Football
Just messing around scanning some old images of when I was a kid. I pretty much hated football, but I played for a few years in school anyway. What the heck. The sport does wonders for working out all of your nastiest aggressions, and it does a pretty good job of generating all sorts of new aggressions, too. Interesting how that works. It’s sort of a cycle. I made some good friends, but I could really have done without the sport. I played a bunch of positions: guard, tackle, linebacker, and defensive end. I sucked at everything except for end. I was quite good at defensive end, actually. I used to like hitting quarterbacks. Hard. Especially when they weren’t looking. See? Aggression. That’s what everyone waned, and I gave it to them.I’m playing defensive end in all of these images below. I’m 73 in the white jersey and I’m 85 in black. On the end. Football. Absolutely the dumbest sport ever.
Sachem?!
What year did you graduate? I live on Long Island now and have a few friends (with some grey hair too) that went to Sachem…
Alan
April 17, 2009 at 5:38 am
Yeah, Sachem. I got out of that prison in 1982.
Jim Grisanzio
April 18, 2009 at 9:48 am
Hey ! You are wearing my number " 73 ",gosh it was 1949 at Smithtown,
Dad
April 21, 2009 at 9:10 am
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