SAN FRANCISCO–The local rankings, the leading recruits and the latest prep reports provided endless fodder in the weeks ahead of my senior football season at St. Ignatius in San Francisco, which began with a matchup against Jared Goff’s Marin Catholic Wildcats.
Yes, that Jared Goff.
At 6-foot-4 with a laser for an arm, Goff was a junior then, but he wasn’t Marin Catholic’s starting quarterback. Seven-plus years later, 100 million viewers will watch Goff start for the Rams in the Super Bowl against Tom Brady’s New England Patriots.
Back in 2011, Brady was accustomed to that type of audience.