Sports are filled with "That's my kid!" moments. Jerry and Karen Casey are just seeing theirs goes viral.
In Kansas' epic 57-56 overtime win over Texas on Saturday, walk-on freshman fullback Jared Casey caught the game-winning pass on a do-or-die two-point conversion. His parents were sitting more than 100 yards away in the opposite end zone and didn't celebrate for more than 10 seconds because they couldn't see him.
"That was Jared, wasn't it?" Jerry Casey asked in a video posted on Twitter by Justin Casey, one of Jared's six siblings.
Once the fullback emerged from a dogpile, his parents, who had made the 11-hour drive from Plainville, Kan.