NEW YORK, NY – There was a buzz inside Manhattan’s Marriott Marquis Friday afternoon, with former Heisman Trophy winners arriving for today’s Heisman Trophy presentation. The winners mixed with incredulous fans – many who were simply in town to shop – and had the luck to see one of their favorite players up close and in the flesh.
On the eighth floor of the hotel, four of the five finalists for this year’s award met with the media as gawking fans wandered by, many of them more flabbergasted at the sight of college football’s most prestigious award sitting out in the open than they were by the collection of football talent and gathered media.