Jam The Hype (JTH): Just to start off, would you mind telling me a little bit about your background, just your story, and how you got involved with football to begin with?
Jordan Pugh (JP): Man, I haven’t had anybody ask me that in a long time! I first started playing in either the fourth or fifth grade. I loved baseball actually. I was a big baseball fan and player. The Atlanta Braves were my favorite team when I was little. After playing baseball, I got into some football. My dad tells a funny story, man. He thought I wasn’t going to make it because I was afraid of blood when I was little. And, I went out there and started playing, and I just fell in love with it. And as I got older, and by the time I got to high school, I was like, “this is what I want to do.” I made it a point right there to make sure I reached all the goals that I wanted to reach.
JTH: So you went to high school in Texas, right? Okay, I’m going to ask you a random question – is it truly like Friday Night Lights for real?
JP: Oh yeah, oh yeah! Easy! They had three high schools in Plano. I went to Plano West. We had two stadiums, Clark and Kimbrough. I think Clark seats about 20,000 and Kimbrough seats about 15,000. The biggest crowd I played in front of in high school had to be; I want to say, close to 50,000. That was the playoffs. People don’t understand. Football is like religion down here. Yeah man, it goes Friday, high school; Saturday, college; and Sunday, NFL.
JTH: So it’s not as far-fetched as they try to make it seem on the TV show then, huh?
JP: It’s not that over the top. But, it’s big though. You see cities shut down. There’s places like that. Stadiums are packed full of people. I mean, it’s big. You have radio stations; they’ll play it on TV. Stuff like that.
