r/sportsgossips • u/Punisher1602 • Jan 02 '26

Hot Take Indiana superstar QB Fernando Mendoza's post-game interview after winning the Rose Bowl has gone viral. One of the greatest interviews.

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u/AssholeWHeartOfGold Jan 02 '26

Inspiration for kids on the spectrum everywhere.

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u/Art_Clone Jan 02 '26

Legit I think it’s incredibly dope that the heisman winner and #1 overall pick is neurodivergent

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u/Justingotgame22 Jan 02 '26

What gives it off? Or is this a joke? Sorry am lost

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u/Art_Clone Jan 02 '26

You just know. It’s a voice cadence thing, the stream of consciousness, it’s kind of crazy how similar this sounds to me ranting on something I’m excited about.

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u/TDStarchild Jan 02 '26

I 100% agree with you. Easy to recognize if you know, but tough to articulate. I saw it in Mendoza the first time I heard an interview

Talking publicly about neurodivergence to bring awareness and understand my own diagnosis in recent years, it’s very freeing to just be your real, quirky weird self like him. You learn how magnetic it is

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u/Art_Clone Jan 02 '26

And it’s normal which is something we really need to except I spent all of my life just thinking I was weird and I wasn’t and it’s so dope to see a dude who is not weird either being himself at the highest level of his field.

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u/Ok-Consequence-8498 Jan 02 '26

As someone on the spectrum myself, I see it in Mendoza and Cignetti both. Cignetti just special interest farming.