KURTIS ROURKE'S GO-TO shirt around the Indiana football facility reads, "BRING YOUR EH GAME," featuring the red and white Canadian maple leaf flag. In 2019, his first year of college in America, Rourke bought NBA League Pass, so he could watch the Toronto Raptors' run to an NBA championship. Rourke's sports hero remains Terry Fox, the Canadian who ran a marathon 143 straight days in 1980 after having his right leg amputated due to cancer.
"I'm very proud to be Canadian," said the Indiana star quarterback, who grew up in Oakville, Ontario, and attended all but one year of high school there.