...had I played football instead of basketball! Looking back, looking back, always looking back like Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite! In my earlier JV days, I was quite the football player if I may have an Uncle Rico moment. I was a half back with Johnny Henry the fullback. We had that end around toss play, with Johnny leading the blocking, along with Bill and Jack Whitehurst pulling off the line, and off we would go. It was good night Louise and hello end zone. In the old year book is the skinny little halfback with the apt title, John makes another long haul. Sammy Miller, the varsity football coach tried to get me to go out for the team, but in my high school rebellion, opted to play point guard on the all-black basketball team. Again, in Uncle Rico fashion, had I to do it over, it would have been football and basketball.
What were we thinking back then? Well, it sure keeps this Rico thinking even now, What if? What if?
those were the days!
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