‘Mizzou Grandma’ Baker Mayfield Pays Off Lost Oklahoma Bet

If nothing else, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback and Baker Mayfield is a good sport — and a man who will pay, or wear, his debts.

Mayfield, who has led the upstart Bucs to a 6-6 record and a clear shot at first place in the NFC South, was a stud at the University of Oklahoma and has been supportive of his alma mater.

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That support blew up in Mayfield’s face when OSU lost to rival Mizzou over the weekend and he was tasked with paying off a bet he made with Bucs team reporter and University of Missouri alumna Casey Phillips.

To square his wager with Phillips, Mayfield wore a sweater that was labeled “Mizzou Grandma” in big letters.

“I have to give Baker a TON of credit being a man of his word and also rolling with it despite the grandma curveball I threw in there,” Phillips wrote online

“If there were ever a good sport for this kind of thing, it’s certainly Mayfield, who is no stranger to playing up college rivalries,” according to Sports Illustrated. “In 2017, the then-Sooners QB planted a flag at Ohio Stadium after his team defeated the Buckeyes. And on Sunday, he offered a measured take on the similar fag planting incidents that had occurred the day before at OSU-Michigan, Florida-Florida state, and NC State-North Carolina.”

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College rivalries aside, Mayfield has had a surprisingly strong sophomore season in Tampa Bay and the Bucs are squarely in contention to qualify for the playoffs for the fifth straight season.

Prepping for a game with the Raiders, Mayfield is aware of that.

“Our mentality right now is that we’re in playoff mode,” Mayfield said this week. “We have to win out to get in and just see what happens. It’s a one-game-at-a-time mentality, much like last year and we’re going to continue to say it. We’d like to have a better record than we do…