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...game day at the McDevitt household was no simple affair. You had to come prepared. Jason had his facts; he knew Bo Schembeckler's system well, and you could be sure that the option would be in fine working order and that Wolverine QB Rick Leach would do his damage. Jason of course fulfilled all of these roles--coach, star halfback, option quarterback...
...Trojans didn't come on the scene until later in the season; first we had to get through the preliminaries. And that meant Ohio State, and me doing my best Archie Griffin impersonation. Jason was just a little bit too fast for the Ohio State secondary most games, and that set the stage for the showdown. The Rose Bowl. The Grandaddy of them all. McDevitt against Barron. Leach against Davis. This was big time...
...lost touch with Jason after I moved to Washington, and it became increasingly less cool to spend afternoons imitating college stars, who I now realize, are for the most part younger than I am. I have seen Jason exactly twice in the last eight years. Each time it has been at The Game...
Then, there on a terrace in front of a dormitory stood a tall figure. Jason McDevitt, elongated now to more than six feet. The height advantage...
...seen Jason that night, I would not have forgotten him. But I would not have imagined that he had grown up, stopped playing football games in his backyard, gone to college, just as I had done. It would have simply been part of a past, childhood--remembered at times fondly, at other times...