10-14-2017, 03:03 AM
My high school asked me to come to the game tonight because it was against our biggest rival, Highlands, and it was the football program's 50th anniversary.
I was honored and was excited to be part of it and I knew that they were retiring a few people's jerseys, my cousins' included (Kenny and Brian Williams- Kenny fell off an overpass when he was 24 or so and I was in 2nd grade, and then Brian died in the World Trade on 9/11).
They have me down on the sideline a ten or twenty minutes before kickoff and tell me that they were retiring my jersey, too.
Wait...... what?!
There's only 5 other people, including my two cousins, with their jersey retired! It's unbelievable!
I was the first freshman ever to start varsity and I was having a good sophomore year up until the wreck (they actually decided to play me at receiver, too, the day of the wreck, so I'd be going both ways at receiver and safety as a sophomore), but it was more about the spirit I've shown off the field and everything I've been through.
It was an INCREDIBLE night for me!
I was honored and was excited to be part of it and I knew that they were retiring a few people's jerseys, my cousins' included (Kenny and Brian Williams- Kenny fell off an overpass when he was 24 or so and I was in 2nd grade, and then Brian died in the World Trade on 9/11).
They have me down on the sideline a ten or twenty minutes before kickoff and tell me that they were retiring my jersey, too.
Wait...... what?!
There's only 5 other people, including my two cousins, with their jersey retired! It's unbelievable!
I was the first freshman ever to start varsity and I was having a good sophomore year up until the wreck (they actually decided to play me at receiver, too, the day of the wreck, so I'd be going both ways at receiver and safety as a sophomore), but it was more about the spirit I've shown off the field and everything I've been through.
It was an INCREDIBLE night for me!
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