[ColoradoTree]

What Christian did in the Rose Bowl was for the ages.  You can cite this or that statistic but I saw these other guys play and nobody else came close to Christian.  As Hank says in his very fine article, mixed with the sheer joy of watching the team (not just Christian, but especially him) was a sense of responsibility to remember this game because -- at least for Stanford fans -- there hasn't been anything like it.  Mainly that was because there hasn't been anybody like Christian on the field.

Christian is fast, elusive and smart to the point of changing the whole game.  He doesn't just run or catch.  He plays high-speed chess with the defense, using blockers and timing to beat them.  Nobody else returns kicks (for TDs), catches mid-range passes and outruns everybody else to the end zone AND runs between the tackles.  I have never seen Christian fumble.  It's beyond belief. 

Reading the bowl reportage and watching the F Stanford award show to me have been like listening to Mozart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaXQQbcgw0) and then watching the football establishment go bonkers for Salieri.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-footbal...-td-010116

AND he's an academic all-American at a place where the academic competition is pretty keen.  But the football mainstream are saying, "nice but too many notes." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU

IMO Stanford put the best player and -- at the end of the season -- the best team on the field this year.

Okay, I'm totally biased, but there it is.

Yep.  Pretty much this. 

[ColoradoTree]

What Christian did in the Rose Bowl was for the ages.  You can cite this or that statistic but I saw these other guys play and nobody else came close to Christian.  As Hank says in his very fine article, mixed with the sheer joy of watching the team (not just Christian, but especially him) was a sense of responsibility to remember this game because -- at least for Stanford fans -- there hasn't been anything like it.  Mainly that was because there hasn't been anybody like Christian on the field.

Christian is fast, elusive and smart to the point of changing the whole game.  He doesn't just run or catch.  He plays high-speed chess with the defense, using blockers and timing to beat them.  Nobody else returns kicks (for TDs), catches mid-range passes and outruns everybody else to the end zone AND runs between the tackles.  I have never seen Christian fumble.  It's beyond belief. 

Reading the bowl reportage and watching the F Stanford award show to me have been like listening to Mozart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaXQQbcgw0) and then watching the football establishment go bonkers for Salieri.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-footbal...-td-010116

AND he's an academic all-American at a place where the academic competition is pretty keen.  But the football mainstream are saying, "nice but too many notes." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCud8H7z7vU

IMO Stanford put the best player and -- at the end of the season -- the best team on the field this year.

Okay, I'm totally biased, but there it is.

Yep.  Pretty much this.