TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield is a person of his phrase, even when it meant a stroll of disgrace to the rostrum throughout his weekly information convention.
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On Wednesday, the College of Oklahoma’s 2017 Heisman Trophy winner donned a black and yellow College of Missouri sweatshirt that learn “Mizzou Grandma.”
Instantly recognizing it because the product of a misplaced guess, Rick Stroud, a reporter from the Tampa Bay Instances, requested, “Who’s your Mizzou man?”
Mayfield took off his cap and responded, “Um…We do not have one. It is [team reporter] Casey Phillips.”
Mayfield then stepped in entrance of the rostrum to disclose that the sweatshirt learn, “Mizzou Grandma,” and was greeted by laughter, together with that from Phillips, who was standing within the room.
When requested if he borrowed it from Phillips’ grandmother, he responded, “Nicely, it is undoubtedly not mine.”
Mizzou beat Mayfield’s Oklahoma Sooners 30-23 on Nov. 9, with Zion Younger returning a fumble 17 yards for a landing with 22 seconds left, following a Triston Newson sack of OU quarterback Jackson Arnold.
Phillips, who has served because the staff reporter since 2015, posted on X: “I’ve to offer Baker a TON of credit score for being a person of his phrase and in addition rolling with it regardless of the grandma curveball I threw in there.”
His former Sooners teammate, huge receiver Sterling Shepard, who’s now in Tampa, stated, “That is not enjoyable. Hear, I am not making any bets as a result of I am not carrying another staff.”
Mizzou Athletics acquired phrase of it and chimed in as properly.
Baker 🤝 Cook dinner 👩🍳
Gold would possibly simply be your shade, @bakermayfield#MIZ 🐯 https://t.co/4uaRyk0Wzn
— Mizzou Athletics (@MizzouAthletics) December 4, 2024
