BYU Football Countdown: Player 66 – Childhood hero
By Adam Gibby
In 66 days BYU Football will take the field for the first time in the 2019 season.
66 more days until BYU Football! We are one third the way through the countdown that has already featured great players like Taysom Hill, Sione Takitaki, Brandon Doman and Curtis Brown. The players that are still coming are, well better.
BYU Football has been filled with great tradition and countless great moments. As this list gets lower and lower, I actually am getting more and more excited to write about the players because each one brings back memories or stories I have heard that get me excited for the start of the season.
If you haven’t been reading all of the player’s story and ranking, I invite you do to so. It is exciting to see the accomplishments and the impact that players that we all remember, or at least have heard of had done, and then to relive those memories again.
A few weeks ago when covering Kai Nacua, I had completely forgotten about the game sealing interception that he had against Wyoming in the soaking wet field in San Diego against now NFL starter Josh Allen. When writing the article however and when looking back at the stats, I was reminded of that and relived the excitement of it.
Today’s player is one of my all time favorite players growing up. I have watched BYU Football for essentially the entire 21st century, but it wasn’t until 2006 that BYU games became really accessible to everyone outside of Utah.