Stanford's Amazing Christian McCaffrey

From Bill Plaschke, at LAT, "Stanford's Christian McCaffrey shows the rest of the country what it missed":

You believe it now, America?

Do you finally believe this country's best college football player is the one who lost the Heisman Trophy?

Do you finally believe this country's most breathtaking college football player is the one with an ordinary build, from a brainy school, with a teenage slouch and a child-like smile?

While he was sprinting, you were sleeping. While he was making history in Palo Alto, you were paying attention to Tuscaloosa. While he was breaking records, you were buying into stereotypes.

But surely now you see, you must see, after 102-year-old Granddaddy jumped out of his chair Friday afternoon, threw open the doors to his sun-kissed Pasadena bungalow, and introduced him.

America, the Rose Bowl would like you to meet Christian McCaffrey.

Yeah, that was him, No. 5, green grass stains streaking down the side of his white uniform, black headband bunched on his brown hair, Rose Bowl history in his shoes.

Yep, that was the Stanford running back who juked and zagged and darted around television screens like a distressed bug in leading the Cardinal to a dominating 45-16 win over alleged Big Ten power Iowa in the Rose Bowl.

"Like somebody you create in a video game," Cardinal receiver Francis Owusu said...

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Stanford scored on the first freakin' play. They were up 21-0 before my football party got settled over at my grad school buddy's mom's house, where we watched the game. It was pretty-mind-boggling.