“I honestly - and I know people aren’t gonna believe this - I honestly thought the whole time,” Gardner "Flint" Minshew I explained. To his father, none of this is a surprise.
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The Jaguars' sixth-round draftee out of Washington State was thrust into a starting role when $88-million free agent signee Nick Foles broke his collarbone just 11 plays into the 2019 season. It's a desire to be the best and a zest for life that Jacksonville - and the entire NFL - has seen first-hand this fall. But he wanted to be in the yard every day throwing the ball." "So, literally, people thought I was crazy. “I have a lot of people who ask me ‘oh my son wants to play college.’ And I say ‘oh does your kid bug you to go out and do extra stuff?’" the father of three explained recently to First Coast News, the Times-Union's news partner. Meanwhile on Twitter, his bio still says "QB for the Jacksonville Jaguars." (But in his defense, he hasn't tweeted since being traded to the Eagles.Flint Minshew never had to push his only son, Gardner.
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Minshew posted on Instagram after the Eagles win a photo of him celebrating with the caption: "Man that was fun!" So my wife's like, 'No way he's going to be called Bubba.' Nothing against all the Bubbas out there. because in Mississippi, "If you're junior, you're probably going to get called Bubba. Minshew's father, who goes by Flint, explains that he and his wife named their son Gardner Flint Minshew II and not Gardner Flint Minshew Jr. His grandfather wanting to name him Beowulf.Īnd, just to clear up an erroneous story floating around: Minshew shares the same name as his father, Gardner Flint Minshew. Carrying a full-size bottle of vanilla Crown Royal around in the waistband of his jeans on a night around Pullman, according to The Athletic. Buying a bed for $10 on Facebook Marketplace, according to The Athletic Doing a naked cannonball into a swimming pool during camp at WSU.
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He walked in, saw Minshew working out, and then told his son to tell Minshew: "Good game." Steve Spurrier, whose son is the receivers coach at WSU, wanted to speak to Minshew after a game. Working out in the locker room with resistance bands wearing only his aviators and a jockstrap - and sometimes just the aviators. "If he came back, they'd probably have a parade through downtown Pullman, throw mustaches everywhere, be chanting 'Mississippi Mustache.'" "He is like a Pullman icon," Greene said. People start to look him up and see pictures of him and they saw the mustache and they were mesmerized by it."īy the time the regular season ended and Minshew had led the Cougars to an 11-2 record, he was the biggest thing in Pullman since Klay Thompson. "It wasn't until that first game that people understood what he was capable of. "No one really knew who he was or what he was about," said Dylan Greene, who was the editor in chief of the Daily Evergreen, WSU's student newspaper, at the time. He’s bAAAAAAAACK ??? #GoCougs - Washington State Football December 5, 2021īy then, the Pacific Northwest was scrambling to find out as much as it could about the kid from Brandon, Mississippi, who showed up in June after a phone call from Cougars coach Mike Leach, asking him if he wanted to come to Pullman and lead the nation in passing instead of transferring to Alabama to be a backup quarterback.