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Northwestern to honor the late Craig Sager with helmet sticker in Pinstripe Bowl

Connor O'Gara | 8 years ago

Football was not Craig Sager’s calling.

Long before he was a widely recognizable TNT broadcaster, Sager attempted to walk on to the Northwestern football team. Instead, he ended up being “Willie the Wildcat” for three years, which launched a long and successful career in sports entertainment.

Two weeks ago, Northwestern mourned the death of one of their most famous graduates. In the Pinstripe Bowl on Wednesday, they’ll honor the late NBA personality with a helmet sticker:

Northwestern will honor alumnus Craig Sager by wearing this sticker on its @PinstripeBowl helmets tomorrow vs Pitt pic.twitter.com/zVY1WB4AX0

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 27, 2016

The Wildcats will rock the new lids against Pitt at Yankee Stadium on Saturday. Northwestern is in search of its third bowl victory in program history.

Kickoff is set for Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET.

Connor O'Gara

Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Tradition. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.

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