Damien Harris, Jarrett Stidham share Kentucky bond
Tomorrow, Alabama’s Damien Harris and Auburn’s Jarrett Stidham will face off in the Iron Bowl, but many, many years ago, they were teammates on a little league football team in Richmond, Kentucky.
AL.com’s Joseph Goodman has a great story this week about the bond between Harris and Stidham, who was born in Corbin, Kentucky, but moved to Texas in elementary school. They reconnected at The Opening in Oregon in 2014.
Their friendship picked up like they had never lost touch. When Harris learned that Stidham was leaving Baylor, he and his mom prayed that Damien’s old friend would go anywhere except one school, Auburn.
“We both prayed that he wouldn’t go to Auburn because I just knew how good he was, and I was just like, ‘Man, he can’t go to Auburn. I hope he goes anywhere but Auburn,'” Harris said. “And then when I found out he was going there, I texted my mom and was like, ‘I guess we’ll see each other again.'”
Cool stuff on a pair of Kentucky natives who will be smack dab in the national spotlight tomorrow afternoon. To read the rest, click the link below.
[The unbelievable connection between Alabama’s Damien Harris and Auburn’s Jarrett Stidham]
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