Blake Ferguson sat in first class, eating Christmas breakfast and waiting out the snowstorm in exceeding comfort.
Back in row 25, his father, Kevin, crammed his knees into the seat in front of him, surely regretting his decision to give his son a hard-earned upgrade.
“Luckily,” Blake says, “he still gave me his upgrade on our flight the next year. But he was pretty upset.”
Every athlete’s journey is different, but few rival the Ferguson family’s forays – in miles traveled, games attended, and flights delayed.
Since Reid – the firstborn Ferguson and the founder of the family’s long-snapping dynasty – first stepped foot on LSU’s campus in 2009 for a specialists camp, surely no household has covered near the distances demanded by their sons’ sport of choice.