Could Caleb Williams’ vulgar fingernail tradition hurt his Heisman chances? | College Football Enquirer
Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel, and Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde and Ross Dellenger discuss the announcement of the Heisman Trophy finalists, and debate if any of the finalists have a real shot to upset Caleb Williams for the honor.
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- Are we going to have a Heisman Trophy winner who paints vulgar things on his nails? And I was like Jesus. I need another drink, Lord.
- Heisman finalist, Caleb Williams, is going to win it. Max Duggan, TCU, CJ Stroud, Ohio State. Stetson Bennett of Georgia makes the finalist.
- Yeah, Stetson.
- He gets to go to New York. He seemed to--
- He'll anger some people.
How about that? How about that, Dan?
- The old man.
- Let's--
- [LAUGHS]
- Can we talk about that, Dan, for a second?
- He-- the law firm will be he'll be there--
- [LAUGHS]
- --interviewing at white shoe firms in New York.
- [LAUGHS]
- Hey, congrats to Stetson. I'm not offended. People are like, I can't believe it's Stetson. Man, like whatever, man.
- No, I'm not offended at all--
- I mean--
- But let's just to review here.
- I was wrong. Stetson was right.
- [LAUGHS] He wasn't even a game manager, then he was the game manager.
- Yeah.
- Then he became a good player. And I said--
- Pretty good.
- --early in this season, he's a Heisman candidate, and oh, my goodness--
- All right. Well, look, come on. Bryce Young is still should have gotten the-- I'm not going to do this, because it makes it sound like I don't--
[LAUGHTER]
OK, pick it-- you got a game tomorrow, who you picking? Bryce Young, Stetson Bennett? Come on. Like, great season--
- I don't know. Who else is on the team?
- Oh, give me a-- Good. You can have him. I'll take Bryce.
- OK.
- I'll take Bryce every time. Bryce Young could have repeated. I know he's not going to. I know how this thing works. I'm not going down that path. Bryce Young's a hell of a football player.
- [LAUGHS]
- But whatever. Congrats to Stetson Bennett. I hope he has a great time in New York. CJ, Caleb, and Max also, hope they have a terrific time as well--
- I think Caleb is going to win it, but I think things got closer over the weekend--
- With Max?
- I think Max Duggan-- I think Max Duggan is going to be second.
- Unbelievable.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Well, that might be true, but--
- I think so, too. If he leads-- if Max leads them back in-- and they win--
- If they win, ooh.
- --and he puts up 100 more passing yards, it's probably really tight.
- Yep.
- I don't think it's going to be that tight now, but--
- I think it's like the 40% of the voters just like tune in the last weekend, too.
- Oh--
- Yeah.
- --it's the prisoner of the moment last impression thing is unbelievable.
- Yeah. No, I certainly don't want to get into politics, but like, so they got this Georgia runoff. I saw this-- I just happened to see on the online that someone put up the headline, and it was like one guy's got 48%, and one guy's got 47%, and then there's 4% undecided or something like that. I was like, OK they've been running--
[LAUGHTER]
--for like a year. And then they have a run-- like, you still sitting there in the last day going--
- How can you be undecided?
- --ah. Like at some point--
[LAUGHTER]
Like, I don't know, I don't care who you vote for, but that's kind of weird, isn't it?
- Yeah. [LAUGHS]
- I'm just going to-- I'm going to see what moves me today. Like, they've been running for the same seat for like three years.
- Want to throw one more Heisman dynamic out there to you all. Since the Heisman Trophy can sometimes be the Nobel Peace Prize, or Kennedy Center Honors or whatever of football, if you have a profane manicure on your hands and you lose a game--
- [LAUGHS]
- --are you penalized for that by the vote?
[LAUGHTER]
- Hey, last night that was a topic here, too. There was some admin--
- I'll bet.
- A couple of administrators came up to me. And boy, they were, are we going to have a Heisman Trophy winner who paints vulgar sayings on his nails? Now what does that show to the youth of America?
- [LAUGHS]
- And I was like, Jesus. I need another drink, Lord. I mean--
- [LAUGHS] I'm telling you, I guarantee with 900 and some voters, some of whom are like 900 years old, that some of them are like--
- [LAUGHS]
- --I'm not I'm not voting for that kid.
- I mean, it was a weird thing to paint on your nails. I got it.
- It was.
- He does it every game. It's a thing he does.
- I know--
- But you know.
- It's what he does, and I respect it, because he has to step in there. This is why the--
- Yeah.
- --place where trash talk matters least to me is boxing and MMA. Say whatever the hell you want about the other guy--
- [LAUGHS]
- --you're getting locked in a cage with him.
- Right. [LAUGHS]
- OK, f what-- if you want to trash him, go ahead. He has a chance to literally kill you. Fine. So I'm kind of like, hey, the guy wants to paint it and anger these dude-- 300-pounders that are trying to murder them, OK.
- Yeah.
- It seems weird, but we will see. Does he lose the-- a certain segment of the voting bloc? I don't know. I have a feeling Caleb will win, but yeah--
- Yeah, I think he probably will.
- Yeah, I think he's going to win. Yeah.
- We'll tune in Saturday night to find out.