My Most Memorable Game | Darvin Adams

Each week a Bombers player visits with Ed Tait of bluebombers.com to reminisce about a particular game, or games, that is most memorable for them in their careers in high school, college or professional careers.

Darvin Adams background:

• Adams has spent the last five CFL seasons with the Bombers and now ranks just outside the team’s Top 10 with 296 receptions for 4,226 yards as a Bomber. He signed a three-year contract extension on February 9, 2020
• He first came to the CFL with the Toronto Argonauts in 2013, after signing with the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2011 and then spending 2012 with the Virginia Destroyers of the United Football League.
• Adams attended the University of Auburn for three years after attending Harrison High School in Kennesaw, Georgia. Adams calls Mississippi home, and was born in Canton.
• Adams broke the Southeastern Conference Championship Game record for receiving on December 4, 2010 with 217 yards – all on receptions from the game’s MVP Cam Newton. After that year he declared for the NFL Draft, but was not selected.

Adams:

“The one game that really stands out for me is from my sophomore year in college at Auburn. We were in the Outback Bowl in Tampa (against Norhwestern) and I set a record with a few catches (12, to be exact). The thing is, I didn’t have one touchdown in that game, but I caught a couple of key passes that helped us win the game in overtime.

“I was named the MVP. But it was rainy and cold that day and I think that game helped solidify the fact that no matter what the weather was, I was going to be reliable as far as catching the ball.

“I had a big game later the next season in the SEC Championship Game, but I felt like I had already proven I could play then in that game in Tampa. The Outback Bowl was important to me because receiver hadn’t really been my position growing up –I had played a lot of quarterback before switching. I was having a pretty good sophomore season and then to close the year out with a game like I had in the Outback Bowl was just really special for me. They gave me an MVP trophy and I still have it.

“I had a couple of family members, a couple of cousins, had driven down to Tampa for the game and were able to participate with me as far as celebrating afterward. But we really didn’t too much because it was raining real bad. Just having them there, though, was pretty cool. They had come all the way from Mississippi to Tampa and that’s a long drive. Honestly, after that I just went home. Our season was over and we had a school break so I rode back home with my cousins.

“But, again, that wone stands out because it showed how reliable I could be in any conditions.”