Drew Tate’s First Post Game Interview

I was thinking about how much I want the college football season to start the other day and just remembering fun moments from the early part of past seasons. The memory that stands out the most is the post game interview after Drew Tate’s first game as a starter two seasons ago.

He had to leave the game with cramps from dehydration. Apparently, at half time he tried to rehdyrate by drinking a bunch of gatorade. Just before they were set to return to the field he got sick and sat the rest of the game.

During the post game interview, they were asking him about his inability to return for the second half. He hadn’t had enough time to develop his interview polish yet. He blurted out something like, “I drank to much Gatorade at half time and started throwing up blue and green and yellow….”

Classic stuff. With the boring interviews that the good players give these days, it was fun to hear an interview from a kid just having fun with what he was doing and not trying to avoid embarassment that could hurt his potential pro career.

I will admit to being scared when he cramped up in his second game, too.  Thank goodness he got over that phase and decided it would be better to be able to play all four quarters.