Realize that I talk too much. Went to the site below in the AJC, read an article by Steve Hummer pointing out some of AM's background. Yes, I am a homer, live on the East Coast of Florida, and follow a lot of these athletes. I am and will stick by my posts on this blog, AM is very, very good, and as I have said often . . . Has no fear.
They believe in the bonds of blood. Politicians and preachers talk about the strength of family. The Murrays trade in it, every day. Their separate lives are the interwoven strands of a single strong rope.
These Murrays believe in miracles. Real miracles, not the kind they invoke in the sports pages when some team rallies at the last second.
The news that Aaron Murray had earned the starting quarterback job at Georgia ranked well behind the medical update given his mother this spring. A tumor on her brain that doctors had been treating for two years was no longer visible on any scan.
Given that, it is hardly a stretch for them to believe that a redshirt freshman can step in and throw a credible pass for the Georgia Bulldogs.
Ready or not, Aaron Murray at 19 is about to get thrown into big-time college football. He makes his first collegiate start Sept. 4 against Louisiana-Lafayette, commencing what will be a weekly dissection of his character and abilities by the vast Bulldog following.
There is a Murray family philosophy that should help him deal with the kind of pressure he faces: "We have always told him to just go for what he wants," said his mother, Lauren. "What's the worst that can happen, you lose a game? At the end of the day, you still have God and family. The only thing bad is if you live with regrets."
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