On the night of the 2019 NFL Draft, Kyler Murray had the temerity to wear a pink suit.
Having served as high school English teacher for over three decades, it immediately made me think that Kyler was emulating Jay Gatsby. Yes, the Jay Gatsby who showed up at Tom and Daisy Buchanan’s house on the hottest and most fateful day of the summer donning a pink suit.
One parallel that made a whole lot of sense was that, if Kyler Murray was indeed going to be the first player taken in the draft, then Murray, like Gatsby, was about to become one of the nation’s instant mega-millionaires and the newest manifestation of the American Dream.