In Week Two of the young college football season I was very impressed with a young man named Robert Patrick "Tate" Forcier whose a true freshmen quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines.
Robert received the nickname "Tate" after the 7-year-old child prodigy Fred Tate in the 1991 movie Little Man Tate. Not familiar with the movie but I am glad he kept the name. The name Tate Forcier has too sound more entertaining than Robert or Patrick and to boot it has a warrior type of feel to it on the football field, don't you think?
Tate came from a football family with his two older brothers playing quarterback as well as his father. His oldest brother Jason played at Michigan behind Chad Henne in 2006 until transferring to Stan...
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