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FRISCO, Texas – Long before the Dallas Cowboys knew about Rayne Dakota Prescott, quarterback of the franchise’s current present and future, Morris Claiborne got the first look.
On Oct. 17, 2008 – a Louisiana 4A District 1 matchup of Shreveport-area high schools – Claiborne was the senior star quarterback (not cornerback) for the Fair Park Indians. All he’d heard about during homecoming week was this upstart sophomore quarterback for the Haughton Buccaneers.
“That was the like the talk of the week: ‘We’ve got to get ready to play this big quarterback, man. It’s going to take all of us to tackle him,’” Claiborne recalls as he sits at his locker inside the Cowboys’ new world headquarters, The Star. “I can remember it like it was yesterday. We just remember him being big, athletic, can run around and throw the ball.”
Prescott’s team dominated Fair Park, 42-12, and won a tight rematch in the first round of the state playoffs. A few years later, the big quarterback from Haughton became a folk hero 325 miles to the northeast in Starkville, Miss.
link/http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...allas-why-prescotts-rise-shouldnt-be-surprise
On Oct. 17, 2008 – a Louisiana 4A District 1 matchup of Shreveport-area high schools – Claiborne was the senior star quarterback (not cornerback) for the Fair Park Indians. All he’d heard about during homecoming week was this upstart sophomore quarterback for the Haughton Buccaneers.
“That was the like the talk of the week: ‘We’ve got to get ready to play this big quarterback, man. It’s going to take all of us to tackle him,’” Claiborne recalls as he sits at his locker inside the Cowboys’ new world headquarters, The Star. “I can remember it like it was yesterday. We just remember him being big, athletic, can run around and throw the ball.”
Prescott’s team dominated Fair Park, 42-12, and won a tight rematch in the first round of the state playoffs. A few years later, the big quarterback from Haughton became a folk hero 325 miles to the northeast in Starkville, Miss.
link/http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2...allas-why-prescotts-rise-shouldnt-be-surprise