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Family and football: Ryan Fitzpatrick loves 'roller-coaster' journey

DAVIE, Fla. -- Tim Murphy vividly remembers the first time he felt the magic.

Ryan Fitzpatrick quickly rose from No. 5 to No. 2 on the depth chart as a freshman quarterback. Murphy, Harvard's longtime coach, decided to put Fitzpatrick in for his first game because the Crimson were up three scores and set to run a four-minute drill.

"I told him, 'We're going to run 48 Naked, 48 Nevada. I just want you to keep the ball. They think we're going to run the ball up the middle to run the clock out, so they'll bite,'" Murphy recalled.