NFL Legend Jim McMahon on Playing for BYU

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Jim McMahon: Baseball was my first love. That’s all I wanted to do was play baseball. I went back to Nebraska, Oklahoma State, I can’t even remember the other places, but the only two schools that said I could play both sports was Brigham Young or Nevada-Las Vegas.

Vegas happened to be my last recruiting trip, and I had a great time. I came home and said, “Pops, I’m going to Vegas.” My dad said, “No, it’s not a big enough school.” I said, “Pops, listen to me. I don’t care how big the school is.” I knew I could go on to the next level.

I said, “They just offered me a house, a car, money, easy job at the casino.” I mean, hell, I could have been Steve Wynn or dead from strippers, who knows? But my dad wouldn’t let me go, so I ended up going to BYU. I played baseball my freshman year.

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