This is incredibly embarrassing and I'm honestly not sure how the reporter found out about this. It was a long time ago and I thought it was lost to the sands of time. At the time of the interview, I was in high school and already one of the top recruited players in the country and my biggest shame came to light - I didn't know that a field goal was worth three points. I guess I got a safety and field goal mixed up because in the interview, I was talking about how we were down by two and that a field goal would've tied the game. The interviewer thought I just misheard him, so he repeated. But then I said it again, quite confidently. Had I now been such a highly recruited player, this would not have gone anywhere. But it got plastered all over the message boards, recruiting forums, and even made the local paper. I tried my best to play it off as a practical joke but the damage was already done. Recently, my agent tried to get all the tapes and destroy any evidence that this ever existed, but one of my school's rival recruiting message board held on to a copy and it recently reared its ugly head this week. And of course, my team got a huge kick out of it this week during practice. I just hope nothing like that ever happens again.
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