Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy had just endured his first loss as quarterback for La Grange Park (Illinois) Nazareth Academy during his sophomore season, but patiently signed autographs.
A little girl offered her newspaper to be signed.
“She was like, ‘Hey, why did you look so mad out there? Why weren’t you having fun?’” McCarthy said this week.
McCarthy explained he hadn’t played well, and he was taking the team’s loss hard.
“And she said, ‘What does that matter? You’re playing football, shouldn’t you be having fun?’” he said.
The little girl, whose identity McCarthy doesn’t know, took the Sharpie he was using to sign autographs from his hand.