Associated Press
Bills QB Allen stays true to his roots as his NFL star rises
A young Josh Allen couldn’t wait to clamber into the front seat of his father’s Chevy Silverado for the 20-minute ride to school each morning, knowing he’d have an opportunity to regale an imaginary TV audience with his latest sports exploit. With his left hand on the wheel and his right pretending to hold out a microphone, Joel Allen would pepper his two sons with questions about buzzer-beating baskets, walk-off home runs and game-deciding touchdown drives. “I tried to make sure I thanked the O-line first, trying to model my answers after some of the guys that were in the league at the time,” Josh Allen recalled, noting his father would critique his sons if their answers bordered on being self-centered.