Hunter Bryant: Purple Haze?

UW tight end reminds us of somebody

It's bye week so we get a little levity here. A chance to try something different. Reach a little.

Hunter Bryant, a player with sufficient Washington football skills, comes across in conversation as humble, introspective and thoughtful. Distinctively different in style.

I'd seen and heard this person before.

I couldn't place it at first, but then I went back and watched this clip on the Dick Cavett Show.

One guy plays for a football team that hears the strains of Purple Haze. Another guy wrote it.

Compare the video clips of these two. Even if you don't see the connection, we can agree that talented people do seem to have a certain aura.

Published Nov 13, 2019

DAN RALEY

Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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