The most indelible moment in the unrelenting sibling rivalry between Samson and Puka Nacua took place in the middle of a football field at Orem High School on Sept. 25, 2015.
Samson was a senior wide receiver for the Timpview Thunderbirds. Puka was a freshman wide receiver for the Orem Tigers. But those details don’t matter. Not really.
This was essential, elemental: brother against brother.
And for the first half, at least, little brother was best.
“I remember we got down, and I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, I’m about to lose to my little brother’s team,’” Samson Nacua, now a redshirt junior wide receiver at Utah, told The Times in a phone interview this week.