NCAA Football

Baylor Quarterback Robert Griffin Had An Impressive Marriage Proposal

In the process of looking for information on Off The Market, the organization at the center of my last post, I did a standard Internet search for “off the market.” One headline that turned up: “Baylor’s Robert Griffin is off the market.” I clicked on it. And one of the top quarterbacks in college football sounds like he knows his way around a marriage proposal.

Griffin gave Dwain Price of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram a detailed breakdown, and I enjoyed Griffin’s note that “there’s lies involved in proposals,” as he described how he lured his now-fiancee, Rebecca Liddicoat, into Baylor’s indoor football facility. But his best work was yet to come:

“I went in the bathroom and my dad gave me the ring, and I walked in the indoor (facility), and I had candles everywhere. I had one of my teammates playing the guitar, so I talked to her and serenaded her. I walked into the middle where her family was standing with candles and I popped the question.”

The involvement of family members and the guitar-playing teammate really takes this to another level. And I’m going to guess that this just might have been the most romantic moment in the history of indoor football practice facilities.

It was a capper to what had to be an exceptionally nice day for Griffin – earlier, he threw for 404 yards in his team’s 47-42 win over Kansas State, which made Baylor bowl-eligible. He’s having an outstanding season and is more than delivering on the promise he showed his freshman year.

And he definitely knows how to propose marriage. I asked for a couple outside opinions on how impressive his performance was. One person said, “Yawn” (buzzkill), another called it “a solid proposal,” and another shared my view that it was indeed impressive. So congratulations, Robert, and nicely done…on the field and off.

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