[re_nortex]

dfwgator -- I'll ask this of you since you're pretty savvy about a lot of things.

When did the habit of NFL players introducing themselves using their high school, instead of the college they attended, start? What was the trigger for that? It seems to almost exclusively be done by black players.

[dfwgator]

Not sure, I remember it from a few years ago....then you have the Ohio State players who always make a point to say, “THE” Ohio State University.

[discostu]

Probably those ones didn’t go to college, there’s actually a pretty sizable set that didn’t. Or maybe they think their high school coach did more. Some guys have just made institutions up, even guys that went to college. What they say is optional, so long as it’s not dirty nobody really cares.

[bjorn14]

I remember GB QB Aaron Rodgers giving a shout out to Butte Community College where he went after he got no Division 1 scholarship offers (and then went on to Cal) It’s just more of the hip-hop culture trying to be different.

I personally don’t think it’s a bad thing they’re just giving respect where respect is due. Maybe their HS coach saved them from a life of drugs and gangs.

[Retired Greyhound]

When did the habit of NFL players introducing themselves using their high school, instead of the college they attended, start?

Since most NFL players don't graduate from their college, it seems appropriate to me that they introduce their high school.

I prefer it, actually.