Redraiders.com · Nov 30, 2015
Becoming BIG time: Jakeem Grant makes lasting impact at Texas Tech
Get your A-J Media Digital Subscription now!AUSTIN — Jakeem Grant sat in front of the television, angry.
His Dallas Cowboys had just lost again –six years removed from the 1995 Super Bowl
He was despondent. And he spiked the football onto the living room floor.
“Momma, the Cowboys aren’t ever going to win a Super Bowl until I get there,” the then 9-year old told his mother, Sylvia Whittaker. “I told him he jinxed the Cowboys, but look at him now. … They need him now.”