The Oklahoma Sooners will play the Georgia Bulldogs in this year’s Rose Bowl semifinal game on New Year’s Day, and the build up for this has already started. On Sunday evening, after the pairing was announced earlier in the day, Sooners QB Baker Mayfield tweeted that some Dawg fans apparently got a hold of his cell phone number.
Baker Mayfield changes his cell phone number after getting calls from Georgia fans
Think he needs any extra motivation?
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Shout out to Baker for being a good sport about all of it in the end. We’ve seen opposing fan bases get a hold of college QBs’ numbers before. Ten years ago in 2007, LSU fans called up Florida QB Tim Tebow the week leading up to the game:
“Honestly, it just put a little fuel to the fire,” Tebow recalled. “All the death threats towards my family and friends and stuff was a little much, but honestly it was just fuel to the fire and I was just so focused.”
The calls started on Tuesday before the game, and Tebow eventually turned off the phone. According to the Associated Press, he had to listen to each text and voicemail before deleting it.
So when the Gators took a 10-0 lead off a Tebow touchdown pass to running back Kestahn Moore, the QB celebrated by taunting LSU fans with a cell phone gesture:
My guess is Mayfield may have something similar in mind when game day finally rolls around, but that’s still nearly a month away, so perhaps all will be forgiven by then. Next month’s game will kickoff at 5:10 p.m. ET.
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