You didn't misread the headline.
Bowling Green has a new star linebacker, a transfer from Dayton, a native of Northeast Ohio and LaGrange Keystone High School.
His name is Gideon Lampron, a cool enough name as it is.
His full name? Gideon ESPN Lampron.
The Toledo Blade's David Briggs revealed this fun fact in a new column.
“It was a big gamble,” Lampron told Briggs, “because I could have ended up liking instruments and being in the band, or something.”
Lampron was a first-team FCS All-American at Dayton.
Now at BGSU, he gets to play for Ohio State legend Eddie George.
Briggs reports that Lampron's dad, Marty, snuck in ESPN as the middle name without mother Jennifer knowing.
“I didn’t fully realize until I got Gideon’s social security card and there it was, in all caps,” Jennifer told Briggs. “I couldn’t believe it. This couldn’t be real.”
Lampron is 6-foot-2, 220 pounds and has reached his dream of FBS football.
The best part, in an ironic standpoint: Bowling Green's MAC games are often played in the middle of the week, on ESPN.
“None of my highlights made it [at Dayton], but a few of my games were on ESPN-plus,” Lampron told Briggs. “I'm looking forward to MACtion.”
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