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Michigan State safety Grayson Miller celebrates after beating Michigan last season.
To set the scene at Michigan Stadium on Oct. 17, 2015: With 10 seconds left and U-M ahead, 23-21, O’Neill mishandled a low snap, a swarm of MSU “Rangers” overwhelmed his outflanked blockers and the ball somehow floated to an unknown redshirt freshman, Jalen Watts-Jackson, who wildly dashed 38 yards for a touchdown.
Grayson Miller, at 13 years old, could not have been more excited or wide-eyed as he stood in the Michigan State locker room on Oct. 3, 2009.
“I thought for a long time that I would be a baseball player, and my dad just wanted me to play and have fun,” Grayson said.
Julie drove Grayson to MSU’s two-day elite camp in June of 2014, and a visit to Iowa’s elite camp was next on the travel itinerary.
As an MSU freshman, a redshirt season was in the plans and, although Grayson hated the idea of another fall with no football, he understood.
“The Perfect :10,” a new book by Jack Ebling and Joe Rexrode, includes 42 pages of vignettes from the famous and not-at-all famous reflecting on w they were for the historic finish of last year’s Michigan State-Michigan football game.