Mike Kramer
American football took hold across the United States through much of the twentieth century, drawing players from cities and college programs in every corner of the country. Michael David Kramer is one of those players, an American football player whose background places him squarely within that national story.
Kramer was born on July 25, 1955, in Colton, and he is a citizen of the United States. He went on to pursue his education at the University of Idaho, a step that preceded his involvement in the sport he would make his occupation.
As an American football player, Kramer represents the kind of athlete who came of age in the mid-1950s and worked his way through the educational system before committing to the game. His birthplace of Colton and his time studying at the University of Idaho are the two geographical markers that define his early years, and together they sketch the outline of a life oriented toward the sport.
The facts available about Kramer are straightforward: a man born in the summer of 1955, educated in Idaho, and identified as an American football player. Those details, spare as they are, confirm his place within the American football world during a period when the sport was a fixture of both college campuses and broader American life.
Quotes by Mike Kramer
The guys have made nice progress. I'm very confident and comfortable in the way they're playing. But there's not much separation there to say that one guy's better than the other.
I know a lot of words, but I don't really know what to say. It's just astounding. It's devotion, people that care, it's unique ... Coach Corso did a wonderful job and everybody up here involved in it in any way did just a wonderful job, including Mother Nature.
I really don't know if we're be able to run the ball real well until our tight ends grow up a little bit. Until then, pass protection and throwing the ball is what we're going to be about.
In six years, that's our best home performance. ... This is the best game we've played at home, top to bottom, inside-outside.
I have no question that defensively we're going to be a team that has not lost a beat.
They were there. They were disappointed. We wanted to get to single-digits with minutes left. If we could have just kept the drive alive ... It was a wasted opportunity. It was a good game, but a wasted opportunity.
They want to run the ball. They've got a nice-looking quarterback (senior Zeke Dixon), but this is a team that's a lot more conservative on offense than it is on defense.
I've known E.J. since he was knee-high to a grasshopper. I've stayed in touch with Dave and seen E.J. grow into a fine young man with an excellent feel for coaching.
It's been coming for a while since the reduction of scholarships. This conference has a very strong sense of itself, because of the coaches who have been here for a long time. The nature of the game now, especially in the west, is the throwing game. It's a game of space, which takes some of the physical aspects out of it.