TexasTerror
October 26th, 2010, 01:56 PM
Feature on ESPN on Jackson State's Casey Therriault...
They call him "White Tiger" or "Blue-Eyed Soul Brother" -- nicknames that make Casey Therriault chuckle.
"A lot of people have a whole list of them," Therriault says. "Whatever they say is fine with me."
A couple of years back, if someone had told Therriault, who is white, that the people giving him those nicknames would be his African-American teammates at Jackson State, a historically black college, he would have chuckled at that, too. Probably even considered it funnier than some of the nicknames he's been given since he became the Tigers' star quarterback.
"I guess things happen for a reason," says Therriault, who is leading the FCS in passing yards per game and has helped Jackson State to a 5-2 record.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/commentary/news/story?page=hill/101025
They call him "White Tiger" or "Blue-Eyed Soul Brother" -- nicknames that make Casey Therriault chuckle.
"A lot of people have a whole list of them," Therriault says. "Whatever they say is fine with me."
A couple of years back, if someone had told Therriault, who is white, that the people giving him those nicknames would be his African-American teammates at Jackson State, a historically black college, he would have chuckled at that, too. Probably even considered it funnier than some of the nicknames he's been given since he became the Tigers' star quarterback.
"I guess things happen for a reason," says Therriault, who is leading the FCS in passing yards per game and has helped Jackson State to a 5-2 record.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/commentary/news/story?page=hill/101025