Ryan Hawkins, have you ever been to Athens, Ohio, where Joe Burrough is from?

I have not, but it's on, Athens is on my list.

I don't know about the Ohio one, but yes, I have not been there.

So I went to college at Miami of Ohio, which is reasonably close to

Athens and they are rivals in the sense. The story of Athens and I don't know

how apocryphal this is, is that there was once an insane asylum there and the

insane asylum closed, they let the people out and built a town.

That is the hometown of the man we're talking about today.

Wow, so as an origin story, I would say that Athens is probably doing pretty good for all things considered, right Yeah I mean I've been there a couple

times for Halloween and for football games and it's a little weird not gonna lie but

making it out of there is no small task is my point.

Okay, well I've never been told do not go there.

Do you know how this all began?

So things must be going okay.

Doing just fine and they've got a new hometown hero to celebrate.

Yes, they do. Coming into Monday Night Football, the Cincinnati Bengals Joe Borough is under the spotlight.

Many people forget that he started off in Columbus, Ohio at Ohio State and ended up in

Baton Rouge, Louisiana for the LSU Tigers.

That year begat, one of the best seasons in the history of college football.

So today, our own Ryan Hawkinsmith writes about what went on during that season in the SEC and how Joe Burrow went from

young man who nobody ever seen to grown man that nobody could ever ignore.

I'm Clinton Yates.

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