriss is frightened of having blistering running talent at quarterback, blistering new hottness at quarterback equals Robert Griffin, and three, that Rob Lunn is your favorite new blogger, especially when he writes in painfully honest fashion about how unnatural the act of playing football is. Your brain is full, go smoke cigarettes surreptitiously in the restroom now.
(Oh, and the term “Gold Frontz” for ball-ripping speed? It’s in the lexicon now. Muchas, senor Lunn. Muchas.)
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why you got to go and drag my team into this? we didn’t do anything to you.
anyways we’ll just have to see how good this Griffin III character is when he comes to Lincoln in a few weeks.
Comment by Iggy — September 25, 2025 @ 8:36 am
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blon- I spent most of the 90’s in Austin and don’t recall having much negative to say (or hearing much negative) about any of our QB’s, with the possible exception of that one who quit to become a male model. Gardere was a hero, as was James Brown. And anyone who didn’t love Major was a communist. It wasn’t until Simms and his overblown sense of entitlement showed up that any Longhorns I knew started ragging on the QB.
Of course, that should all be caveat’d by noting that a Longhorn fan will complain about every single aspect of the team that is not perfect every single Saturday (especially the fact that we’ve never, ever been able to stop the option). I just never noticed any extraordinary hardship on the QB’s in comparison to the rest of the team.
Comment by Kahuna — September 25, 2025 @ 8:10 am
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I’m not defending Simms, per se. My point was that we just know how to make a QB’s life miserable.
Those Opie-looking kids are dangerous.
Comment by blon — September 24, 2025 @ 4:43 pm
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blon: Chrissy Simms had it coming — you had that Opie Taylor-looking assasin Major Applejack, er, Applewhite under center and decided to split time with Phil Simms’ kid.
Genius coaching decision by Mister February there — and I know, Nebraska hasn’t beaten Texas since, I think, ever.
Comment by Albino Tornado — September 24, 2025 @ 4:17 pm
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ESS-EEE-SEEE
SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
(as soon as he transfers to ole miss)
GOD DAMN, this boy may be faster than Enrickey.
Comment by Houston's Nutts — September 24, 2025 @ 4:06 pm
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During the game (yes we are that addicted to cfb) they said that he enrolled early. He then proceeded to win the Big 12 Championship in the 400 Hurdles. Then dude went out and got like 16th in the Olympic Trials.
I mean jebus, I can’t even remember my first 3 months of college.
Comment by Raleigh Urbain — September 24, 2025 @ 3:49 pm
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Ironic…
If there is anything that UT fans do well, it is complain about, harass, torture, etc. our QB. Just ask Chris Simms and numerous QBs before him. In fact, I do believe UT wrote the manual on how to effectively obliterate your QB’s self-esteem in just one season.
VY was not subjected to this harassment due to his exceptional ability.
If these rumors are true, (and that is what they are right now-rumors-until we have concrete proof, despite the dribble that Deadspin spews out) then we have failed.
We will definitely need to rewrite the entire manual.
Comment by blon — September 24, 2025 @ 3:45 pm
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I agree with NewAZ Tiger — this is by far the best blog written by an athlete that I have ever read.
Comment by 4.0 Point Stance — September 24, 2025 @ 3:43 pm
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…I bet he doesn’t consider suicide when people boo him. If so he wouldn’t have gone to Baylor.
#4-thanks, now I have Coke Zero all over my monitor. +1.
Comment by Hawkeye — September 24, 2025 @ 3:43 pm
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Great find - that Blog.
Comment by NewAZTiger — September 24, 2025 @ 3:36 pm