Now it\'s usually just Radom.
But senior year of high school I got the nickname \"MVP\"
I played football, and was a defensive captain. I played free safety and started every game. Just to qualify, I played on the WORST team in the city. we played 8 games a year and through my entire high school career we were 0-32 baby! We sucked...a TON!
But every season opener there was always that hope in the fall air. Maybe this was the year! Maybe we would go undefeated and win the city championship! Why not, we learned from last year, right? Sure, this would be the year!
Now for the previous three years we were always paired up against one of the top teams in the city, for whatever reason. It\'s tough to feel proud of being a Captain of a team when you just lost the home opener 49-0, I\'ll tell you that for free!
But senior year, the last year most of us would be strapping on the pads and knocking helmets against each other and our opponents. The schedule came in, we were paired up against the SECOND worst team in the city! YES! This was goinf to be IT! The school had a bit of a buzz around the game. We were gonna win this one, and we were all going to be heroes of the day!
Now a little bit about myself. I was not a horrible player, but not a great player. But the one thing I had going for me was I was a dirty player. I was the single most penalized player in the league in all four of my seasons. Mosty BS pass interference calls, but once you\'re down by 40 points going into the 4th quarter maybe that reciever who burned you badly twice DOES deserve a shot in the kidney. And why aren\'t the ref\'s watching the play and keeping there damn nose out of my business anyway?
So anyway the game comes and we\'re pumped! And low and behold, we start WINNING! It felt great! as the game continued it got close. Real close. The score was 28-24 for us going into the 4th, and it stayed that way right up until the last play of the game. We had it in the bag man! So their at about mid field (55 yards in our goofy Canadian rules) and we just play some real loose coverage. I\'m watching the play unfold and they look like their just giving up and not going for the pass. About 4 seconds go by (All that was left on the clock BTW) and It looks we\'ve got them contained and they won\'t get the pass off at all. A couple second later a reciever comes howling in my direction, about 40 yards out and looks over his shoulder like he\'s going to take a pass.
\"Gimme a break kid!\" here in Canada our balls are much bigger than in the States (That\'s right!) and theres NO QB in the city that can throw a 40 yard pass with accuracy. So I level the bitch for acting like a clown. I mean I level the guy, he\'s not even looking at me and he\'s pretending like he\'s gonna catch some miracle ball pass. What a clown! So I catch him right in the shoulders and the videotape of it was awesome, he actually flips in the air! It felt great, until the ball landed about 1 yard behind me.
Pass interference, plus ten yards for the flagrant foul. First and goal from 3 yards out, one second put back on the clock. Yes, they ran it in for the win. I was very unpopular.
So, there it is. \"MVP\".
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