I wanted to share an article in the Honolulu Advertiser that caught my eye this week.
Colt Brennan still misses Hawaii
We’re not very big college football fans, although we were caught up with the local hype when Northwestern went to the Rose Bowl in ‘96. Yet, we got drawn into the UH Warriors last year and all the excitement around their eventual push to a 12-0 season in the WAC football conference and their loss to Georgia in the Sugar Bowl that year.
Like many following the team, we became big fans of Colt as he lead the Warriors to many great come-from-behind victories, breaking multiple offensive passing and touchdown records, and a career Senior year that led him to be named a Heisman Trophy finalist. We were tracking him this summer when he entered the NFL draft and were happy that he was picked up by the Washington Redskins, which is the team mentioned in the article above.
You really don’t need to be a big sports fan to appreciate Colt’s story. He faced some adversity and indiscretions early in his college years at Colorado, but he never gave up. UH gave him a chance to turn his life around, and with strong guidance from his coach, June Jones, and the support of his teammates, he returned the favor and led the Warriors to their best season ever. Colt and the Warriors had the entire Aloha State cheering for them this past January as they battled in the Sugar Bowl, and even though the team lost, UH Warriors football was never going to be the same.
But even through that Colt is now part of an NFL franchise and displaced from the islands during the season, he has not lost that Aloha spirit. In the article, one of Colt’s teammates thanks him for “bringing Hawai’i to the East Coast.” The article also talks about a few of the adjustments he’s making being back on the mainland and his new responsibilities after college. It will be interesting to see how he handles the next few years, and we’ll be cheering for him when he gets to step out onto the field for his first NFL regular season game.
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