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Baker Mayfield comments on flag planting in college football: ‘Let the boys play’
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Baker Mayfield hasn’t changed one bit, and he wants everyone to know it.
The former star at Texas Tech and Oklahoma was always brash and bold, both on the field with his style of play and off the field when the microphones were put in front of his face. On Sunday, after leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an overtime victory over the Carolina Panthers, Mayfield didn’t hold back when asked about college football’s newest rage: flag planting.
In case you missed it, Rivalry Week came and went, and there were several instances of road teams winning on their rival’s home field and taking the pleasure of planting their team flag at midfield – specifically Michigan at Ohio State, which prompted police at Ohio Stadium to use pepper spray on both sides of an ensuing skirmish stemming from the planting.
Mayfield’s stance, not surprisingly, is to just let the young men do what they’re going to do after rivalry games.
“I’ll say this: Oklahoma-Texas does it every time they play, it’s not anything special,” said Mayfield, who was called the “OG” of flag planting by the reporter asking the question. “You take your ‘L’ and you move on. College football was meant to have rivalries. Just let the boys play.”
Baker Mayfield shared his thoughts on college flag planting ⬇️
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Michigan-Ohio State wasn’t the only instance of flag planting this week. NC State did it at North Carolina, Arizona State did it at Arizona and so on.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
