Stetson Bennett flying high with Blue Angels down at Vidalia Onion Festival
Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett recently shared with On3’s Ivan Maisel how winning the National Championship has changed his life. According to him, the fanfare is greater, but other than that, “nothing really else has changed.”
One of the perks that’s come with that increase fanfare are the opportunities for cool experiences like the one Bennett had today, flying with the Blue Angels of the U.S. Navy during the Vidalia Onion Festival.
“I have no idea how I’m going to react to it,” Bennett told Maisel. “I don’t know if I’m going to puke. I don’t know how you would know what your body would do. I hope I don’t pass out. Oh, that would be embarrassing.”
This isn’t the first special experience Bennett has had since winning the National Championship. In January he had a parade in his hometown of Blackshear, Ga. In February he threw out the first pitch before Georgia Baseball’s first game of the season. And earlier this month, he went to the Masters
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Bennett will be back for another fall to lead the Georgia offense once again so don’t count on the fun festivities to end anytime soon. In fact, he’s likely going to benefit about as much as any other athlete in the country from the combination of notoriety and NIL.
“I mean, you know, I started a few games the year before. I like to relate it all — I was the starting quarterback in high school. People knew who I was in high school. You know, I came here, scout team, somebody wrote an article about me out in the Rose Bowl. So, you know, it wasn’t that different. It wasn’t like nobody had ever heard of me, but it did kind of explode there for a second,” Bennett told media members about how his life had changed and how NIL could factor into that. “So, I had to look back and be like, alright, you can’t give your time out to everybody who wants it, alright? Thank goodness I had a great support staff to help me out with that. But I know what’s important school-wise, football-wise, personal life-wise to not get too, you know, spread thin. I lived without NIL for a long time; I can live with out it, you know, for a long time. It’s given me through like DGD Fund ways to help people and stuff like that. So, I love it, but I’m not allowing it to be a distraction.”
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