Sam Farmer: High-school years gave Rams coach Sean McVay his first taste of fame
BROOKHAVEN, Ga. - The legend of Sean McVay only grows at the Marist School, a sprawling campus of red-brick buildings tucked into the hilly suburbs just north of Atlanta.
It wasn't so long ago that the 31-year-old Rams wunderkind - the likely NFL coach of the year - thrilled Marist students and fans, not with his headset wizardry but with his forehead-slapping, ankle-snapping moves as a high school quarterback.
McVay's game video was like a video game. The bright-eyed kid with straight and shaggy blond hair (not spiked like now) was so good that he was named 2003 State Player of the Year in Georgia, edging future Detroit Lions star Calvin Johnson in the process.
"That was ridiculous," McVay said almost sheepishly this week during a break from preparations for Saturday night's
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