'Fired Up' Texas QB Quinn Ewers Smokes Victory Cigar After Alabama Upset
When you graduate high school, get married or have a child, maybe you'll light up and have a nice celebratory Cuban cigar — but what about when you beat Alabama?
Texas Longhorns quarterback Quinn Ewers sat at his locker — which might as well have been the top of the world — and had a victory cigar in his mouth, sitting back in his chair and celebrating what he had just done to the No. 3 Crimson Tide's secondary in the 34-24 upset Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
"We knew this whole week if we came in here, we were going to ball out. We were going to try to make them quit," Ewers said on ESPN's postgame. "God is so good. I can't say nothing else. How much God has put me through, he's made me so strong. I'm so proud of my team, my whole defense, we balled out. I'm fired up for the rest of the way."
Ewers torched the Alabama secondary with six throws of at least 30 or more yards Saturday.
He hit wide receivers Xavier Worthy and Adonai Mitchell on 44- and 39-yard touchdown passes — two of his three scores he tossed on the night. Ewers connected with Mitchell again for a 7-yard score in the fourth quarter that put the game away.
Ewers completed 63 percent of his 38 pass attempts for 349 yards and a score, cementing himself within the thick of the Heisman Trophy conversation.
While the cigar's flavor must've tasted sweet, the taste of revenge must've been sweeter for Ewers after being knocked out of last year's contest.
Now, we all know what he can do against the Crimson Tide in a full four-quarter contest.
