Long before they took the college football world by storm and their NFL careers began, Tua Tagovailoa will never forget when he first met fellow Hawaiian and Samoan quarterback Marcus Mariota.
It was during a football camp at St. Louis School in Honolulu, which became the high school alma mater for both players.
Some of the older participants at the camp wondered why Tagovailoa, who was just a fourth grader at the time, was throwing alongside them.
And that set off a friendship that has lasted ever since, and could be the focus of Saturday’s game between the Miami Dolphins and Las Vegas Raiders.