It was in a very big city that was beaming with lights. And Sam Bradford was soaking up every single moment of it - for a different reason of course. No one stopped the 6-foot-4-inch, 218 pound kid in order to get an autograph from him and possibly sell it on ebay. He was able to walk around Manhattan for an entire day without any one stalking him...especially after the world declared that he maybe college fototball 2008 heisman trophy winner.

"It was kind of cool that no one noticed who I was and I could just walk around Manhattan," said the University of Oklahoma quarterback as he was preparing to make his appearance in another big media attention getter, the national college football championship game.

For a college phenom such as Sam Bradford, private moments such as the one experienced in the big city of Manhattan are extremely hard to come by. He is "the man" for an Oklahoma offense that Thursday night will put its power packed talents on show one more time when the Oklahoma Sooners take on Florida for the national college football championship at Dolphin Stadium.

As the quaterback for a record breaking oklahoma sooners team that scores so many points that you thought you were looking at a college basketball game, Sam Bradford, the redshirt sophmore merits the attention. He threw 48 touchdown passes with only six interceptions and had a total of 4,464 yards this season. Being named the Heisman winner has brought even more scrutiny.

In 2006, Oklahoma's starting quarterback Rhett Bomar, then a sophomore, was kicked off the team for committing some dirty NCAA stuff that banned him from playing for the season. Paul Thompson, a senior who was suppose to play as a wide receiver, converted back to his quarterback position and eventually led the Sooners to a 2006 Big 12 championship. His exit from the university left a huge hole in the quarterback position for Oklahoma. That huge hole would be filled by either true freshman Keith Nichol, redshirt freshman Sam Bradford, or junior Joey Halzle (the only one who had any game experience). Eventually on August 21, 2007, Bradford was named the starting quarterback for the 2007 Oklahoma Sooners football team.

His numbers and stats were just too eye-popping to simply ignore and put aside. Oklahoma sophomore quarterback Sam Bradford turned the Big 12 into his own personal playground this 2008 season, passing for 4,464 yards with an obscene 48 touchdowns while leading all of Division I-A with a exceptional quaterback rating of 186.3, which is absolutely phenomenal. He became the symbol of what it means to be a top quaterback when he beat out Texas quarterback Colt McCoy and Florida QB Tim Tebow for the heisman trophy.