It has reached the point where even the news from off the field has gone off the rails.
With video of his on-field performances routinely going viral across social media, the stories surrounding Baylor School football star David Gabriel Georges have begun to sound more like the stuff of legends: Paul Bunyan-type yarns, spun to make the 6-foot, 205-pound junior running back sound larger than life.
In reality, however, when it comes to his exploits, truth really is stranger — or more unbelievable — than any tall tale about the player sometimes known by the nickname DGG.
Besides bringing the bullish back to the ground, perhaps the toughest job is finding creative new ways to describe him. But with the TSSAA’s BlueCross Bowl set to kick off at Chattanooga’s Finley Stadium on Thursday — and top-ranked Baylor facing No. 2 Brentwood Academy in a battle of 11-0 teams for the Division II-AAA state title at 7 p.m. in the third and final contest of the day — the biggest sideshow from that matchup, if not the entire three-day event, is tuning in to see if DGG can produce yet another never-before-seen display.
“We’re moving into the realm of art,” Baylor fourth-year head coach Erik Kimrey said. “There’s an artistic quality to what he does. I don’t even want to use the word special. It’s more like magical. You’re talking about a guy who is just gifted by God in so many ways and does things that a lot of us have never experienced.