Marcus Mariotta: Good at Football, Bad at Crime

By D.J. Byrnes on December 15, 2014 at 10:25 am
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Marcus Mariota, who Tony Dungy called an "Aaron Rodgers in waiting,"  won the 80th Heisman Award over the weekend, and in a year when it was straight "Anybody But Jameis," that's a good thing.

But buried in this fluff piece on the Oregon quarterback's landslide victory is this:

"His big negative," Nike co-founder and Oregon superbooster Phil Knight said last week, "is that he got a speeding ticket for going 80 in a 55 at 12:30 at night. What they didn't tell is that he was coming back from a speech he gave to the Boys and Girls Club. He hung out with the kids too long."

Don't worry, Marcus: Kids freak me out too.


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