Those who make the trip to the Robert and Jane Vackar Stadium will see some players who grew up in the Rio Grande Valley play in the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley's inaugural football game.

Before he was the veteran quarterback for the first ever D1 college football team in the Valley, Vaqueros starting quarterback Eddie Lee Marburger was just a Valley kid with a love for sports.

"At that age, I was just trying every sport, I was trying basketball, baseball, even like soccer, and it wasn't until like later in my life that I chose football, really high school is when I chose football," Marburger said.

At Pioneer High School, Marburger shined as the starting quarterback. He won numerous awards and broke records.

In his senior year, he helped the Diamondbacks to the district 16-5A

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