One Los Angeles Rams player dug deep into the archives to honor Cooper Kupp at the team’s Super Bowl parade on Wednesday.
Rams offensive lineman Andrew Whitworth showed up to the Rams’ parade wearing a funny shirt with Kupp’s picture on it … from high school. The caption on top of the shirt read, “Super Bowl MVP.”
Here is a closer look at the shirt as well as the image that inspired it.
Kupp has obviously had quite the glow-up since his high school days. He famously got zero FBS scholarship offers and had to work his way up the ladder at little-known Eastern Washington University. Kupp went on to set many Football Championship Subdivision records in college and eventually got drafted in the third round by the Rams in 2017. Now he is a Super Bowl MVP who just capped off one of the greatest seasons for a receiver ever.
Whitworth also gave a speech shouting out Kupp for his journey and work ethic, which you can see in this video (at the 2:00 mark).
As for the Kupp shirt, Whitworth will probably have a lot of people trying to buy it online now. But it actually may have only been the second-best shirt that we saw at the Rams’ parade on Wednesday.
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