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Depending on who is talking, Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck falls into a fairly wide but positive range of personality characteristics. He’s somewhere between being a selfless “outstanding young man” who was co-valedictorian of his high school and a scholar in college and, well, hmmm, how do you put this …
A “goober.”
“It’s that, ‘Aw shucks, cut it out’ thing he says when you try and pay him a compliment … and then he laughs,” said Marshall Hughes, one of Luck’s best friends from Houston’s Stratford High. Hughes then imitates the low, thudding Luck chortle. “I don’t know how to explain it, but he’s like so perfect all the time. He’s...
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